The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-24

Wigwam for the Methodist Camp-Meeting at
Marthas Vineyard-The Spiritual Newport
He Criticizes the Yacht Squadron.
MARTHA's VINEYARD, Sunday August 49,
Only twenty-iour hours from the Wigwam to
the Camp-meetirg. From politics to prayer.
From politicians to preachers. This Is how it
came to pass. The Ider was ready with
the squadron when the Ne1poyt arrived, so
said yes to your friend the Commodore, and
arriving at New Bedford Saturday night, stepped
over and took steamer Tor the camplngground
You should go down there. Long Branch is
nothing, even with Stetson for host. Saratopa
burned up. Newport gone down. Wa,er inside
at Saratoga, and outside at Newport for three
months, keeps the doctors busy the other nine
This camplng-mcetlng idea is O sensation. NV
grandfather was the Rev. George Pc6ering,
who, at twenty -One, liberated his slaves and
went to preaching the Methodist doctrine tor
three hundred dollars q year, much to nv dis.
gust, thereby depllving me OF q handsome
income woul1 have sold them to some
honest Abolttonlst, aud then appealed to his
noDle man and-orotber idea to set them all free,
alUer the green6acks were in my pocket. My
ancestral home in Waltham, Massachusetts was
headquarters for New England Methodism for
hlty yeais. (oee Lyying Herald Stevens "His-
tory OF Methodism' Tor q picture OF that CEN
tury-aDd-a-halt-old manslon.)
lousee why am at home among the Method
lists. Yet this is the first camp meeting on a
grand scale ever witnessed. rs a gigantc
picnic. grand lete-colG-water A monster
tented tea-party. ] had seen the hanging gar
dens OF a Chinese Prince a. Foo-Chow Foo, but
twas nothing ike the Martha'S Vineyard Camp
Meeting.
saw the City of Canvas at Melbourne. Ans
tralia, in 1853, on the ranks of the Yarla-Yarra.
but 1t was nothing like the MarihG'S Vineyard
Camp Meeting.
have been astonished to see some thousands
OF pilgrims bound to Mecca, in Arabia, in their
quaint tenements, but 1t was nothing like the
Mdrthd'S Vineyard C,tnap Meeting,
l was in the French camp, the Russian CAMP
the turkish camp, tue Sandman camp, near the
Redan, the Malakoh, and at Kammish and
Balakiava, but 1t did not SO much surprise me
as this BGTttdS Vineyard lamp Meetind.
L nave gazed in startled amazement at the
Bedouns In ASIA Minor, at the Ladrone pirates
In the BOcJa TIsrls IN China, at the SepoY en-
campment IN India, at the Turkish village of
tents OF Said pacha, anu the emigrants corral
at Omaha IN Nebraska but none OF these come
up to the MdrttdS PiUeyGrd Camp MeetiRg
Thirty years ago, only foGr tents now six
hundred; ten years since one cottage, now two
hundred-then fifty people knelt down, now
fifty thousand.
The Camp Meeting Association three years ago
bought thlrty-fye acres OF oak trees, and rented
out the cottage iano 10 the brothers and sisters
VINO built the pret'leSt places imaginable. The
streets are so unique, The avenues so picturesque
the cottages so jauntY-sometmes triangle
then a concentrlc circle of q dozen, some OF
Leaves others arranged with sea shells and moss.
Ihen come the prayer-meeting tents. Each
church has its own sample, each congregation
It's own domcie. Yet all meet in brotherly
love. What faith, what parity of tn ought at
this spiritual Newport! They do not dress Tor
dinner; the crinOline is not large; Isebeau has
no establishment here; the Douglass has no beyy
OF girls for the robe de bal. / cannot see that
watson has got a toothold, nor has Morrissey
been upon the ground. Belmont has not been
down. The Jockey Club don't patronize the
Marthas vineyard Camp Meeting.
How smell the water toWIs; now compact the
crinoiinp; how modest the women; how earnest
the men | thank God there is some virtue left
The world is not all bad. Society may be oret-
nlzed hypocrisy, but not at the Marthas Viue-
yard camp meeting. Hoyt of Stamford invited
twenty-five clergymen to visit the grounds and
l came across these brothers, VINO were brown
with blue-tshlng. Tiffany OF the West is here,
and there is Hatneld, the sensation preacher of
Chicago, who don't believe in theatres. How
loud the congregation say Amen In England
they say Hee-ah! hee-ah!
The association bought these thirty-fve acres
for $1,000 now worth $500, ,000 and i'll ten years
1 could make it worth SO, 000,O00!
How funny the names do own here! The origi-
nal old inhabltant it seems, had three daugh-
ters Martha, Elizabeth and Nancy and owned
these three islands, He gave this to Martha
Elizabeth selected the one adioinng. The other
was lett Tor the other daughter-so Nan-took-lt.
Hence, Nd'ltotcket! Rev. DIR. Brown is the pre-
siding Elder, MIR. Coffin, the active agent, and
every Thing is managed with military xacuness.
The police system Is perfect. No outside bar
barlan can interrupt this Arcadian Plety. There
is a secular village springing up now on the
border, but its polluted associations have no
pleasures tor this happy Brotherhood.
The Sisters here do not drink Bourbon at IL
o'clock. The Brothers do not sit up till four to
fight the Tiger, and the maid and her lover
look over the same praver-boOk as they SIT in
the straw and know nothing of the mysteries of
salt water bathing at Newport, or OF the bali
life at saratoga. God bless these Christian
camp meetings!
The perfect world by Adam trOd
Was the first Temple butt by God,
He spread it, pavement green ana bright,
And curtaiDed 1t with morning hight
He hung its starry roof on high,
The broad illImtabe sky,
And spread ITS pavement green and bright
And curtalned 1t with morning hight
The mountains Iu their places stood;
The sea, and sky, and all good
Aud when its hrs pure praises rang,
The morning s.urs together sang.
Lord! 'tIs not ours to make the sea-
AID stars, and sky, Home for thee;
But IN thy right our Offering stands,
An Humble temple built with hands
TIE YACHT SQUADRON.
so far as sociabllity, gayety, pure and simple
enjoyment are concerned, it would appear to
me that the Yacht Squadron was a dead failure.
II eating is all there is of lite; If drinking all
there is OF happiness, then the yacht men are
happy. But there is such q cCrpse-lke feeling
among the guests; such q want OF cJrdiahty
among the captans,-what is the matter? Why
don't they cotton up to each othery Why move
Are some of them race-horses and some of them
caIthorsesg is it question OF bloody Every
body thought when The King was dead
The King would lve-SteVens out McViCksr