The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-10
TILE NATIONAL CAMP MEETING.
scenes in the Camp-Bathina i'm the Lake
How the Day Is Spent-The Ministers
Present-Dinner-The News Depot-Geuerul

m0wn hay. II he be epicurian he VIII turn his back
on the Saratoga water, whose presence re-
minds him Of the feverish mornings of
city life, and while the low voices of
devotion in the great prayer tent are filing the
woods with soemnlty he will wander out into the
glorious sunshine. He may climb above the camp
to the wooded knobs, where the thrushes are gayly
singing and watch the mists rise slowly from the
meadows, or he may stroll down past the OLD stone
walls half buried with ivy vines ana nanked with
frntladen raspberry bushes, on along the path that
winds amid the timothy and through the ferns and
Deeches down to the shore Of the placid lake. A
waterfowl shelters Off among the reeds and nlies the
kingfsher flaps heavily away from his perch on the
Old dead pine and over beyond the wide expanse Of
water, ripping here and there with schools of
hungry fish, he will hear the lowing of cattle
and the song OF the farmer boy. He may
plunge in the clear, cold BATH or row till HIS already
sbarpened appetite is keenly whetted for breakfast
Clusters Of BIRCH whose plant twigs were sweet to
his palate but bitter to his back in his schooboy
days, hang over the rush-fringed beach; and sum-
mer flowers, like those when he long ago played
truant. invite him to gather their dew-gemmed
blossoms
The horses IN the corral are bustling with their
feed and wreaths of blue smoke are curling IN
anS tSe as S sre yacant mn eyerS tent dar
with family devotion; and while he fingers to hear
the morning hymns blend sweetly through the camp
the bell summons him to breakfast such as only
the country can produce
PERSONNEL OF THE MINISTER'S PRESENT.
One OF the most striking features in the encamp-
ment is the personnel OF the ministers present.
There Is the whlte-haired veteran OF almost three
at b F9
the kennebec, on the wide prairies, in the sunny
valleys Of the South. in city and town, and out In
Of camp meetings held long before many Of us were
born what recOllectOns of places that have changed
Christian bond that unites all sections and all races
In one brotherhood and what anticpatiOns OF joy
and meet the hundreds and thousands Of ms people
with whom he has worshipped, and who have gone
before him .ta
is served In number Of large boarding tents each
accommodating about 800 guests at a sitting. The
fifty cents each for breakfast and tea, and seventy
five cents for dinner one dollar per day for three
eggs VEGETABLES ana meas direct om the
are bOuntifuly provided, and he who seeks respite
from the heat and dust and fancy food OF the city
ton than Round Lake during the camp meeting.
THE AFTERNOON SERVICES
SnI napast ' one preaching at f s"
by prayer meeting, and sermon again at
A. ten 3nesa the 3s sse are a Ss
most prominent institutions OF the place is
an immense board structure called Tabernacle
clergymen. A portion or the building has
been partitioned of for ladies who may come
from distance, and not intending to remain over
a day or two, do not wish to incur the expense of
renting tent Large, comfortable beds In this edi-
nee are let at one dollar and q half per night, for
two persons, or ten dollars for the season.
THE NEWS DEPOT,
under the supervision of Mr. ". c. Palmer, of New
York, Is the favOrte resort the intervals between
religious services. The fountain and basin In the
square before this building Is always surrounded by
tion between the photograph establishment and the
literary stock OF the bookstore. Al the New York
Of their publication, and the Troy Albany and sara
toga papers give us the Geographic news morning
and evening.
Third Day Of the Meeting-PrOgress Of the
Exercises-The Methodist Episcopal Church
North and S0uth-SanctiHcation the Songs,
Tobacco, &c.
ROUND LAKE, July 9, 1860.
The third day OF the national camp meeting has
been marked by continued increase of religious
feeling, and all the exercises Of the most inter.
estlng character. The congregation has been
largely augmented by late arrivals on the trains
from all parts Of the country. the area
Of tents ia rapidly widening in all directions and
the avenues present q scene OF animation seldom
equalled on occasions Of this kind. Immense au-
deDces attend the regular services at the stand and
all the large prayer meeting tents are crowded
during the intervals between sermons very en-
thusastic feeling prevails The whole Church, in
GLIDING preachers and laty, have entered into the
exercises with great earnestness and the only topic
Of conversation on every hand is the spread of the
Gospel and revival OF the Church.
THE SOUTHERN METHODIsTS
have not aniliated much with the Northern Confer
Episcopal Church on the subject OF slavery, which
took place some years ago. still separating the two
religious sections Since the close OF the war and
the settlement OF the slavery question the confer
ences have made several attempts to effect re-
union; but very little success has been met
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harmonious feeling between individual men,
bers OF the Northern and Southern Churches.
preachers crops out occasionally however, as was
illustrated last evening at the ciergymen's prayer
protracied and unusually demonstrative season Of
prayer and singing one jealous preacher evidently
the Sooa Of @ ana desire
posed that all unite in special prayer for
President Grant and the national administration. A
preacher from Brooklyn. and brother Of New York
Alderman. Immediately sprang up and emphatically
objected 10 any such proposition, asserting that
were no better than other men, and were not SIM.
posed to be special objects of anybodys consdera-
ton on an occasion like this. These remarks were
met by An immediate retort, and wet blanket was
rapidly settling upon the religious element of the
meeting when a skiifu flank movement silenced
the contestants The subject, however did not rest
here, and at bedtime was freely discussed IN some
Of the tents.
ana perfect holiness seems to be the keynote OF all
the sermons, and the burden of prayer. There had
oeeu u tfeat uea vi argument among the preachers
on the ground respecting the degree Of holiness or
sancti1catl0n attalnabe, and the members seemed
TO be about equa lly divided on the subject.
The ground taken by the advocates OF this the0lo
gca point Is that the forgiveness OF SIM which takes
place when sinner sincerely untes with the
Church and devotes himself to Christian life is but
an initiatory step In the work OF salvation and that
1t s the duty Of every new convert to perslstently
seek In prayer and by an exercise OF faith an evf
dence 10 the neart that God has accepted INN as
wholly sanct6ed.
THE Use OF TOBACCO
IL emphaJically denounced In many OF the sermons
and Is enumerated with PRIDE vanity, lcenIous
practices and other sinful indulgences a. being not
only unbeooming to the protesting Christian, but
offensive to God. Exhoriers proclaim against Il
variations Of Christian experience refer to the aban
d0nment OF the use OF the "debasIng, filthy weed,r
ana many ID their prayers mplore the Almighty to
exercise His power In cleansing the Church Of |
tobacco. The zealons advocates OF this reform
are, however, In tine minority, like the plain |
dress lady members who, eschewng all ornament |
wear cure b0nnets and denounoe jewelry and ele.
CANT attire paraphernalia OF the devil rhare arc