Smyrna times., 1889-08-28
Ocean Groves Great Camn.

the accounts in the daily papers go to
show that the present is the greatest
campmeeting that has yet been held at
Ocean Grove. The statement is made
that fully $4,000 Methodists partici-
pated in the twenty different religious
| services held on and about the camp
| grounds Sunday, and many thousands
more connected with churches of other
denominations helped the Methodists
make the tented grove ring with songs.
The great annual love feast was held
at the auditorium at 8 o'clock, DR..
Stokes presiding. Every portion of
the vast Open-air building was Occu-
pied, fully 10000 people being present.
| The usual emblems were not passed
among the audience, but instead a
| hymn was sung, while general hand
| shaking took place. Thousands of
| testimonials were given, several talk
ing at once, and every few minutes a
| happy testimony or a faVOrite him
would cause the saints to shout aloud
for joy. 1t was novel sight and one
to be witnessed only at the annual
| love feast.
The great attraction was the preach
| ing, the morning sermon occurring at
1870 o'clock. The Auditorium had
been filled at A. NJ, and consequently
the late corners were obliged to stand
In the circle about the Auditorium.
| Thousands were unable to get within
| hearing distance even, and were
obliged to attend the several overflow
meetings held on the grounds. The
preacher, Rev. DR.. Cleveland, of In.
dianapOlis, faced an audience made uD
OF over 5000 men, women and chill
dren, when he stepped forward to
announce his text, which was the
tenth verse of the sixth chapter of
Danlel-"And his windows being open
IN his chamber toward Jerusalem" 1t
was a sermon full of consolation to the
Christian and replete with promises to
the unSaVed.
The preacher, carried away by the
enthusiasm of the occasion and the
interest of his theme, preached for 80
minutes. A sermon an hour and a
half long with two others to follow the
same day, would be inexcusable but
for the fact that the people themselves
held the preacher as well as he held
them by his burning words.
The condition and resources of indi-
Viduals and national welfare was the
theme.
I'm our mortal house." the preacher
continued, God has placed the win
dow of memory to which we NAV ever
turn and be cOmforted. If this win
dow IS kept open and we sit before it
we shall be secured from the teInpest
that wars about us.
Another window we must look
through is the window of literature
for through the windows of books we
can commune with the best minds of
time. Then there is the many-sided
and many-cOlored window of the i'm
aglnation through which a flood of
hight and cheer comes in to the poor
man IN his hOvel and the convict in
MS cell. Through this window our
minds see picture galleries full of gor-
geous paintings and fascinating figures
The imagination is as necessary in
rellglon as in poetry and science
FaIth IS the soul looking through the
open window toward Jerusalem.
through this window OF Christian
God" '''''i' ~
The doctor then showed how the
vision of the open window is the vision
OF hope. Christianity is a religion of
nope as well as of memory. and il
SHOWS us the face of God, and saws this
is the way to the stars, hence this
window is window of mortality. In
conclusion the preacher said there il
nothing in evolution or socialism to he
compared to the open window. lie
attributed the fall of Babylon. Greece |
and Judea to the fact that the people |
OF those countries closed their windows |
ana declared that the open window |
alone could bring strength to the
hatlon and security to the Christian. |
OVERFLOW MEETINGS.
The overflow meeting in the Taber-
nacle was addressed by Rev. ! Sim.
mons, of Brooklyn Another. in tbe
Temple, was in charge of Rev. J r |
Westwood, of Camden, n. J.. the |
preacher being Rev. Remington Anson.
On the beach services were held on |
Ross and LillagOre's pavilions. The
sunday school at 2 P. NJ, had nearT;,
1000 scholars in the three departments
nearly 2OOO being present at DR.
Hanlon's Bible class in the Taber-
nacle.
The afternoon sermon was preacbad
by Rev. c. H. McAnney, of Long
Branch. -1s
Soul development was the youthful
preachers theme, and his earnest
words caused the large audience to
frequently shout for JOY.
Fully 10000 people were present at
the surf meeting at 6 o'clock. The
twilight meeting in the temple at the
same hour also attracted a big crowd
OF OF worshiipers. The evening service at
1ne AUDITORIUM was the largest, in
point of attendance, ever held on the
camp ground.
Over 10000 were present, and an
overflow meeting was held i'm the
Temple, which was also crowded. Tho
preacher at the Auditorium was Rev
Il. N Stratton, of Dobbs' Ferry. He
preached powerful sermon from the