The herald., 1895-12-08

are used with profit in carrying the COS
| pei to those who need il OF are longing
| for It. But the so-called camp meeting
Of the present day is very different in
stitution. 1t is usually located on q rail
road, so as to be convenient of access for
the beer-drinkers and card-players and
worldly minded people who wish to
| spend the Lords day in carousing and
reveling.'
The Methodist Herald MINI. }, expresses
the same views, as follows:
1.-The watering place or suburban camE
meeting is no longer success for the
! purpose for which camp meetings were
! originally held, viz, tt produce reli-
glous awakening OF revival. The his
tory OF the most popular camp meetings
all over the country proves this, going
back as far as 1875, when the old camp
meeting at Chautauqua,N NY, was turned
into a summer school. The Uhautauqua
the camp meeting without doubt. This
change cannot be fairly attributed to
| spiritual decadence in the church. We
might do we'll to ask whether God is not
leading us as church to cultivate the
intellectual along with the spiritual to,
tional, more than we have. A few old,
historic camp grounds are giving up
p0rtion OF the season to special revival
services, but the practical results are
lneager, so far as can be learned
Now this is just the simple truth OF
the matter. In the old days, when the
groves were the only temples, worship
meant sincerity and gave peace and Dig
nifty to the Sabbath. The Pilgrims set
the example.
Amidst the storm they sang,
And the stars heard, and the sea,
And the sounding aisles of the dim
woods rang
10 the anthem OF the free"
And what was true of the Pilgrim
Fathers was true of generations after
them. But in these late days all great
out-of.doors meetings for alleged re-
liglous purposes have so much of worldly
sensationalism, or business. or both, that
1T can hardly be claimed they have any
Just place in Sabbath worship. Hence
the protests against them.
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A NEW ARISTOCRACY.
There is much food for thought in
what the st. James Gazette has to say of
an entirely new American aristocray.
1t is that class Of travellers and sojourners
who have struck new fashion in foreign
travel. This extract is from very breezy
sketch of American society. and contains
much truth. Does not the closing para
graph almost make US vince:
at is curious fact that the aristocraoy
OF America, the memb ers of New York's
-Four Hundred and the blue stockings
OF Boston and Philadelphia have come to
look upon the regular summer crossing
as thing to be avoided, and have post
poned their European travel for the late
autumn, winter or early spring. The
truth is that it is now such common
thing for people to run over IN the sum-
mer months that the thing has assumd
the aspect of what Londoners might call
a run to Boulogne by ssa-a sort of trip
per's holiday; and SO the Four Hundred
remain behind at Narragansett Pier
Newport and Bar Harbor, until the
clergyme who have been sent over py
their congregations, the school teachers,
the country lawyers and the denizens of
the backwoods have finished roaming
across the face of the eastern hemisphere;
after which they come over dt their
leisure. There is no aristocracy in the
world that makes itself so exclusive
against its own country people and holds
itshead SO high as that of the United
States. Why should it not? Is it not
mixed up beyond undoing with nearly
all the great and ancient families Of
every European slater"
Has it come to this ?That we. the latest
flower and fruit of Democracy have de-
veloped class that are more exclu sive
against plain folks than the old world
nobility are? Do the fashionables hold