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B ish o p wniiam m . Beii. ciian- cellor of the Los Angeles Chau tauqua Association;: is one of the most skillful orators in the American Church, and is one of its deepest students. During the past month, his addresses on the subject of “Social Realization,” and the essen tial aid that o n ly the ' Chautauqua movement can extend for the attain ment of such realization, have con stituted a leading feature of local social gatherings. The Chautauqua movement, which is now becoming more generally understood in the Southland than it was a few months ago,- is of â broader'scope than any other institu tional force for social, educational and cultural development. It is not a sect, and it-is not a university. It is wholly undenominational; its forum is so broad that, as Bishop Bell- points out, it can accomplish work that the churches, because of their natural restrictions, cannot hope to achieve. It helps youth; it
. assists the struggling mind to reach the goal of its vocational or other ambition; it also takes the men and women of years beyond those of ordinary academic or scholastic endeavor, and helps them to achieve progress in mental culture and, maintain their mental growth. It.will also, in the words of Bishop Bell, put a mighty emphasis on the Christian religion. The Los Angeles Chautauqua Association has an ambitious program which promises to make it the greatest in the country—greater in scope and performance than even the mother Institution on the shores of Lake Chautauqua, New York. A general Assembly has been announced for the last two weeks in July, to which some of the greatest intellects^ in the country—great lecturers, great scientists, and great artists—will lend their services, and which will attract to Los Angeles thousands of former Chautauquans and Chau- tauquans that are to be. The site upon which the Institutional Buildings of the Association are to be erected is at Montecito, inside the northern borders of Los Angeles, and is one of the most beautiful in the city. An auditorium capable of seating 6,000 persons the largest in Southern California—will be one of the features of the institute; and by the time the buildings are erected and the work of the Association.gets into proper swing next year, Los Angeles will be fairly on the -way to becoming the intellectual centre of the tontinënt.
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