Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-30
DOUGLAS CAMP mERr1NG.
Close of the Ten Days Feast OF Tab
ernaeles-Flve Thousand Attend the
Camp Services sunday.

Close of the Ten Days, Feast of Tab.
ernaeles-Flve Thousand Attend the
Camp services sunday.
DOUGLAS, Mass, July 28.-The ten days
course of meetings have come to an end. The
grove is beginning again to take on it's quiet
aspect. Throngs OF people have been passing
our cottage all day, going to the different
trains which have borne away many hun-
dreds. A few families will remain for d short
time.
The meetings of Sunday were largely att
tended. The weather being fine, not less
than Eve Thousand were attracted to the
grove by the camp services. Rev. William
Mcdonald and Rev. J. Wood were the speak
ers During the afternoon service woman
1--WE should judge an octoroon from her COM
plexion), Mrs. Storms by name, seemed to us
to be SO overcome by the excitement pro-
duced by the exhortations that she
was attacked with hysteria. Screaming
as If In great agony, and after while going
off into state which to your correspondent
appeared to be swoon. The woman, who
is probably of an emotional nature, lay in
this state for about half an hour, surrounded
by men and women praying and exhorting.
Nothing was done to bring the woman to a
state of consciousness, and to US, as we'll as
to many others, the sight was painful
one. 1t was our first experience of anything
should be done for the woman we asked one
of taose about her t'if they did not intend to
revive the woman" He answered with a
manner of great surprise: SIT is a visitation
of God" We were rather more shocked than
he was, and found voice to answer,
sit strikes me you have driven the
womans mind into such q condition that it is
time you took care of her body" Our words
were useless, for he began with an argument
which we had no desire to hear, especially as
he was not particularly prepossessing in our
opinion. We found afterwards, by speaking
with some others, that it was belief with
them that Mrs. Storms was under divine in
Auence while in the state. We told them a
good doctor would find 1t necessary to break
up such state, that it was in our opinion
overwrought mental excitement. The woman,
we learned, came to after awhile, with an APP
pearance of calmness. We did not attend
the evening services, but learned that Mrs.
Storms was again taken with Visitation"
| and after leaping run to the trout, fell
PROSTATE, where she lay for about ten min
| utes, no one coming to her aid. We heard
| some expressions of indignation at the close
Of the afternoon meeting, but it seemed to be
generally accepted that this was glorious
"visitation of the Lord" We are only forty
miles from the Athens of America, and this
is Massachusetts. whose educational system
is the boast of New England. Yet as they
spoke there came to your correspondent from
the beauteous grove, Goods first temple"
soft whisperings from the light breezes sway
ing the pines, the happy twittering notes of
birds, the hum of busy insects and the merry
voices of innocent little children, "God is
love-" "God is love-" and the anthem ring
ing in our ears brought calmness that
illuminated our thoughts, as the setting sun
cast halo among the tree tops that bent
over the tabernacle, and we walked home
ward in peaceful contemplation, hoping this
problem of mental ectasy may yet be solved
for the well-being of all.
There were about twelve hundred campers
on the ground over Sunday, but few days
will see the rest of them take their flight, and
Camp Douglas will again settle down for an
| other year to the usual solemnity which
/ nature in her subdued moods throws about
/ just such a place as this. r.