the Young Apollo Club of New York, one of the largest
and finest boy-choirs in the country. They gave three concerts at
Chautauqua, which in the rank and rendering of their music were a
revelation to the listening multitudes.

While we are speaking of the music we must make mention of songs written
and composed especially for Chautauqua. In Dr. Vincent's many-sided
nature was a strain of poetry, although I do not know that he ever wrote
a verse. Yet he always looked at life and truth through poetic eyes. Who
otherwise would have thought of songs for Chautauqua, and called upon a
poet to write them? Dr. Vincent found in Miss Mary A. Lathbury another
poet who could compose fitting verses for the expression of the
Chautauqua spirit. If I remember rightly her first song was prepared for
the opening in 1875, the second Assembly, and as the earliest, it is
given in full. In it is a reference to some speakers at the first
Assembly who went on a journey to the Holy Land, and to one, the Rev. F.
A. Goodwin, whose cornet led the singing in 1874, who became a
missionary in India.

A HYMN OF GREETING

The flush of morn, the setting suns
Have told their glories o'er and o'er
One rounded year, since, heart to heart
We stood with Jesus by the shore.

We heard his wondrous voice; we touched
His garment's hem with rev'rent hand,
Then at his word, went forth to preach
His coming Kingdom in the land.

And following him, some willing feet
The way to Emmaus have trod;
And some stand on the Orient plains,
And some--upon the mount of God!

While over all, and under all,
The Master's eye, the Master's arm,
Have led in paths we have not known,
Yet kept us from the touch of harm.

One year of golden days and deeds,
Of gracious growth, of service sweet;
And now beside the shore again
We gather at the Master's feet.

"Blest be the tie that binds," we sing;
Yet to the bending blue above
We look, beyond the face of friends,
To mark the coming of the Dove.

Descend upon us as we wait
With open heart--with open Word;
Breathe on us, mystic Paraclete
Breathe on us, Spirit of the Lord!

Another song of the second Assembly, and sun