Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-12
COLOEED WORSHIPEKs
The Negro Campmeeting Mt Ou.srryvii
Large Crowd and Interesting service.

The Negro Campmreting Mt Quarry Vile
Large Crowd and Interesting services.
Yesterday colored campmeetins WAS
held in G. NJ. Hess's woods near Quarry
vile. The meeting was gotten up by
several enterprising hucksters. 1t was cx.
tensively advertised throughout the coun-
ty, and the crowd present during the day
was very large, there being ut least 1900
people on the grounds in the afternoon.
An excursion train left this city ut half
past eight o'clock in the morning, takin.
about two hundred passengers, including
a dozen or more colored people, arong
whom were Rev. Mr.. Kcels. Rev. Matthew
Mark Diggs, Mrs. .Iuli. Hunter and others.
Besides these colOrcd people there
were many OH the ground from
the surrounding country, and the
whole number would probably reach sew
enty five, including the children.
There were mary cOlOred men Of the
"Old Black Joe" stripe Oh the ground.
| and several very old ladies'. who manifested
great interest in the services. The day
was very warm, and although the w""ls
is very thick with trees it was impossible
to find a place cool enough to remain for
any length Of time. Notwithstan.lin. the
intense heat, the seats around the pulpit
| were crowded during the time ot service.
and it was almost impossible to obtain
standing room sufficiently near to hear
what was going ON.
In the morning the services. which h.-
gan at 10 o'clock, were conducted by John
Francis Trainer, u noted colored divine,
from the Welsh mountains, who delivered
an eloquent sermon, the subject Of which,
has not been learnctlas yet, to u large audi
ence. After the sermon in the forenoon it
was announced that Rev. William II.
Heels, Of Lancaster, would speak in the
afternoon. At 2 o'clock Mr.. Keels took
the stand before Il tremendous aua.icn..c
and spoke for ut least an hour on . Ia,
Four Horses" or us William said. .'Dc Fo'i
HOsses.' ''De red hoss, dc black h,,ss, d.
pale hOss and de white hOss,'' whicl, h,
and purity. William grew very eloquent
during his sermon, which was by far the
best one of the day. lie spoke very loud,
the perspiratiOn stood in large drops on
his forehead and Il large linen dustcr that
he wore was wet from the collar almost to-.
the tail. After Mr.. Keels had conclude Il
Rev. Diggs arose and preached q sermon
in his own original style. During the day
| the vocal music was furnished by the men
and women. Those from Lancaster dir
the most of the singing. Such songs Il,
Roll, JOrtlOn Roll" "GOspel Engine.
&C., were rendered in campmeetins style
to the great delight of the audience, many
of whom had likely never before attended
a colored campmeeting.
The affair was u great success to the
managers Of it, who certainly cleared IL
good round sum. The colorcd people We're
given the proceeds OF the collections and
they should have netted Il handsome
sum, as the hat was passed around No less
than five times during the day.
The train for this city left Quarryville
at 8 o'clock in the evening, arriving here
about 0. The crowd Oh board was very
tired and many Of the collars and shirt
fronts looked as though the sun had
| played havoc with them. The passen-
gers were all in good humOr, however, es-
pecially the cOlOred people, who enter
tanned the persons in their car by sinsin.
songs.