The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-06
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 The first service after our arrival was decorous, but the afternoon preaching was lively and characteristic perfor- nance, Hell was described in terms Of horrible realism. rescued a few pas sages, which I give verbatim: "The sinner will find himself wrapped in flames and in agony turn on a red hot bottom, and move, and turn, and l writhe, and twist, but there he will be 1 bound. No chance to escape! no place to get out in the fires that melt him, yet let him live and suffer forever, be- yond any misery you ever conceived Iof."
 "A man taking care of a sick brother 1 fell asleep, and dreamed that his broth CT died and his soul went into pile of wood in a corner of the room. The dew il came to get his soul, and went to the dead body, looked in the face, opened the mouth, and thrust his finger down the throat but the soul was not there. Then he looked all around the room, and in the pile of wood he saw the soul, and he pourced upon it, and flew away with it, and as they disappeared the soul shrieked, Lost! lost! lost! !" l s"In the days of slavery a man direct | ed a slave who was a blacksmith to make a chain. He told him how large I to make the links, and it was to be large and strong, and long enough to reach a certain point. Charley worked at it for many days, and heated the I iron and bent it, and when he thought it was long enough he showed it to his master. And his, master said: No, Charley, you must make it about so much longer And when it was fin- ished the master called three or four of 1 his strongest slaves, and made them hold Charley and put the chain oHhim, and he had to wear it and do his work. Charley forged the chain that bound him and didn't know it. Sinner, you are forging the chain that will bind you and you don't know it. Q flee, flee from the edge of hellv'
 At the close of this remarkable dis course the preacher asked eleven differ l ent persons to Head in prayer right now" and added: Everybody who wants to pray, lead in prayer right now" Then began a babel of voices in l prayer, shouts of "Amen!" &c., and presently shriek after shriek from a sis- | ter who had "got happy" Two women and a large number of men followed | her example, the audience massed in the center of the arbor, men threw their arms around one another's necks and | sobbed and cried with the abandonment | of childhood. Scores of men waved ltheir arms wildly above their heads, I laughed aloud, sprang into the air, l wept and screamed.
 | All this time preachers circulated among the frenzied throng, stood upon | the seats, and with inpassioned ap- peals and frantic. gestures famed the flames. Other preachers stood at the altar and led the singing, in which large numbers joined all over the ar bor Two or three "mourners' were kneeling and weeping in the embrace of friends, some of whom prayed audi I bly, while others sang a hymn different from that led atthe altar. :. At the evening service the scene was repeated, but in somewhat subdued col bring A woman fell and lay as though dead for an hour or longer Preachers and others went up and craned their necks over the shoulders of women sup porting her, and laughed with every ap- pearance of levity, but we are told that this is "the holy laugh" We went to our tent at a respectable hour, but the congregation did not dlsperse until af- ter midnight.
 Then the boys-orphans, we charita- l bly supposed them to be-began their fun. Where Is My Wandering Boy ?' ''Nobody's Darling" and other songs were effectively rendered, stones came down on the roof of the arbor with de- l donations reminiscent of the Fourth of July at home, babies cried, dogs parked, mules Srayed, and thus the night wore away.
 Sunday morning at eight o'clock, af- ter the baptism of infants and "open- ing the door of the church, there was an experience meeting. Toward the close an exhorter, upon whom the con ference recently set the seal of appro- val by renewing his license, spoke after this wise: T ain't getting along as fast as the rest. They are going forty miles an hour, and ain't going more'n eight I'm partly divided. I give attention to God some, and l give attention to the world some. The Bible says the way is so plain the fool need not err therein. That lets in several of the boys" | Prayer followed and a brother said: 70 Lord, bless Godl" Sometimes the petition is, 70 God, bless Jesus Christ!' | At a Sunday school picnic where reli- gious addresses were made, after seve- ral persons had spoken the presiding elder asked if any one else had any thing to say. Then arose in the rear of the arbor our exhorter, and said he would like to say few words. After making his way to the front and enter ing the pulpit, he remarked: T have lost a steer. It is a, large white steer with several black spots on it. and if anybody finds it, and will drap me a card, I will give him dollar" The en suing week a dozen boys, without wait ing to find the animal, hastened to "drap'' him a card.
 When our exhorter first "got religion he was no less interesting in experiences meeting. T want a bad boy" he said upon one occasion. "I used to cuss some and drink whisl1sy, but I never was a bad boy. One day the Lord passed by my tabernacle and blessed me, and I want to have you all pray for me, that may go to dustin and siftin' around for the Lord.''
 Before we left the camp notice was given from the pulpit that 'tthe funeral | of old Uncle Jim Adams will be