St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-19
RED ROCK RELIGION.
Interest, as of Old, in the
Mysterious Great Red
Boulder.
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Indian Traditions Which CluS-l
ter About the Old
"Waukon." Il
Men and Women Whose Names
Associate With the u
Spot. .
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Yesterdays Camp Ground
Yesterdays Camp Ground
Exercises and To-Day's 3
Programme. 4

Programme.
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Each year the Red Rock camp meeting
is visited by those who have never be-
fore enjoyed its cool groves and refresh
ing breeZes, and, as they walk about the
grounds of which they have so often
read and heard they PROFOUND the
same questions which have SO often
been asked they ask whence the
name and where the stone which has
given the place its name. The name is
easily explained. AS is the case with
many of the names of places in this
state. it is derived from the Indian,
Eyah Shaw Eyah- Rock and Shaw
red. This was the name given to the
locality generally, but the rock or
boulder which has figured so prOmi-
nently at the place was called "Wau-
kOn." or mystery. This is nothing but
an egg-shaped boulder, weighing about
two tons. Formerly it lay on the bank
of the river. which spot had been its
resting place from a date antecedent to
the earliest of the Indian legends. The
Indians thought it had rolled from one
of the great bluffs half mile back from
the Mississippi, but still its origin was
wrapped in mystery. On this ac-
count they worshiped the stone and
would occasionally smear it with the
most brilliant war paints, and offer to
its spirit of whatever they possessed Of
value. The stone few years ago was
moved few years ago to spot be-
tween the hotel and the Jones cottage.
Its paint was renewed, and it now forms
a most favorable spot for the photOg-
grapher, who arrangeS his groups
about it, 1t was here Little Crows
band of Dakotas or Sioux spent their
summer months. and from these banks
that they embarked in their birch bark
canoes when departing on hunting or
warning expedition. This was one of
the first points in the state settled by
the whites, and very early the Method
lists gained foothold among the settlers
around and about the locality.
THE FIRST CAMPAIGNING
was established here in June. 1869, and
lev, presiding elder of the district. The
accommodations were then very rude,
but the old settlers say those were
great times among the Methodists. The
first meeting was twenty years ago, and
there are in attendance this year num-
Der of those who enjoy ed the first serv-
ices, and have been'constant attendants
during those twenty years. Among
these are J. G. Quinby, j. f. Tostevin
and G. 81. Hazard. St. Paul; A. FL.
Rose, E. Moses and H. j. Cobb, of Min
neapolis. There are also present this
season many others Of the earlier
patrons of the camp grounds.
Among these are Mrs. Jane Hale.-
st. Paul: Rev. George Galpin,
Minneapolis; l.. s. Bell, Hampton;.
Mrs. Albert Armstrong, of st. Paul;
Rev. 9. Hobart and Rev. S. Bales, of
Red Wing; Rev. E. Brooks and Rev.
DR.. Cyrus Brooks. There are also
were the earliest supporters of Red
Rock. Some of these are Mrs. DR.. j. H..
Murphy, Mrs. q. s. Fairchild, Mrs.
Capt. Blakely, Mrs. Emily Huntington
Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. Sabin. From the
First German M. E. church there are
Mrs. Weide, Mrs. Knauft, Mrs. NJ. Tay-
lOr and Mrs. Schurmeier. The fist cot
tages at Red Rock were built by Messrs.
Moses, Cobb and ToStevin, and others
soon followed.
Yesterdays EXERCISES.
Yesterday was blessed with number
of new arrivals. Among the workers
were Rev. II. S. Church, presiding elder
of the Cedar Falls district in the Iowa
conference; Rev. G. M. Heard, Merriam
Park; Rev. Mr.. Hurd, Prescott. The
trustees count the following Mime
apolis ministers among their hearty
supporters: Rev. Teter, w. W. Satter-
lee. Smith, D. Higgins, McKaig. Miller
and Stafford. They want them to come
to the front.
At the morning service Rev. DR.. G.
H. Budgman, of Hamline university,
preached to large audience from the
words, "Return unto thy rest, 0, my
soul. for the Lord hath dealt bounti-
fully with thee;;" found in Psalm, cxvi..
z. He said that in different ways we
hold communion with ourselves, and
very varied are our thoughts. At times
this would be flattering, and again re-
prOachful. Words of hope and COM
fort are sometimes spoken to ourselves,
and again our communion is in the
words of the text, which is an ex-
hortation.
THE UNREST OF THE SOUL
is natural, and this is best seen in eX-
amining our own hearts. He appealed
to humanity to declare and testify that
the SOULS unrest was not phantom.
The cherries grave has an attraction
uO GIlG HAL UuIucIcu Will cares, duu lG
is because the soul longs to be freed
from the burdens of life. One occasion
for this unrest is found in mans reason,
which appears to be able to discover
difficulties without procuring way
of solving them. Conscience is an
other cause, which convicis Of
sin without pointing out the
way of forgiveness. The affections,
with often unworthy objects, are another
cause of unrest, as is also mans de-
PRAYED nature. The lives Of most men
are lives of trouble and disappoint-
ment. In referring to the remedy for
this unrest, he said that rest was not an
empty word. but that it meant some
thing real, but in seeking after it one
must guard against false rests. A man
with no hope for the future has no
pleasure, and he believes in aDnihila-
tion. But his forgetting God did not
change the facts. The true rest is one,
adopted to an immortal being, and can
be found in God alone. When wisdom
is baffled seek God. He will save and
give the true rest. He concluded with.
an exhOrtatiOn to come into this rest in
God.
Rev. n. P. Blake, of New Richmond,
Wis, spoke in the afternoon, and in the
evening Mrs. Van COtt made one of her
stirring addresses on the subject of
faith, with an after exhortation, which
gathered about the mOurners' benches
a number of those Influenced by her
words. RI
Friday att o'clock DR.. Robert Forbes
begins his series of lectures Ou Metho-
dist discipline, {