s later, 1879,
Chautauqua was illuminated throughout by electricity. When the scientist
turns prophet he becomes as fallible as the preacher who assumes to
prescribe limitations to scientific discovery. We live in an age of
harmony and mutual helpfulness between science and religion; and
Chautauqua has wrought mightily in bringing to pass the new day.

It is worthy of mention that Chautauqua holds a connecting link with
"the wizard of Llewellyn Park" and his electric light; for some years
later Mr. Edison married Miss Mina Miller, daughter of the Founder Lewis
Miller. The Miller family, Founder, sons, daughters, and grandchildren,
have maintained a deep interest in Chautauqua; and the Swiss Cottage at
the head of Miller Park has every year been occupied. Representatives of
the Miller family are always members of the Board of Trustees.

[Illustration: Rustic Bridge over Ravine]

After the Scientific Conference came a Temperance Congress, on July 29th
and 30th. A new star had arisen in the firmament. Out of a little
meeting at Chautauqua in 1874, had grown the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, already in 1876 organized in every State and in pretty
nearly every town. Its founders had chosen for President of the Union a
young woman who combined in one personality the consummate orator and
the wise executive, Miss Frances Elizabeth Willard of Evanston,
Illinois, who resigned her post as Dean of the Woman's Department of the
Northwestern University to enter upon an arduous, a lifelong and
world-wide warfare to prohibit intoxicants, and as a means to that end,
to obtain the suffrage for women. Frances Willard died in 1898, but if
she could have lived until 1920 she would have seen both her aims
accomplished in the eighteenth and nineteenth amendments to the
Constitution of the United States; one forbidding the manufacture and
sale of all alcoholic liquors, the other opening the door of the
voting-booth to every woman in the land. In Statuary Hall, Washington,
the only woman standing in marble is Frances E. Willard (there will be
others later), and her figure is there among the statesmen and warriors
of the nation's history, by vote of the Legislature of the State of
Illinois.

At every step in the progress of Chautauqua the two Founders held
frequent consultations. Both of them belonged to the progressive school
of thought, but on some details they differed, and woman's sphere was
one of their points of disagreement. Mil