The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-30
HEI9LI WEST VA EERNEspA9 MoRNING AUGUsF8o 1865

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ground for nearly four years, and We
were told by 9 gent tleninn prominently
I connected with the church for last
fifteen years. that, with one exception.
| u IS the largest he has seen m that time.
Inc tents, which as-we stated, number
cd nearly htty'I dhd most of them OF
sl1llieient capacity 70 acc5nfOdate Sew
e1al families, vi ich Il iflI tI1g 3f.Tdno.
dations to l3a had cei I 10 tie CsSfIIlTJ--
ground, made he lIttendanea.. nm
usually large, .sfiIll IL lltien .flareA
by some OF the 81 ieflIctSd thar
( II would be stzircel y expedient 70 aSj.
points meeting tltis summer ON account
9I me llle 0ls1E!lert.a state apt, speietYs which
might render It difficult to maintain
that order and tleeoEnin necessary 10
the sueeess uR q pro led M meetine In
this res get they ljeieI happily dlis-
appointed; fewef iFlsi iancesa of disorder
having occurred than ON any occasion
Tor mapy years lle ministry also ex-
PEsss thenisfl histiy 1leasel with
tar, and We noticed. that on Monday
morning. when the saclnmeHt was
offered 70 al who lYislitgl 10 par-
take, LliamYe Ailpl mis- went icFHrarSi
dlItlrg q 10 : - flleSmeee-
lniGss = being eoIieltfcl q tindef /, ffJetz
'intendnuce of the ReY, !, G.. Cody;
Pastorin shafge. assisted by ex-presisSIl
@ANAlA ~ AAlaULla 1AENsa.
ST9nnage, Pierce, HitchanS and Way
man. The great feature of the OCCASION
so Tar as attendance was Concerned, was
SundaY,i 1t is estimated that not less
than three thousand persons Eera in
attendance during the morning service
All through the night of Saturday. up
TO ten o'clock on Sunday morning, the
roads leading to the camp ground were
thronged with every -description of
vehicles which convey people tiiither.
This vast concourse was addressed in
the morning by the venerahie II. NJ.
Hudson, of the Fnnklin Circuit, from
this passage in the thirteenth chapter
of Jeremiah:
Give glory to the Lord iy0r God before he
cause darkness and before your fed stumble 8
on the dark mountains and while ye look for
light he turn il Into the shadow of tieafh and
make II gross darkness" Rsl.F
From this very impressive text the
reverend gentleman delivered an able
anu excellent discourse and for more
than an hour held the undivided atfen5
ton of the vast cOncourse. After SER
vice We str0lledi around the encamp-
ment, wondering how the thronRfiig
multitude would dispose of itself 81 iTe7
gard to its creature comfortSst b1t we
found that such. was the foreSikht and
liiperalAty OF those who dwell in tents,
that there was enough and to snare for
the stranger, and those who had not pro-
vided for themselves were helped from
their bountiful hospitality. We ssJlD-
poSo that outside the tent circle of every
alnp-grOund, there Is the same alnotlIit
OF Worldliness to be found, the same
gay group of lookers-on, WHO come for
curiosity and amusement; :. the same
nnShlng young fellows with fast horses
the same young Indies with the same
instinct fNyishing to sisee and beseen. -
aud that every where human nature
shows itself in the same old ways mt
these places. An attractive and quite
prominent feature which we do not re-
collect to have noticed upon the ground
AZ any previous attendance, Was the
presence. OF seTerUl DIV elliHgS Of dam
hard by the tents of JapheIh. The latter
t4zotItstI II g.
mer in every sense, seemed not toregnrd
them, according to the aneient curse,
seemed entirely free from such appre-
hensioB, and entered as freely in their
way, into the benefits and epioyments
OF the occasion as any descendant of
Japheth upon the camp-grountl. The
little Ham-ites in particular seemed to
think that the green bank of the stream,
below was rs good a place TO roll and
tumble about upon as s'the little cabin
fiOor'' mentioned in the song, and sup
posed to be situated at that time in
Dixie. Indeed, the parents of these
evidently preferred their present loca-
tion, as one of them informed me when
we asked where she came from. and
after She had said ''Old Virginny sir
three hundred OF us left together, SIN,
when General Hunter GHme to Lynch
burg" And we must say for the
dWellers in these tents, there was no
place upon the ground where there We're
more evident marks of comfort. cleanli-
ness and genuine thriftiness than we
saw among them.
. To take the meeting all in all We
never saw so many people Iningle to
gether with SO much cordiality. 1t
seemed indeed as though an era of good
feeling had arrived which could not but
be gratifying TO all, and we came away
believing that snch reunions could not
but be productive of good.
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