Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-08-12
The State Campaigning.
End of the Eight Days of Religious Rest
Closing Exercises Hesterday-T The
Meeting Satisfactory ana Successful Ina
every particular.
RtcuMoND CAMP GROUND. Aug. IL

RICHMOND CAMP GROUND, Aug. IL.
Everything soon comes to an end, and, like
all pleasant things, the State Camp Meeting
has closed too soon; for despite the rain
storm ard its results, there are many who
would gladly prolong the affair, indefinitely.
These are of the number who profess to have
experienced " sanctitcation," or a puriica-
cation from all sin; and of these the total
number is sufficiently large to safely say that
II to attain in generous measure the object tor
which meeting is called, constitutes sue
cess, then the present campmeetng for the
promotion of holiness has been eminently
successful. The number of conversions has
not been noticeably large but hardly tents
company returns home without some one or
more to testify to a newly acquired expert
mental knowledge of the higher christian
life.
The most marked manifestations of this ex-
perience occurred in the Augusta ''chapel"
during the last night, where the meeting was
held from o'clock in the evening till long
past midnight this morning. The exercises
were conducted with great fervor and earnest
ness, and in several instances the manifesto
tons of joyful emotions were very marked
At 100 clock this morning the last public
service was held in the Tabernacle, under
the direction of the President, Rev. George
Pratt who has SO efficiently conducted the
meeting from its commencement to its close.
This farewell service was love feast in
which large number participated, and the
experiences as given were unanimously to
the effect that the meeting had been source
of great spiritual profit.
During the entire day each train going
north or south has been been carrying away
large numbers, till tonight the grounds
number remain over till Tomorrow to avoid
the hurry and rush of to-day, and few of
those occupying cottages will remain for some
time longer
The largest crowd in attendance was on
Friday; with the exception Of Saturday and
Sunday the weather has been delightful, and
even the rain was claimed to have been pro-
ductive OF good by securing the better atten-
dance at the social meetings; the sermons
have been able and interesting, and the music
has been of that sort which has a charm for
all lovers of worship in the tented grove; the
tabernacle did not prove impervious to the
wet, but this was owing mainly to the manner
in which it was but up, rather than to any
radical fault in its construction; those who
cared to maintain intelligent connection
with the outside world have done SO through
the Daily kennebec Journal, thanks to the
enterprise Of Charlie Leeman, and finally,
from first to last, the meeting has been one OF
interest, and may be safely pronounced a
gratifying success in every particular. A
noticeable result of the interest which has
been among visitors to the beautiful ground
of the Kennebec Valley Camp meeting Asso-
citation is that a number of them are arrang
ing to build cottages in time for occupancy at
the meeting of 1875, which will commence
one week later than the present year.
RoLLo RAMBLER.