Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-31
PLAINyILLE CAMP GROUNDS,
 August 30, 1881.


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 PLAnvILLE CAMP GROUNDS,
 August 30, 1881. To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 The second day of the camp meeting opened favorably. The morning was cool and de- ightful, clouds hung above the tree tops, and they did good service in keeping back the sun's heat At o'clock the Glove feast'' of last year was repeated and it was excellent A genuine old-fashioned Methodist love feast where hundreds in the space of an hour and half speak ''just a word for the Master" At 10 o'clock Rev. B. M. Adams preached a very interesting sermon from Galatians vi, 10 'As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith" Brother Adams didn't stick to his text quite so close as he sometimes does, and he warned us that he shouldn't when he began. He said the apostles never used to take any text at all, and he believed he would sometime follow their example.
 The text, said he, tells us to "do good unto all men. but especially unto them who are of the household of faith.'' Most of you seem happy in the Lord to-day; doubtless you would be willing to die for Him, but have ! found that it takes more grace to en- able man to live one good square day for God than to die a dozen times. have been pretty near death myself and know some thing of how it seems. I'm good Methodist, but I love all Christians. I've sawed the tops of the pickets of from my denominational fence, | and can shake hands with everybody new, | and vet I wouldn't have the fence removed altogether; it isn't to keep my neighbors out | you know, but to keep their dogs out.
 | An honest, burning testimony sometimes does a wonderful work. Freeborn Garrettson and his wife spent their honeymoon on re- vival trip. They cried day and night ''holi- | ness unto the Lord" and all the churches | were set on fire. This is the kind of testi- mony that does good, but we can't give it until our hearts are purified. Brother, don't you need you need another dip? This ex- precision isn't original with me. A good old Baptist evangelist once said that some of the brethren have an idea if they go under the | water once it is all right, but he thought some of them needed another dip. There is deal of power in sanctiied sympathy, and none feel the need of it more than ttose who | squalor with outstretched hand who feels most keenly his want; it is rather he who | hides his suffering behind noble manhood. Let us do good unto all men" /" according as God has given us the ability, and especially | unto them who are of the household of faith. At the close of the sermon Brother Adams 1 related his ''experience." He has hundreds of friends who read the COURIER, and will venture to give it in this letter: ''God sanc- | tified my soul " said he, "thirty-three years | ago. had thought before that that was l sanctified, but had never lost my fear of man. was tormented. I used to preach with my eyes closed On one occasion heard had somehow got turned about and was ! preaching to the wall. One day while read. | ing Wesley's Plain Account of Christian Per lection it came to me that needed the Holy | Spirit to sanctify what had put upon the al tar. I told my wife that was going down I would never come back till God
 should sanctify my soul I had laid in wood | etc., enough to last week. I crowded hay | enough into the horse's manager to last him
 several days and then began to pray. prayed long and earnestly, but no answer | came. The night wore on and still pray ed, l but there was no answer. The cocks began | to crow. Finally l cried out from the depths | of my soul Lord believe help thou my | unbelief' And the spirit came, clear and | sweet nS heaven. It has never left me.
 know the power of God to save me from un-
 belief from sin, and, more than all, from | Benjamin Adams"
 l At 1:16 o'clock this afternoon the new | Waterbury tent was dedicated
 l We notice with pleasure the sign, Trinity
 church, New HaVen," upon the large tent
 beside the association. It is the one former | ly occupied by Wesley chapel.
 This afternoon at 2:3O Rev. W. l.. Web | ster of Cheshire ureached il very earnest
 and thoughtful sermon, taking his text from | Micah II, T: 70 thou that art named the
 house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord
 straitened f' He dwelt especially upon the | thought that he is not straitened, unbelief
 claims and that the only way in which be
 can be straitened is by the human spirit,
 when 1t is full of apathy, censoriousness or
 unbolief. The tide of humanity is still ris
 ing. Hundreds of faces in the congregation
 to day, who werO not here yesterday, attest
 this fact. The evening is clear and cool
 Nature and nature's God are full of blessing