Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-06
WEATHERF0RD CHAuTAUQUA.
Several Thousand People IN Attend
ance sunday-A Fine Programme.
The Speakers.
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special 10 the Gazette.
WEATHERFoRD, PARKER COUNTY, Ten,
July 5-The Chautauqua encampment was
q great success to-day. The people of the
city turned out almost in a body. There
were ScyeraI thousand people III attendance
and all We're well entertained and well
pleased. All the Sunday-schOols and
churches by invitation suspended and went
out o the encampment and participated in
the exercises. The following interesting
pro. ramma was carried out iii the aInphi-
thcater at the Sunday-schOOl this morning
First bell tap-Calls the school to order.
Second bell taps and sing, Praise
God, from Whom All Blessings Flow"
Third bell tap-WhiIe still standing, silent
prayer.
Fourth bell tap-Song, two stanzas.
Fifth bell tap-Praver.
Sixth bell tap-Song, especially for the
ittle folks.
Seventh bell tap Responsive reading.
Superintendent WAS glad when they
said unto me, let US 90 into the house of the
Lord" Psalm cxXii.. /.
School-"For day in thy courts is better
than a thousand. ] had rather he 4 door
keeper III the house OF my God than TO
dwell in the tents of wickGdness." Psalm
lXXXiv.. 10.
uperintendent-;Niy soul longeth, yea,
even faintcth, for the courts of the Lord
Psalm lXXXiii., =
School Blessed are they tina, dwell in
thy house" Psalm Elxxiv., l.
Superintendent-''Th entrance of thy
word giveth light" Psalm cxix, 1870.
School-''Thy word is 4 lamp t. my feet,
and a light to my PATH Psalm cxix., 105.
Observation-Disclosures words have ! hid
in my heart that I might not sin against
thee.'' Psalm XII, II.
school-''Open thou mine eyes, that l
may behold wOndrous things out Of thy
law. Psalm cxix., is.
SUPPLEMENTARY not myword like as a
fire. saith the Lord, and like 4 hammer that
breaketh the rock in plecesl' jeremiah
XXIu., -.
School-'For the word of God is quick,
and powerful, sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing even 10 the dividing asuu-
der of soul and spirit, and of the ioiuts and
marrow, ard is a discerner of the thoughts
and intentS OF the heart" Hebrews,
", -.
Superintendent and school-'Thy words
were found, and l did eat them; and thy
word was unto me the joy and rejoicing OF
my heart" jeremiah xv:1G.
'And all the people went their way to
eat and to drink and to send portions, and
to make great mirth, because they had IN
derstood the words that were declared unto
them Nehemiah viii IL.
Eighth bell tap-Song.
Ninth bell tap-Readiug the lesson.
Tenth bell tap-Song.
Eleventh bell tap-Classes begin work.
Twelfth bell tap-Preparations for clos
ing
Glass roll-call, collection, distribution of
papers, etc.
Thirteenth bell tap-Song.
Fourteenth bell tap--Secretary's report.
Fifteenth bell tap-Review of the lesson.
Sixteenth bell tap-Twentythird psalm
in concert.
Seventeenth bell tap-Doxology and bene-
diction.
At IL o'clock Rev Dr. Tinnon of Fort
Worth preached most excellent sermon.
At 3 o'clock DR.. Salon of Sedalia, Mo-, gave
4 splendid lecture, subject Christian en-
deavOr. At 5 o'clock NJ. B. Dewitt, d. d,
of Nashville, preached a very able sermon.
The amphitheater was packed to its utmost
at all of the services.
DR.. Dewitt and others claim that this,
the first Chautauqua encampment of the
Cumberland's in Texas, is attended by far
greater prospects Of a grand success than
any yet started anywhere, and predicts that
the encampment next year VIII be one OF
the best ever held in the South.