The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-28
IN OLD SOUTHERN STYLE
WAS Yesterdays CoLoRED FOLKS
C5MP MEETING IN BROOKLYN.

| Negroes from Dixie I.nnd Present In Force
| Brother johnson of Bay Shore Also on
Hand Weird Music. Characteristic Ejncu.
| iintion-, and Hymns Not without Beauty.
| 1t was great day yesterday for the colored
| folks OF Brooklyn and vicinity. camp meet
| ing. or what passed for one. was In progress.
| both day and evening. at the Atlantic Casino
| on Ralph avenue. The meeting was under the
management OF the Zion Church of this city
and the Fleet Street Church OF Brooklyn. The
colorcd brethren and sisters filled the place to
overnowing. They came in carts and on
| horseback. on mule back and on foot.
Sister Priscilla Drew of Amityvile and
Brother Johnson OF Bay Shore were on hand.
They have been going to camp meetings for
years. and n camp meeting within radius
OF fifty miles OF Long Island would be charac-
terless without them. Sister Priscilla wore the
same sun bonnet, and Brother johnson was
decked in the same Prince Albert and beaver
which hnve graced many Of these gather
ings OF colored people. The young women
from this city and Brooklyn were arrayod in
their summer splcndor. and some were not
nverse to little Irritation. But the old
fathers in Zion were very solemn and serious.
whilo the calculations which they sent up
and the songs which they sang we're all char
acteristic OF the Southern plantations OF ante-
belum days.
The majority OF the meeting was composed
OF old Southern people and they shouted and
sang until they attracted the crowds which
were on Fulton street. The fluency with which
they rendered Push Thoss Clouds Away"
Sister Hannah. Are You Bound for the Gold
| en- Shore I" and Get on Board" stirred the
spiritual natures of the older brethren and
sisters. and Mt one time more than nifty women
were shouting and prociaiming tho blessedncss
Of salvation. Ono brother stood in the middle
OF tho camp and called 9 nners to repentance.
Put no ono came forward to be prayed for, and
the old brother soon became tired and honrse,
=, A large circular which was. posted behind
Walker Hood and other distinguished divines
would take part in the services" But these
DISTINGUISHED pe,5sonaGes DID not make their
preached by tho Rev. J $. Caldwell Of the old
Mother Zion Church Of this city. at West
| Tenth and Beecker streets. The sermon.
however. was good one. and after the taking
OF the co election. and the pronouncing. of the
Jefferson Of fremont the brothers and sisters
hI an q R% INV hsy tni
The meeting was tame until Sister Priscilla
Drew arose apd said. Let US al! pray" As
pray: cali on Him I. ThilS the brethren shout:
ed 70 one another Help her; helr ,her brelh-
ing in the prayer Sister Priscilla soon couldn'.
pray any more. SO she stopped with Amen.
and thank God"
The meeting, then became entirely mu steal
for while, and the voices OF the sisters from
the cotton plantations OF South Carolina were
the tobacco patches OF Virginia. The young
people Of the North. who had never heard the
melodious singing of tho old southern NAM
mics" cranei their necks and held their ears
in NOR order to catch every word OF the songs.
church and Elder Stitz OF the Brooklyn church
are both Southerners. and they led in the
singing. Brother Caldwell became So aui-
mated that he stood up ard buttoned his
Prince Albert and walked al! around the camp.
cMpping his hands and poi nting his finger
heavenward. some one struck up:
tome, all We scattered race
Ills is now the giving hanh.
Won't you come at Ills command.
lie has placed us oma rock
Ana He avn us Tor His foes.
And we're nHrcnIug to oHr home, over there
We will lay our burdens down.
And a. Jesus's side SIT down.
Sister Hannah Brown of Mamnroneck then
lcd in prayer. and many explanations Of
THINK nL y 1,, Jesus, Elsss DC Lord p
dcacons sang;
want to 90 .o heaven wan, to 90 right:
Sister Dinah HiGginbotham Of Williams
bur.h closed the praise services by singing:
Prone to wonder. Lord fce!i'.
Prone tn leave the God ioye.
Here's my heart. Lord. take and senir
seal II for Thy courts above.
Let nor con ,c,ence make YOU linger
nor of Illness fondly dream.
All tho fitness lie requires
Is to feel your need OF Him.
The evening services were largely attended.
and when the meeting WAS dismissed at 10
mounted their carts and wagons. while the
New Workers boarded the trolley ears for the
bridge
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