Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-08-17
The Mount Vernon camp-cneeting.


THERE is something primitive in Camp-meetng'
that always pleased our fancy as we'll as satisfied on
taste and Judgment.
When the digniiied head of family leaves for {;
time, his home, his business and all the comforts he
has gathered around him, by Lifetime of labor ant
toll, and enters little tent in the open air (throug
which the winds beat and the waters puur, sans cere
moLy show, and sans everything like ostenlaiou
vanity and the pride of fe he leels he looks, and III
acts like true soldier of Jesus We have no doubt
that many time, the heroic character in BUNYAN
"Great Heart" and Others as we'll as the glorious
martyrs who have died for the faih occur 10 hi
mind; and, in his Christian warfare, he almost see
before him the embattled hosts Of Satan standing II
martial array ready to strike down and trampe in tn
DUST the consecratcd Cnoss OF CHRIsr-the watch
word and the banner Of every true Christian warrior
At these moments, his pride his courage, his enlIus
asm, and all his nobler sentiments are raised 10 tin
highest temper, such as nerved the heroes Of old
arning for battle
Nulhing is, or could be- more appropriate than these
occasional encampmenls. Sinner as we are, we al
most f,ncied ourselves in The GIMP OF war, and pre-
pairing mind and body, and soul, at the sound OF the
Great Leaders voice. 10 march into The dreadful con
flici.
Th1ac camp-meeings have tendenry not only l.
remind il,e Christian, Methodist and Baptist, OF tn;
great warfare in which llley are engaged, but it re
calls them the hard struggles of the early founder
of their secis, WESLEY, WHITFIELD, CALVIN, KNOX
LUTHER and Others when they had no house 10 shclle
them from The piiIless storm Of the elements anu th'
more pless of the wrath Of men ;rhey tend II
divrsl their minds Of pride and The love OF eaFihl!
polnp and grandeur, and they put them in the brightcs
Trim for the great work in which they have pledges
themselves 10 conquer or 10 die.
We are neither Baptist nor Methodist. Our fathers
an,l grandia hers, and other connexions were both
but our mother was Methodist, and that alone ha
embamed her Church in the innermnst shrine OF on
heart in sentiment and belief, we can hardly say VIII
which we most agree. While we admire the stubborn
faith and confidence OF the Baplists in the promises
Heaven, we glory in Methodist zeal, Methodist enthu
siasm, and Methods. discipline and enterprise.
There was some little disturbance on The ground OF
Saturday night, for which think the AUTHORS art
by this time, heartily ashamed OF themselves lh'
soung are needless and pfeciTtac, and if they arr
not we'll advised, will proceed 10 extremes, that IN al
Ter life, may burden their secret hours with woes an'
horrors without number
We had The pleasure of listening TO Nlessrs. PUCK
Err JONES, PURIFoy, KELLY, ulle mountain sprout
who has been 10 California. and has grown 10 he on,
of the antsomcs and most promising preachers in h'
SrateJ CREIGHTON, and others; ant we ere happy II
bear the most ample testimony, that there was no arl
at c meeting of most able advocates Of The Gospel
and noble champions of Jesus Christ. A friend 'la
described all the ministers MS being not only goo'
specimens of the genus homo, but masters ol belte
grammar and tie authors of better sermons, Than an!
assembly of preachers Of the same size, thar ever ME
at a caInp-mecling in the District.
We just learn from friend, that the 'nect'n:
above described, was one of the most successful ant
happy that has ever been held at that place, or in Tin
State We are informed that there were II added II
the Church; Al whites, aid 90 coOred.
God speed the good work. The religion of Chris
has been the salvation, as we'll as redemption OF h'
world and to that alone, we attribute all that is great
or glorious, or wise beyond other ages, in this genera
tion Of men.