New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-02
THE GREAT CAMP-MEETING.
THE LUXURY OF SLEEP IN CAMP-MORNING
PRAYERS-A GREAT SERMON-THE SINGING
Defeating TIRE TABERNACLE TENT.


peel and old envelopes in the choicest gadcs,
able to exist without tobacco and tea and cheese even
in clear paradise IL be bound that the Israel
ties wanted mustard with their mamma You should have
heard q city man grumbng his mug OF coffee he
the birds sang SO in the morning. Wash more
than o'clock and they began such raspng and whist
ling, and calling fellow couldn't sleep. believe the
little demons kept the best part Of an hour be-
heve he wants it always November that the sun can't
wake him up. Sleep in Of these cabins is an uncon-
scOus luxury it fails lightly and goes instantly as
flowers open 1t delicious 10 feel so safe in the little
house alone at night with the protecting tents enc
cling It, TO hear one family song after another dying
away, and the white households lock themselves sleep
To he the latch ratified and there seemed to he root
steps the Roof, but sleep benumbcd every nancy u
woke in a soft unult Of family clater. What jolly times
that Methodist family mother aunt father, and child,
were having for they went off in such sideQuverng
laughter as only at home jokes. believe they
throwing pillows each other the father was
rolling the child out OF bed They kept it up long
the birds did and as hadn't heard laugh for three
months except when woman tried one for effect hirt
ng-I content to listen. The bell struck in the open
ar hurried me ont TO early prayer meeting.
The church tent til the close Of service in filling.
People when they ready and the space seemed
elastic. Wooden shawl3 and waterproof cOaks were the
uniform, FOR everybody their old things at camp
meeting. Brother Munger leads and the exhortatOns
chiefly to holiness, which, as Presbyterian of
the HOpkinsan school, translate to my edhcation.
This thing Of social religion is mystery to me. can't
how people talk Of these grave and tender conf
dcnces Of the SOUL any than woman can speak of
her ovCsocrets The very words holiness perfection,
mean 90 much that 1 would let them go till world
where there would be more frequent excuse for using
them, but suppose by sanctidcaton and the pOwer"
they mean what we Dolby Improvement and resolve"
neither more less And ii striving after wonder
fu dea Sister Carr learns not to slap her Johnny I'M
ad,scly. aad Brother Merrill keeps his temper when
brckfas' late. who will crtcse their phrases Only,
differently educated ears. this crying Of sacred things
must M with the shrinking which visits at sight of
the wounded dignity of the human frame in dssecting,
What you and l, that We Judge one another
Some hearty natures could more live on the refine
mcnts which sustain us than they could work in the
field cusard and chocolate glace. People are born
Methodist, Uutarans, or PresDyterians not made So
Look az the glarhewn features Of these people and
mark rctroSSf of twothrds present. that cheer
fu unconventional type to psamsinging and IVES
eyanism Go to Dr. EwerS church, and mark the high
narrow, Rtuatic head, stop at Amherst or Dartmouth
and study the aqune Cavinstc features of the ortho-
dox There briskness in Of the remarks which
neurazes the damp melancholy Of the dident sisters
One swapping young brother reels off the story of his
attempts to bring forward his Congregational wife in
family prayer. 1t til night went
down my knees, and told her never meant to get on
them tin she prayed out loud For time it was an
awful struggle then she burst out crying, and finally she
prayed il she couldn't stop got up, and says !,
Sally you Just beat all out, prayn" and he sat down
in a chorus Of Glory" Wonderful" that would have
been clappng and applause at such success in theaer
One man. clay cOored specimen with face of mttern,
thin, rude and susceptible laughed convusvey when
anything touched his feelings and this odd hysteric'
high wrought laugh in prayer and praise, expressed
more emotion than the sObs which were interchangeable
terms. glad to hear some Of the sisters evidently
weltrained at home, speak clearly and without en-
barraSsment, TO edicaOn than the plattudes OF
most Of the brothers. There homely faces and
rusty earbs in that tent but of the tanned brows
were serene and the eyes ustrous with sweetness
never saw ont the Chrsus Consolaor before In the
dew and purity Of the morning they had heard voice
saying
For be chism you is sweet"
And there silver, vibrant tone Of feeling in the
HYMNS delicate as swan songs might be, that not
prepared t. find Such tenderness such purity was the
power OF Wesley anism the crowds that focked
Of London TO hear its first preachers. Perhaps Mas
sacluses MethOdism is more subdued than the type
am familiar with at the West, and this adventurous
camp-mco ting in of the srongholds of Puritansm
owns uucOasciously its refining influence Among all
that clashes with tastes the impression left is
principally that Of the heavent faces and the harpiRe
hymns There Sermon which eftts fragrance
frIauy days that have put by with two Others which
Will never he forgotten preached at long intervals
by widely differing thinkers. One by that eloquent
Young smith, the Unitarian of West Cambridge who de-
served the reward Of dying early he did, the second by
aH old Presbyterian minister just dropping into the
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IT, md tie third drops Unexpectedly on us among
tie lia,s. Tie Rev. Mr., Adams of the East NewYork
Conference is the preacher wellframed, dark-eyed
man, with crave face that sOftens, such faces do into
the mcst winning smile There is nothing dis
tinct'y Methodist about him, but his belief his
manner glt be a model for Harvard theologue,
and he would pass Unitarian in Mr.. Frohingham's
pulpit. lie evidently belongs to the sncerest modern
school, his gray chevot suit closely butOned, and his
freedom alike from selfcOncousnes and ministerial airs
suggest this His voice is pleasant swift and clear to
the end. His text is, :" Walk before me, and be
thou perfect" In this command TO Abraham, the
word that alarms us charmed him Whlelartists mechan
les statesmen seeking perfection in their pursuits 1t
isrued out religion He had lately heard minister say
that the only place for perfect man was in Heaven OF
in the luna,c asylum. Now, if perfection meant
thing atanablc was sublime, ifinOt nothing such
an absuTdty The text presents Gods ideal Of man,
aud ideals not hard 10 find We see them in ma
ture He found men in this world who satisfied him.
Abraham was one Enoch Men require more Of
each other than God does They make no allowance for
mistakes or imperfections, but God does he says 10
matter if you without sympathy in your life The
strongest saints those that up alone. As an oak
free in grove is slender thing when stands alone
in the sun the plain royalty fair so Chris
tians are strongest when they grow alone with God
radical Of Boston lately said that entire conservation
the nominal state OF mans heart toward God If even
wicked recognizes the being of God and HIS good
ness he recognizes that there duty of gratitude
0uired toward God. We do not love human beings per
fecty and ought give God other love than this
And our hearts answer to an the claims OweOur fell
low men. And beloved, man who walks up to the
line Of convictions in his sphere and keeps up
TO the foreedge OF his light, God calls him perfect God
does not call up the high plains where He u, but
gives us little lessons TO learn here perfectly Though
conventional disabilities, weakness and human infiin
mia Cad