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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: A Chautauqua Idyl - - -Author: Grace Livingston Hill - - - -Release Date: February 1, 2016 [eBook #51103] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CHAUTAUQUA IDYL*** - - -E-text prepared by Emmy, MWS, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team -(http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by -Internet Archive (https://archive.org) - - - -Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this - file which includes the original illustrations. - See 51103-h.htm or 51103-h.zip: - (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51103/51103-h/51103-h.htm) - or - (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51103/51103-h.zip) - - - Images of the original pages are available through - Internet Archive. See - https://archive.org/details/chautauquaidyl00hill - - - - - -[Illustration: THE BANK WHERE THE VIOLETS GREW] - - -A CHAUTAUQUA IDYL - -by - -GRACE LIVINGSTON - - - - - - - -Boston -D Lothrop Company -Franklin and Hawley Streets - -Copyright, 1887, -By -D. Lothrop Company. - - - - -INTRODUCTORY NOTE. - - -MY DEAR MR. LOTHROP:— - -I have read Miss Livingston’s little idyl with much pleasure. I -cannot but think that if the older and more sedate members of the -Chautauquan circles will read it, they will find that there are grains -of profit in it; hidden grains, perhaps, but none the worse for being -hidden at the first, if they only discover them. Miss Livingston has -herself evidently understood the spirit of the movement in which the -Chautauquan reading circles are engaged. That is more than can be said -of everybody who expresses an opinion upon them. It is because she -expresses no opinion, but rather tells, very simply, the story of the -working out of the plan, that I am glad you are going to publish her -little poem: for poem it is, excepting that it is not in verse or in -rhyme. - - Believe me, - Very truly yours, - EDWARD EVERETT HALE. - - - - -A CHAUTAUQUA IDYL. - - -DOWN in a rocky pasture, on the edge of a wood, ran a little brook, -tinkle, tinkle, over the bright pebbles of its bed. Close to the -water’s edge grew delicate ferns, and higher up the mossy bank nestled -violets, blue and white and yellow. - -Later in the fall the rocky pasture would glow with golden-rod and -brilliant sumach, and ripe milk-weed pods would burst and fill the -golden autumn sunshine with fleecy clouds. But now the nodding -buttercups and smiling daisies held sway, with here and there a tall -mullein standing sentinel. - -It was a lovely place: off in the distance one could see the shimmering -lake, to whose loving embrace the brook was forever hastening, framed -by beautiful wooded hills, with a hazy purple mountain back of all. - -But the day was not lovely. The clouds came down to the earth as near -as they dared, scowling ominously. It was clear they had been drinking -deeply. A sticky, misty rain filled the air, and the earth looked -sad, very sad. - -[Illustration: AND RIPE MILK-WEED PODS WOULD BURST AND FILL THE GOLDEN -AUTUMN SUNSHINE WITH FLEECY CLOUDS.] - -The violets had put on their gossamers and drawn the hoods up over -their heads, the ferns looked sadly drabbled, and the buttercups and -daisies on the opposite bank, didn’t even lean across to speak to -their neighbors, but drew their yellow caps and white bonnets further -over their faces, drooped their heads and wished for the rain to be -over. The wild roses that grew on a bush near the bank hid under their -leaves. The ferns went to sleep; even the trees leaned disconsolately -over the brook and wished for the long, rainy afternoon to be over, -while little tired wet birds in their branches never stirred, nor even -spoke to each other, but stood hour after hour on one foot, with their -shoulders hunched up, and one eye shut. - - * * * * * - -At last a little white violet broke the damp stillness. - -“O dear!” she sighed, “this is so tiresome, I wish we could do -something nice. Won’t some one please talk a little?” - -[Illustration: OFF IN THE DISTANCE ONE COULD SEE THE SHIMMERING LAKE.] - -No one spoke, and some of the older ferns even scowled at her, but -little violet was not to be put down. She turned her hooded face on -a tall pink bachelor button growing by her side. - -This same pink button was a new-comer among them. He had been brought, -a little brown seed, by a fat robin, early in the spring, and dropped -down close by this sweet violet. - -“Mr. Button,” she said, “you have been a great traveller. Won’t you -tell us some of your experiences?” - -“Yes, yes; tell, tell, tell,” babbled the brook. - -The warm wind clapped him on the shoulder, and shook him gently, -crying,—“Tell them, old fellow, and I’ll fan them a bit while you do -it.” - -“Tell, tell,” chirped the birds overhead. - -“O yes!” chorused the buttercups and daisies. - -The little birds opened one eye and perked their heads in a listening -attitude, and all the violets put their gossamer hoods behind their -ears so that they might hear better. - -[Illustration: “AND WHAT IS CHAUTAUQUA?”] - -“Well, I might tell you about Chautauqua,” said pink bachelor -thoughtfully. - -“And what is Chautauqua?” questioned a saucy little fish who had -stopped on his way to the lake to listen. - -“Chautauqua is a place, my young friend, a beautiful place, where -I spent last summer with my family,” said the bachelor in a very -patronizing tone. - -“Oh! you don’t say so,” said the naughty little fish with a grimace, -and sped on his way to the lake, to laugh with all the other fishes at -the queer new word. - -“Go on, go on, go on,” sang the brook. - -“We lived in a garden by a house just outside