Connecticut western news., 1879-06-18
Camp Meeting Season.
WHERE AND WHEN THE MEETINGS WILL BE
 HELD.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 When the "great camp-meeting revival" of three years ago occurred there were very many persons, in and out of the churches, who predicted for it very short duration. It was an old-fashioned, Methodistical idea, they said, and might last for @ season or two, but modern Christians had ou!grown the camp-meeting and would not support it. A glance at the long list .ot meetings al- ready announced for the present summer shows that the camp-mecting revival is steadily on the increase. A few of these open-air services have already been held, and within two or three weeks many thou sands of persons will be "worshipping in the woods" all over the land. July and Au- gust are the favorite months in which to hold camp meetings. and there will not be 8 day lu the next two months in which songs of praise and prayers of entreaty will not be heard in some grove. on some mountain top, or in some green valley. A new feat ure of this institution of Methodsm is gradually growing into favor among camp meeting attendants. This is the suspend ing of the regular camp-meeting services on Sundays, and holding them only on week days. The advocates of this system desire to do away with the practice among those In the vicinity of a camp-meeting ground of making holiday of the ''camp-meeting Sunday" and going to the services much as they would go to travelling circus merely for day of sport. On the other hand, there are some in the Church who go to the opposite extreme, anc, devotlng the week to recreation, only thoid revival ser wees on the Sabbath. This will be the case this year at Sea Cliff, Long Island, where 8. camp meeting service is to be held in the great Tabernacle every Sunday. Round Lake offers long list of attractions for summer visitors this year. Among the feat ures will be Palestine Park and model of Jerusalem, Q kindergarten, calisthenlcs, Solomon's temple, etc. Lectures by yari- ous professors and ministers are 10 be given every day of the season. The program for the season at Ocean Grove, N. J., has not yet been completed, but the prospects fer good year are hattering. At Martha's Vine yard new iron tabernacle is being built, to be completed in July. As an outgrowth of the camp-meetiDg institution there is to be much larger number of open-air, Sun- day school. temperance, Christian song, and other similar assemblies and conven- tions than ever before.
 All of the camp-meeting associations seem te be making extra efforts to attract both saints and sinners, and those who wish to spend from a day to three months out of the hot city, and enjoy all the pleasures of the country under thoroughly moral influ- ences will certainly have no trouble in fad ing a spot to suit them. The following list comprises all of the camp-meetings and Sunday school assemblies that have thus far been announced for 1879, excepting those that have already been held The list coy- CTS the entire country:
 CAMP MEETINGS.
 Byron, Wis, June Il Morenci, Mich., June IS; Sandstone, Mich, June 17; Lansing, Mich, June r; Chapinville, N. r., June 18 Guernville, Cal, June 20; Bismarck, Grove, Kansas, June 24 Doty Island July ?; Lochute, Canada, July 8 Fort Col lins, Col, July 8; Thousand Island Park, July 8; Bennett, Neb., July 8; Rehoboth, Del, July Il
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