Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-08-19
COUNTY CAVE MEETINGS.
sunday a Day Of Religious Fervor.

that 2200 teams had halted in and around
the camp during the day. Then there wal
a merry throng of bicycle clubs from Phila'
delphia Camden and Southern Jersey
together with hundreds of unattached
cyclers, who made the encampment the end
of their run. Cottagers on the outer circle
did rushing business with the cycling
fraternity, checking their wheels for ten
cents each, and in the rear of one cottage
the family cared for over 200 wheels, while
the stands in the GROVE quartered over
1900.
Conservative estimates of the number Of
people on the camp grounds, including the
arrivals by trains from the two
nearest points where trains stop on Sunday
Lambs Road and Glassboro place the
figures at $4,000
SPIRITUALITY NOT LACKING.
AS to the meetings they were attended
by thousands and no greater manifestations
of spiritual power has ever visited these
sacred hilltops than pervaded the services
and when the clang Of the bell at late
hour at night announced the time for
retiring there was praise and thanksgiving
on the lips of nearly every worshipper.
The day was intensely hot, but the
religious ardor was not in the least abated
on that account and joyful scenes were the
order of each service. Rev. ]. B. Westcoat
preached mastery sermon in the morn
ing to 5000 people and in the afternoon
Friend Seth Rees delivered sermon which
produced considerable enthusiasm. In the
evening Rev. Eli Clifford discoursed on the
theme, Salvation" and several conversions
followed at the altar service.
The greatest service of the day was the
Love Feast at O'Clock in charge of DIR.
Edmund Hewitt of Camden, at least 400
people testifying. There was fully 1000
people gathered in the circle and many Of
those who could not get under the big
sanctuary crowded the cottage verandahs.
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Friend Seth Rees preached the morning
sermon on the theme, "Holy Ghost Sancti-
fication." His apt sayings and forcible
illustrations electrified the thousands. The
scene at the close of the meeting was a
repetition of the sunrise gathering. Men
and women, young and old, hocked to the
altar and as they rose proclaiming regenera-
ton, the congregation waved handkerchiefs
stood on the benches and cried aloud and
in various other ways displayed their
intensity of feeling.
The meeting was carried on until the
congregation assembled for the afternoon
service. One man knelt at the altar for
over two hours and arose crying, ut has
taken me seventy-seven years to see the
light"
The children were the masters of the
camp for an hour this afternoon. They
met in the Tabernacle and made the Grove
ring with their sweet music. Fully 1000
little folks participated in the service. a
quartette of little girls rendering several
selections.
The Temple in the afternoon was the
centre of attraction to about 800 aged peo-
pie who daily take part in the Holiness
Meeting. Miss Lizzie Smith and Miss
Lydia Kenney led the service.
The Noontide Devotionals, conducted in
the cottages, converted the camp for half
hour into a mighty choir, song and prayer
coming from every section of the Grove.
The Mothers Meeting at o'clock was
an impressive one.
MANS EXALTATION.
Sunday afternoon 1000 people listened to a
forcible discourse from I'd Corinthians, viii
chapter, 9th verse-"For ye know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ that though He
was rich, yet for your sakes He became
poor, that ye through His poverty might
be rich.' His theme WAS "The Condescen-
sion of Christ as the Condition of Mans
Exaltation."
The young people to the number of 1900
held rousing service at o'clock and at
Z. 80 Bev DIR. M. CB Mason, of Cincinnati,
Ohio preached to the largest gathering OF
the day, Dr. Mason is the Corresponding
Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid and
Southern Educational Society of the M. E.
Church. He was elected at the last Gene
raj Conference and is the first colored man
in the history OF the Church to be elected
Secretary of one of the great benevolent
societies of the Methodist Church. Dr..
Mason has undertaken the task of raising
$40 5000 from the colored people and the
friends of Christian education everywhere
to clear the Society of debt. He chose fol
his text Marx xiv chapter and 6-8 verses
Christianity" said he, us q life, power
an active ard growing development, 9
work, an opportunity. It is holy bond, a
holy community, reconstructed and recon
structed by Him, living and breathing
His life, embued and saturated with hi
spirit until with heart aglow and tongues
aire the man goes from the individual Il
the race, the Nation. the whole vide worlf
in order to the coming of the day and thl
appearing of the hour when every knee
shalt bow before Him and every tongu'
confess Him Lord"
AT MALAGA.
The opening service of the day was hell