New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-07
CHRISTIAN UNION CAMP.MEETfNG.

The iabernacles Of number Of religious people are
raised at pie asaDt place near fonkefs. Preliminary
| d, vo,ions had on Sunday a praying band
having visited u camp, and there goody attend
| ance The trumpet sounded to regularly open the
| campaign last evening, and uoril next
Monday there will be uninterrupted preaching pray
| ips, and kindred service. Sermons will be spoken
morning. DON and night andts expected that several
Powerful divnes will share this pa of the work IL
is meeting conceived in the most liberal spirit, and
will present the b auifdl spectacle OF Christians OF
almost all evangelical worshping amicaby to-
eether. The crowds will grow with the week, and
should the inviting loveness of the present days and
nights be continued Thur day and the days succeeding,
the iral striking # the tens, will chow the scenes
,ymIaihec rapture and pic uresque spiritual com
mu ion hich have been closely corrected with the
progress f popular religion in this country.
4 oamp-meetiug was held on the same property, but
not the same pat, last year. Then the stand OF the
preachers raised just at the entrance 20 fine piece
of wooded land on the SawMil River Road, distant
tw long lies from Workers and approached through
beautiful Ian Escape The stream OF worshipers pour
troubled the current of the preacher though
however and diminished the soemnity Of his exhorta.
iOps this year the cite has been moved backa IA
yoralle moveiuto the thick wood on the summit of a
hill not steep enough TO try the wind ofhorses and yet
sufficiently high to catch the atmosphere of consecraed
desire. A space amorg the old trees il cleared
of much of It's natural brushwcod aud nclosed
by the tents. Low benches of simplest form,
will accommodate at least thousand
peIsons, their faces TO the west. The praying,
and The boar ding and lodging tents, have room for
many more; az the extraneous congregation will
stand in the leafy avenues and Turk in he side shades
Twenty tents were pitched Yesterday, and more will
be Vitc I'd when they eded. They inscribed
some with wods, Pilgrim Church Of New-York'
" Wisnsburgh Prayer Meeting Tent, No. 81 Others
sin ply with their numbers The boarding tents are
larger than the praying and are decked with wreaths
ard ruIrounded by culinary apparatus, AMI their
suowy tables ever set. The praying vents are
hoor.d with straw, aud without other f1rDtGre.
The lodging tents MIKE greater or lees pretensOn to
domes c Dfort-in some the perfect bed, in others
the Partial maras, in a few luSurlee beyond these.
TIE camp was not complete until last evening. The
sound of the saw ard hammer tessed a sunset and Ian
fixed to The trees The campagnera were not
all the field bit some families bad arrived, fires aud
eciois, and ret up their temporary household goods.
And wben Sergeant Johns Of the First Ward, with
FIX very RESPECTABLE Office coming by boat at twi
light, bad bivOUa ked within the canvas circle, it was
the next u ng 10 a Ie6ect amp.
Nhe the gold of the Wet Lad a been slfted through
the tr.e and the cTckes had begun to chirp, and the
lights 10 gmmer curiousy, the trumpet rang out
opening blast. and number of preachers took seats
in toe stand. The little parties that had been making
the distant Rreenw God vocal with sweet songs of praise
wand red in, and the rural fox, aoot and ia extern
pore stSses, gathered dimIy. sermon was preached
by the Rev. JONI QUIECY ADAMS If the Antioch Bap-
tint ChuJch of this city, and this and other exercises
were followed by prayer. meeting And after all,
the camp was quiet in the gimpses Of the Summer
moon.
The outskris of the camp perverted to the
worldly purposes of beeT-seers and such people, who
pitched II cir aeshy taben sces in defiance alike of
deeen,y and the law, and attempted to stay the feet of
the hnIry ing orshipper; but the police notified them
to qut before 8 clock this morning, aad the camp
VII Lot be disturbed by those bucchsnaan rites which
are Il often celebrated even in the shadow Of the most
sacred temples.
Boats and trains on the Hudson River Railroad
toe fare On the former conyeyances 20 per cent the
chesper-eive easy access TO the Christian Union
Camp Meeting.