Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-16
THE DAILY RECORD -JNlaN.
DAMP RELIGION.

The Madison Democrat thinks there is
something singular about it. At the open.
ing of the Sunday school encampment near
Madison, which is a sort OF two weeks
picnic, with fishing between exercises,
prayer was offered by all the pious people
asking for good weather during the en-
campment. The prayer cure for weather
dropsy was total failure, as. it rsined al
most every day, aad there YVES not more
than ten hours during the meeting when
anybody had dry drawers and undershirts.
They were going to have some fireworks,
and the pious people who were TO touch
them off got tipped out IN the lake, and 1t
took more than prayers to save their lives.
It was mighty discouraging to preach and
pray with wet underclothes, Tor week or
two, but the fishing was real good. Twas
not an uncommon thing to see truly good
preacher coming up to camp from the
lake, after shower, with pIous, re-
signed lock, g wet coat tail and good
string of bass. Ladies who went out in
boats, dressed in white, with baking
powder box filed with angle worms, would
come IN ia time for the exercises, with
their clothes looking as though they had
been run through clothes. wringer and
put On before they got dry, every breadth
fitting the vital parts like the paper or the
wall, their shoes full of bilgs. water, their
hands full Of perch and their hearts full Of
love for all mankind. Everybody had a
good time, though is will take them two
weeks OF dry weather to get themselves
dry, and then SENS of them will be warped
with rheumatism. If they would appoint
these canp-meetings under the name OF
fishing parties, and consider fish the object
OF the expedition, and then do their pay
ing and singing and preaching incidentally
between fishing expeditions, it would be
better. They would enjoy the same re-
suits In the way Of bringing sinners TO re-
pentance, but if they got wet they could
call IL fishermsn's luck, and laugh
over il. But TO run prayer
meeting under umbrellas is too much
We don't care how pious, how sanity CT
ChristIan-hke a man or woman may be, at
a prayer meeting, If dirty water runs down
their neck from q neighhor's umbrella it
knocks the molly JUNCTION cut of them Ia q
minute, and th-y want to get under shed
out Of the wet. One lady who got back
from the camp meeting has had a terrible
time explaining bow she got so coiored. 1t
seems that her neck and stomach are all col.
ored blue, and her husband, who is not
very pious, wants to know how it hap.
pened. She says she was attending divine
service Ia the rain, and she was wedged in
the corner 30 she could not move, and an
old deacon from Rockford, Illinois, had an
old blue umbrella, and the water dripped
down her collar. Her husband asked
her why in the name OF the twelve apos
ties she didn't move around out Of the
way, or speak to the brother about
1t. Size Gays she had never been
introduced to the deacon, and didn't want
TO seem too forward. The husband swore
and said he had darn sight rather his
wife would be forward, or back ward, than
TO allow her corset TO be used as a rain
water spout, and so they keep quarreling
Sac Gays i will wash off, and he SAYS he
don't care whether it ever washes off or
not. a woman from Waukesha was at the
camp, and went cut fishing, sitting on
bag Of nay on the seat of the boat for
cushion. & heavy rain came up and the
hay got wet, and you know how wet hay
will color white cloth. All her clothes
have q yellow spot as big as wash-tub,
and the husband will nos accept any ex-
PLANTATION ct all. He says he thinks here
after his wife can skirmish around home
and get all the religion she needs, and
keep Ter clothes in better order than to 90
TO a camp meeting and sit on bag of wet
hay. Some people always complain, any
way,-[Peok's San.