Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-26
FIFTH AND LAST DAY.

FIFTH AND LAST DAY.
Friday was another beautiful ard lovely day,
and called out a great assemblage upon the
grounds, though the numbers were not so vast
as on the preceding day. The public exercises
began with the annual love feast, at about eight
O'Clock, very interesting ceremony in which
some $50 souls earnestly joined, vocaly. At
ten O'Clock, a sermon was preached by Rev.
jefferson Hascall of Shrewsbury, for many
years presiding elder of this and other districts.
He took his text from Mathew 1913: "Strve to
enter in at the straight gate, and by the narrow
way" etc. His general topic was, the deprcca-
ton of mere formality in religion, that some
thing more than mere seeking was required but
hard striving was necessary, to guard against
the evil tendencies of the naturally depravcd
human heart. The discourse was pronounced
very superior one, and was followed by profit
able season of prayer.
The afternoon sermon was preached by Rev.
Henry Lumms of Natick. Previous to the SER
mon, being the closing one of the occasion, an
appropriate reference was made by the presid-
ing elder to the accidental drowning of the
young lad, on Thursday, as lesson of warning
to all youths present, of the uncertainty of life
and the necessity of Immediately beginning the
work of religion in the soul. The Rev. Bertis
Judd of Rockbottom was asked to offer up a
prayer in behalf of the afflicted parents, which
he did in very affecting and impressive manner.
Mr.. Lummis' sermon was from the text, Rev
Citations, xxi LILLE that is unjust, let him be
unjust still, &C., and che that is righteous, let
A.
able discourses of the week, teaching important
lessons concerning the life to come, as viewed
from Scripture and illustrated from the vantage
ground of the unchanging laws of the material
universe, in which effect follows cause no more
unerringly and certainly than in matters per-
tanning to our moral and spiritual condition
here and hereafter. From this the speaker
urged the necessity of an early beginning of the
knowledge of the Savior, and a thorough per-
sistCnce in the ways Of righteousness through
life in order to avoid the consequences of those
scars and blOts upon the moral nature, incident
to a violation of the laws of God, which ages of
well doing can never oblterate the memory of
in the soul. Mr.. Lummis is a profound scholar,
as well as ,sncere Christian, deeply versed in
scientific knowledge, and it is solid satisfac-
ton, both in a religious and educational point
of view, to listen to him.
Following the closing sermon was very in
teresting and refreshing season of prayer and
exhoratons, after which several hundred new
converts, including large number Of youth Of
both sexes, came forward and knelt down to-
gether. These devotional exercises, inter
hours, and were exceedingly impressive.
Last evening was devoted to addresses from
several speakers, having reference TO the gen.
eral subject of the camp meeting, the success
attending it, the good resulting from it, &c.
This morning will be devoted to leave tallings,
the necessary labors of breaking up the tents,
&C., after which the parties will leave for home.
1t is understood that the owners of the cottages
intend to occupy them until after the muster,
and MIR. Wellman will also remain upon the
grounds during next week.
The singing on this occasion, as at every
previous camp meeting held on these grounds,
was led by choir, of which Amasa Davis of
Dudley is leader.
The boarding house and restaurant DEPART
ments have been very successfully and satisfac-
torily managed by Mr.. Jacob Wellman, who has
five years contract to do the same. If his bill
of fare next year is equal to what it has been
this year, of which there is no question, large
numbers who have heretofore boarded them
selves in the various tents, will hereafter give
him the benefit of their patronage To give
some idea of the multitudes he has fed, we will
state that the consumption of flour during camp
meeting week, in the various cooking arrange
ments in the establishment, is nearly 80 barrels.
besides large quantities of materials furnished
by the bakers outside. About two hundred four
pound loaves of bread per day, on an average,
are baked, and from three TO five hundred pies
! made per day. The supply of milk averages
about fifty ten.quart cans per day, during The
J busiest days, ice about one ton per day, about