Evening star., 1886-08-09
SUNDAY AT JACKSON GROVE
thousands of Visitors At the Camp
Meetfng-The Sabbath Day Exercises.

Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR.
JACKSON GROVE, August g.
Saturday was a quiet day in camp, particu-
larry in the afternoon, but towards night a
large number of arrivals enlivened the en-
campment. Among those arriving were Rev.
I. H. Lewis, OF Western Maryland college, and
Rev. T. E., Coulburn, of Lynchburg, Va. The
sermon Saturday evening by Rev. Dr.
Ewell. The arrivals Saturday night were
somewhat larger than were expected, and in
some of the tents considerable planning was
| required before all were disposed OF. One of
the MON tents, it is stated, sheltered no less
than twenty-three ladies and children, and was
dubbed the bee hive; Yesterday the weather
was all that could be wished, and those who
expected visitors from the city and county
were not disappointed. The trains south
brought to the grounds probably 500 and the
trains north about the same number, which,
with the country people and the tenters and
their friends, made q total of probably 5000.
The afternoon trains brought out Others max
ing total during the day OF nearly 5000.
THE SERVICES YESTERDAY.
The attendance at the early morning prayer
meeting at 645 o'clock was much larger than
usual. 1t was conducted by Rev. c. n Robin
son, of Brooklyn. The experience meeting at
. O'Clock, was conducted by Rev. Mr.. Forrest a
local minister of the Broadway church, BaIti-
more. and it was better attended and a much
more lively meeting than the preceding ones.
AT 1880 o'clock the bell was rung for preach
ing services, and long before this hour every
seats, We're taken. After appropriate music,
lucluding solo by Mr.. EdmOnds, accompanied
by Mr. MeCleliand; organist the president of
statement as to the financial condition of the
a>sociation-there being II deficiency of $3.50.
\ collection was taken. which melted about
S175.
Rev. DIR. l.. w. Bates preached from Matthew
Xv.. 18th, on the power of will. On the plat
form were Revs. Messrs. +. j. Drinkhouse, I. II.
Lewis, &. n. Robinson (ot the NJ f. church, j.
f. 1: Ewel j. l.. Mills and q. W. Gywnn, (of
the VI. T. church), and T. E. Coulburn, of Ly nch-
burg.
In the afternoon the women's meeting, con-
Quoted by Mrs. Ruff, was crowded, and at 3
O'Clock the audience in and about the taber-
nacle exceeded considerably that of the MORN
ing. Rev. DR.. Ewell preached from Matthew
xvii, 81. This is Jesus. the King of the
At the conclusion of the sermon Rev. John R.
Nichols sung, I'm a Child of King" and the
the choruses The services at night were con-
Quoted by Rev. DIR. j. l.. kilgore. A prayer
meeting followed.
During the afternoon Rev. j. w. Gray at the
tent OF Mr. 5. $. Tracey chriStened Frank We
ley, son OF Percy and Anna Williams, and
James Preston, son of Eliza and the late James
Hopkins.
POLITICS AS WELL AS RELIGION.
Religion was not alone the subject of discus
sion during the day, as politics, babies, crops
and other themes received considerable atten.
ton. Among Others whose presence kept up
political discussions were NJ. Bannon, II. S.
Anderson, >. ROckhOld, James BrashearS, Z. r.
V. Myers, Dr. w. q. Williams, George Jacobs,
ChaS. Duvall, Gen. Bond and VIM. Snowden.
The gist of the talk seemed to be in favor of the
denomination of Mr.. Compton for Congress-
Among others on the ground were Gen. p. f.
Bacon, S. J. Thomson, A. h. Williams, w. w.
Mead, ,. ID. Sherwood, Allen Boswell, L. A.
King, John w. Thompson aud X. F. King, of
Washington; Capt. j. B. Ridgway. $. w. DuvaI
OF Prince George county; Caleb Kelly, OF Balti.
more j. r. Woodward, X. I. Williams and e.
e. Prather, of Anne Arundel county.
The order during the day was excellent. OF
the four persons intoxicated who were put of
the ground by Police Officers Stalley and Wig
ley, three claimed to be from Washington and
one from Stoney Run. There was some little
liquor drinking on the outskirts, although this
Is a local option section. A few empty TASKS
were found in the woods and at the railroad
platform, but none OF the effects OF drinking
were seen within the circle OF tents.
COMPARING NOTES ON BABIES
Some OF the Washington visitors were aston
ished at the numerical strength OF some of the
Anne Arundel families, several bOasting of
from a dozen TO a score OF children One citi-
zen of South Washington, however, claimed to
have as good record as any, being the father of
twenty girls and one boy.
Yesterday was looked upon in every respect
excepting spiritually, the best day in the
history OF the association, which is now out of
DEBT. A meeting OF the stockholders will be
heid this afternoon, at which it is likely a new
impetus WILL be given 10 the enterprise.