Cultural crosscurrents — akin to the warm and cold fronts that TV meteorologists point to — had collided over a hamlet on the Lake Michigan shoreline, 35 miles north of Chicago, back in the 1890s.
A group gathered in front of the summer camp’s Tabernacle in Lake Bluff, circa 1889. The assembly hall seated 2,000.
The other force affecting Lake Bluff was the gentler breeze of the Chautauqua movement: a loose network of summer camps for adults sponsored by Methodists and similarly middle-class, mainstream denominations. Lake Bluff’s version was founded by a group of Methodist ministers who bought 100 acres of lakefront property in 1875. The following year, the Bluff Hotel opened. By the middle of the 1880s, there were 30 hotels and boardinghouses. Summer cottages appeared on lots that sold for $250.
“Every few minutes something bubbles up inside of him and demands utterance,” the Tribune reported. “On these occasions Jimmy rises spasmodically to his feet and roars: ‘Hully chee! — No, Hallelejulah!’ Then he sits down and looks calmer. Jimmy is one of the newest recruits to the Salvation Army.
“In the course of many conversations with priests, he found several who entertained views similar to those held by himself, but they could not make up their minds to abandon the Mother Church,” the Tribune reported.
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