The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-21
Where the Tents of the DeVout
Are To Be Pitched.
A LIST OF CAMP MEETINGS.
The Negro Meetings in the South
ern States.
WIDOW VAN COLT TO THE FRONT

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ing Of in the woods and on the seashore Tor TIC
purposes OF worship in what ID now distinctNey
Snown a camp meeting is Of modern growth. IL
originally came IRON the poverty the lack ofchureh
accommodations OF and there band OF oeIicvcrs
Having no suitable edi1ce Tor worship they welcomed
The overarching canopy OF the trees what was Al
FIRST a necessity came to no privilege ana thch
luxury Within the walls Of the costliest church or
cathedral the ssorshppers would not let 90 oi the
sweet remembrantos OF that older worship in the
woods permested by the very breath Of rose
Dr. pine and the music OF the signing wind
through tho tree tops. That OLD fashioned
:anp meeting, with all its rude surroundings,
beautiful in their homeiness, was very
different affair from the summer religious camp OF to-
lay. The spirit OF change oil this rapid age touching
everything has given In many cases. especially near
10 large Cities a point highly fashionable, highly
moral and religious these caravansares, where COM
PORTABLE quarters good tables, beautiful drives and
ishing and bathing are engaged IN as well as the work
u prayer and praise. And although some OF THESE
notifications Of camp meeting lie may have been now
ind then carried rather tar indeed all good things
arc liable excess, 1t must he owned that the latter
tay religious camp dsiahtfui place OF living Tor
lev Gays 10 those VINO nave not permitted all
he bloom and sweetness OF HE 10 depart from them
In many OF these camping grounds which have even
strictest laws are only enacted, but enforced,
no that heads Of families for the young peo-
ole feel that here safeguards perhaps stronger in
poms regards than those found even IN ordinary home
ME especially IN cities Thus, 10 illustrate no liquors
ian be sold upon the grounds and at Ocean Grove no
hquors sold within radius oil several niles.
There regular police these being generally church
members with the powers Of special constzbes FOR the
OCCASION who that every violation OF statutory law
as well OF ordinary decorum is promptly arrested
To be sure the Of confinement OF this class OF
offenders 10 necessarily primitive, aud not unfre-
quenty the guarnhou Is located beneath tho platform
which forms the pulpit
ruE UNIVERSAL CHARACTER OF THE CAMPS.
The camp meetings have lost som1thlng OF their
Methodistic pecullarities they have become more
general and attended by Christians OF all denom.
ions, and though hey arc mostly under tho man.
Agement oil Nethodisis their pulpus are often hlled
by prom nent clergymen OF other churches Inc
Chautauqua meeting tor example, is devoted to sun
day school work without regard 20 denominatonal
hnes The frs. meeting be held At Ronnd Lake
this year will be CHRISTIAN union meeting although
Inns VIII indeeu DC ionoHoa " 'slu'n, viz n
Methodist camp meeting The meetings at ocean
Grove generally have non.denom na'ional character
and bring together those members OF Al christian
bodies who the higher life. There Is
PROBABLY indeed, great religious Camp which would
not be cheeriuly given up TO any evangelical do
DOMINATION IL Is regarded by many OF the thinking
men OF these denominations that the yearly camp
meeting, with IT'S many attractions, is dong much to
closer union OF these various branches Of the
told.
GREAT CAMPS.
The great camp meetings are the Martha's Vineyard,
Ocean Grove Cuff, Round Lake tbetween Troy and
Saratogs) the Chicago district meeting TT Lake BIun
llnldway between Chicago and Milwaukee, Chester
Hciyhts. near PnIiadeiphra; Dr. Vncenps Chautauqua
Assembly" Inc Thousand Islands meeting, ahicn
draws largely from Canada well as the States, lis
founders aspiring TO make II an international meeting,
anu Emory Grove, which may be called the Baltimore
meeting Il has come that near every large city
Of the upon large camp o. mas ceoun ~
cheap and unconventional lie, with all the advan-
axes Of watering place causes II TO be WIS.,
lied times by not less tnan 20, 600 people IN single
day. Alta moderate estimate II - thought thai der
ing IN. meeting this year Will be visited by
oOo oOo people II has all the advantages OF the cee
braIed hartha's Vineyard Ground, and Is, moreover,
easier OF access
CAMP MEETING CALENDAR.
