Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-10


Special Correspondents of TIE EVENING STAR.
JACKSON GROVE, A. A. Co., ND, August 10th.
The camp meeting at this point, the third held
under the auspices Of the jackson Grove Asse-
citation, was brought TO a close TO-DAY. Your
correspondent. in his letter of yesterday, wrote
the name of Rev. Mr.. Benson, when he should
have used that Of Rev. Mr. Littleton, of Carroll
county, as the preacher at the evening service.
and Mr.. Benson delivered the eNhortation.
AMONG THE VISITORS
on the ground yesterday were the Rev. Thos.
Mccormick, Familiarity known as Father Nc
Cormick. who is now in his Goth year. He is the
uncle of Commissioner Morgan and is a remark
able man. being. as stated yesterday. in excel
lent bodily health. without an ache or pain, in
fact he is in better health than he was at 80
although he does not weigh as much. Rev. j.
w. Smith. of Grace Church, Washington; Rev.
Mr.. Brown of Laurel. and Rev. Mr.. Stewart, of
A. A. Co.. of the NJ. f. Church, and Rev. Mr..
Trout and Rev. Mr.. Hall (of 9th street church)
OF the NJ. p. church.
THE SERVICES YESTERDAY.
The young peoples meeting in the meeting
tent at 8 o'clock, yesterday morning. was very
interesting one the experiences related being
short and to the point: and the singing was ex-
cellent. The general experience meeting at 2
o'clock was conducted by Rev. Mr.. Laselle and
was repetition of that in the meeting tent on
larger scale. and was continued until close up
TO the preaching hour The trains brought out
great many people. and as the day wore on the
country people came in large crowds to see the
last of the meeting, SO that there were good
congregations at the day services: probably GOO.
Rev. DIR. Ward preached at the Ii O'Clock ser
vice, from, ohm xvi. IS: These things have
spoken unto You. that in Me We might have
peace. in the world We shall have tribulation:
but be of good cheer. l have overcome the
world" His sermon was a feeling appeal to the
uncOnverted. and was followed by an eXhorta-
ton by Rev Mr.. Benson.
At the afternoon service Rev. J. W. Smith. of
Washington. offered the prayer. and Rev. Mr.
Benson preached from Proverbs xiii. Do "My
Son Give Me Thy Heart" This was a personal
appeal to the unconverted. and was listened to
with marked attention and was followed by
prayer.
AFTER THE SERVICES.
when not engaged in taking tea the Young peo-
pie prOmenaded. watched the railroad trains
and ''creamed." while the older ones related
"reminiscences of former camps and some of the
ministers mingled their conversation on relig-
ious subjects with jokes or relation of funny
incidents in their career.
OLD-TTME CAMPS
Some of the old campers-R d. Woodward.
John Gardner and Caleb Keily-who remem-
bered the camp of 1928. were listened to with
much attention. This they described as one in
charge of Rev. James Sewall. when nearly one
hundred people were converted. In the Ian
guage of one of them ''abOut every person tent
ing on the ground went home changed man.
WOIidI VI Cllllu. III IcSS5 Kew MT. region held
camp of about thirty tents and il was a very
successful meeting. On leaving this camp Mr..
Peyton held one near West river and while eX-
horting ruptured a blood vessel and fell dead on
the stand. Then there was an interval of twenty
years before another meeting was held here.
Rev. Mr.. Best holding one in 1913, and Rev Mr..
Collins in the following year. These meetings
were described as rather primative. the tents
being filled with straw, while bitches
around them carried off the rain water.
After another interval of 81 years circuit camp
was held in 1870, followed by camps in which
the Washington people Joined in II and -
subsequently other camps were held by the NJ
f. church until i'm 1873 the Methodist Protest
| ants held a semi-centennial anniversary cam
meeting to celebrate the organization of the
church.
AMONG THE MINISTER'S JOKES
were the tollowing:-A Baptist clergyman named
Crane was remarking on peculiar names. and
| noticed that Drnkhouse was one of the most
uncommon, and appealed to a lady who hap
pened to be a friend of DIR. Drinkhouse if it was
not singular appeation. and she replied Not
half as singular as that of Crane-one who wab-
bles about in the water" Another referred to a
lady not speaking to Rev. Mr. Trout as he passed
when she replied, "Oh. don't like such fish y
lt was apparent, as Bro. Trout was a married
man. that he had already been hooked
The afternoon trains were looked for with
eagerness and while some visitors arrived some
OF the Older campers left. and THE STAR was anx-
lousy sought for to furnish the latest news from
the President
40 O'Clock, was attended bya crowd, which ex-
tended some distance from the tent, and many
gave their experiences
THE CLOSING EVENING MEETING.
At Z = O'Clock the tabernacle was filed. the
congregation numbering over six hundred
After some preliminary remarks by Rev. DR.
Murray, DR.. kilgore, instead of a sermon. gave
an earnest eXhOrtatiOn. in which he referred to
the approaching close of the meeting and to
the fact that many would. in the nature OF
6things, never meet with them again. 1t was a
solemn thought that this was the last camp
meeting to some. The Lord had been with some
of them, some hadexperiencedth the forgiveness of
sins, and some had been awakened. Calling on
all professors of religion to RISE probably one
third of the congregation responded and sung
oh how love Jesus" Then those who had
received a blessing responded to call Proba-
bly, 80 rose and sung ''Oh happy every child of
grace DIR. kilgOre walking out on the mourn
.ers bench made an appeal to the uncOnyerted
extending the invitations of the gospel and sew
eral penltents presented themselves for prayers.
This meeting was kept up for some time. and
during its progress there was
REMARKABLE SCENE.
EXhOrtatiOns had been made by several MN
listers, and man unknown to any in the audi
ence mounted the mourners bench and COM
menced speaking. 1t was soon discovered that
he was not right i'm his mind aud an attempt
was made toinduce him to stop. but the greater
their efforts the more vehemently he talked
The audience attempted to sing him down. and
he finally subsidized. Later i'm the meeting he
approached man on one of the back seats and
asked why not tonight give thy heart
to God?" The young man answering,
'Oh not to night" gave him a subject. and
mounting the seats he commenced to harangue
the crowd, quoting scripture fluently. Officers
A. j. Humphrey and e. H.Gordon We're called on
and led him off the ground. but he continued 10
speak till he was hoarse. He was taken to the
platform and there detained while the meetings
were continued. but this episode diverted the
attention of so many that it spoiled the meeting
A MYSTERIOUS CRANK
No one seemed to know him nor from whence
he came, or whittier he went; indeed no one
could tell whether he had Just arrived on the
ground or not. In answer to a question as to
his name he replied: what is that to thee,
follow thou me-" AS to his business he
said:
BE it my only business here
To Serve the Lord with flial fear"
As to having friend on the ground he said:
Jesus is my friend" While sitting at
the platform with the officers he con-
tinued to quote scripture and said that pray
ers had been offered for the descent of the
Holy Ghost. and when it came they did not want
it, Some thought he was the advance agent of
the Salvation Army: Others an escaped lunatic.