The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-17
SING SING CAMP MEETING.
sClose Of This Feast Of Tabernacles-Camp Songs
and sanctiAed Anties-Religion Run NADIA
Mountsbank Rsbuked- sermons, Scenes
and Incidents-Pious Police-Walking
Round Jerusalem and Finale.

were here yesterday, shouting and praying and
singing and enjoying themselves In more or less Of
An apostolic fashion, here is not to-day half
hundred besides those who have the charge Of the
grounds and who must necessarily stay over for
q day or two. Before Saturday night the place will
be utterly deserted aAd be given over to the katy
did. the squirrels and the rats and perhaps other
vermin; and before the hosts Of Zion pitch their
tents there again the camp ground Is to be con-
verified from scene OF barrenness TO one OF beauty
The grounds are too small to dispose Of
in lots for cottage purposes (being only ten
acres), but they are not too small to
make the encampment much more comfortable for
visitors than 1t now Ii. And under the pressure Of
Q competition which threatens to strip this patrl-
archal camp of all Its glory life is to be Unused
into 1t. Lodging houses are to be erected, after
the style Of Sea Cliff Grove, and dining halls on the
same plan are talked OF though they viii hardly be
put up before the next annual encampment.
THE LODGING rBNTs
are unworthy Of the fame and reputation Of the
Sing Sing Camp Meeting Association. There Is
soarcely one Of them waterproof and during sea-
son like that just closed, when we have had three
or four rain storms of such ferceness as
to cut gullles through the hard and well-beaten
ground and Of eight or tea hours continuance;
It becomes matter Of some Importance to have
dry place to sleep and to eat In. This, however,
could not be had In the tent in which lodged, and
In others that have seen and heard ef The
benches In tho dining tent, too, were, after a
shower, too wet and damp to sit upon while eating.
The culinary appointments are altogether too
inferior to meet the demands OF SO
many hundred people as have been upon
this ground since It opened on the
9th inst. But we are promised improvements in
these and in other respects, II not by next August
certainly by the year following. Suggestions and
propositions have been made to sell out this camp
ground and purchase elsewhere near the water
front which would be easy Of access and whereby
the weary uphill climbing to reach the present site
would be avoided.
During the early days OF the present encamp-
ment the meetings dragged o little and were I'M
interesting: Many Of the regular haotts.es Of the
Others Of them ran up tuH for day or two and
then vanished. But Notwithstanding the draw.
backs to complete ea!oymsnt Ihays heard great
best meeting they had ever attended on old Sing
Sing grounds. The preaching, too, as j have
already stated, was Of second rate order but this
1.-THE cLorH'' RBpEEMED ITSELF
most esctqay On Monday afternoon the rain
tents that there were no public services at the
however. in all the large tents. One by Q Rev.
Mi PsaSy q New Jersey very favor
much s'S the puRD s 91s S%sy n auar q vs5S
Sad Of @
church Of Harlem, N; <, and Dr. Barttne, Of Trim
ny caTT Jersey city TIE st was highly
signed to demonstrate the inconsistency of per-
sons asserting TO the truths Of the Gospel and yet
vices. 1t was based upon the text John xviii, %
"lf have spoken evil bear witness OF the evil,
but II well why smitest thon mel" The Doctor
showed that no reasonable objection can be raised
to Christianity as system of morals, or to its dis
tinctivc and peculiar doetrines-as, for instance,
and the like. Nor can objection be made to its in.
situations, such as the family. the Sabbath, the
and d the Mn II IT ito Of a In
Church was the first to strike the shackles nom
friend OF humanity, but y had lost Its day
and passed its age Of usefulness. From every
consideration he deduced the truths that Chris
claims by human hearts marked them not only In
hostility q further heightened BY ngratitude, the
greatest Of crimes against loving Saviour and
steadfast friend. This point was illustrated BY the
ters. The sermon was admirably emphasized by
Rev. John Parker singing scored song, whose bar.
ALMOST, BUT LOST.
In the afternoon Rev. Dr. BsrtiBe, Of Jersey City,
preached highly en1ottanal sermon on the blind
NS,aSareth, the Son OF David, TO have mercy upon
I'm, I'm, me wretched and miserable condition OF the
h h was portrayed and the tender compassion OF
one Saviour was placed over against IL and also In
uprosiuon 10 the responsibility ofthe multitude who
meLS % conservative and respectable that they
cSuio NOT bear to have the prophecies OF
tn occasion disturbed by the appeals OF
the Diind man lot mercy This was the signal for a
1elerai outDurst or glorys and hallelujahs and
under lts innuence several "mourpers,i souuRt the
altar Immediately at the close of the sermnn when
Sammy" Hasted and his prayin9 hand con1rcted
q series Oh prayer and song, and Conversions were
announced About thirty conversions were re-.
ported on Monday, and think there was nearly
that number on Tuesday, though NO publlc renorfs
were made rain storm OF great neYce
ness came on In the evening, while tho
Rev. Henry Asten was preaching a verv
excellent sermon on the nature and the
elements Of successful prayer and the pront thas
ensues from calling upon God, Hts text was from
Job, where scepttc asks, "who Is the Lord that
we Should love Him, and what profit shall we have
II we pray unto Hims" He finished his discourse
IN tne Forsyth street church tent in which the best
meetings are now held since the Norfolk street and
rorty -tnird street churches have united. At the
G.ose oi ,he sermon prayer meeting held dur
1ng wnlcn Few persons were led to believe In
Jesus 10 the saving of their souls Prayer meetings
tents at the same time. 49," ~0' oNo
On wednesday morning DR.. John Miley of Sing
SSing, preoaed very able sermon from the text