The New York herald., 1845-08-28

mily. And we herewith return Brother Blue oul
thanks for his hospitality and II he should come tc
Washington, he must dine with us at the United
States.
AT half past two, the man in the straw hat again
sounded the long TIN horn, and after the usual INTRO
ductory singing and prayer, brother teese, of
Baltimore, preached from the text, 1--WE forlet the
book,) "How can ye escape II ye neglect so great
salvation 7"
And really his terrible and tremendous appeal to
sinners in his exposition of this text, would have
made even brother Mafiit open his eyes in wonder
and admiration. Let us give you an extract =
II is great salvation said brother Reese-great the
unversegreat as the sublime power that created it
great the Omnipoent whose dominons have boun-
dary, ard whose reign supreme, and from everlasting
TO everlasting And il is free lit is free salvation
free the light of the morning upon the flower chilled
by the cold dews OF the night, when it revves with all
revving nature IN the genial blaze Of the sunny blessed
ness.iree free GLORY free as the air Of Heaven
as the gentle breezes OF this summers afternoon and as
refreshing to the sinners heart free the midnight
sky to one contemplation of the human mind-free free
tAmen free as fountain in the wilderness TO the
thrstng traveller when hears the blessed water CUR
Cling among the rocks, with its grateful melody-iree !.
as the aspirations of the human soul (alie iuah-ree
brethren free ellowsinner travelling to the bar of
God-free the ligh-free as the air-iIee the sky
free the mountain sream-free as the gifts OF God
the dearest gift and holiest and greatest and widest
and fullest oi all
One OF the elders then proposed collection. He
said that the collection OF yesterday was too heavy
there was too much copper-it was too heavy-he
wanted lighter collection to-day-of lighter colored
money. Ii not for himself that he asked it-he
had another hat thank God I; but il was 10 pay the
expenses OF fitting up the camp The collection was
as light as he could wish after which, satisfied thai
we had got our moneys worth, we bid our friends
good day, and started for the railroad SWITCH some
two miles OH.
We were politely referred to an emnibus-r room for
lust one more. The vehicle was fitted for the ac
conmodatlon OF eight PERSONS including the driver
and we had on board four married ladies' the old
grandmother weighing full three hundred pounds
seven small chlldren-three at the breast; and in
addition 10 this company your reporter and the dr-
ver making thirteen persons In all in close
rage, and very warm afternoon We had TO keep
the bus close TO prevent the children from falling
out. Occupying the front seat we were compara-
lively comfortable, but when the ladies' and the
children were taken out, they looked if they had
been taking Thomsonian bath with their clothes
on. The old lady tainted and was only revived by
the ilasket of the driver.
The moral of visit to this camp-meetng is
and II was comparatively orderly one, hat camp
meetings are nusances IN civilized community.
They are the resort of all the idlers and profgates
IN the nelghborhood. who 60 there for fun and low
vulgar mlschlet-,he families OF the church who at
tend them, do II nj the sacrifice of their business
OF the comforts of home, at great expense, inconve
nIence, and sickness, more or less. And going to
camp-meetngs for religion is Just about as ridicu-
lous as going TO the springs for health. dubious
milk and watenchrlstan will be no more ceansed
by the one than will an old bloa be beneftted by the
dsspatlonS at the other. In the Wilderness where
there are no churches, campmeetngs may be ex-
cused, from necessity but in a settled community
and especially near or convenient TO large towns,
they are nusances, destructive of order destructive
OF morals, and perfect farces OF religious worship
Gambling, gourmandzlng, drinking disgusting fa-
mliiarlues between the sexes, peddllng of water.
melons and horse cakes, smoking of nasty cigars
profane swearing, and all sorts OF oaferism anc
.rowdylsm, attest that the devil holds the balance Of
power at our modern campmeetings. We hope tc
1--we to see them entirely abolished and shall con.
tribute faithfully TO accomplish this object.