the gates,” began -Bachelor. - -“What gates?” interrupted the eager daisies. - -“Why, the gates of the grounds.” - -“What grounds?” - -“Why, the grounds of Chautauqua.” - -“But who is Chautauqua?” asked the puzzled violets. - -“Don’t you know? Chautauqua is a beautiful place in the woods, shut -in from the world by a high fence all around it, with locked gates. -It is on the shore of a lovely lake. Many people come there every -year, and they have meetings, and they sing beautiful songs about -birds and flowers and sky and water and God and angels and dear little -babies and stars. Men come there from all over this world, and stand -up and talk high, grand thoughts, and the people listen and wave their -handkerchiefs till it looks like an orchard full of cherry trees in -blossom. - -“They have lovely singers—ladies who sing alone as sweet as birds, and -they have great grand choruses of song besides, by hundreds of voices. -And they have instruments to play on,—organs and pianos, and violins -and harps.” - -“How beautiful,” murmured the flowers. - -“Tell us more,” said the brook; “tell us more, more, more,—tell, tell, -tell!” - -“More, more,” said the wind. - -“It lasts all summer, so the people who can’t come at one time will -come at another, though my cousin said she thought that one day all -the people in the world came at once. There must have been something -very grand to bring so many that day. There were not enough rooms for -visitors to sleep in, and Chautauqua is a large place, the largest I -was ever in. Yes,” reflectively, “I think all the world must have been -there.” - -The little white violet looked up. - -“There was one day last summer when no one came through the pasture, -and no one went by on the road, and all day long we saw not one person. -It must have been that day, and they were all gone to Chautauqua,” she -said softly. - -“I shouldn’t wonder at all,” said Bachelor. - -Then they all looked sober and still. They were thinking. The idea that -all the people in the world had come together for a day was very great -to them. - -At last one spoke: - -“How nice it would be if all the flowers in the world could come -together for a day,” said the little violet. - -“And all the birds,” chirped a sparrow. - -“And all the brooks and lakes and ocean,” laughed the brook. - -“And all the trees,” sighed the tall elm. - -“Oh! and all the winds. We could make as beautiful music as ever any -organ or piano made.” - -“But what is it all for?” asked a bright-eyed daisy. - -“To teach the people all about the things that the great God has made, -and show them how to live to please Him, and how to please Him in the -best way,” promptly answered Bachelor. - -“There is a great good man at the head of it, and I heard a lady say -that God Himself sent him there to take care of Chautauqua for Him, for -it is all made to praise God. They have schools,—everybody studies, but -it is all about God that they learn,—about the things He made, or how -to praise Him better, and all the talking,—they call it lecturing,—is -to help men to praise and love God more. They have three beautiful -mottoes: - -“‘We study the word and works of God.’ ‘Let us keep our Heavenly Father -in our midst,’ and, ‘Never be discouraged.’” - -“Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,” said the old forest tree. - -“It is just what we need,” piped one of the birds. “We don’t praise -God half enough. Here we’ve been sitting and sulking all the afternoon -because it is raining, and never one thankful chirp have we given for -all the yesterdays and yesterdays when it hasn’t rained. We need a -Chautauqua. I declare, I’m ashamed!” And he poured forth such a glad, -thankful song of praise as thrilled the old forest trees through and -through and most effectually waked the napping ferns. - -[Illustration: AND HE POURED FORTH SUCH A GLAD AND THANKFUL SONG.] - -“Yes,” said the listening daisies, when the song was done and the bird -had stopped to rest his throat, “we do need a Chautauqua.” - - * * * * * - -“Let’s have a Chautauqua!” cried the brook. - -“But how could we,” said the wise-eyed violet, “when we know so little -about it?” - -“I will tell you all I know,” said Bachelor graciously. “You see we -lived just outside the gates, and people used often to come and buy my -brothers and sisters. Once a young man came and bought a very large -bunch of them and took them to a young lady in a white dress, and she -wore them everywhere for three or four days—you know our family is -a very long-lived one, and we are something like the camel, in that -we can go a long time without a drink of water—well, she kept them -carefully and took them everywhere she went, and they saw and heard a -great many new things. One evening this young lady sat in a big place -full of people, and an old lady sitting behind her said to another -lady, ‘Just see those pink bachelor buttons! My mother used to have -some just like them growing in her garden, years and years ago, and I -haven’t seen any since.’ The young lady heard her, turned around and -gave her a whole handful of my brothers and sisters. After the meeting -was out, the old lady carried them away with her, but one slipped -out of her hand and fell on the walk, and some one came along in the -darkness and crushed her. Quite early the next morning our neighbor, -Mr. Robin, going to the market for a worm for breakfast, saw her lying -in this sad state, and with great difficulty brought her home to us. -She lived only a day or two longer, but long enough to tell us many of -her experiences. - -“After she had faded and gone, our friend Robin went every day to hear -and see what was going on inside the great gates, and every night when -the bells were ringing”— - -“What bells?” interrupted an impolite buttercup. - -“The night bells for the people to go to sleep by. They rang beautiful -music on bells by the water to put the people to sleep, and in the -morning to wake them, and they had bells to call them to the big place -to praise God, and hear the lectures and singing.” - -“Beautiful, beautiful,” murmured the brook. - -“And every night,” proceeded the bachelor, “when the bells were ringing -we would wake up and Robin would tell us all about the day inside the -gates. Of course I can’t remember all, but I will tell you all I know.” - - * * * * * - -“Perhaps I can help you a little,” spoke out an old fish who had come -up the stream unobserved some time before. “I lived in Lake Chautauqua -myself for some years until my daughter sent for me to come and live -with her in yonder lake.” - -They all looked at the old fish with great veneration, and thanked him -kindly. - -“Well, how shall we begin?” said an impatient daisy. - -“I should think the first thing to be done is to make a motion that we -have a Chautauqua,” Bachelor said. - -Then rose up a tall old fern. “I make a motion to that effect.” - -“I second it,” chirped a sparrow. - -“All in favor of the motion say ‘aye,’” said Bachelor, in a deep, -important voice. - -And then arose such a chorus of “aye’s” as never was heard before in -that grove. The wind blew it, the brook gurgled it, the great forest -trees waved it, all the little flowers filled the air with their -perfumed voices, the far-off lake murmured its assent, the purple -mountain nodded its weary old head, the sun shot triumphantly through -the dark clouds, and all God’s works seemed joining in the “aye aye, -aye,” that echoed from hillside to wood. - - * * * * * - -“A unanimous vote, I think,” said Bachelor, after the excitement had -somewhat subsided. - -“The next question is, When shall we have it?” - -“Oh! right away, of course,” nodded a buttercup. “See! the sun has -come out to help us.” - -“But,” objected white Violet, “we can’t. We must invite all the flowers -and birds and brooks and trees all over the world, and they will have -to get ready. It will take the flowers the rest of this summer and all -of next winter to get their dresses made and packed in their brown -travelling seed trunks. I’m sure it would me if I were to go away from -here for the summer, and it is late in the season already. We couldn’t -get word to them all in time.” - -“Yes,” said the fish, “and there are the travelling expenses to be -arranged for such a large company. We should have to secure reduced -rates. They always do on Chautauqua Lake.” - -“Oh! as to that,” said the wind, “I and the birds would do the -transportation free of charge, and the brook would do all it could, I’m -sure.” - -“Of course, of course,” babbled the brook. - -“That is very kind of you indeed,” said Bachelor. “But I should think -that the earliest possible beginning that we could hope to have would -be next spring.” - -After much impatient arguing on the part of the buttercups and daisies, -it was finally agreed that the first meeting of their Chautauqua -should be held the following spring. - -“It must last all summer,” they said, “because some of us can come -early and some late. There is the golden-rod now, it never can come -till late in the fall.” - -“Of course, of course; certainly, certainly,” chattered the brook. - - * * * * * - -“What comes next?” softly asked the wild rose. - -“The next thing to do is to appoint a committee to make out the -programme,” remarked the fish. - -“Committee! Who is that?” cried a butterfly. - -[Illustration: “THERE IS THE GOLDEN-ROD NOW.”] - -“Programme! what’s programme?” chirped a sparrow. - -“O dear! we need a dictionary,” sighed the roses. - -[Illustration: “COMMITTEE! WHO’S THAT?”] - -“What’s a dictionary?” asked a little upstart of a fern. - -“Silence!” sternly commanded Bachelor. “Will Miss Rose kindly explain -the meaning of dictionary, after which Mr. Fish will proceed to tell -us about programme and committee.” - -Little Rose blushed all over her pretty face, and after thinking a -moment, replied,— - -“A dictionary is a book that tells what all words mean.” - -“Oh!” sighed the wind, “we must have a dictionary.” - -Mr. Fish having made a dash up stream after a fly, now resumed his -sedate manner and spoke: - -“My friends, a programme says what we will have every day, and a -committee are the ones who make it.” - -“Then let’s all be committee,” said the buttercup. - -“That’s a very good plan,” said Bachelor. “Now, what shall we have? -They always have a prayer meeting first at Chautauqua.” - -“We can all pray,” said the elm. “Let us have a prayer meeting first -every morning to thank the dear God for the new day, and let the rising -sun be the leader.” - -“That is good,” said the flowers, and bright rays of light, the sun’s -little children, kissed them tenderly. - -“What is next?” - -“They have a large choir, and every morning after the prayer meeting -they meet and practise with the great organ and piano and band.” - -“We will be the singers,” chorused the birds. - -“I will tinkle, tinkle, like a piano,” sang the brook, “tinkle, tinkle, -tinkle,—” - -“I will play the band, for I have very many instruments at my command, -and my friend the thunder will play the organ, while you, dear old -trees, shall be my violins and harps, and every morning we will -practise,” said the wind. - -“What do they have next at Chautauqua?” asked a pert blackbird. - -“Lectures,” said the fish. - -“What are lectures?” - -“Talks about things.” - -[Illustration: “I WILL TINKLE, TINKLE, LIKE A PIANO,” SAID THE BROOK.] - -“What things?” - -“Oh! evolution and literature and theology and philosophy and art and -poetry and