Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-08-14
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dormitory for ladies, and well es-
tablished confectionery and ice
cream saloon. Besides these, there
are several two-story buildings oc-
cupied by private families, and
quite a number of cloth tents.
Sleeping arrangements are all free.
Some families living in houses and
some in tents, think it cheaper to
get their meals at the hotel, where
board can be had at four dollars
per week or % cents a single meal.
Quite a number however have their
own eating arrangements and ex-
tend their hospitality to friends.
On Sunday rnany baskets were
brought and sunptuous repasts
were Hospitality spread.beneath the
shade of forest trees.
The routine of the day, as well
as I remember, was by bell signals
as follows; Six o'clock, rising
half-past six, family prayers in the
chapel from seven to eight, break
fast; nine, social and experience
meetings in the chapel; eleven,
preaching under the Pavilion !;
half-past twelve till two, dinner !;
three, preaching; from six to seven,
supper half-past seven, preaching.
Thesocial meetings were especial
ly interesting. The ladies were
ready speakers in these meetings,
and generally they seemed to be
greatly blessed by the Lord. The
preaching was, of course, splendid,
but the congregations, except on
Sunday, were unusually small for
canp-meeting. 1t was thought by
some that many were kept away
by an admission fee at the gate of
10 cents. This may or may not be
SO. 1 am unprepared to say. I
suppose some of those who stayed
away on that account, ifany, would
not hesitate to pay 80 cents admis-
sion to country fair or a circus.
The fee of 10 cents was certainly
very small and was taken in lieu
of any collection inside the enclos-
ure. A family ticket of admission
for the season could be purchased
for one dollar, and I was informed
that when families were known to
be in poor circumstances, tickets of
this sort were issued to them gratis.
It was said that the object of the
hotel was to equalize the burden,
and to free the mater fanailias from
the burden of the culinary depart
ment, so that she might enter
heartily into the meeting and reap
abundantly the benefits so much
needed by such, to wit: rest and
spiritual recuperation.
DIR. Hammer preached Saturday
morning at II O'clock, a most in
structive and impressive discourse
on the arraignment of Jesus before
PLATE, in which he showed Christ
to be king of truth, and culminat-
ed the motto, ''be true" At 8,
DIR. Lewis, of Indiana, gave us some
good thoughts on Christian devel-
opment. At night DIR. Taylor, an
ex-missionary to China, gave US
a very profitable sermon on 'Some-
body hath touched me-" Sunday
morning DIR. Tudor, of st. Louis,
Mo-, evinced profound research,
originality of thought and great
force of mind in the discussion of
the text, beloved, now are we the
sons of God, and it doth not yet APP
pear what we shall be, but we know
that when he shall appear we shall
be like him, for we shall see him as
he is" At 3, Rev. r. X. Brown, of
Elm Street Church, Nashville,
Tenn, preached a sermon which,
in the language of newspaper cor
respondent, ''drew all hearts to
him." His subject was, the knowl-
edge we should have of Gods prom
ises by trying them. AT night,
Bishop Kavanaugh, in a lengthy
but not tedious discourse, showed
clearly that the creation of man
was no experiment, and that his
redemption was no afterthought,
but that God had viewed the whole
matter beforehand, and with perfect
consistency had created and re-
deemed man.
There had been no conventions
up to Monday morning, the time of
our departure, but the state of re-
ligious feeling among the professors
of religion was certainly very good.
One feature of this camp-meeting,
not to be overlooked, was the good |
order which generally prevailed. |
On Sunday there must have been
two thousand persons. on the
and I think more, as
special train from Louisville, with
seven coaches attached, came load
ed, and from the surrounding coun-
try in vehicles and horse back there
was a vast crowd; yet / saw no
man intoxicated and heard of no
quarreling or fighting, and all that
without policeman on the ground.
We were glad to meet the Rev.
David P. Morton, presiding elder of
that district, and Rev. H. G. Nor
rison, pastor of Broadway Method
ist Church in Louisville. Both are
men of high reputation and de-
servedly so. Mr.. Morrison was
born and reared to the age of four
teen years in Montgomery county,
Tenn, and has many relatives in
and in Montgomery
county who are rdoiced at his great
Usefulness and popularity.
Sorry to leave, but reminded that
we must or break a promise made
% our better-haIf, (and this no man
should never do,) we left the
grounds a little after O'Clock Mon