The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-10
WORSHIPING IN THE FOREST.
The First Day of the Season of Camp
Meeting Proper at Acton.
A Large and Orderly Crowd in Attendance
at the 0pening-Sermons Delivered
by Distinguished Ministers.

Camp meeting services at Acton Park-the lee
ture course having closed on Friday, and the
Grant memorial services having taken up Satur-
day-began yesterday with nearly five thousand
persons upon the ground 1t was remarkable
for the quiet, orderly, well-bred, welldressed
people who gathered there. The hoodlum ele-
ment which in previous years has been brought
by the Sunday trains was yesterday conspicuous
by Its absence Indianapolis sent goodly num-
Der of visitors by the fifteen local trains run
from here, but hardly the number that sun
shiny Sunday was expected to bring out. The
special trains run from Greensburg Kankakee
Rushyille. North Vernon and Martnsville did
not do as well was expected of them, while
the special from Lafayette did reasonably
well. Those who came across the
country in carriages buggies. and
wagons numbered many hundreds, while
twenty-five OF thirty young men from Indianap-
oils, Greenfield, Shelbyville. Flatrock, Column
bus and other points rode in on bicycles Never
before there such profusion Of white
dresses, and when about 2 o'clock the clouds be-
gan to gather darkening angrily with fitful
flashes of lightning followed by the dull roar of
heavens artillery, there was much futterng
among the damsels. particularly those whose
pink and white arms and shoulders showed
through the perforated dimity There was q
general rush for shelter when the wind began to
blow and the tree tops to shake many fearing a
cyclone. But the wind ceased, the shower was
brief, and the remainder of the afternoon
was in delightful contrast with the
swetering heat that had characterized the day
until o'clock. The rush for shelter had fur
Their good effect, in driving to the sanctuary
several hundred visitors, who would otherwise
have roamed about the grounds, unmindful of
the bread of life that was being dispensed at the
assembly hall.
There were three services yesterday At the
morning service Rev Bidwel Lane, Of New
York preached, his text being from Matthew,
xiv, 81:
And Immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand
and caught him, and said unto him, o. thou of little
faith, wherefore didst thou doubt!
Rev. S. l.. Bowman, dean Of De Pauw Uni
versity preached in the afternoon at 2 o'clock,
his text bong Luke XIV, s and 8.
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if
she lose piece doth not light candle and sweep
the house, and seek diligently till she find it,
And when she hath found it, she caleth her friends
ana her neighb9rs together saying Rejoice with me;
Tor have found the piece which had lost.
At the conclusion of the sermon brief ex-
hortation was given by Rev. |. w. Fee, of Gin
cinnat, and number of hymns were sung with
great fervor Rev. Bidwell Lane, the evangelist
whose method appears to be the old fashioned
one, and one that nfuses warmth and spirit into
Methodist MISUNDERSTANDING upon all to sing,
and repeating each Stanza as stimulant to the
singers.
In the evening there was song service, after
which Rev. |. ". Fee preached from First Cor
inthiaEs ii, ii:
But the natural receiveh not the things Of the
spirit of God for they foolishne3s unto him;
neither can he know then because they spiritually
discerned.
Those who on Saturday, heard Dr. Tncher
announce in the Assembly Hall that whatever
the cottagers needed in the way of grocer's sup.
plies, meat, milk, or bread, would have to be
purchased on that day, as all places of supply
upon the grounds would be closed on Sunday,
were unnecessarily alarmed. The visitors to
the camp and exc the jewellers therein, had no
great difficulty in obtaining subst ntial supplies
at the Hotel Dinner, while there was ice cream,
lemonade, candy. pop. corn, and other friyolites
to be had for spot cash.