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and it cannot be held."

"What?" spoke up the praying-band commander. "Do you mean to say that we
can't have a service of song and prayer on these grounds?"

"Yes," replied Dr. Vincent, "I do mean it. No meeting of any kind can be
held without the order of the authorities. You should have come to me
for permission to hold this service."

The man was highly offended, gathered up his books, and left the grounds
on the next day. He would have departed at once, but it was Sunday, and
the gates were closed. Let it be said, however, that six months later,
when he had thought it over, he wrote to Dr. Vincent an ample apology
for his conduct and said that he had not realized the difference between
a camp meeting and a Sunday School Assembly. He ended by an urgent
request that Dr. Vincent should come to the camp ground at Round Lake,
of which he was president, should organize and conduct an assembly to be
an exact copy of Chautauqua in its program and speakers, with all the
resources of Round Lake at his command. His invitation was accepted. In
due time, with this man's loyal support, Dr. Vincent organized and set
in motion the Round Lake Assembly, upon the Chautauqua pattern, which
continues to this day, true to the ideals of the founder.

One unique institution on the Fair Point of those early days must not be
omitted--the Park of Palestine. Following the suggestion of Dr.
Vincent's church lawn model of the Holy Land, Dr. Wythe of Meadville, an
adept in other trades than physic and preaching, constructed just above
the pier on the lake shore a park one hundred and twenty feet long, and
seventy-five feet wide, shaped to represent in a general way the contour
of the Holy Land. It was necessary to make the elevations six times
greater than longitudinal measurements; and if one mountain is made six
times as large as it should be, some other hills less prominent in the
landscape or less important in the record must be omitted. The lake was
taken to represent the Mediterranean Sea, and on the Sea-Coast Plain
were located the cities of the Philistines, north of them Joppa and
Caesarea, and far beyond them on the shore, Tyre and Sidon. The Mountain
Region showed the famous places of Israelite history from Beersheba to
Dan, with the sacred mountains Olivet and Zion, Ebal and Gerizim having
Jacob's Well beside them, Gilboa with its memories of Gideon's victory
and King Saul's defeat, the mountain on whose crown our Lord preached
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