Daily Republican., 1881-07-08
WORSHIP IN THE WOODS.
NEAR APPROACH OF THE CAMP
MEETING SEASON.
Delaware Camp Meet t'nRs-AY.
raneements Made for Some Of
thens -Prespe~ta asStated.

The camp meeting season is at hand
and in few short weeks our gooC
Methodist folks will be ont worshippine
in Goods first temples" on the Camp
grounds popular with Wilmingtonians
The custom of psalms singing near tt
natures heart is even more popular
now than heretofore, and the prospects
of various camp meetings given below
will be read with interest.
BRANDYwINE SUMMIT CAMP.
The Brandywine Summit camp will
commence on Monday, August sth, and
will continue ten days. Rev. William
7 Magee. of Sloan church, and Rev.
j. S. j. Mcdonnell, p. E will be the
pastors in charge. The managers of
meeting ground on Monday, July 18th,
at9lO o'clock in the morning, when the
location Of tents will be selected. Priv.
ileges, such as keeping tine bread and
refreshment tents, the horse poun! and
such things, will be given out at
o'clock in the afternoon. The rent OF
tents. 10X16, with bunks, will be S.. so
without hunks, So. The price OF board
will be 800 for the ten days of camp,
or one dollar Tor one day. Din.
ner will be sold for 50 cents; breakfast
or supper, 80 cents. The present indi'
cations the camp, this year, will not be
so largely attended as on former Occa
sions. No Wilmington church has
yet decided to go in body.
CAMDEN CAMP.
This camp will commence on Friday,
August 9TH, and will close about the
10Th of August. Rev. Il. w. Todd,
presiding elder of the Dover District,
will have charge. The prospects are
good.
WOODLAWN CAMP.
Woodlawn Camp, in Cecil County,
Nd, about five miles from Port Deposit
will commence on Tuesday, August
9th, and will continue for nearly two
weeks. This camp has been very poru-
lar with Wilmington people and good
many purpose attending it this year.
1t will be in charge of Rev. John d.
Kemp, of Rising Sun, though Rev. L..
G. Matlack will give him much assist
ance. The prospects Of a large and sue
cesstul meeting are good. G. S. Abra
ham, of WOodlawn, Secretary of the
Board of Managers has business charge
now. and he said a few days ago that
the outlook was very good.
AT CHESTER HEIGHTS.
Rev. Enoch Stubhs and Rev. +. A.
Fernelly, of the Philadelphia confer
ence, will have charge Of the Chester
Heights camp, which commences next
Wednesday. The meeting of the Sun
day School Assembly commenced last
Tuesday and will continue until the
day upon which the camp commences.
Rev. NJ. A. richards, pastor of St.
Paul's NJ. L. church, and Rev. &. w.
Miller, Of Grace church, of this city,
received invitations to deliver lee
lures, but they have respectfully
declined to do So AT a meeting OF the
Assembly on Wednesday afternoon
Col. Taco. Hyatt, President Of the Penn
sylvania Military Academy at Chester
lectured on "The New Revision " Rev
I. .. Murphy, ID. d., gave a lecture il
the evening on "Eome and its Cata
combs" Rev. d. c. Babcock lecturet
Yesterday afternoon and Prof. II. Gran
Barnwell gave an art exhibition in th
evening.
WYE CAMP.
The Wye camp, which will be held il
Queen Anne's county, Nd, will com
mence on Wednesday, August Sd, anC
will be in charge of Rev. G. W. Pretty
mon, of Lew"s, Del. The day selected
to meet on the ground and give ou1
privileges connecred with the camp j.
Thursday, July l4th.
BLACKBIRD CAMP.
1t will commence on Wednesday
July q, and end on Friday, Ausus
9TH.
CAMP-MEETING CALENDAR.
Chester Heights, July Is, Leonard
Woods. (near Parsonsburg, Md July
%; Beckwith's, July 2S: Camden, (Del.
August 5; Wye Camp, August 3: Jones
Gumboro Circuit, August 3; Broat
Creek Neck, (Md) August ; neal''
Island, August ) Woodl4wn, August
9; Woodlandtown, August T. Ocean
Grove, 1G.