The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-16
BROOKLYN MErHODIsTs.
OPENING OF THE ANNUAL CAMP MEETING Al
sHELTt IsLAND--sERMoN BY DIR. c. d. FOES.

OPENING OF THE ANNUAL CAMP MEETING Al
sHELTt IsLAND--sERMoN BY DIR. C. D. Fo:s
What though the balmy breszss
BLOW SOFT DER shelter Isle;
AND every prospect pleases,
And ouly man Is vic
In vain with lavish kindness
Tho gifts OF tod are strews
Thus. slightly altered, sang Inc missionary poe,
Hebsr years ago OF another isle in Z summer cline
ana more distant land. And thus intuitivsly
might tho visitor 10 Shelter Island sing had he
touchs1it shores yesterday Tor the drst Nature
has done everything Tor the place aud man
Is dong httie. But rs camp ground shelter
Island cannot be called u success, and as q summer
village It's growth Is slow. There sixty
tases OF al sorts on the ground ten OF which have
been built siuce the close OF last season. The very
finest cottage on tho ground Is that was put
up last spring Tor DR.. Bevan, OF the BrcX
Church, Now York, whose family IN the
ISLAND, aud he was expected up by the
evening train, a. ho 10 advertised 10 preach
there this truesday) evening. Dr. G. d. Foss. presi.
dent oil Wesleyan University, preached the opening
ana twenty-five persons-raiher small congregation
Tor u minister used TO count his congregations "
Ihousands-so that as a camp meeting Il oanuot be
called successful The managers are, however
planning for sunday school assembly to be held
there some time In August. but there is nothing dsn-
mite Yet concerningi.
TIM rious PILGRIMS.
Tue train that lei, Fiaibusn Avenue Depot ysster.
day morning carried lorty passengers twsnty1ve Of
whom went 10 Shelter isiAad. Among thess were Dss
Foss and Woodruff ana Revs. W. Il. Russell, George
Hollis. Joseph Pullman, W. p. Es,es J. 4. scares T.
W. Jones, Z. II. Govor, OF this city and Brooklyn,
and Rev John Pikington, oi Astoria. There stop
Ping on .ns islana besides Rev W. T. hhl. presiding
elder, who owns coapie OF cottages there Rev.
john Parker, OF Brooklyn, who dwcs Ia tents,
ana Dr. Henry scaddcr, OF The Cenusi
house just outside the boundary Eno Of
tho camp ground. lilo goes up and down IN his yawi
day, win his family and hc Is booked for a ser u,ou
there on Friday afternoon Dr. s. H. Dsnsen, OF Now
camp ground, and Is expected TO preach there on
Thursday evening. Alderman French and y. A.
Schroeder. Of brooklyn; Rev c. W Hoyt, OF STAN
lord Conn, own cottages there, and generally occupy
them u low weeks III the summer raey, however,
have mot yet taken possession this season.
Obedience 10 the camp meeting rules 10 not very
strictly enforced, and people do just ~ thcy please
now AS though no sucn meetings @ere beid. Bu'
there very general turn tho preaching ser
vices three times day. Tue pray or meetings anc
other exercises arc not crowded, upon another
us is the case at some other summer re sors
here, ~ Shat the tune Of the sermons
yesterday, wn,cn were desisned cnony 70
encourage ana strengthen tho taith oil believers,
probably indicates Zoe character OF. all that TO
follow pr. Foss took ns text from Philippians w.,
that there 10 personal God IN Ihs universe and that
Ho holds a personal relation to every individual
creature. Under tho nrst proposition tho Doctor
Remarked how good Il was times. WHOM msu's
minds are SO disturbed by specuiatons to get back
~ the sunny CLINE or Christian faith aud hopo
In HIN whoia having NOT secn we love. Dr.. Foss
ierrcd 10 the scientific theory that nothing
but matter IN the universe snd that the sua me
great thought maker aud vitaIzer or the universe.
But writer's OF the Bible did not think ruey be.
iisved IN ana wrote ABOUT personal God-'my God"
as Paul calls hun Under mo second PROPOSE the
Doctor elaborated the thought OF G,d suppIying AL
our hecds-physcai, intellectual, social. SPIRITUAL
and the othor idea of the supply csmss
TO US through Jesus Christ In the evening DR.. L.
Weed, oil Harlem, was 10 preach.
RAILROAD DELAYS.
by "a curIous Dlundsr OF the Long Island Railroad
Company tue pious oxcur were LETT high snd
dry AT Jamaica Tor many an hour the train Was d.
vIded there and part with tho engine, went forward
TO Long Island City Inc RocKaway train Vas 10
bring tue otner part TO Brooklyu but u had boon
notified, passed without II. Then telecrams
wore sent anu Received. Au engine was ordered out
ut JamFics but the engineer refused TO 10. He had
put Ny for tue night ana wosiu not str. Another
engine was prepared, but the CONDUCTOR sould not
bulge. Another conductor was found wiling, aud
alter n todiouJ delay the tram WAS brought the
CITY But tho encouragement to visit the cllup meet.
Ing again was not such any OF the excursoiss do