The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-09-11

~ 800 our own opinion that the not than one
hundred and fifty, many of them very large being buiit
for the accommodation OF companies and societies. from
Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandra, and the
neghborng villages They extended in many places five
and camps in depth from the inner CIRCLE and gen
orally with small space the back of each tent fenced
of with wicket OF green boughs for cooking &C., with
clean and shady walks between the lines in the form OF
irregular miniature streets Nearly all the of
canvass and were gotten up with very good taste
many OF them being carpeed divided into apartments by
curtains furnished with bedsteads and chairs with
occasional sofa lounge In addition to the tents,
several hundred wagons carts, &C.. in the suburbs,
converted into temporary residences for whole
families, large detachments attending the meeting
Besides all these there immense accumulation of
carriages omnbusses buggies &C. and horses brought
up by persons attending merely the services of
the day At two o'clock when the tin horn
sounded from the stand for preaching there were
perhaps not less than thousand persons the
ground OF all shades of color and character Of all sorts
and sizes men, and children. The discourse was
good old rgmarole understood by the Methodsts
plan of salvation and Of the paramount necessity
OF ell sinners at into the altar and escape by
fths deep and eternal damnaton hes blazes
After the the requested to come
forward while the brethren SUNG
'Alas. and did my saviour bleed,
And did my sovereign die,
Would he devote that sacred head
For such worm as IL
Chorus.-I yield yield yield
sink by dying love compelled
And own thee conquerer"
Several mourners had come forward when prayer
succeeded in their behalf by Of the ministers in the
stand, who accompanied by the mourners and the
brethren within and around the altar with all manner Of
Joyous CALCULATIONS mploraons groans OF distress, and
shouts Of glory the clamor of their united voices, over
whelmng the voice the cket petitioner and rendering
the whole concert incoherent and unntelgble After
the prayer Of the ministers again exhorted sinners
to fee the wrath to come.
and is the day of salvation. Don't wait for more
decisive influence of the Holy Ghost ont let the OPT
MONS of the world prevail against the blood OF Christ
Here for you, the Savior stands,
Shows his wounds and spreads his hands,"
Come along That's right, young woman Come out
from the world and seek refuge in the blood of the
atonement My God stir up the hearts Of the people
Unanimous response of Amen Ooh send reviving
grace among the brethren and the sisters - Amen } :
here assembled.-( Amen Amen 9-Strike the stoutest
sinner through, make him cry, what shall do =
sinners and seek salvation Wills the lamp holds out to
burn while the spirit Of God strives with you, while the
in the blood Of sprinkling Oh sinner think, thiAk
ner bound for eternity and the bar Of God Oh. think
fallen sinner of the uncertainty OF e and the hazards
OF deatllbed repentance Now now. while the table
of salvation spread before you-iallelujah Y-come
up and out for God, for Christ and for Heaven
Come along that's right, let the brother in brethren
Another sheaf is gathered into the Lords harvest-
After continuing in this exalted strain for quarter OF
hour the brethren (he mascot the congregation had
dspersed) struck up
" o our dying days are rel rolling round
Our dying days are rolling round,
Our dying days are rolling round
Make ready to 60 home
Meantime the negroes (beg pardon, the colorcd peo
pie we iay nos tents eaa bsm ~
suocaon and their united voices at the distance of
mile, extinguished all competition. They sang with
viii earnestness, with strength OF lungs, with
unanimy OF spirit that left the white felix's entirely in
the back ground. Their choruses seemed to be extern
poraneous, poetry music and all-the burden OF the
melody simply requiring the change Of word, such
brother sister huband daughter &c to carry it to any
Of smost they Continued channins
the following chorus for a full half hour
ooh my fathers gone to glory
He's SO happy he's SO happy,
And will strive to follow,
For I'm my way to Zion.
wonder to de Lord shall ever git home,
To sing Je-ru-sa-lem."
Close they could together they continued this
chaunt; the simple wildness OF the melody being well
adapted to keep up their enthusiasm The visible world
seemed forgottenhe terrors of Georgia. and the
dreadful recoections Of the Georgia soudrivers, las
the Virginia blacks call the southern traders in slaves
and while they were streaming with sweat and yibra
the odors OF an orange grove, their very souls poor
creatures) seemed to be revealing amid the eices of
martyrs and the saints Of old With alternate singing
and prayer after the example of the whites they kept
Of groans shreks Shouts imprecatons and every ina
ginable appeal to the Trinity filling up and generally
overwhelming the regular order Of their proceedings
And as contemplated these poor Ignorant people in
their spasmodc illuminations while oppressive
gloom overshadowed our reflections, it mgate1
by the evidence that however deluded they might be-
there could be no questioning that they were happy and
that such of them as were not from the revulson of
their emotions, would be the most rantically up.
roariousy ecstatc of the throng.
At about five o'clock, armstice was declared be-
tween the forces of kingdom come, and Of the deva
suspension OF hostltes for space when the resident
of the encampment black and white repaired to
the OF their tents to replensh their exhausted sto
macks. And here reminded OF another beautiful
arrangement While the congregation engaged
with the ministers in the great work of spiritual refresh
ously employee tha butchery Of chickens in roasting
boiling frying stewing and baking the solids for earnal
enjoy after the close OF the spiritual exercises And
it would be difficult to tell in which Methodist camp
meeting brethren most Jealous and enthusiastic
the destruction of the kingdom Of the devil and his works.
the destruction of hams chickens short cakes sau
sages and coffee Doubtless their extraordinary exer.
tons for the benefit of sinners give them extraordinary
appeses Judging from the extraordinary quantity opro
At seven o'clock supper being over, and the fires of
pine knots having been lit the circle of stands within
circle Of lamps with lamps dispersed among the trees
the tn-horn sounded, and the congregation again
gathered to the seats to hear the Word expoundcd And
really, it was beautiful scene sngularly beautiful
wild and romantic II reminded me Of the Journey ings
and encampmens Of the Israelitcs OF the Crusaders OF
the emigrants to Oregon, and Of great many other
things for confess that in addition to all these sub
jects of history,
1--WE thought Of all the wonders of the skies,
And then we thought of Donna Juas eyes"
Couldn't help 1.-THE congregation illuminated with
beautiful eyes-and we were somewhat stumped to rea
son il out how old Fairfax managed to produce such
lot of handsome girls.
We left the encampmcnt shortly after the blowing of
the horn the last chorus that fell upon our ears being
from tent in which prayer meeting was going onand
to the following effect:
"Did you hear that Jesus pleads'
Did you hear that Jesus pleads'
Yes, he pleads for you,
And he pleads for me,
And he pleads for every o-a.aone, !
And he pleads for every one.'
Altogether, il was a relief to get away.
The object ofthese encampments know IL good but
the result balance Of evil In this Of srare the
devil captures most prisoners He mas abundance of
tuies W IN mt. nd
telling what is done. We 60 for religions but we are
also. OF common sensa and hen raliglon de-