The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-08-08

talk strong. You cntice them by your
comforts. TO tarry about your tents and
neglect the services at the stand You re-
main away because they do, and the result
is, the triAlng talk and empty laugh take
the place Of worship and religious exercises.
This is wrong, and peryerts Camp Meetings.
How highly do you prize words of COM
piiment when your coffee, your meat, your
Dread, &C., are compared with your neigh
borsY Do you not know that there are
persons, who go to Camp Mectings for the
poor paltry little purpose of {" getting some
thing good to eat,"-hungering after the
todres and .fshes' Have you not heard
them remark that they were in tho habit of
going from tent to tent. in order TO find out
who had the best hings 10 eat, A LOCKER
On has heard them, and so have you. Their
highest expectations have been fully met, If
you feed them well. Like the stall-fed OK,
that only lives TO eat, that he may fat.en TO
die, they come to you from meeting to meet.
ing, and you, delighted with the distinction
they give your tables, neglect the religious
services of the occasion, and your own
souls good, for their poor empty word of
appreciation. If you are determined TO
purchase their good wishes by fine eating,
IN the name Of all that is pure aud sacred,
postpone it until You are at home. Wor
ship God nt the camp ground, and when
you get home, invite them to spend day
with you, and give them the very best YOU
can. In this way, the animal is fed and fat.
tened, and one of the evils of Camp Meet.
ings prevented.
a LOCKER On thoroughly believes that n
vast amount OF bad health is produced an.
nually among men, women, and children, by
gormandzing at Camp-Meetings, and the
members of tho Church have to account for
very large share of it. Let those who
have the good Of the Chur;h at heart, look
into this thing. Let us beware of doing
harm to the cause of Zion.
To arrest one form of objections to
Camp Meetings at Salem, LOCKER On con.
ours with those who believe it is better for
this season, TO change il into what is called
Four Days Meeting. Other cogent rca.
sons are given by others, but to us, this is
sufficient. Arrest this evil by Withholding
the appointment. II may be, that in the fu-
ture, 81 the care of souls" may lead the
Church to forget the care of bodies"
To avoid misapprehcnsion, LOCKER On
desires to state that he is Methodist. and
to be worthy one, that is, an accept.
bic christian, he regards as among the high.
est aspirations of human heart and fur.
ther, that he is an earnest warm friend of
Camp-Meetings. They have done immense
good and are doing great goo d every where.
They serve four important purposes first,
to bring the gospel within the reach of tho
poor; second, by continued attendance for
days upon religious exercises, the mind is
at length persuaded to embrace the truth
third, to remove the prejudices of many
against Methodism, whose convenience or
b'gotry would never allow them to wait
upon the ordinances Of that Church on any
othvI vvS.ysivn, ), aud fonri,,-t TO b.;,a v,. 60,
tirm, aud knit together, brethren Of the
household Of faith. A LOCKER On has no
design herein to wound, to find fault ur-
necessarily, but to correct what he regards
dagrant evils. His purpose will be fully
accomplished, il any of the Church can be
induced to return 10 the rule adopted by
the original " Ttrelre:" alt is not reason
that we should leave the cord Of God, and
serve tables" AIOOKER ON