, 1873-08-21
Opening Of the Camp-Nlcoting at
Dcsplafncs.
Splendid Appointments for a Sue
oessful Revival.
The Camp.Ground, the Cottages, and
Other Accommodations.
A Large Attendance of Worship
ers Yesterday.
The services-.'0pening Sermon by the
Presiding Elder.

For wooks past, It has boon announced In t !
Sunday and religious press that tho Chicago |
District Camp-meoting Would opon at Dos
plainea on tho evening Of tho Goth inst. That
husploi0uB timo has como. The great nlootlng |
has commenced under tho most favorable au-
spicos and will no doubt DO as successful, in q
religious point OF Wow, this ns In past yoara.
Camp-meetngs aro not now institution.
They arc as old 10 tho hills. Gods groves wero
tho first temple, sna from that day to this. there
havo been occasions when, for tho pleasures Of
tho cause and the causc itso1f, and porchance for
othor roasona, Gods ohildron bavo convened in
tho groves, on hill mud valo, to worship Him.
In connection with tho Methodist Church,
ra1np-mcetings originated because thero WAS a
lack Of church cdiaces. Tho growth Of that do
nomination superseded the building OF houses
of worship. They wero a necessity, and
hence their worry general adoption 10 this and
pthorlands. They hive proved very benohcial to
that denomination, not only in tho creator NUM-
ber Of conversions, bat III tho generating of'now
nhurches, giving impetus to older ones, and In
advertising this religious sect over tho wide
world.
IA church buildings aro at present very nt1na~
nrous, and sufficiently 50 to accommodate tho
membership in almoat every locality, thore aro
thoBo who object to camp-mootings, aa utterly
unnecessary In tho present day, and this impress,
sion is. perhaps, growing ono, mud it IL not
Improbable that tho institution ultimately mny
become thing Of tho past. Thore arc
others, howoyor, who firmly believe in them, and
this number is sufficiently large to inHuro their
euccoas for many years to como. ALI
over tho 1and, East. Woat, North and
South, these meetings arc being hold.
Tho moht prominent aivines, Bishops, Elders,
professors and thousands Of members attend
thom. Conversions, too, Of a prominent char
actor, by tho hundred, arc reported from yoar to
ycar.
now commencing camp-moetng in tho sub
urba of Chicago. at which Thousands Of hor
ritizens, leaving her splendid church
sudionco-rooms, will, for tho timo retire to tho
beautiful grove at Dosplatnea, and join tho null
titude in tho sacred deyotions of camp-moeting.
You will start 10Y from on ii tho Kinzlo streot
depot, cornor Of Kinzio and Canni atroots.
Trains will lenvo, during tho continuance of tho
meeting, which will bo weok or more, at 0,
9:20 9:lo and 1925 in tho forenoon, and return,
leaving the grounda at $780, 4.20, md 6:12 in the
afternoon. Tho fare for tho round trip has
been fixed at 81, provided YOU have purchased
yonr ticket before cntorlng tho train. Your line
OF trlrol Will DO over tho WISCONSIN DiY1B1oQ OF
thronrh the noat little suburban towns, fespoo-
ivoly, Of Maplowood, MontroHe, Jefferson,
Norwood Park, Oapicld and Park Ridge, and
another milo or ao making eighteen in all,
r,tr anorNps.
There is perhaps not moro beautiful grove
to bo found anywhere in the vicinity q Cbicago
than this located gu tho Dosplancs River, one
nrnner ancose ncses wlicb xas MIR
chased and aot nnaTt for q ca1np-fnoetine GROUND
several years go BY the Chicago District Camp.
finlatipe, 9Tassy lawn, shaded with tho Walnut
manic oat fAe AK, iickarv aim and othor trees
some Of which nro quito large, and 81
rjohness Of tho eroyo. Thofe are about 200 noat
<sn cotta"eas ~ , normanant1y areeto an tht
grounds, ID Che Swiss style Of architecture
%hich. NESTING away amid The hundreds q
-: .and soryo to individnalizo tho Who'll
~ sasa.,rameotinr rround. These cottaco
and 1v two windows bs,D51d halt, With two door
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