Tho following camp meetings VIII be held this year
North Hector n. y, June eo-e7; Bath district sla-
July 3; Sea Clin. june %; Do.y Isana lHoliuess),
Juue 25-Juy 8; Tennessee Sunday School Institute,
Sssr Es ssIs 81 E s
%; Lake View Sunday School Assembly, June 2s-Juy
.; Lake Bluff tSodust Bayl Wayne county, June y,
Lake. Union, EvangeIstic and National Temperance
Juy iqo Lake Blum !smp sv
lols Coar Lake, Iowa !nationall, July II;
S:.s . Christian T e s i3s;
ehurchesl. July 1918; Thousand Islands, Jniy Isl
Round Lake tsabbalh schooI Congress- July so-27i
lNatlonaD July 20; West Jersey Grove Gainsooro'.
Juy 81 : Mansfield, ohio Auguat l; Lake Biull, Ill.
Para tnternaIonal Chrslian rsmperancel August I-6
Allegheny Valley, August liz; Chautauqua Assembly,
August 81; Beach Glen, Deputy, lad. August .;
Ashland, III: tsta.e), August :; ritmsn Grove, MI,
August !; Lakeside OLio, August s. Aeon, August
$40; Deering. Ky, August So; New AZ
bany District, GreeLyile, August Q; Mount Sc
weekly, Pa, Angus, 0; Emory Grove Nd, August o;
rhous4 nd Island Esthet; and Scientific Conference,
T. A. u /.
Sing Sing, August l424 Woodlawn. Cecil county, Nd,
August IA unon Grove, CuInoerland, Nd, August 10;
Silver Like. n. Y August 1875 Ocean Grove n. j.,
August l5-25; FramIngham, Mass. ,NaLocall.
August 10; Rupsles, Ky, Angus, 10; Sea Grove,
gust o-i9; Jamespor, L. =. August =; New Haven
district Pianviile, August 49, Mount Tabor DeuvIlIc,
\. j., August 10; Suffolk, Janesport l. L. August 20;
Carmel Grove Hooper station, August 2l-so, keyscr,
Va, Augustus. Wyoming. August 2l-30; Thousand
Islands. 5 5. Parliament. August 2I-sepiembcr 2;
otsago district Dempser Grove, August 2gSe ptember
.; Berkeley springs, ". Va, August IL
The above list compares s'xty-tnroe meetings, and
these thought be than one-nith OF the
camp meetings OF less i'm POI which wall
be ncd in the Eastern. Middle ind Western States
turng the summer, and some OF these arc more Than
. week q duration.
SOUTHERN CAMP MEETINGS.
For one who has spent his youthful days where the
annual camp meetings OF Cape Tod leave something OF
their influence the year rouad The contrast Of purely
Southern camp meeting IS seen ~ the superaIvc de-
10 the people who participate IN the ccrc-
monies. Instead OF the OF white faces represent
Ing every degree Of lie IRON The Old TO lhe
young, the tired city clerk and the rustic
farmer. seen upon the heated sands N Eastman
and Aartnais Vineyard the southern camp meeting Is
almost invariably made UP OF blacks, VITO III tnefr
jgbiancy drive away any sombreness that such
OF dark meas would naturally cast about tho groves
when services hcid. IL to say that
sincerity of purpose Is concerned the black camp
meetings are equal pane ~ eas WITH those OF
the wines; and they are mostly Metnodsts or Bap-
lists II IS easy to imagine Inat they 40 not lack IN
lungs demonstrate tner sincerity Instead OF heated
sands however be blacks ON these occasions have he
hncs OF In the limo lands, among the plns woods
aud beneath the majestic ave oaks, whose
huge, kno ted and gnarled IIn4bS, covered win tne
flowing gray peculiar TO thai section adds
Jestc spendor Ia these groves during the camp meet
ing collected, not only the cnurcb ABIDING
blacks for miles around, but hundreds Oh those who
yet considered 10 The fold, 5ut who io,x iof-
ward "meetn with all inc iond ante patton Of
those who are. igoylSions Tor a week or Ten days,
consisting ot "ho- and honIpy,i With rough Cooking
utensils are taken along aud proycnder Tor The horses
mules whicL arr pckeed VA Tho tllckots throGRh.