The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-17
Thn NATIONAL Camn MeafIng.


A correspondent of the Western
Advocate gives the following descrip-
ton of the great Round Lake Camp
Meeting Ground in New York;
Y our correspondent reached Round
Lake, from the West, on Tuesday
evening, the 9th. Already a large
number of persons Is In attendance,
and some twenty-three beautiful cot
tages are erected. There is besides
post Office building, a store, store
houses, etc. The post Office building
is two stories high, and is not only
large enough for a post office proper,
but for bookstore proper, which is
kept by Walter Palmer, jr., publisher
oil the Guide to Holiness. The second
story of the building is used as an
Office by the Trustees of the Camp
Meeting Association, of which Joseph
Hellman, Esq, of Troy, is President.
The store is twenty by thirty FIVE feet,
also two stories high. A market, con-
sisting of groceries, fresh meats, pOul-
try, fish, etc., is kept in the first story.
/ The store house, which is some dis
lance from the store, is one hundred
and four feet long by twenty feet In
| width, and is two stories in height.
During the meeting, this building will
be used as a lodging place for the
| preachers, who can have a single bed
/ per night at Is cents, or 80 cents if
they stay through the meeting.
The twenty cottages mentioned are
private property, most of them two
story. They have tasteful verandahs,
with sash-door and green blinds
Nesting in the foliage, the effect is
picturesque indeed Of the tents
proper it is expected one thousand
will be erected. They are already
unfolding their white wings In every
direction. They vary in size from
"the rainy weather tent for wor-
ship" capable of seating three thou
sand people. to the z by tent for
} sleeping. Canvas, jeans, sheeting-
brown and white, old and new-are
the materials used in construction.
The grounds comprise forty acres
and lie eighteen miles from Troy
The land is an open, coarse gravel
which dries quickly after a rain, and
is covered for the most part with g
heavy growth of hemlock, pine
chestnut and oak. Where the. timber
has been cut away about twelve
hundred young trees have been sci
: out. 1t is exceedingly well watered-
a reservoir, holding one hundred
hogsheads, built In masonry. bout 6
half mile from the grounds, supply
, ing the water, which is chalybeate
, through a two-inch pipe. buried -four
feet under ground, and, by happy
arrangement of tank and pipe, is
brought within the reach of all
Near the center of the grounds is a
basin sixteen feet in diameter, with
, eight posts. Through these run pipe
fffffee n taRsTff, Wh1Ie IN the center of the
basin rests fine fountain about tit
: teen feet high, throwing water in The
form of spray. Fishes play in the
! large basin below. In another loca
; ton basin fifty three feet in diane
ter, supplies the horses. Beside:
these there are two other large reser
, voirs.
The seats in front of the preachers
stand will accommodate six Thousand
people. A bell weighing two Thousand
pounds, swung in tower of imposing
structure, calls the audience together
; The attendance, chiefly from the
Middle States and New England
promises to reach fifty thousand. [
, is expected that Bishop Simpson viii
be here most of the time, and tina
Rev. Mr. Punshon will preach one o.
two diseourses. The great theme o
all hearts is holiness in heart anC
life-not presented obtrusively, bu
In the general movement and action
! of both preachers and people. Gu
people, thoroughly baptized with de
votion to God, would find the con
. quest of the world not so difficult
, matter; but while the heart of tn
, Church beats so nearly alike with thu
. heat of the world, its affections ar
. the perishable and earthly. what won
der that the car of the Gospel moves
so slowly, and sometimes is at a stand
, still?