The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-27
IN ITS CLOSING HOURS.
The Last Day Of the Mounds
vile Camp Meeting.
SAM SMALL SAYS FAREWELL.
An Affecting Account of His Expert.
ence and his awful Struggle
against the Drink Habit-The
Close this Morning.

The last Sunday and closing day Of th,
camp meeting was one that, numerical!
speaking, was not so large MS that Of las
Sunday, when Sam Jones WAS pFesen
and held the fort, notwithstanding tht
weather was all that could be desired
and the attraction was just as great, il
not u little greater. The crowd in at
tendance upon the ground was variously
estimated at 5000 to 5000, but ii would
be hazarding nothing to say there was at
least 5000 people present. The arrange
ments ofthe railroad company were sim
liar IT, those of Il week ago, and every
thing was done to prevent accidents.
The good order that has attended tie
meeting all through prevailed yesterday,
and never in the history Of the camp has
better order been witnessed than that OF
this year.
he young people OF the camp have
aided the management in making the
meeting success this year, and they
are sorry that the time is soon at hand
when they will have to return home.
The directors have been at their posts
and have done all that moTtals could do
to further the success of the meeting OF
1883.
Tie meeting held in the auditorium
at o'clock was full of interest and spirit
uul power. Rev. Frank Lynch, OF Cam
eron, had charge Of this meeting. He is
one Of the most promising young men
OF the West Virginia Conference, and TO
say he is good one is not doing him
full Justice. lie is u Methodist OF the
old type, and the meeting in the morI-
ing was one of the old fashioned kind.
The minister in charge aud the people
all seemed to be filled with the divine
power, and the expression Oftheircountc'
nances and OF their lips gave evidence
that the fathersand mothers oflsrael were
all on board the old ship Zion, il their
children were not.
The service at 10 30 n. IN. was opened
by n song service by the choir in charge
OF Mr.. Charles Woodburn, OF Cameron,
who has been acting as musical director
since Mr.. Excel departed. He tits in
the place exceedingly well. The sing
ing OF the day was equal to- that oil last
Sunday, and the members Of the Asso-
citation are proud of the choir, aud those
who have been aiding to maketh music
special feature Of the meeting.
1t was l0:.i5 when Sam Small appeared
on the platform, accompanied by his
wife and child, and after pause he led
in prayer, asking divine blessing upon
the speaker, that peace and Quietness
night reign upon the ground, that the
preacher might lay aside every selfish
and personal thought, and that the peo-
pie might hear, sing and pray with the
understanding and the spirit. He prayed
for his co.laborer,s Sam Jones, that the
Lord might bless him rs he stood up for
his master in distant State. During
this prayer it seemed that all the babies
on the camp ground had determined to
cry down the minister, MS their voices
could ut times be heard above that OF the
preacher. The choir sang "Let us Walk
in the Light" The text was part OF the
Goth and Glst verses OF the 10Th chapter
of st. Matthew:
"At the last there came two false
witnesses and said, This fellow said"
The sermon was on the life of Christ
and itsiessons. The discourse was thor
oughly characteristic, but more like the
orthodoxsermon than Sans usually are.