The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-08-24
RURAL RRLIGION,
Progress OF the Annual Meeting on the
BuFf's MILLS Camp Ground,
BpRRIs Mlll9 CAlp uAopYD, August q.

BuRR's MtLIs CANP 0A0uYD, August q,
Last evening tie, fiFst meating for tn
. young people was held As the time draw
near for the close Of this meeting those Ii
charge are swakeningtO what might be done
II they thought the young people could moi
be gathered together IN such q meeting they
certainly saw their mistake last evening. The
tabernacle was as we'll iilled as II Is at the
prayer and class nikehngs that are generally
attended only BY tie older people. But ono
thing was painfully noticeable-thG scarcity
Of young men, Can II be that they care as
little as they seem 70 for the better things OF
lie, or are they alImoral towards and afraid
OF each OthGrp What noble sight II would
be to see one Of the young men Of this camp
ground come out boldly iOr the right and ID.
come the leader OF I'd Others.
During the young peoples meeting gen.
eFal prayer meeting was held at the stand,
Immediately aiterWaEl Rev, Darby preached
from the words 'Where the worm dIetL
not and the fire IA not quenChed,' At the
close Of this sermon Rev, Chapman delivered
IN eloquent and irnppsSioned exhortation %
sinners TO flee from tiie wrath tocome. What
ever impression was made no manifestation
OF 1t was seen, and soon the meeting closed.
Between the evening service and the retiring
bell at 10 O'Clock the time Is spent in social
intercourse, andit n evidently with great 70.
luctance that the command Of the bell u
needed. ~
This morning arose again cloudless and
cool, These nlorningA in the woods are as
nearly perfect q anything earthly can be- At
$3.50 when the belf sounded form0rning meet
Ing 70 many gathered that the tabernacle
failed to hold them, We think as we did be.
fore that these arc the best meetings OF the
day. rii'lJlssTs n q Npi
All morning, until noon indeed, the people
came thronging IN unlil an immense throng
Is gathered here, far more than were ever
here on any day but Sunday They are peo.
pie, too, who como stor some better reason
Than merely %, come, The congregations
have proven this, From fifteen hundred to
two thousand persons listened to Rev. Holtz,
q lrwin's Station, Pa, as he preached from
Matthew XVI, n This was a most excellent
sermon and was Rttentively listened TO, Al
tho close o collection was taken up. This
collection was 10 make up the assessment on
the church In this charge for Presiding
Elders clainlH Some persons thought this q
title strange, as eaciehurch here represented
has Its own quota to raise, n.
Communion services were then held,
great number participating.
At noon the grounds looked like huge
picnic party, the dinners spread upon the
grass were 50 numerous, 4ii
At half past the children's meeting was
so numerously attended that nearly as many
were outside the tabernacle as inside They
were addressed by Revs, Rogers, Hingely
and Chapman. Mr., Rogers tod story Il 80
evidently hltso many we will tell Il briefly:
A little girl whole. nearest nelghbors were
ten miles or gathered together her cat, dog,
rabbit and calf each Sunday and sing and
talked to them and had Sunday School. But
IN telling i she sdh sadly, "but my school
broke up N I1in y
"Whyf' was asked. .5at- Hl
"Oh, tho calf got too big to come,N she
answered f5Irt - =. III
we saw many young men look conscious,
and . general smile passed through the
crowd.
The preachers werc reinforced this morning
by the arrival Of Eevs. jas. Mills and u. Hing; |
Icy, OF Cambridge, Reys jos. Rogers, 81
UrlchiuhsyIlle, and Holtz, Of Twins station. |
Rev, Toland spent yesterday on the grounds
Democrat, here to-day. With the exception
OF Editor McClellan1; OF the Barnesville En. |
t!trpri'e, lie Is the only editor we have seen
here. d.
Mr.. and MIS-. JohnathAn Hoffman were
Summoned home today by the news Of the
death Of grandchild. " f5 f.'fS
The demand for newspapers was so great
this morning tile supply BY no means met the
demand, The ISTELuOENcER went off like
hot cakes. ~ N . fFn..,
81, Clalrsvilo Is here to-day In force, not.
withstandng the dust they had to come
through, .t..,t', ...., '...v.l I..aU
As We close for the mail, Rev. James
Mills, Presiding Elder Of Cambridge district,
is preaching to fully a thousand people from
the text, Romans 1ls1I
Tomorrow y the last day Of the meeting,
but many, indeed all families from Bellaire,
expect to remain hofe so long as the diph-
iberia prevails theres ii