The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-10-17

melSdy believed with gushing emotions and
lteartuHy rejoicing eyes-then one easily
sees why camp meetings have so strong a
hold upon their lovers. 1t is not the out
side crowd that draws or troubles, not the
possibly increased temptations of the distant
tents of the Egyptians, who still, for their
own good, follow the children of Israel into
the wilderness-but they are aIlured to the
fellowship of the saints, that experience
which found expression in the oldest creed,
and IS revealed nowhere on earth so perfect
" as IN these grave gatherings of many
churches to one festival. The business,
and cares, and thoughts, and loves of earth
are left behind. They sit in heavenly places
IN Christ Jesus. They are not unclothed,
but clothed upon. and mortality is swallowed
up OF lifes oAs Moses had to leave the null
tiIude and ascend the solitary mountain be-
fore he could see the Lord and feel his own
face glow with the reflected brightness, as
the disciples and their Master must do like
wise to see the glory of the TRANSPORTATION
and ascension, so must we. And in these
hours he feels that he has assembled the Hill
Clear. The earth. with its temptations and
distractions, is left behind. The heavens
are opened. the sacrifice of prayer is laid al
most consciously on the divine altar, the
pean mingles almost audihly with those of
the spirits of the just made perfect, the
heart fogets the things that are behind, and
seems not only to press forward. but to reach
and rest in the things that are before. An
gel faces, such as cloudily glow around the
holy Madonnas of Murillo and Raphael,
shine full AMI lustrous on the enraptured
worshippers. Far more than Wordsworth s
student of nature can this pupil Ct Christ
then feel,
I'm such access of mind, in such high hour
OF visitation from the living God,
Thought is not; in enjoyment it expires.
No thanks he breathes, he proffers no request
Rapt into still communion that transcends
The imperfect offices of prayer and praise,
His mind is thanksgiving to the power
That made him: it is blessedness and love-
To leave this place is to descend into the
lower and stormy world. There devils are
tearing souls and battling disciples. Well
may they long to make their tabernacle per-
manent, and abide in his holy hill forever.
The defects and amusing features of the
scene let outside gazers, not inside lovers,
dwell upon. Among our speering crowd
to-day was Gail Hamilton. The chiel was
was among US, probably takin notes, and
faith, she'll prent 'em. If so, you'll have
what you will have. No doubt it will be
witty and probably it will be wise. Gould
her rich nature see it from within, l know
how its sense of the humorous would be
sanctifed by her higher sense of the spirit
ual and SO be translated without loss of its
genial nature. That it has odd contrare
ties no one knows better than its lovers.
That, like all human machinery, whether
spiritual or material it is attended with fric
ton, is true, yet its very oddities are now
pre-eminently en- reqle. The country, the
woods, the escape from the stiff forms Of
daily life, are most popular with every class.
This institution takes all these and fills them
with religion. It's great and growing at
Effectiveness for religious as well as for es
thetic aud sensitive reasons, shows that it
has a deep seat in the affections of the peo-
pie. They here 6nd recreation that is rec
reation, making them new creatures in Christ
Jesus. The body is renewed as well as the
soul, and so satisfies the demand of the most
muscular religionists. Higginson will find
saints and their bodies here alike taken care
of, while the Thomas a Kempis sort are
equally satisfied in its spirituality and Sc
cusion from the world. All can alike feel
that here, more than elsewhere below,
Earth sweeps high as heaven on solemn wing"