The Portland daily press., 1878-08-31
CAMP MEETINGS.
second Advent General Camp Meeting
at Alton hay, N. HI.

button of tracts, ETC., that the children had sent
him. Elder Waite then gave a "chalk-talk''
to the children on "Bible Temperance show
ing the manufacture of good and bad wines,
&c. A number OF ministers expressed then. :
selves converted from the ''cuI of devils. at
their communion service hereafter. elder
Waite works his child's talk. in with his chalk
in such simple expr sssiye manner. az
shows him true artist, As his colored cartoons
rapidly develope thems eiyes under his maoi.,
touch. The "road to ruin was pictured in TX
cartoons, which in G. .ennection with the blaok-
board only Occur led 25 minutes, leaving
vivid impressi' N on the young heart. The
children ther. voted the pictures OF tie service
to Elder Cargille, who with beaming face
thanked che little ones and promised to exhibit
them all through his vicinity of labor. "God
bless the children" seems to be the expression
| Of every heart.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
After the services at the stand were over, the
several social services took place. At 5 o'clock
ore person from East Douglass, Mass, was
bf.ptised in the lake at the usual place by
Elder Sbley.
AT the o'clock service at the stand, Elder
VIM, G. Stewart of Westfel ], Mass, preached
an excellent discourse from first Peter 5:7, siHe
csreth for you" on the subject of Goods care
for his people. He commenced by speaking
Of the fallacy of the opinion that God has moth
ing to do with the government of the earth He
mas formed. l1e then went on to say the text
hsss reference more particularly to the animate
creation-to man-that while it has reference
primarily to all men, it has reference more par
ticularly to those who have been "born again.
TO Christians. This I shall try and establish
from the Scriptures and scriptural illustrations
which followed. That what read out of the
scriptures human experience shows to be true.
What does God care for? He cares for us.
This implies care for first our property, Sec
| ond our families, third our persons This care
will continue to the end. He related an inter-
the Lord will deliver. When about fourteen
years of age he left his Vermont home and
went to Portland, Me-, in search Of business.
After few days there he had his money,
which he brought with him, stolen from him
while asleep one night, and discouraged he
started on foot for home. At night (cold and
dsrk) of his second days homeward march,
about exhausted, he, making use of bis moth
er's example, prayed to God for help, and at
once his eyes were directed to distant light,
which God had led Christian woman to put in
her window for fear of just such case as his,
and to this he wended his way, and he was
cared for by Him who ''slumbereth not"
Among the evenings social meetings that
followed, the one at the New Hampshire mis-
sion tent was particularly interesting At the
suggestion of Elder Choate collection amount
ing to about $50 was taken up for Elker Waite
after which he Glider Waite) preached an
able and stirring discourse to thousand people
on "The good way" after which amid earnest
singing (hymns of invitations) and beseeching
(publicly and personality, from 20 to % souls
came forward for prayer, and great many re-
quested prayer for their relatives, friends and
others. for whom Elder Hastings "a man of
great faith) and Elder Waite led in prayer.
The ninth day of the camp meet ng, as to
weather, could not have opened more pleas.
anty. At 81 O'Clock 500 attended the holiness
meeting which was led as all of them have
been, by Elder Grant. Said Elder Kramar,
(the very able preacher Of yesterday foreno on's
discourse, who by the way, was formerly one
of the ablest and best ministers of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, having been about
fifteen months ago pastor of one of the largest
churches in Wilmington, Del, it having about
800 members, when having after full investi-
cation, become convinced of the error of the
belief in the natural Immortality of the soul,
he withdrew from the Methodist church and
became identified with the Adventists) in
this meeting 81 believe God has raised up this
have the truth in regard to the Lords coming
to prepare them for it." 1t is needless to say
that Elder Kramar is emphatcally in accord
with Elder Grant in his holiness views.
Among the later morning social services, the
one at the N. 81. Mission tent was an '1S43 ex-
perience meeting" led by the quaint Elder
Hiram Munger, who is at present attending
his 10th camp meeting. He was converted at
| 16, became and remained member of the
Methodist church until 1910 when he embraced
| the doctrine of the 'Lord's coming" and "came
out from among them" The following preach
ers who were in the ''43 movement and who
| have still held on and are now waiting pa
tiently for the "Lord from heaven" took part
| in this meeting-Elders Brewer, Bachelor,
Morgan, White, Campbell, Cunningham and
Dammar, as also did several laymen.
At some past nine o'clock, at the stand
meeting of the American Advent Missionary
| Society, was held for the purpose of presenting
the claims and raising funds wherewith to carry
on the work of the society which extends to all
| parts of the union. The president of the
society, Elder Grant, presided. Prayer was
| offered by Elder Couch. Mr.. Ozias Goodrich of
| Boston, Mass, Treasurer of the society, pre-
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and adopted. Appropriate remarks were made
| by Elders Grant, Couch, Boutelle, Waite,
| Teeple, Carville, McCullock, Cunningham and
| Choate, during and after which quit Q a large
sum was raised.
At the 10 o'clock service Elder Albion Ross
of East Concord, N. H., preached one of the
abest dscourses ever preached upon this
ground.
His theme was the line of human govern
ment from the creation of the world as
ordained of God, biblically considered. The
subject was opened by reading first from Paul
to the Romans 10: 1-"Let every soul be subject
into the higher powers. For there is no power
but of God the powers that be are ordained of
God; second Luke 81: 24-And they shall fall
by the edge of sthe sword, and shall be led
away captive into all nations and Jerusalem
shall be trodden down of the gentiles until the
times of the gentiles be fulfilled; third, Daniel
Z: 16, II, 1S-I came near to one of them that
stood by, and asked him the truth of all this.
So he told me and made me know the inter-
probation Of the things. These great beasts
which are four are four kings which shall
arise out of the earth. But the saints of the
Most High shall take the kingdom, and
possess the kingdom forever even forever and
ever"
From those portions of the scripture read the
speaker drew the following conclusions:
THAT there is line of rulers from the
beginning of human history, to whom God
delegated the right of executive government in
the civil department. the subject of which is
the preservation OF the invaluable rights of
man, every department. from which is set down
to the account of the powers that be as civil
apostacy, which sooner or later will bring down
upon the heads of these nations and rulers the
| Just judgments of God