School
leader was seen stealing a blackboard and replacing it in another's tent
by an inferior one. We humbly trust that this report was false.

That the Normal Class, the conferences, and the lectures on Sunday
School work were taken seriously is shown by the report of the written
examination, held on Monday, August 17th, the day before the Assembly
closed. More than two hundred people sat down in the Tabernacle on the
hill, each furnished with fifty questions on the Bible and the Sunday
School. Twenty or more dropped out, but at the end of the nearly five
hours' wrestling one hundred and eighty-four papers were handed in.
Three of these were marked absolutely perfect, those of the Rev. C. P.
Hard, on his way to India as a missionary, Mr. Caleb Sadler of Iowa, and
the Rev. Samuel McGerald of New York. Ninety-two were excellent, fifty
more were passed, making one hundred and forty-five accepted members of
the Normal Alumni Association; eighteen had their papers returned to be
rewritten after further study, and the lowest fourteen were consigned to
the wastebasket.

The _Western Christian Advocate_ gave a picture of the first normal
examination at Chautauqua, which we republish.

The tent is a very large one, and was plentifully
supplied with benches, chairs, camp-stools, etc.
The spectacle was very imposing. The ladies seemed
a little in the majority. There were two girls
under fifteen, and one boy in his fourteenth year.
Each was provided with paper, and each wore a more
or less silent and thoughtful air. There was no
shuffling, no listlessness, no whispering. The
conductor, with a big stump for his table,
occupied a somewhat central position, ready to
respond to the call of any uplifted hand. We stood
just back of Dr. Vincent, with the scene in full
view. To our right, but a little on the outside of
the tent, were Bishop Simpson and Dr. Thomas M.
Eddy, who remained only a few minutes, as the
latter was compelled to take the ten o'clock train
for New York. On the same side, and a little
nearer to us, were groups of visitors, mostly from
the country adjacent, who gazed in rapt
astonishment at the sight before them, not daring
to inquire the meaning of all this mute array of
paper and pencil. A lit