science, and a great many other things.” - -The high-sounding words rolled out from that fish’s mouth as if he -actually thought he understood them. - -Silence reigned for a few minutes, deep and intense, at last broken by -the white violet: - -“We never could have all those, for we don’t know anything about them. -And who could talk about such things? None of us.” - -Silence again. They were all thinking earnestly. - -“I don t believe it. Not one word,” chattered a saucy squirrel. “That’s -a fish story. As if _you_ could get on dry land and go to lectures.” - -[Illustration: “I DON’T BELIEVE IT,” CHATTERED A SAUCY SQUIRREL.] - -“Oh! very well, you needn’t believe it if you don’t want to,” answered -the fish in a hurt tone, “but I heard a man on board the steamer read -the programme, and those are the very words he read.” - -“If we only had a dictionary,” again sighed the rose. - -“Dictionary, dictionary, dic, dic, dictionary,” murmured the brook, -thoughtfully. - -“A dictionary is absolutely necessary before we can proceed any -further,” said the south wind. “And as I am obliged to travel to New -York this evening, I will search everywhere, and if possible bring one -back with me. Anything can be had in New York. It is getting late, -and I think we had better adjourn to meet again to-morrow. I hope to -be able to return by two o’clock. In the meantime, let us all think -deeply of what we have heard, and if any one can see a way out of our -difficulty, let him tell us then.” - -The sunbeams kissed the flowers good-night, the forest trees waved -farewell to the good wind, the brook called, “Good-night! sweet dreams -till to-morrow, to-morrow, to-morrow,” and all the air was soft with -bird vespers. - - * * * * * - -Into the bright sunshine of the next afternoon came the winds and the -eager birds to the place on the bank where the violets grew. - -[Illustration: ALL THE AIR WAS SOFT WITH BIRD VESPERS.] - -The daisies leaned far over the bank to listen. - -The south wind came bringing two or three torn sheets of an old -dictionary. - -“It is all I could find, and I’ve had hard work to get this,” said he. -“I went in at a window where lay an open dictionary.—I had no idea that -a dictionary was such a very large book.—It was an old one, so I had no -trouble in tearing out these few leaves, as the paper was so tender. I -took them out of the window and hid them in a safe place and went back -for more, but just as I was turning the leaves over to find evolution, -some one came up and shut the window, and I had to crawl out through -the cracks. Well, I have all the ‘P’s’ and some of the ‘T’s’; we can -find theology and poetry.” - -“Philosophy, too,” said wise Violet. - -“My dear, that is spelled with an ‘f,’” said the kind old wind -patronizingly. - -“O, no! I am sure you are mistaken. It is ‘p-h-i-l’; look and see if I -am not right.” - -The wind slowly turned over the leaves of his meagre dictionary, and, -sure enough, there it was,—“p-h-i-l-o-s-o-p-h-y.” - -“Is it there? What does it say?” questioned the eager flowers. - -“Philosophy, the love of, or search after, wisdom,” slowly read the -wind. - -“Oh!” said the flowers, “is that all it is? Why, we know philosophy.” - -“I think the forest trees could lecture on philosophy,” said the wind. - -“Yes, yes, yes,” they all cried. “The forest trees, for they are very -old and have had longer to search for wisdom than we.” - -“Very well; three lectures a week on philosophy, by the old forest -trees; write it down, please,” cried Bachelor. - -The secretary, a scarlet-headed woodpecker, carefully carved it on the -trunk of an old tree, and I think you can still find the minutes of -that day written in lines of beauty all over the tree. - -“Theology is the next word,” announced the wind, and again turned over -the leaves of their precious dictionary. - -“The science of God,” he read. “Science, what is science?” If we only -had the “s’s!” - -“I know what it is,” chirped a bird. “I hopped into the schoolhouse -this morning, and a book was open on the desk, and no one was there, so -I hopped up and took a look to see if there was anything in it to help -us. The first words my eye fell on were these,—‘science is knowledge.’ -And I didn’t wait for any more, but flew away to sit in a tree and say -it over so that I wouldn’t forget it. Going back a little later to see -if I could get any more words, I found the schoolhouse full of dreadful -boys. As I flew away again, this little piece of paper blew out of the -window, and I brought it, thinking it might be helpful.” - -As he finished speaking, he deposited a small fragment of a definition -spelling-book at the foot of the elm tree, and flew up into the -branches again, for he was a bashful bird, and this was a very long -speech for him to make before so many. - -“Good, good, good,” cried all the committee. - -“To go back to theology,” said the wind. “It is the science of God. -Science is knowledge, therefore theology is knowledge of God. That is a -very great thing. Who is able to lecture on the knowledge of God?” - -Silence all. No one dared to volunteer. None felt worthy to do so great -a thing. - -Out spoke a shy little wren. “Last night I slept in a notch close over -a church window, and the window was open and there was a meeting of the -people there and the minister read out of the Bible these words: -‘The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his -handiwork.’” - -[Illustration: FOR HE WAS A BASHFUL BIRD.] - -She paused a moment to gather courage, and then said, “Why couldn’t the -heavens teach theology?” - -[Illustration: “THE HEAVENS SHALL TEACH THEOLOGY.”] - -“Bless your heart, little wren, that is the very thing,” cried the -blustering north wind. And all the