The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-26
An AdveutIst Camp Meeting.
an ANNSANhss N"AA4A
Correspondence OF the Springfield tfuStl R

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wILBRAHAM, Aug. 2l.-Ths crowd
here has been increased since yesterday
by the arrival OF several hundred of
the Lords people and as many unbe-
LEVERS, and the cry is still they come.
The indispensable State Constable is
here to keep the peace, and produce a
wholesome fear in the minds Of the
riff-raff that float about the outskirts of
the camp, and ply their vocations with
unguents, lifting machines and all that
sort of thing.
The main body of the Adyentists
have been ''swlnging around the
circle, i" and have fixed upon 1858 as the
time for the end of the earth and the
"going up" for the elect. So they are
all "timeists" now, and the slight mat
ter of a year is all that divides them.
This defniteness of departure is a
source OF much inspiration, and one
brother, on learning OF the new dispen-
sation, only struck the keynote of
each heart when, with voice like a
clarion, he made the woods resound with
"Glory to God, brethren, there are no
owls in the dove-cote this morning.
The '67 men are beginning to make
themselves felt. and in the general
wings had 1t back and forth, and shouts
of d" 81, '67!" with "Hallelujah. we're
going upi" were loud and frequent.
The first sermon by Rev. j. A. Libby,
of Lewiston, Me-, had very little of the
Advent doctrine in it, but was plain,
practical and earnest discourse, suitable
for almost any congregation; but in the
afternoon the radical side of the queS-
tiou was presented in the most HOr-
geous colors by Rev. William A. Fem,
of Oswego, N. Y, who preached the
personality of the devil and his vora-
IL 0E,a
mortality of man, the coming of the
end, &c, &c. Conversions are quite
numerous, and at the morning prayer
meeting thirty came forward for pray
ers. The excitement, too, is growing,
and constantly from the circle of tens
on the rivers bank "0h for death
blow at Satan !" and the like.
To the worlds people" the scenes in
the various tents are amusing and often
remarkable, to use the mildest term.
In one of them party of young women
and girls were seated in the straw and
opposite stood number OF men, shag-
gy, rough and uncouth, but burning
with II strange fanatical fire. In turn
the women would arise and tell, "Oh,
how good they felt! and how they loved
the Lord !" and at each sentence the
men would send up terrific chorus of
amens. One brawny negro woman in
relating her experiences, was SO carried
away with her feelings that she went |
into species of Mysteries, quite COM
mon here, jumped upand down for four |
or five minutes, constantly exclaiming, |
''I'se so timber I" flopped over from side |
to side, and finally dropped down in |
heap, senseless and limp as a rag.
The faith of some in their immediate |
translation Is wonderfully strong, and |
is manifested in peculiar manner. A
female of an uncertain age in one OF the |
tents feels that she is going up right |
away, and has modestiy provided the
string, which she can draw when she |
is lifted into the air, and thus shield
her ankles from the gaze OF the vulgar
unbelievers who will be left behind.