The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-29

ABOUT Sixty Thousand dollars nave Deen aireauy
expended In purchasing and developing the
grounds. All the earnings OF the association are
being expended In Identifying the grounds In
addition to this the Delaware and Hudson Canal
and Railroad Company are expanding about ten
thousand dollars for a new and elegant depot and
other railroad improvements. Tne circle OF
audience space In front OF the preaching stand IL
being seated with permanent seats. These seats
have comfortable support for the backs OF their
as comfortable as in any OF our indoor churches
Other improvements, such as road making, build
ing the new boat landing on the lake shore, DC,
unparalleled attractions OF Round Lake as camp
meeting ground and Summer home. The grounds
asya
ing place among camp meeting institutions OF the
country. II contains telegraph and post office;
several new cottages barns and stables for horses
have been put mp, and II Is proposed by and by to
have facilities for bathing In the lakes. The streets
aud avenues on the camp ground are parity circu-
lar and partly at right angles With each other.
They are, with few exceptions named alter the
great lights OF Methodsm--Wesl Fletcher,
Albany, Troy and the lake give their names TO
avenues. There is also Prospect avenue, and
seven short streets numerically named.
SHELTER ISLAND H. ~ CAMP GROUND
Is new religious recreative resort, which, like all
newborn babies, is the hands0mest that ever was
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be some years hence 1t embraces some fifty or
more acres on the northwest part OF the island,
andcontains fine hotel, built by an association OF
Boston Methodists. II is capable OF accommo-
dating $50 guests. A few cottages have been
erected; but the majority OF the visitors or tempo
rary residents will dwell in tents. The camp
ground can be easily reached from the Connecticut
shore, opposite. and also from the mainland OF
Long Island. II Is too distant, however, TO be
maze available for New York or Brooklyn people,
Two trains day on the Long Island Railroad con-
vey passengers thither, or an afternoon boat IRON
morning. The facilities for boating bathing, fish,
ing, yachting, DC, are reported TO be unequalled.
MOUNT TABOR, NEAR DENvILLE, N. j.,
ra
but rapidly growing into favor with the people,
An excursion was made thither on Monday, June
49, tor the sale OF lots, renting OF cottages &C. The
camp meeting will open there on August IL and
close August 20. Tie grove Is on the line Of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and western Railroad, and
is readily accessible to visitors from this and
neighboring cities. Excursion tickets will be gold
at reduction from the regular cost Of travel.
A similar meeting win open on Thursday, July
20, in
PIrMAN GROVE
on the line OF the West Jersey Railroad, about six
teen miles from Camden, N. j., to continue ten
days also. This meeting Is held under the auspices
OF the New Jersey Conference. Several improve
ments have been made in this grove during the
year past, and ample preparations are now
going to render the brief stay OF the camp fol-
lowers cheerful and pleasant and spiritually profit
able. The Jersey City district OF the Newark Con-
ference win hold an eight day meeting in their
grove at wortendyke station, commencing July 20
and ending July 81.
win begin on Monday, August Is, and close on
Monday August 25 The Vineyard is accessible
from New YORK BY all the iand and water lines to
Newport, Fall River Providence, New Bedford and
Boston; also by Portland steamers, which touch at
the camp meeting landing.
The fourth Ohio State camp meeting for the pro-
motion OF holiness in the Church aud the CONVEX
sion Of sinners, will be held on the stark County
Fair Grounds, commencing August 8, 1873, and con-
tinuing ten days. This meeting has been slgnally
blessed heretofore IN the sanctidcation OF beev-
and the conversion OF sinners, and the assoca-
ton most earnestly invite all the faithful to Join
them IN daily prayer and in observing Friday, Au-
gust l. as day OF tasting, humiliation and lrayer,
that the meeting Of 1879 may be one OF still more
ing for the same objects viii be held near Logan,
Hooking county, Ohio, commencing August 81 and
continuing eight days. IL Is held under the au.
Church.
camp meeting ia to be held at Embury Park
near Dayton, OHIO, under the auspices OF the local
ministers OF Cincinnati Conference, commencing
August and closing on the 18th.
The chester Heights Camp Meeting Association
announce that meeting will commence on the
9Th of August and continue ten days. The grounds
have been greatly improved and are now In elegant
condition.
motion OF Holiness,n OF the West Virginia Confer.
ence, for 1873, will be held at Moundsville, West
Va, beginning August 20. Expensive and ample
preparations are being vigorously prosecuted.
camp meeting will be held on the Cambridge
district camp grounds OF the Pttsburg Conference
near Winchester OHIO, commencing August 70 ant
The Chautauqua Lake camp meeting will com
mence August Il and hold ten days. This Is said e
be a very beautiful camp ground, on the shores o.
one Of New YOrk's most delightful lakes.
BRIDGEPORT DISTRICT CAMP MEETING.
The annual camp meeting OF the Bridgeport
district, New York East Conference, will be held at
the old camp ground, Milford, Conn.,. commencing
Monday, August II, and closing Saturday, August 10
The Wesley Grove Camp Meeting Association,
Baltimore Conference, viii hold camp meeting
upon their ground, commencing on Wednesday,
August 8, and continuing ten days.
The Minnesota state Camp Meeting VIII be held
on the camp ground at Red Rock, an ancient Indian
village on the Mississippi River, seven miles below
st. Paul, commencing July ], and continuing one
week. The grounds are most beautifully situated
covered with a beautiful oak grove, and accessible
either by railroad or steamboat within twenty
minutes OF st. Paul.
SUMMARY OF MEETINGS FOR 1879.
These are few OF the camp gatherings that vii
take place throughout the country during the year
1873 summarized for convenient reference. They
are