flowers cried,—“The heavens shall -teach theology!” - -The sky bowed its assent and said, “I will do my best to perform the -wonderful work entrusted to me.” - -And the happy brook murmured, “Glory, glory, glory! the glory of God.” - - * * * * * - -“Now we will see what this bit of paper has for us,” said the wind as -he picked up the paper at the foot of the elm. - -“Ah! What have we here? Evolution! Just what we want: ‘evolution, the -act of unfolding or unrolling.’” - -He stopped with a thoughtful look. - -[Illustration] - -“Yes, I see. As the young leaves and flowers unfold. The plants must -take full charge of this department, I think. I remember once turning -over the leaves of a fat, dark-gray book, with gilt letters on its -back. It lay on a minister’s window-seat, and it looked interesting, -so I read a few minutes while the minister was out and not using it, -and among other things that I read was this, and it stayed with me ever -since: ‘A lily grows mysteriously. Shaped into beauty by secret and -invisible fingers, the flower develops, we know not how. Every day the -thing is done: it is God.’ You see, my dear,” addressing himself to a -pure white lily that had only that morning unfolded its delicate petals -to the sun, “you see a great many don’t understand how it is done. You -need to tell how God has made you able to unfold.” - -“Yes, we will, we can,” they all cried. - -“The flowers will speak on Evolution,” wrote down Woodpecker. - -“There are three more words spoken by our friend Fish, still -unexplained,—literature,—” - -“I know what literature means, Mr. Wind, it is books,” announced a -bright butterfly who had just arrived on the scene. - -“Are you sure?” questioned the fish doubtfully. - -“Yes; of course I am. I went with a big pinch-bug one day into a great -room full of books, and he said, when he saw the shelves and shelves -full of them, ‘My! what a lot of literature!’” - -The committee looked convinced, but now came the question of -books,—Where should they get them? How could they lecture on books, -when they knew nothing about them? - -“We must just send word around to all the flowers and birds and trees -and everything, to see who can lecture on books, and we must all keep -our eyes and ears open,” said a buttercup bud. - -“We shall have to lay that on the table for the present,” said the wind. - -“But we haven’t any table,” chattered a squirrel. - -“A well brought-up squirrel should know better than to interrupt. We -shall have to put this aside, then, until we can learn more about -it. In the meantime, let us proceed with the next word on the list, -poetry.” - -“I know,” said the brook. “A bit of paper lay upon my bank, miles and -miles away from here, too high up for me to reach, but I could read -it. It said, ‘For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human -knowledge.’ And I have said it over and over all the way here.” - -“Ah! the flowers shall give us poetry,” said the good old wind. - -Bachelor bowed his head and said, “We will try.” - -“Try, try, try,” chattered the brook. - -“Art is next, I believe,” said Bachelor. - -“Yes, art,” said a squirrel. - -“Art is making pictures,” said the moss. - -“Then the sunset must paint them, for there are no pictures made like -those of the sunset,” said the wind. - -The sun hastened to mix his paint, and in answer to the request that -he would be professor of art, painted one of the most glorious sunset -scenes that mortal eye has ever looked upon. Rapidly he dashed on the -color, delicate greens and blues blending with the sea-shell pink, and -glowing with deep crimson and gold, till the assembled committee fairly -held their breaths with delight. The crimson and gold and purple in -the west were beginning to fade and mix with soft greys and tender -yellows, before the committee thought of returning to their work. - -“What a lot of time we have wasted,” said the oldest squirrel; -“to-morrow is Sunday, and of course we can’t work then, and now it is -time to go home.” - -“Not wasted, dear squirrel,” said White Violet, “not wasted when we -were looking at God’s beautiful sunset.” - -Bachelor looked down at her in all her sweetness and purity, and some -of the flowers say that later when he went to bid her good-night—under -the shadow of a fern—he kissed her. - -“To-morrow being Sunday reminds me that we have not made any -arrangements for our Sunday sermons. They always have great sermons -at Chautauqua, and I have often heard the passengers on the steamer -scolding because the boats did not run on Sunday, for they said the -great men always kept their best thoughts for sermons.” This from the -fish. - -They all paused. “We can’t any of us preach sermons, what shall we do?” -questioned a fern. - -“I’m sure I don’t know; we might each of us go to church and listen to -a sermon and preach it over again,” said a thoughtful bird. - -“But we couldn’t remember it all, and by next summer we would have -forgotten it entirely,” said one more cautious. - -“Well, we must go,” said the wind. “Monday we will consider these -subjects. To-morrow is God’s day, and we must go immediately, for it is -getting dark.” - -And so they all rested on the Sabbath day, and praised the great God, -and never a wee violet, nor even a chattering chipmunk, allowed his -thoughts to wander off to the great programme for the next summer, but -gave their thoughts to holy things. - - * * * * * - -The busy Monday’s work was all done up, and the committee gathered -again, waiting for the work to go on, when there came flying in great -haste, a little bluebird, and, breathless, stopped on a branch to rest -a moment ere he tried to speak. - -“What is the matter?” they all cried. - -“Were you afraid you would be late? You ought not to risk your health; -it is not good to get so out of breath,” said a motherly old robin. - -[Illustration: “CLOSE TO A WINDOW WHERE SAT AN OLD LADY.”] - -“Oh! I have such good news to tell you,” cried the little bird as -soon as he could speak. “I sat on a bough this morning, close to a -window where sat an old lady, who was reading aloud to a sick man, so -I stopped to listen. These are the words she read,—‘Sermons in stones, -books in running brooks.’ I didn’t hear any more, but came right away -to study that. I was so glad I had found something to help us. Two -things in one.” - -They all looked very much amazed. - -“Why, we didn’t think we could do anything!” cried the stones, “and -here we can do one of the best things there is to be done. Thank the -dear God for that. We will preach sermons full of God and his works, -for we have seen a great many ages, and their story is locked up in us.” - -“And the brook shall tell us of books,” said the old wind. “There is -good in everything, and we shall try not to feel discouraged the next -time we are in a difficulty.” - -[Illustration: “A SMALL GIRL JUST UNDER MY NEST IN THE ORCHARD.”] - -“Books in running brooks,” said the brook. “Books, books, books. And I -too can praise Him.” - - * * * * * - -“This morning,” said a sober-looking bird, “a small girl just under my -nest in the orchard, was saying something over and over to herself, and -I listened; and these were the words that she said: - - The ocean looketh up to heaven as ’twere a living thing, - The homage of its waves is given in ceaseless worshipping. - They kneel upon the sloping sand, as bends the human knee, - A beautiful and tireless band, the priesthood of the sea, - They pour the glittering treasures out which in the deep have birth, - And chant their awful hymns about the watching-hills of earth. - -“If the ocean is so good and grand as that he ought to do something at -our Chautauqua. Couldn’t he? God must love him very much, he worships -him so much.” - -“Yes,” said the elm tree. “I have heard that a great man once said, -‘God, God, God walks on thy watery rim.’” - -“Wonderful, glorious,” murmured the flowers. - -“They tell stories at Chautauqua—pretty stories about things and -people; and I have heard that Ocean has a wonderful story. We might -send word to ask if he will tell it,” suggested Bachelor. - -“I fear he cannot leave home,” said the wind, “but we might try him.” - -So it was agreed that the woodpecker should write a beautiful letter, -earnestly inviting him to take part in the grand new movement for the -coming summer. The brook agreed to carry the daintily-carved missive to -the lake, and the lake to the river, and the river would carry it to -the sea. - -Bachelor spoke next: “They have a School of Languages at Chautauqua, -could we have one?” - -“I have thought of that,” said the fish, “but who could teach it?” - -“That is the trouble,” said Bachelor, slowly shaking his head. - -“I know,” said a little bird. “I went to church last night and heard -the Bible read, and it said, ‘Day unto day uttereth speech, and night -unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language where -their voice is not heard.’ I think the day and the night could teach -the School of Languages.” - -“The day and the night, the day and the night,” said the brook. - -“Yes,” said the oldest tree of all, “the day and the night know all -languages.” - - * * * * * - -“We must have a Missionary Day and a Temperance Day,” said the wise old -fish. - -“What is a Temperance Day?” asked a young squirrel, who was not yet -very well acquainted with the questions of the day. - -“My dear,” said his mother, “there are some bad people in the world who -make vile stuff and give it to people to drink, and it makes them sick -and cross; then they do not please God, and there are some good people -who are trying to keep the bad people from making it, and the others -from drinking it; they are called Temperance.” - -“Oh!” said the squirrel, “but why do the folks drink it? I should think -they’d know better.” - -“So should I, but they don’t. Why, my dear, I must tell you of -something that happened to me once. I lived in a tree at a summer -resort, that year, and just under my bough was a window; a young man -roomed there for a few days, and every morning he would come to the -window with a black bottle in his hand, and pour out some dark stuff -and mix sugar and water with it, and drink it as if he thought it was -very good. I watched him for several mornings, and one morning the bell -rang while he was drinking, and he left the glass on the window-sill, -and went to breakfast. I hopped down to see what it was, and it smelled -good, so I tasted it. I liked the taste pretty well, so I drank all -there was left. Then I started home, but, will you believe it? I could -not walk straight, and very soon I could hardly stand up. I tried to -climb up a tree, but fell off the first bough, and there I lay for a -long, long time. When I awoke I had such a terrible pain in my head! -All that day I suffered, and didn’t get over my bad feelings for -several days. I tell this as a warning to you, that you may never be -tempted to touch anything to drink but water, my dear.” - -“You must tell that story, Mrs. Squirrel,” said Bachelor. “And we will -call it a story of intemperance, by one of its victims.” - -“I will, with all my heart, if it will do any one any good,” she -responded. - -“Yes, we must have a Temperance Day and all make a speech on drinking -cold water,” said the fish. - -“And dew,” said the violet. - -“I have always drank water, and never anything else, and I think one -could scarcely find an older or a healthier tree than I am,” said the -elm. - -“That is