Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-07-28
THE NATIONAL CAMP MEETING.


-.
iHE NAiiONAI CAMP NEE TING
,,.... .. -
o'"''"s 7ee"es-ser"ohs oi ureht Eiod"encs
and Power-Incidents.
Special Correspondence Of the Commercial
| The sermon of Rey Daniel Dorcbester of the
Na Tnaa.a ca.,ss .o.. ao' Doe,'v. u W.
~" Hns an'i oonieienoo ""e ienaiAe'iy 'iea'
ana convincing, ana Tor an argumentat1ve dis
| course possessed unusual warmth in expression
etool forb;stext tbo words of resns as recorded
-, g. .a,o -
py 81. Matthewv: 4o, "Be ye therefore perfect,
even as your Father which is in heaven is per-
fect.' On the aftemoon of the same dav Rev
IL, 6 D.Io - p.,,....
ooiii p Deaie' y. ~, VI oai'iiioie, pieacheu
from Philippians III 8, Yea, doubtless, and
count all things but loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.
The evening services were. as ,,sual a con.
centration Of ali Religions effort at the main
stand where Rev. L. III, Dunn. of Newark. spoke
eloqnently and with profound impressiyeness
On WEDNESDAY, evenind He relatea b;s ow,, ex'
perience in the matter Of full salvation. and
called upon all present to cast themselves on
Christ as an Immediate Saviour He referred to
the answer of fhe PRAYER Of faith AZ seen in the
experience of the blind lame and palsied cured
by Jesus of physical maladies: this trusting faith
lin Christ and unclaspng the hand from ali other
supports will bring yoi on the solid Rock. il,
illustrating the matter of faith and security In
trusting Jesus, reference was made to "a man
n
rope by which he was s,,spended. he conld not
| get mn and not knowing the jentb of tbe we'll
was afraid to let go, he struggled in great agony
of fear and effort until exLausted he found he
must let 60 rncasped his hands and fell inst
three inches. Just such il your condition nv
fearing doubling brother. let 90 every other
trust, lust underneath Won il the solid Rock.
God saws give ma your heart. give me vour
life will you enter into this covenant to live for
God? tsWitb an earnest appeal sinners were
urged to an immediate surrender to Jesns. be-
lieyers were exhorted 10 consecrate their lives
afresh TO God. And in the season of PRAYER that
followed a great many persons bowed before
God in most solemn nrayer and conservation
An the evening services have been seasons of
| marked success
.,r,,,,, n, n,,,, ,a.,.,nn
'hnhoN pi hh'. a. hoSoAo"h'
Perhaps the most interesting, eloquent and
powerful sermon Of the entire meeting was one
preached by hev. A. Longacre OF the New York
conference who selected for his text the words
Called to be Saints, komans Z; He said
amongst other DeauuIul ana prohtaple thngs,
the word saints, refers merely to holy persons.
| As Protestants we too generally entertain the
| idea that very few are called to be saints
that the word, az used to think when boy,
cannot be applied to christians IN general with
| out sacrile6e that 1t belonged only TO the gor1-
| fed before the throne of God. And do not
know but Protestants have fallen into even
worse error than this, and that is thinking there
are no holy persons at ALL This experience can
| to be saints, for he does not require impossbii-
| ties. But saint is simply sinner-saved-
| saved fully, through and through. That is all.
| Perhaps | ought to go a little further and say
| saint in this Bible sense, is a man or woman,
that is, as far as human being can be like God.
There is yet another aspect of their honess-it is
the man woman fulfilling the word of God.
Complete in all the will of God" who does the
will of God from the heart. The saint is just
what God wants him to be now, 30 that being a
saint is simply sliding into the present will of
God
1t is to be, not heavenly or angelic, but just
saint just what Godwantsyouto to benow and here.
God does not take all men and women out of the
world when they become saints. He has work
for them to do. Sometimes sincere persons have
shut themselves away from the world in convent
or monastry, but the grace impaired is not given
thus to be hid away. 1t is a real tangible holi-
ness that is to show itself in all the words and
life before the world it is not an exotic but
hardy plant that will stand any weather and
bloom right on, and praise God as it blooms. 1t
does not excuse man from the daily duties of
life it does not 60 up into the closet to pray
when it ought to go down into the kitchen to
work, nor to church when it ought to be attend
ing to business nor sing hymns and talk reli-
gon while thousand necessary things were
overlooked or neglected.
II is not found in shining like saint in meet
ing, but being in eclipse at home A saint is
holiness in action blessing the world. Holiness
Is for the family, for business, FOR common me-
1t VIII make q man distiheuisned ana truly great
more surely than wisdom, skill, culture, &c. 1t
sto this life and character that TOD calls us;
know that every man has ms worldly cailin8.
nave no word 70 say aealns. inns, oat IA your
worldly calling, God bids you TO specia ana noble
service without violating the proprieties much,
less the necessities OF your place III the world
just there, God calls you TO be SAINT. You
need tins character TO intensity your enorts ior
personal holiness, The man who does not think
God has called him to be saint Will not try to
lie but lie does call his followers TO DE
sanity in character, there is no exemption from
the force of this rule We often hear other
voices calling us, some to pleasure, others to
honor, to wealth, to worldly applause Hear
Gods call. 1t comes to each, - ye are called TO
be saints"
Is there any one, professor OF religion, called
to be holier than you are there are some things
you do without compunction OF conscience which
you would condemn in one eminent for piety-in
your pastor. Why Is he called to be saint
and you are not Is there any one in all the
world called to be holier than are you =! II this
be our calling and our privilege, what shall we
do about it Can we hesitate any longer9 Shall
we not here and now come to Jesus for Just this
character? Oh, how we all need 1t. We must be
saints; then all the walks OF poverty shall
blossom in their beauty and all the refinement
and elegance and luxury of wealth shall be
sanctited to God and made glorious with
saintliness.
ASKING FOR PRAYERS.
At the opeping of each service the Secretary
reads n large number of REQUESTS which come
fLrouob ;nA;v;duals nm the prnund and by mail
from all parts of the country, very many of
these are presented by mothers for erTing and
wandering children, for parents, pastors, for
people, and from members. of the church for
their pastors that they may have this grace of
perfect love and preach it. Many. Of these have
been very affecting and in touching tones of
tenderest love.
After all read, Rev. Geo. Hughes holds
them up in his hand before God, the entire con-
gregation arise to their feet and engage in
solemn, silent prayer for the objects therein
presented. We heard of many Its, in which
the object asked for by these thousands in united
prayer had been received.
In one of the meetings a Mr.. Perkins stated
that he had that day presented his petition, and
he, with friend, had gone off alone into the |
woods to piay He was very seriously embar-
rassed in his speech by stammering, aud he
most solemnly consecrated his tongue and his
lips to God, and if it was His will to remove this
impediment he would solemnly engage to use
his voice only to the glory of God. While he
prayed there seemed to come upon him pecu-
liar power from OH high, and he fell PROSTATE
upon the ground and when enabled to rise
again he began to praise the Lord from a full
heart, the impediment was entirely removed, and