New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-10
WORKERS AT OCEAN GROVE.
SOME OF THE LEADERS IN EvANGELISTIc
WORK.
POPULARITY OF THE MEETINGS" BILLY COR
BELTS LusTY SHOUT wELL-KNowN
WOMEN WHO ARE HEARD ON
THE PLATFORM


Ocean Grove, Aug. tspcclan.-Thc crowds here
grow larger every day. \ stranger within the gates
Of Ocean Grove wonders where all the people come
from and where they are fed and lodged walk
through several OF the streets shows that the broad
piazras OF the hotels boarding houses and cottages
filed with people, mostly portly maifonS ana
pretty msdens AZ the big Auditorium Is seen an
audience OF 1000 to 5000 persons. There is a big
crowd of people around the handsome brick postohice
and the icc-cream shops arc packed. Down on Inc
beach the farsous board walk and the broad sandy
beach are literally covered with people. The crowd
upon the beach is big that II ovcriows into Aspy
Park on the north and Ocean Park and Bradley Beach
the south. Daily excursion trains come here from
all parts of New-Yorlz, Ncw-JeTsey and Pennsylvania
but the people who here for day are lost in the
immense crowd of humanity which has come here FOR
the season. one OF the Interesting features OF The
gathering is the baby element. Ocean Grove Is oe-
yond all doubt for the family. of the family and by
the family There thousands Of babies here.
The plump aud pretty Infants swing in hammocks I'M
the aud upon cottage stoopS. shout with gee
they roll and tumble upon the sands Of The
beach or gaze with supreme disda!n upon those who
have TO walk while they ride In royal state IN gay
carriages propelled by demure nurse girls wearing
coouettish little white caps. The joyful screams OF
the children all all parts Of the town
II is not an unusual thing for the babies 10 be taken
70 the services at the big Auditorium. and If they
laugh and crow during the services no one seems 10
care. The babies here are fat and goodnatuIed' ana
with their pretty faces and charming little tricks are
the pride OF their parents and the especial JOY Oh 'hs
city by the sea
The children who able 10 walk and run ABOUT
are here, too, in great numbers. They spend most
of the day at the beach. Each little man and woman
has small pail and a shovel. They dig IN the Sahd
and build forts and lay out towns which are swept
by the tide at night only 10 be rebuilt the next
dsy These youngsters tevcl in sand, chewing gum
Ihax.o f-fllh pH
their widest mode of dissipation is a drink OF soda
water and ride in OF the merry go-rounGs over III
Asbury Park or a trip UP and down Wesley Lake
The attendance Of the Auditorium services steadily
Increases. The number of clergy here Is larger
Than for several seasons past There are also many
weknown laymen and women who are Known
throughout the land devoted workers in the seVera
departnents OF the church mission and temperance
fields stranger attending the meetings at the
Auditorium Is surprised by hearing occasionally a
usy shous from the platform front when the preacher
makes good point The question who Is that!' Is
answered, "Why that Is Billy COrbett" AS Inc
curious one cranes his neck he The figure of sta
waft man, seveny-two years Old. down in chalr
with his head resting his shoulders. the peisonlfi
cation Of epose totally unlike the Boanerges OF the
Methodist pulpit of thirty years ago. Then he was
straight as an arrow tall and well formed, with long
arms which he threw about wldS a.
h. ,es,ieulatsd in his preaching. The In
compsIed q cessation from pulpit labors, but he
tales an intense interest in the meetings and often
adds his rInyu. shout Of praise 20 the enthusiasm OF
the hour. Mr. Corbett is Methodist Of Mcthodis'S'
His family belonged 10 that denomination two genera
lions before his birth. His maternal grandfather was
IN the Army Of the Revolution. When the army was
.ncsmped al Germantown, and The sollcis were on
the verge Of starvation, his grandmother Killed sheep
and after dressing 1t, disguised herself In rags and
having wranped the precious mutton IN piece ot Ola
Garnet guided BY a map which her husband had sent
her she ssuly lodged the He'ans and made her
way 10 the patriot camp Tho seven-mile journey
carrying such load, added 10 the nervous stralh Wa
100 much for the good dame. and when she rescneu
he camp and .be danger over she fell IN uead
,sInt The famished men ate the meat raw, IL IS
Iad. =,
Mr. Corbett entered the ministry in 1s4l lie
travelled the Freehold circuit under Thomas Men as
presiding elder. lie active iinerant munster
for forty-four years. lie has been i"'",.
OF five annual conference.-the New-JerSey' mo
Newark the Newyorb the New York East ana Inc BAL
timore Twenty years Of his active work was done
in New-York City. His zeal and abilities always
made him In demand in prominent churches, where
extensive revivas marked his labors. in the ola
Greene Street Church in New York city hve huhufeu
converts were added TO the church dlrinS MS TWO
wears ministry. his youth he married the daughter
of Joachim Hill, of Pennington, ~ j. whose mouse
WAS tho home of the Methodist minister Tor half
century Mr.. Corbetts second wife was MISS Mary
Emma Case, the daughter of Andrew }. case, OF
New-York. Mrs. Corbett is well known as brilliant
musician
Mrs j. Ellen Foster who spoke here in the interest OF
the Woman's Home Missionary Society, is best known
TO the general public in connection with tcni-
pcrance work. Tar father. lothian Horton, was
Methodist minister in the New-Ensland annual con
feIence He was Oldme Aboliiionist, ana dld
valiant service In that cause. Mrs Foster Is porn
radical and declares that she inherited her RADICAL
ism from her father Mrs. Foster studied law with
ler k,sbanG In Clinton Iowa and practsed Tor a
time bus her abilities public speaker brought
her INTO prominence In the work OF the woman
Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. roster mas
pleasng voice and earnest manner Her husband
+ C. Foster IS prominent lawyer and politician III
Iowa Mrs. Foster was the first woman aamitea 10
praetes I'm the Supreme Court OF the state.
Mrs F. T.. W. Harper, comely colored woman
who smoke during the National Temperance Camp
Meeting was born in Maryland. Her mother was born
slave bus her parents purchased the freedom oi inc
child. she went school in Baltimore Her hns-
hand diving during the war she took
Ron chnd I'm her arms and went
tho lecture platform. Mrs. Harper has
n pleasant voice. In anti-slavery times she spoke
ON the platform with Wendell Phillips Henry Ward
Bescher Henry Wilson, Frederick Douglass and Others
Of the Abolition workers She was employed by the
'pepnsylvania Anu-Slavery Society. Mis-. Harper has
1een superntsndent of work among the colOred people
n, the National woman's Christian Temperance Union
for the last six years She has visited nearly every
southern state and every Atlantic state 10 the in
t.rsst of the work. She thinks that her people In
Nh, south arc coming up intellectually, and the i'm
movement among them Is more marked than in the
North. -. . 49,
II is Iemarsape how many OF the women, evan
o.iiste here are of Methodist parentage. This may,
crbaps he accounted for by the fact that the various
francboS of the Methodist Church have accorded 10
nomcn since the days Of Wesley, greater liberty of
sp,ech and service than other denominations; added
~ iris has been the training received by them in that
REGULARLY MethodStic Institution the classmeeting.
twenty-five years ago. at prsyer-neelns held IN
q Li,chon I'm Illinois. women met In Christian
labor At that meeting twenty-five persons received
~. imnuIse toward new life OF these two women
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