Evening journal., 1892-08-08
BIC BIC SUNDAY"
Eleven Thousand People
on the Grounds.
AT BRANDYWINB SUMMIT.
Great Day of Sermons, Song and
Prayer i'm the Pretty Grove.

AfAs MNtANtN AAfA'tfH i' tAA' iNNhhAhh NN'"
gregation and Rev. Prettyman Expounds
the Gospel To an Audience Of -Four
Thousand Hundreds OF People Wander
About the Camp Grounds and visit the
Points of Interest In That Neighbor-
hood Mr.. shorts Long Arm Does Good
work.
stan Correspondence Evening Journal
BR,NDYwINE SUMMIT, Aug. Sit
would be hard 10 find q more desirable
day, evening and night for Big Sunday"
at Brandywine camp, in the hills of lower
Pennsylvania than was yesterday The
day was clear. bright and not too warm
and i'm the evening the roads and fields
were beautifully lighted up by full
moon. Eleven hundred people Of VIII
mington and surrounding country were
ON the grounds of the camp. which in
clude all that section within a mile Of
the tabernacle. The /, 100 people include
| the tentors, workmen and visitors.
Some Of these people, especially the
older ones, gathered i'm the sacred grove
to Worship and hear the gospel as IL is
oxpounded from the stand in the taber-
nacle. Many more. however came
either TO greet some old friends or for an
interesting place and way 10 spend Sun
day There were many more promena-
ders than worshippers, more hippant
young people than shouters
Politicians, especially those on the Re
publican side, were here doing some work
and a score Of Republican candidates were
bobbing about, speaking good word for
himself here and there. Mr. Stidham
had tho thing all to himself on the re-
ceiver portion of the ticket to be voted
for next Saturday Peirce Could the
nominee for sheriff, shook hands with
many men with the cordiality of
Methodist deacon or collector Police
Commissioner Jester smiled blandly from
histent ON Lebanon avenue. Francis s.
Bradley walked about aimlessly as though
be wanted TO say something but was
afraid
At every service, Superintendent jew
ell, of the camp meeting association, sent
out among the circle audience and the
avenue promenaders the following men
J. c. Carrow, John White, A. NJ Perce,
Lewcs Maxwell, James Foulk, George w.
Booker Frank A. Mitchell H. H. Nc
Daniel. w G. Greer Thomas Wilson and
others These men carried with them
hats and plates and they appealed to each
person on the grounds for a contribution
I of dollars or small change During the
noon hour Colonel Enoch Moore coll
E lccted SiS from several Wilmington car
riages and similar collections were made
later in the day.
! over Seven Hundred Carriages.
b The usual great number Of teams were
} seen at camp to-day, and they were Of
! every variety The rush Of conveyances
p commenced about o'clock and contin-
, ued until . o'clock The farmer and his
family came in his large market wagon,
while the young man and his best girl
p came IN the buggy. The hacks also did
e a good business. All kinds Of horses as
well as wagons were represented. The
greatest rush of carriages was shortly
$ before the morning sermon. From that
time mp TO noon there was one continual
line of vehicles passing into camp.
e There were several narrow escapes
} from collision and runaways Many
{ people found amusement in watching the
b, teams pass to and fro. and the more inn
D polite youths made sport for themselves
by criticising the various sulkys. bug
gies, phaetons, dearb0rns and market
. wagons which passed them but the peo-
pie took it good naturedly.
a There were about 500 teams that PASS
ed through the gates into the grove and
there were equally IL not more scattered
about the surrounding fields, aud good
estimate of the number of conveyances
a In and about the grove is 15O.
( Many of these were from Delaware and
"a Chester counties, Pa. About g. 30 o'clock
the teams commenced TO leave in rapid
I succession, and from that on until
u o'clock there was one unbroken line of
% vehicles, returning home.
IS Some old Bretheren Meet.
y The $50 o'clock prayer meeting, led
u by George Booker, was well attended.
Nearly all of the cottagers turned out
and before the meeting was over a large
d, number of people from the surrounding
y country added TO the number Of worship.
y pers. Those who did not care TO go to the
- g. 80 meeting were at the s. 80 love feast
meeting which was led by Rev. Mark f.
Bowman. The meeting was more beneh.
cial than the former one as there were
testimonies heard that had not been sine,
the las { year of camp. Many old friends
= who had not seen each other for yeai
met again and after bidding them God
speed hoped to meet each other in that
land where they would part 40 more.
s. Dr. Murray's sermon.
T. When DIR. w. l.. S. Murray, of Dover
+, arose to deliver the morning sermon, he
faced a crowd which filed the circle, ex
tended far out into the grove and cholge6
q up all the streets within sound of hi.
u voice. The crowd numbered 1000
He took for his text l Timothy, 81
chapter, portion Of the 10th verse: ''rh'
Mystery of Godiiness' and discoursed il
an impassioned way for thirty minutes
&. Many of the aged campers who have beer
"a present at all or nearly all of the twenty
en- six "big" Sundays, declared at the con
h clusiOn of the service that they had never
as listened TO a more excellent sermon. DR.
Id Murray said in part:
TO 1T mas been customary since mosi
II ancient times for all religions to be in
fuenced by their mysteries. A come
falling from heaven was regarded as
message from another world and people
m would carry away the fragment of rock
a. set it upon a shrine and worship IL. 4
he man desiring messages from the god
M was enshrouded in bullocks hide ant