The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-27
SECOND ADVENTlST,S.
They Counsel with Each Other at
SpriBR Rheld, Mass.

The Springfield Republican of Monday con.
talns the tolowing:-
"The summer sun smiled bani9nautly on the
opening Sabbath of the Advent camp meeting.
There we're about 250O present at the most and
certainly 1900 of these must have been of the
faithful. BY no means the full complement of
tents is yet erected. The number is now 12O
which will increase to 800 during the progress
OF the meeting. Tents OF wood and OF canvas,
square, circular, oblong, and variously rooted,
occupied by societies or families, reveal strongly
Bible pictures OF patriarchal life, and are at u
little distance quite picturesque beneath the
oaks and pines: The grounds are not as
smoothly cleaned ss is desirable, however and
there is a good deal OF stumbling done over
stumps and brush stubble; all of which will be
much improved in a day or two.
among the localities now or to be repre-
sented by tents are Springfield, Chicopee, Chi
copee Falls, Westdeld, Cranky, Athol, West
minister, Worcester, South Worcester, Webster,
Westboro', Boston, Lynn, Charlestown, Chelsea,
Windsor Warehouse Point, Hartford New
field, Forrestville, Donaldsonville, Collinsville,
Ct; Concord, Portsmouth, Keene, N. H.; Port
land and Comma, Me-; Providence and Grams
ton, r. IL; Castleton, VT; Rochester, Sandy
Hill, Fort Edward, Hebron, Hoosck, and New
York city, N. Y; 0ceanport, n. j.; Buchanan
Mich; st. LOUIS, Mo-; and Danville P. o.
In the early forenoon love feast was held
in less demonstTative and conyulslye mood
than is sometimes seen, aud Rev. Miles Grants
remarks thereafter were quietly earnest. He
spoke from Psalm XXX 5, in regard to the ban
banner would be- Behold the Lamb of Gods
his second, Il will come again. In relation to
this, he said the belief that this coming will be
soon was gaining around; he declined to tell
the day or hour, but was warranted to say that
His return TO this planet was almost DUE and
he didn't feel disgTaced in saying It. He Illus
trated what he meant by his third banner
motto, The dead shall be raised, by the asser.
ton thatEif he should knock man on the head
and kill him and bury him right before
the stand, he believed that same man
would rise up and confront him at the
resurrection; not another body made like his
old one, but the vertable material, simply
reconstructed; anything else would be no resur-
rectlon, but new creation. 1t occurs to us that
the point is of no special consequence any way
but most theological divisions are on as trivial
dogmas. His fourth inscription Thy kingdom
come occasiohed recapitulation of various
signs of the times which led him to believe that
Chnst's second coming was near 1t would ap-
Iear that he expects Him 10 arrive precisely
because of the incompleteness of all things, and
by general destruction of the present unre-
generate kingdoms of the world, to prepare the
planet to be the inheritance of the meek. His
fifth and last doctrlnal banner, as he phrased it,
was No consulting with demons that is. with
lying spirits, who pretended 10 be spirits of de-
parted friends. After this he swung out some
! good practical banners whose spirit was eX-
pressed in the first one, Love one another
REV. j. V. Hines followed up Mr. Grants
! words with brief eXhortatlon, and then was
| singing and much distribution of the sect's
! papers, and a curious tract tending TO prove
Louis Napoleon the last of the warrior mo-
narchs, foretold IN the eleventh chapter OF
! Daniel
"In the evening a practical sermon was
| preached by Rev, j. w. Hines, editor of the
| Voice OF me Wesi. lie chose his text ia Isaiah,
1858. large audience was in attendance"