Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-10
WORSHIP IN THE wOOD6.

Special correspondence of THE EVENING STAR.
JACKSON GROVE, A A. Co, MD, August 10th.
The camp meeting at this point, the third held
under the auspices of the jackson Grove Asso-
citation, was brought to q 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.. I.ttleton Of Carroll
county, as the preacher at the evening service.
and Mr.. Benson delivered the eXhortation.
AMONG THE VISITORS
on the ground yesterday We're 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 i'm 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 O'Clock. yesterday morning. was a very
interesting one. the experiences related being
snort and to the point: and the singing was ex-
cellent. The general experience meeting at 9
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
country people came in large crowds to see the
last of the meeting, SO that there were good
congregations at tie day services: probably GOO.
Rev. Dr. Ward preached at the IL O'Clock ser
vice, from ohm xvi, IS: These things have
spoken unto you. that i'm Me We might have
peace. in the world We shall have tribulation:
but be of good cheer. | have overcome the
world" His sermon was a feeling appeal to the
uncOnverted. and was followed by an eXhorta-
ton by Rev Mr.. Benson.
4 hA off arx-tn, I N,,,;@l Of
Washington. offered the prayer. and Rev. Mr.
Benson preached from Proverbs xiii. 25 my
Son Give Me Thy Heart" This was a personal
appeal to the unconyerted. 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 dreamed" 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.
OLp-TIME CAMPS
Some of the old campers-R. ID. 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 lam
guage of one of them ''abOut every person tent
ing on the ground went home changed man,
woman or child In 1929 Rev. Mr.. Peyton held
camp of about thirty tents, and ii was very
| successful meeting. On leaving this camp Mr..
Peyton held one near West river and while ex-
hOrting ruptured 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 i'm 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
E. church until in 1873 the Methodist Protest
ants held semi-centennial anniversary cam
meeting to celebrate the organization of the
| church
AMONG THE MINISTER'S JOKES
were the following Baptist clergyman named
crane was renlaFkIng 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. Drnkhouse if il Was
not a singular appellatiOn. and she replied ''Not
half as singular as that of Crane-one who wab
bles about i'm 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 >
Ii was apparent. as Bro. Trout was married
man, that he had already been hooked.
The afternoon trains were looked for with
eagerness. and while some visitors arrived some
a w
lously sought for to furnish the latest news from
the President
The meeting i'm Bro. Robinson's large tent. al
40 O'Clock, was attended bya crowd, which ey-
tended some distance from the tent, and many
gave their experiences.
THE CLOSING EVENING MEETING
At y O'Clock the tabernacle was filled. the
congregation numbering over six hundred
After some preliminary remarks by Rev. DR.
Murray, DR.. kilgOre, instead of sermon, gave
an earnest exhortation. in which he referred Ia
the approaching close of the meeting and &c
the fact that many would, i'm the nature OF
6things, never meet with them again 1t was a
solemn thought that this was the last camp
meetingtO some. The Lord had been with some
of them, some had Experienced 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 blessing responded to a call. Proba-
bly 10 rose and sung ''Oh happy every Child OF
grace" DR.. kilgOre walking out on the mourn
.ers bench made an appeal to the unconverted
extending the Invitations of the gospel. and sew
eral pentents presented themselves for prayers
This meeting was kept UP for some time and
during its progress there was
A REMARKABLE SCENE
EXhOrtatiOnS had been made by several min
listers, and man unknown to any in the audi
ence mounted the mOurners' bench and COM
menced speaking. 1t was soon discovered that
III vas Iot liSHt III HIS Iliiiu. ana an attempt
was made toGnduce him to stop. but the greater
their efforts the more yehemently 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 subject. and
mounting the seats he commenced to harangue
the crowd, quoting scripture fiuently. Officers
A. j. Humphrey and O.. Il. Gordon were called on
and led him off the ground. but he continued 60
| speak till he was hoarse. He was taken to the
platform and there detained while the meetings
were continued. but this episode diverted tie
| attention of SO many that it spoiled the meeting
MYSTERIOUS CRANK.
No one seemed to know him nor from whence
he came, or whittier he went; indeed 10 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 hlial 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 hnafjc