true,” said the fish. - -“Cold water, cold water, cold water,” babbled the brook. - -“Yes, we can all speak on Temperance Day; we will have a great -platform meeting. That is what they call it at Chautauqua when a great -many speak about one thing. I heard a man telling his little girl about -it on the boat,” said the fish. - -And the woodpecker wrote it down. - -“What was that other you said?” asked a sharp little chipmunk. - -“Missionary Day,” said the fish. - -“And what is that?” - -“Why, there are home missions and foreign missions,” said the fish. -“And they talk about them both. I think they have a day for each, or -maybe two or three. Missions are doing good to some one, but I don’t -exactly see the difference between home and foreign missions.” - -“Why, that is plain to me,” said Bachelor. “Home missions is when some -one does something kind to you, and foreign missions is when you do -something kind to some one else.” - -“Of course; why didn’t I think of that before?” said the fish. - -“One day last year I was very hungry,” said a robin, “very hungry and -cold. I had come on too early in the season. There came a cold snap, -and the ground was frozen. I could find nothing at all to eat. I was -almost frozen myself, and had begun to fear that my friends would -come on to find me starved to death instead of getting ready for them -as they expected. But a little girl saw me and threw some crumbs out -of the window. I went and ate them, and every day as long as the cold -weather lasted she threw me crumbs—such good ones too—some of them -cake; and she gave me silk ravelings to make my nest of. I think that -was a home mission, don’t you?” - -“Yes, my dear, it was,” said Bachelor. - -“You might tell that as one thing,” said the wind. - -“I will,” said Birdie. - -Said a daisy, “When I was very thirsty, one day, and the clouds sent -down no good rain, the dear brook jumped up high here, and splashed on -me so I could drink, and I think that was a home mission.” - -“Yes, yes,” said the elm, “it was.” - -“I know a story I could tell,” said the ferns. - -“And I,” said the elm; “one of many years ago, when I was but a little -twig.” - -“I know a home mission story too,” said White Violet. - -“And I,” said the brook. “Once I was almost all dried up and could -hardly reach the lake, and a dear lovely spring burst up and helped -me along until the dry season was over.” - -[Illustration: “YES, YES,” SAID THE ELM, “IT WAS.”] - -“And I, and I,” chorused a thousand voices. - -“But what about foreign missions?” said the fish. - -“I sang a beautiful song to a sad old lady in a window, this morning,” -said a mocking-bird. - -“That’s foreign missions,” said the chipmunk. - -“Some naughty boys hid another boy’s hat yesterday, and I found it for -him and blew it to his feet,” said the wind. - -“I sent a bunch of buds to a sick girl, this morning,” said the -rose-bush with a blush. - -“I think we shall have no lack of foreign missions,” remarked Bachelor. - - * * * * * - -“But what can _we_ do?” asked an old gray squirrel. “We can’t preach, -nor teach. We can run errands and carry messages, but that isn’t much.” - -“You might be on the commissary department,” said the wind. - -“What’s that?” they all asked. - -“Things to eat. We shall need a great many, and you could all lay in a -stock of nuts, enough to last all summer, for a great many.” - -“Why, surely!” they cried, and all that fall such a hurrying and -scurrying from bough to bough there was as never was seen before. They -worked very hard, storing up nuts, and the people came near not getting -any at all. - - * * * * * - -It must have been about a week from the time they sent their letter to -Old Ocean, that one afternoon as they were assembled, waiting for the -decision of a certain little committee, which had been sent over behind -a stone to decide who should be the leader of the choir, that up the -stream came a weary little fish. - -He was unlike any fish that had ever been seen in that brook, and -caused a great deal of remark among the flowers before he was within -hearing distance. - -He came wearily, as though he had travelled a long distance, but as he -drew nearer, the old fish exclaimed, “There comes a salt-water fish! -perhaps he has a message from the ocean.” - -Then the little company were all attention. - -Nearer and nearer he came, and stopped before the old fish with a low -bow, inquiring whether this was the Chautauqua Committee. - -[Illustration: “AND THE PEOPLE CAME NEAR NOT GETTING ANY AT ALL.”] - -On being told that it was, he laid a bit of delicate sea-weed, a -pearly shell, and a beautiful stem of coral upon the bank, and said: “I -have a message from Old Ocean for you. He sends you greetings and many -good wishes for the success of your plan, and regrets deeply that he -cannot be with you next summer; but he is old, very old, and he has so -much to do that he cannot leave even for a day or two. If he should, -the world would be upside down. There would be no rain in the brooks, -the lakes would dry up, and the crops and the people all would die.” - -“O dear! and we should die too,” said the flowers. - -“Yes, you would die, too,” said the salt-water fish. - -“He has a great many other things besides to take care of; there -are the great ships to carry from shore to shore, and there is the -telegraph,—” - -“What is telegraph?” interrupted that saucy little squirrel who had no -regard even for a stranger’s presence. - -“Telegraph is a big rope that people send letters to their friends on. -It is under the water in the ocean, and the letters travel so fast that -we have never yet been able to see them, though we have watched night -and day.” - -“Wonderful, strange,” they all murmured. - -“Old Ocean