The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-23
MouDdsvIIIe National Camp Meeting

MoundsvIIle National Camp Mee'lns:
Correspondence of the IntellIgcnceFl
This is the seventeenth camp meeting
held by the National Committee. They
were invited to this pIaceby the Mounds
vile Camp Meeting Association" We
learn that this, with three other invita-
,ions-one at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Ian
disvillc, Pa, and Knoxville, Tenn.I-Was
accepted out Of some ten or fifteen others
AN interesting service was held on the
ground last evening, but the National
meeting was opened this forenoon at ten
O'Clock.
Rev. Mr.. Ball. Presiding Elder Of the
district, on his own account and In behalf
of the MoundsVille Association, welcomed
the National Committee in brief but
beautiful address, giving over the entire
management OF the religious services Into
the hands of the National Association.
Rev. Mr.. Inskip, President Of the Ma
tiOnal Association, responded in fitting
sentiments, expressing the hope and trust
that this meeting may result in wonder
full work Of salvation among the people,
not only in the sanclIfication Of believers,
but in the conversion Of many sinners,
which, he said, is sure to follow the work
Of holiness in the church. Mr. lnskip
then proceeded 10 open more formally the
services of the occasion by giving out the
90Oth hymn, which, he said, has in some
sense become the battlc.hynn OF this
movement, and which they always
sung at the opening service. The
hymn is one of Cowper's beautiful
poetic cfusion-commenciDg-"The There is
II fountain filled with blood" &C. Alter
the singing of the hymn, which was sung
with great Feeling, MIR. 1nskip offer ed a
most earnest and comprehensive prayer,
which seemed TO gush up out OF heart
accustomed to hold intercourse with an
invisible but ever present Deity. Alter
reading the scriptures and singing, the
Rev. gentleman took Tor his text II passage
recorded in Acts ID, chapter Isl, LIST 70
Attn verse inclusive: "When the day Of
Pentecost was fully come" &c. q
In some introductory remarks, he said
il there was no warrant In the scriptures
for lust such meeting as We propose 10
hold here, there is nothing against it, but
the times demanded It. This is special
meeting for a special purpose Thus it
was on the day Of Pentecost, they were
holding a special meeting for special
purpose, which he hoped would he re-
peated here; After speakingof tho feast
OF Pentecoat and tho promise OF the Saw
Jour TO send the Holy Spirit, and their
waiting for the fufilment; he spoke par
ticularIy on their being Of "one accord in
one place" applying 1t, and showing the
Importance OF being Of one accord in this
place.
Some might not like our way OF hold
ing these meetings, but be urged all who
might leel inclined TO find fault, to 30 and
tell the Lord about it. by finding fault
before their friends and children and
others, they might thus be the means OF
sowing seeds Of prejudice that might
eyentuate in their ruin. He urged them
10 be sure that God Is on their side.
He asked fall could not agree that all
Christians should be holy!
All would agree that the Holy
Ghost sanctifes.
Entire sanctiflcation Is being embraced
BY all denominations, but he sorrowed
for those Methodists who dispute the ex-
perience; because this is a peculiar doc
lrine Of the Methodist church. How
could Ministers preach specification
without the experience They all have
sOlemnly protessed to believe the doc.
trine, and 10 be seeking for 1t. Is 1t consis'
tent for such TO bubble about ii, and dis
pute about and sneer att? Uany have
difficulties about the doctrine, get the ex.
penence; then you can understand The
doctrine. As q question Of experience,
sanctiacation can only be settled BY eI.
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After the sermon, meeting was held
for conservation and prayer. ace. 10
At e. P. NJ, Rev. Mr.. Coleman, vet
eran minister and member Of the National
Committee, over eighty years OF age, took
the stand, and read for his text: Heb,
12:l4-"Follow peace with all men, and
holiness, without which no man shap
sec the Lord"
The sermon was peculiar TO the man
inimitable. II was Of tho expository
style, deeply spiritual, penetrating to the
bone and marrow Of things. His spirit
and manner are tender, but his blade Is
keen and terrific TO sin and sinners In the
Church as well as out Of the Church.
In the evening Rev. Mr.. Cushman, O
the New Hampshire Conference, preached
an interesting discourse from Isl John,
Chap. and 7th verse: "If we walk In thu
light as He is in the light, We have fellow
ship one with another, and the blood o.
Jesus Christ, his son, cleanseth US from oil
sin" which was followed by wonderful
prayer meeting, during which q large
number Of seekers Of sanctilication came
forward for prayers, among whom was O
number Of ministers and leading lAymen
These ministers and members Of different
denominations participated in the MEETING
and sought the higher lie experience.
These are present Of the National Camp
Meeting Committee: Rev. J. s. Inskip
President, Rev. W. Mcdonald, Vice PreSi
dent, Rev. G. Hughes, Secretary, Rev. s
Coleman, Rev, W. b. Osborn, of Florida
Rev. J. Z. searles, Of the New Y ork East
Conference, Rev. L. P. Cushman, o. The
New Hampshire Conference, who comes
as q substitute for some Of the committee
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