The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-01
OLD ORCHARD.
Faith Convention at the Camp Ground.

OLD ORCHARD, July 81.
The weather here today is unusually fine,
not cloud is to be seen in the sky and the
only disagreeable feature of which it is posi-
BILE to complain is the deep dust covering the
walks and drives leading to the camp ground
and filling the air at the slightest motion of
the wind. The private houses, tents and the
hotel on the grounds (the Grove House, are re-
ceiving new corners every day. We notice ON
the above hotel register long list of arrivals
yesterday and to-day Prominent among them
we notice DR.. c.. H Kimball of Ridgefeld, E.
Davis of Reading, Mass, Revs. II. W. Hub
bard of Boston, w. G. Brown of Compton, N.
H., j. j. Miller of the Society of Friends of
Somerville, Indiana, C. c. Coffin of the Som
erville, Ind. Society of Friends, Miss Lizzie
Session the evangelist. and Miss Sarah Smiley
OF Saratoga Springs.
The morning meetings of prayer are largely
attended and the interest steadily increasing.
The 1880 a. m. preaching service in the
grove this morning brought together very
large attendance. Fully eight hundred were
seated at the opening of the service, others ar
irving later in the forenoon and continually
coming in. The opening songs were "Come,
ye who love the Lord and let your joys be
KNOWN" 'What though clouds are lowering
DER u.s. and 'Look We saints the sight is
glorious
DIR. Cults followed with prayer. The SER
mon was by the Rev. Chas. Nichols of Boston,
the evangelist, who stated that the object of
the address was to find out chow we were to
dwell in Christ and Christ in u.s." The fol-
lowing passages of scripture were taken to,
verify his theory of how it was to be done.
Galations ii, 20, 81 am crucifed with Christ,
neve rtheless 1 live, yet not but Christ liveth
IN me, and the life which l now live in the
flesh, 1 live by the faith of the Son of God
who loved me and gave himself for me-"
Matthew vii, "a, Therefore whosoever hear
eth these sayings of mine and doeth them,
will liken him unto q wise man which built
his house upon a rock After prayer by Mr..
Nichols the morning service closed by singing
Free from the law happy condition"
There has been no contributions taken at
any of these convention meetings, but as there
must necessarily be more or less expense, such
as travelling, printing, &C., DR.. Cults took oc-
casion to say that any voluntary contributions
for the purpose of defraying actual expenses
would be acceptable.
The 1 o'clock service of prayer was held at
the Biddeford chapel.
AT o'clock was held the children's Sunday
school under the direction of Mrs Bailey, and
the general prayer and conference meeting for
ministers and evangelsts.
AT $50 the Bible reading service opened
with singing by the congregation of several
select pieces from No. 3 Moody and Sankey
song book, followed by prayer by Rev. l. Luce
of Saccarappa. The address by Miss Sarah
Smiley of Saratoga Springs, was listened to
by nearly thousand people. Her theme was
Faith. The scripture quotation used in OPEN
ing and the foundation of her address was
Ephesians ii, 8, "For by grace are We saved
through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is
the gift of God"
AT 7.3O this evening c. G. Coffin OF the Soci-
ETY. of Friends, Richmond, Ind, preached
from the stand in the grove.
A large number of eminent divnes are now
here and will participate in the dedication of
the new tabernacle at o'clock tomorrow af-
ternGOn