The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-02
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The fall season, that most delightful
season of the year, when brown mead
ows and the varied tinted mountain
sides lend charming effect to the pecu-
liar mellowpess of the atmosphere, is
dedicated by the good people of the
mountain regions to religious services.
1t is the season of camp-meetings and
presbyteries, of the same hardy Scotch
Irish and German stock which settled
the Valley of Virginia and retain all
the strict moral and religious char
acteristics of their ancestors. 1t Is
q very rare thing to find family where
majority of, if not all, the adult mem
bers are not members of some Christian
church, the Methodists and Presby-
tenisns being the leading denominations.
And consequently when the summers
work is over, the crops have been har-
vested and garnered, the people of each
community indulge in season of re-
taxation by attending a meeting OF
Presbytery, or camp meeting, as their
UNCONVENTIONAL faith lnclines them. Be-
side enjoying,and profting by these re-
ligious exercises they enjoy season of
social union, where the people Of CON-
muuity are brought together for week
at Il time, and opportunity is afforded to
canvass the work of the past year, and to
devise and mature plans for the future
which will rebound to the we'll beng of
the society in which they are interested
UNION CAMP MEETING
A camp meeting, under the united
auspices OF the Northern and Southern
braL ches of the Methodist Church, has
been held on the Droop Mountain, which
is the dividing line between Greenbrier
and Pocahontas counties, and has been
attended with the most beneficial results,
about one hundred and twenty persons
having made profession OF religion, and
a number of penitents still unconverted
at the close of TIE meeting. The Droop
Mountain camp meeting, in its appor-
tionments, and in fact in every particu.
lar, was an Improvement upon the one
attended at Brdshy Ridge Thes place
selected for the camp was delightful
location on the top of beau
tiful mountain, overlooking the
fertile valleys of Greenbrier on
the one eide, and of Pocshontas OH the
other. The tents were well built and
suitably arranged, and everywhere wss
presented picture of nestness, and the
good order of the encampment was un-
exceptionsble. The people of this re-
elon are famous for their abundant living,
and the multitude of eatabies which are
heaped up on such occasions, makes Il
tremendous strain on the digestive pow
ers. The pies, cakes, pickles, cheese,
ham, chickens and other enormltles
which torn the bulk of the culinary ele-
lnentS of these occasions, are fatal To the
integrity OF the stomach, especially when
hacdlessly mixed together. 1t Is u right
nee point for psychologists to decide MS
t. the quality and amount OF these ele-
lnents to be taken into the stomach
without disturbing the relation between
that organ and the heart. Perhaps if n
solid foundation of pie were provided as
a sort of flooring for the digestive organs,
a few pickles might be driven in with
out seriously impalring the strength of
the human system. Without depressing
further l will first state for she encour-
agement of the younger generation who
have s-en their elders Frustrated through
Ignorance OF the fundamental principles
OF hygiene bearing upon this subject,
that after prolonged Investigations, ply
siologists are inclined to give the prefer
once to the mince and dried apple PIE for
the foundation of pleasures OF the palate.
Upon such q foundation good deal of
heavy stuff can be placed or thrown
without any such giving way as would
precipitste the mass upon the more deli
cate of the digestive organs.
The Droop Mounsain, upon which the
camp meeting was held, is
HISTORIC GROUND.
Here b cody battle was fought on
the 9th of November, 1868, between the
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