West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1892-09-08

own souls welfare.
At $50 p. m. Rev. NJ. W. Rider
preached from st. John V. 6, "Wnt
thou be made whole" He made
an earnest appeal to both saint and
SINNER to come to tho great Physi-
cim and be healed of their many
diseases, to the church to Lc fully
sanctltied, and to the sinners 90
seek God IN the pardon OF their
many sins.
Sunday morning very heavy fog
hangs over the grounds for short
time, but at 8 o'clock the sun is
shining brightly. At $50, expert
encc meeting was held by Rev.
Rider. This was very good meet
ing and several gave very earnest
and encouraging talks and expert
enccs of profit. At 1880 Rev. n.
Is. johnson preached from Phillip
ians j, 2l. HIS sermon was one Of
great power and practical camp.
meeting sermon. At , p. m. Bro.
Will West had his band of trained
children, who did their work i'm an
interesting way. and did their sing.
ing grandly, assisted by Miss Mag
| eic Foster. At 3 o'clock Brother
Rider preached an earnest and
profitable sermon f,om Revelations.
At 7:30 Rev. Dean preached from
Romans xii. /.
Monday morning dawncd beauti-
full and bright, and everything
looked glorious. All is quiet, with
but few persons on the ground.
The fact is so many people seem to
not to understand what camp-mect-
ings really mean. Indeed, very
many come mostly as people do
who go to see II show, and even our
brothers aud sisters Of the NJ. f..
church, who come and 90 and never
think of doing anything for their
own souls or the souls Of ANYBODY
else, and then go home and con
denim camp meetings and say they
arc At failure, and that the time for
these meetings are past, while, if
they would come with earnest de-
voted hearts for their own souls
welfare and that Of their neighbors'
and friends, every meeting would
be grand and glorious success for
Christ, our blessed Master.
Tuesday, at $50 a. m, Brother
Dean had charge Of the morning
prayer and consecration meetings.
At 1870 o'clock Rev. n. Is. John
son preached from Thesolonians v,
10, "Qucnch not the spirit" This
was n wonderful sermon, and one
that Will not soon be forgotten by
those who listened attentivclv to its
lessons and illustrations. At 2 p.
M. Bro. Will West gave another
entertainment with the dear chill
drcn in recitations and singing,
with Miss Maggie Foster, Of Graf
ton, at the organ. The music was
grand. Miss Foster is music
teacher Of ability. At 3 p. m. Rev.
a. B. Rohrbaugh preached from
Exodus xxi, %. " Who is on the
Lords side :" His sermon was an
earnest one. We forgot to say that
Bro. johnson wound up his sermon
with an experience meeting OF a
new character, asking all who were
striving to live so as not TO qucnch
the Spirit, to rise and then speak
word and sit down one by one.
In this way there were about fifty
experiences ia five minutes. A
glorious victory for all. At 1880
Rev. S. A. Cofman, a young local
preacher. took rs text the word
Remember" from which he gave
an Earnest talk. At 1890 q. m.
Rev. d. l.. Ash, presiding elder,
preached from Joshua iii, 5. IL was
IN earnest appeal to the church.
After the sermon, the Sacrament Of
the Lords supper was admins
tered to eighty-six persons, among
which were eight ministers and
three local ministers, one minis
ter, = native Of Japan, Rev. Joseph
y Takasugi. At ? p. M. a chill.
dron's meeting was held and quite
number Of interesting and lovely
children were present. God bless
all the dear children. a 3 o'clock
Rev. J. W. Hess, Of Grafton,
preached another full salvation ser