The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-07
WORSHIPERS IN THE WOODS.
The Camp Meetings at Acton and Beth
any Assembly Fairly Under Way.
Children's Day at the Bethany Park-Inter-
esting Addresses and Praise Service at
the Acton Camp Grounds.
IN cAMP AT ACTON.
Address by Judge Cox on ''Moand-Builders''
The Meetings Largely Attended.

the pleasure of yesterday in the Acton camp.
The exercises were interesting, and the crowd
on the grounds was large enough without being
too large for the fullest enjoyment Of the pleas
ures of the day and the place.
The morning prayer meeting, which was one
of the most interesting that has been held,
was led by Rev Harvey Harris of Vevay.
The sermon, delivered by Rev. G. P. jenkins,
presiding elder of the Jeffersonville district at
1870 o'clock, was upon the text, BY faith, Abel
offered more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by
which he obtained evidence that he was
righteous" The sermon was one of unusual
merit, and was much appreciated.
The ministers prayer meeting was held in the
afternoon at 2 o'clock, and was largely attended,
Since the beginning of the camp meeting there
have been forty-three ministers on the ground, an
unusually large attendance, and about twenty of
the number are quartered in the campsq
The ladies' prayer-meeting was heldIin the pa
vilion at o'clock, and the services were led by
Mrs. Cotton, of Southport and Mrs Brunton, Of
The most interesting feature of the day was
the lecture delivered at 3 o'clock, by Judge
Joseph Cox, of Cincinnati, on The Mound
builders The history of the origin OF man
a. = ol;,1iaa =, ,n hoo Enc If the
most interesting subjects in science and Gtera-
ture. The labors of scientists for cen
turtles have been directed to the OBJ
baa;nn;no Tboe lave baye traced their history
back for 1000 years, while the Egyptians As
syrians and Babylonians have traced the begin
ming of their existence back to the earliest known
est races Il involved in myth and mystery The
Eyros oIain ,,no,, The ami ho,;ty If their fra
d;f;aTns 10 he HE Oldest race. The Greeks trace
thai1. o,ic;n ~ the snn others tn the pods of tbe
a. aUd - Az 600 Ain,o.t ysr,- 2 ~ tio,, If
E,ro7,a bas q yrr;t+an history r,nnin1 hack from
j 001 to 4 0o11 wears The early ORIGIN of America
e laos lxnovvI, IN written history Than any other
nation. There are some mythical accounts of
the Welsh having sattled in fbe territory covered
IN +ba Stats ~ Nortb Carolina about the vear
6iO and the Danes landed in Massachusetts
about i 600 leaving marks of their residence
there The rest of tbe countrv's carly history
is written unon IFS face-the mounds the earth
works. the changed condition Of the surface of
the earth and tbe evidences of old roads. There
are today mounds from one end Of the land to
the other. rnarLing every road every town. and
every burial Mace of a race of neopie who have
left traces OF their existence in Alaska. along
the Northern Pacific, across Behring strait, in
Asia China Russia and over the whole world
All evidences Of their existence are traced from
the East across the Pacific He smoke at soma
length of the mounds and earthWorks of the
unknown race called Mound-builders Fort
Hill at the mouth of the Big Miami river is the
largest and most wonderful fertilization. he said
in the world The mound on which General
William Henry Harrison il buried AZ North
Bend commands "a view for miles
over the surrounding country. and covers
4 large area of ground There liz
an ancient buryine ground at Madisonyille. o..
covered bv a thick forest MANY of the trees Of
which are fifteen feet in circumference The
burying-ground covers fifteen acres, and
# Is supnosed that there are no
lace than n 000 hodias buried in II
as there have been no exhumed in an acre
Among relics which had been taken from the
Graves Judge Coz exhibited charred corn. hone
implements, broken pottery fish hooks. avis
spears. needles. earrings. necklaces. bear
beaver and wildcat teeth a collection of little
homes which he called noker chins because thew
had evidantlv been nsed in some game . email
tife mon which he nlaved the time Of 9tYanlyae
Doodle and an Instrument which seemed Ia
have been used as a telescope. The relics gen
eralIv had been we'll preserved nv the ashes
with which thew had been covered AZ
the mouth Of tbe Miami river there
are MANY mounds and fortifeations ore beino
over no feet in ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and Eve feat
bioh He said that he 5bad assisted Prof Pr.
nam. of Peabody Institute in onening 4 monnd
at the bottom Of which had been found twenty
seven furnaces and in the center If the excava
ton was an altar of burnt clay. around which
was strung 80 900 pearls. Many other curious
relics were found including terra Gotta figures
mates of copper covered with silver arolite iron
and various implements of conner all covered
with six inches Of cement = mixtnre comnosed
Of CLAW. gravel and iron. hardly burned over the
ton of which was fifteen feet az earth and two
feet of bowlders. He described a number of
other nounds fort;Fcatons ana earth works in
Ohio and in the vicinity Of Cincinnati
The Mound builders are slpposed to have been
the Indians. but there are more bodies in the
Madsonyille burying ground than there we're In
dams. who lived in Ohio. In the time of the ex-
as rhickly populated. from all evidences. as now.
The works which they left required the labor of
a vast number of men who must have lived I'M
der some despotic government and they were
probably built one thousand years ago. Amer
as the mounds contain relics Of ali races in ali
parts Of the world. reaching back to the original
Garden Of Eden The stone cairns are found al
through Judea, the land Of Moab and Of Edoin.