The Portland daily press., 1875-08-10
The National Camp Meeting.
Fifth Dny-A Fair Attendance-Music i'm
the Camp.

The fifth day of the Old Orchard Camp
Meeting opened cloudy and cool, but ere the
hour of preaching service the sun came out and
amused himself during the day by throwing
the most fervid glances down through tho
pine trees upon the assembled and suffering
congregation. The cooling sea-breezes were
unavoidably detained, much to the regret of
all. The morning audience was small, but
those in charge of the meetings put the
great law of compensation into service and
made up for the shortness of numbers by the
length Of services,-the prayer meeting in the
grove lasting two hours. The usual meetings
were held in the tents at six o'clock. The time
between ten and half-past ten was spent by
the congregation in singing and exhortion, and
blythe indefatigable Hughes in canvassing for
the Standard, paper for which he is solicitor
and the claims of which he never fails to press,
in season and out of season. Independent as
book agent" is phrase of which he is q
perpetual illustration.
The tabernacle has not yet arrived, and a
horrible suspicion is fast gaining ground that
it has been gobbled up on the road somewhere,
and is now in use as circus tent The canvas
was not meant for that kind of gymnastics.
The transient attendance was larger yester-
day than on any previous day except Sunday.
Last week the audiences were chiefly made up
of those who come to participate in the relig-
ious services-and of reporters. This week
there are many more sght-seers in attendance,
who pass their time in sauntering about the
grounds, in laughing at all that appeals to
their sense of the ridiculous, in luncheon-eat-
ing and love making-who come to scott and
who certainly manifest no disposition to re-
main and pray.
The opening prayer of the morning service
was made by the Rev. j. B. Foote of Syracuse.
Mr.. Inskip then introduced as the PREACHER of
the occasion Baptist clergyman, the Rev.
Mr.. Levy of Philadelphia, coupling the intro
duction with some remarks as to the charity
and catholicity of the Methodist church, which
sounded rather oddly considering that the
Methodists have just refused the use of their
grounds to the Universalists. DR.. Levy stepped
forward, returned his warm thanks for the ten
dered courtesy, and congratulated the congre-
CATION upon the spirit Of Christian love and
charity which is SO widely prevalent to day.
He selected as the morning reading lesson 1
Cor. xiii chap, and said that though entertain
ing the highest respect for the beautiful
and finished translation of King James he
should take the liberty of substituting the
word love for charity whenever that occurred
in the chapter, deeming that 'love' better ex.
pressed the sense of the original. He an
nounced as his text st. Jude, chap. Dist verse
"Keep yourselves in the love of God" The
sermon was delivered from manuscript, was
noble plea for Christian tolerance and charity,
elegant and logical in style, and in refreshing
contrast to the harangues in favor of the holt
ness dogma The ''amens" which occasionally
interrupted him were novel to the preacher, and
not a little embarrassing.
The usual meetings, for prayer, testimony,
juveniles. &C., took place during the recess.
AFTERNOON SERVICE.
Before the beginning of the preaching SER
vice in the afternoon Mr.. Inskip read several
requests for prayers: ga sister desires prayers
for two brothers and two nieces under Catholic
Roman Catholic-infuence. ga sister de-
sires the people to pray that she may be sane.
tifed," "a sister desires prayers for two sisters,
brother. and a father" The mention of this
heather family caused one sad-looking man,
sitting on the front seat, to groan aloud, and
reminded the reporters of the eleven obstin ate
Jurors. Mr.. Inskip stated that he had received
note from Mr.. M'Donald, announcing that
Mrs. M'Donald is more comfortable and doing
as we'll as could be expected. He also an
nounced that the tabernacle had arrived, and
would be pitched as soon as possible. He also
appointed testimony meeting in the grove
for six o'clock in thu evening, and said that