Editing Gladstone, Oregon (section)

===Chautauqua movement===
In 1894, the [[Chautauqua]] movement made its way to Gladstone. Judge Cross established a fifty-year lease of Gladstone Park for this event after he was convinced by Oregon City author [[Eva Emery Dye]] that doing so would be a boon to the city and its people. Beginning on July 24–26, 1894, the newly formed Willamette Valley Chautauqua Association held an annual summer assembly that offered performances, lectures, and concerts.<ref name=HistSoc2>{{cite web |url= http://www.gladstonehistoricalsociety.org/history-of-gladstone-part-2.html |title= History of Gladstone Part 2 |publisher= Gladstone Historical Society |access-date= January 20, 2015 |archive-date= January 20, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150120232454/http://www.gladstonehistoricalsociety.org/history-of-gladstone-part-2.html |url-status= live }}</ref> This event would recur annually, until Gladstone's Chautauqua Park grew to be the third-largest permanent Chautauqua assembly park in the United States.<ref name=HistSoc4>{{cite web |url= http://www.gladstonehistoricalsociety.org/history-of-gladstone-part-4.html |title= History of Gladstone Part 4 |publisher= Gladstone Historical Society |access-date= January 20, 2015 |archive-date= January 20, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150120232455/http://www.gladstonehistoricalsociety.org/history-of-gladstone-part-4.html |url-status= live }}</ref>

In 1896, William Jennings Bryan drew a crowd of 6,000 to Gladstone's then {{Convert|78|acre|ha|adj=on}} Chautauqua park to hear him give his popular lecture "The Prince of Peace", which stressed that [[Christianity|Christian]] theology, through both individual and group morality, was a solid foundation for peace and equality.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schwantes |first=Carlos |date=1989 |title=The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History |isbn=0803292287 |page=281 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JImlIbueaXcC&q=source&pg=PA281 |access-date=2020-10-17 |archive-date=2021-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131040250/https://books.google.com/books?id=JImlIbueaXcC&q=source&pg=PA281 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Jennings Bryan |first=William |title=The Prince of Peace |url=http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Prince.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709004237/http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Prince.html |archive-date=9 July 2015 |access-date=23 January 2015 |website=thriceholy.net}}</ref>

With the advent of radio, improved transportation and the appearance of traveling [[vaudeville]] acts in Portland, attendance at the Chautauqua began to dwindle. In 1927, the Willamette Valley Chautauqua Association went bankrupt. Judge Cross died on August 7, 1927, and shortly thereafter, Gladstone Park, including its buildings and Chautauqua Lake, were sold to the Western Oregon Conference of [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventists]].<ref name=HistSoc4/>