says,” proceeded the messenger, “that he cannot give you all -of his story, as it would be too long, but that he sends some of it -written on this shell, and in this coral and in this bit of sea-weed. -In the shell is a drop of pure salt water that if carefully examined -will tell you many more wonderful things.” - -They all thanked the fish kindly for coming so far to bring them these -treasures, and begged him to stay and rest, but he declined, saying he -had a family at home and must hasten, so he turned to go. - -“Stay!” cried Bachelor. “Wouldn’t you be willing to come next summer -and give us a lecture on the telegraph?” - -The fish laughed. - -“Bless you!” said he, “I couldn’t do that. I don’t know enough about -it myself. Ask the lightning. He is the head manager, and will give -you all the lectures you want. Good-by! the sun is getting low, and I -must be off.” And he sped away, leaving the woodpecker writing down -“telegraph” and “lightning” on one corner of his memoranda. - -And now the committee returned, having decided, by unanimous vote, -that the mocking-bird should be the leader of the choir, as he could -sing any part, and so help along the weak ones whenever he could see -the need of it. - - * * * * * - -There was a pause after the committee had been told all that had -happened during their absence, broken at last by Bachelor. - -“I’ve been thinking,” said he, “that it might be as well for us to have -a reply to Ingersoll.” - -“What is that?” they asked, for they were getting used to strange -things, and did not seem so surprised at the new word. - -“Ingersoll is a man that says there is no God, and he has written a -great many things to prove it,” said Bachelor gravely. - -The other poor little flowers were too much shocked to say anything, -and they all looked at one another dumbly. - -“Is he blind?” asked a bird. - -“He must know better,” asserted a fern. “No one could possibly believe -such a thing.” - -“I don’t know whether he is blind, but I think not,” said Bachelor. -“They say he has made a great many other people believe as he does -because he talks so beautifully.” - -“How dreadful!” said the flowers, in a sad voice. - -“They had a man at Chautauqua who answered all he said and proved that -it was untrue, but every one did not hear him. I think we ought to have -a day to answer Ingersoll,” again said Bachelor. - -“Yes, we must,” said the north wind; “and we will all prove there _is_ -a God. No one could have made me but God.” And he blew and blew until -the flowers crouched down almost afraid at his fierceness. - -When all was quiet again, out hopped a dignified-looking bird. “My -friends,” said he, “my wife and I went to church last night, and they -sang a beautiful hymn that has long been one of my favorites. I told my -wife to listen hard, and this morning, with my help, she was able to -sing it. I think it would help on this subject if we were to sing it -for you now.” - -“Sing, sing, sing,” said the brook. - -[Illustration: “I THINK IT WOULD HELP ON THIS SUBJECT.”] - -The meek little wife at her husband’s word stepped out, and together -they sang this wonderful hymn: - - The spacious firmament on high, - With all the blue ethereal sky, - The spangled heavens, a shining frame, - Their great original proclaim; - The unwearied sun, from day to day, - Does his Creator’s power display, - And publishes to every land - The work of an Almighty hand. - - Soon as the evening shades prevail, - The moon takes up the wondrous tale, - And nightly to the listening earth - Repeats the story of her birth: - While all the stars that round her burn, - And all the planets in their turn, - Confirm the tidings as they roll, - And spread the truth from pole to pole. - - What though, in solemn silence, all - Move round the dark, terrestrial ball? - What though no _real_ voice or sound - Amid their radiant orbs be found? - In _reason’s_ ear they all rejoice, - And utter forth a glorious voice, - Forever singing as they shine, - The hand that made us is divine. - -When they had finished, the whole congregation bowed their heads. - -“Yes,” they said, “every day we will show forth the greatness of God -who made us, and that bad man will see and hear and believe, and the -people will not be led away from God any more.” - -“We will make that our great aim, to show forth the glory of God,” they -all cried together. - - * * * * * - -So the little workers planned, and sent their messengers far and wide, -over land and sea, and made out their programme; and the lecturers -spent days and days preparing their manuscript,—for aught I know they -are at it yet. - -The flowers all have received their invitations to come, and some were -so eager to be off that they packed their brown seed trunks and coaxed -the wind to carry them immediately, that they might be early on the -spot. - -Next spring when the snow is gone and the trees are putting forth their -leaves, and all looks tender and beautiful, you will see the birds -flying back and forth, very busy, carrying travellers and messages; the -squirrels will go chattering to their store-houses to see that all is -right, and to air the rooms a little; the birds will build many nests, -more than they need, and you will wonder why, and will never know -that they are summer nests for rent, else you might like to rent one -yourself. - -[Illustration: “YOU WILL SEE THE BIRDS FLYING BACK AND FORTH.”] - -The wind, too, will be busy, so busy that he will hardly have time to -dry your clothes that hang out among the apple blossoms. - -You don’t know what it all means? - -[Illustration: THE BIRDS WILL BUILD MANY NESTS.] - -[Illustration: Wake up quite early every morning and listen. 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