Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-08-13

! But let us not be misunderstood
here. We simply mean to say tina
| there are certain valuable results
achieved by camp-meetings, whicl
never can be reached by other formi
of extra religious effort and we are
equally free to say that there are
doubtless, other ends, equally i'm
! portant, for which other means ar(
better adapted than camp-meetings
What then? Let us not discard Ell
ther the one nor the other of these
means of grace. They are well
adapted, by their respective peculi-
arities, to cooperate to the same
general end.
The camp.meeting is the larger
gathering; the protracted meeting
may be continued longer. Not
more than one or two eamp-meet-
ings can generally be held with
proftin Presiding Elders district,
during one season; whereas, as
many protracted meetings as there
are societies may be held if occasion
requires.
The protracted meeting held in
the Church, is adapted to the leis-
ure and the long evenings of Win
ter, and the camp-meeting is adapt
ed to the Summer. Herein appears
their beautiful harmony. 1t often
happens that the fire is kindled on
the camp ground, and burns in the
form of a blessed revival carried
forward, by means of the protracted
meeting, all winter, On the other
hand, if extensive revivals of relig-
ion have prevailed over a district
of country during the Winter, and
added many to the Church, what
better thing can she and her chill
dren do, than to retire from the
cares of the world for a week, and
renew their vows and brighten their
hopes, just at that period of the
year when the faith of the faithful
is most likely to wanP, and when
the half-fedged piety Of the young
converts has oftenest yielded to
w9rldliness.
The practice of the Savior, of
] John the Baptist, and of the Apos-
lies, is a full sanction of the princi-
pie involved in the holding of mod
ern camp-meetings. Truly, "The
groves were Gods first temples"
And when, it may be asked, has
there been carried on any great
process of spiritual reform, without
5he extensive use ofout-door preach
ng? Not only John, and the Sa-
Vior, and the Apostles addressed
,heir audiences in the open air, but
n later days assembled thousands
istened to the apostolic Wesley on
he moors and commons of Eng
and, and the fires of revival were
lighted along the Atlantic seaboard
If America by the outdoor preach
ng Of Whitefeld. The Church has
,ver become attached to forms and
ceremonies, as she has lost her
,ower and spirituality; and her
lecline in these has been equally
marked by superstitious regard .
or certain localities. Wesley de- {
Jared that before his conversion
le should have regarded it as al q
most a sin against God to save a |
oul from hell, unless it had been r
one in the Church. But God d
howed him the more excellent way '
rhen he filled him with the spirit e
f Christ, and presented before him !
he world as his parish, and sent b
i'm forth to publish the great sal
alton he had found, in the Church c
/ on the commons, indifferently; u u
ow in the streets of London and !,
/ the market place, to the drunken
oilers at Macelsfeld, and again to t.
le half barbarous natives of Corn u
all. Would to God the spirit :,
hich urged him on were in each
his sons. ii
BLooMINGBURG, July, 1868. d
Mr., Vallandigham said here c,
lat he would justify the action Of l,
le New York Convention. Talk