the importance of better equipment for the great body of Sunday School teachers, whose efforts admirable in their devotion and zeal, could not always be "according to knowledge," and the need of emphasis upon essentials in the religious life of the time, too much under the sway of denominational prejudice. Just as every minister had, in his own Sunday School, a local laboratory for experiments in religious education, so the handling of larger problems by means of a broad training school, biblical, educational, and interdenominational, became in his mind a necessity for both preacher and teacher. Out of this necessity Chautauqua developed. Its quickening influence upon tens of thousands of communities through the fresh thought which permeated the Sunday Schools and the larger point of view which drove denominational jealousies into the background, belong to the early achievements of this now world-wide religious and educational "folk-moot." In the evolution of Chautauqua, te influence of another directing mind, that of Mr. Lewis Miller of Akron, Ohio, also contributed to the security of its early foundations. Mr. Lewis Miller of Akron, Ohio, a generous and enlightened manufacturer, had already given to his own Sunday School not only a very complete and effective organization, but a unique building, semi-circular in form and surrounded by galleries which could be subdivided into class rooms, the idea having suggested itself to him at an out-of-door Sunday School picnic in a natural ravine. Many years after in recalling Mr. Miller's services to Chautauqua, his creative energy, his wise counsel in locating the new movement out of doors and his substantial material aid, Chancellor Vincent said: "And thus the picnic ground and the Akron Sunday School room prepared the way in his mind and under his direction for the Chautauqua Amphitheater." During the greater part of his twenty years of activity in Sunday School work until his election as Bishop in 1888, Chancellor Vincent made his home in Plainfield, New Jersey, a community which became famous for the broad and catho |