The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-30
EXODUS FROM PLAINVILLE
SEVERAL COTTAGES CLOSED-CAMP
 MEETING ATTEND1NTS LEAVE.

Love Feast at Which 800 Were Present. Most Successful Meeting-To- o-morrOw's Services.
 Plainville Camp Grounds, Aug. 29.- The exodus from the grounds began yesterday morning after the love feast, and several of the cottages are closed The most of those who have been on the grounds during the week, however, will remain through assembly week. The excellent weather yesterday brought scores of visitors to partici- pate in the love feast.
 Promptly at S:30 o'clock yesterday morning fully 300 people gathered at the usual meeting place to hold the thirty-second annual love feast, Methodist institution that has been an- Xiously anticipated by all on the grounds. Presiding Elder Crandall J. North conducted the service. After prayer had been offered and the sing ing of a hymn, testimonies were asked for and within the next hour nearly one-third of the people present had spoken briefly. There was much enthu- siasm. The testimonies finished, the company formed in double file, led by the presiding elder and his wife, and started the march around the inner cir cle, singing meanwhile, Were March ing to Zion," led by the chorus choiI which did not leave the platform until all others were in line. When the head of this interesting procession reached the north side of the platform, the pre- siding elder and his wife, followed by the clergymen, faced about and shook hands. Soon there was a line com pletely encircling the assembly place and everybody was shaking hands with somebody else. This was the conclu- sion of the camp meeting.
 Presiding Elder North says that the meeting has been the most successful in point of spiritual awakening and good sermons In the history of the grounds.
 Immediately following the love feast the meetings of the Swedish Camp Meeting association began with an opening address by the president, Rev. S. l.. Carlander of Bridgeport In These remarks, which were in Swed- ish, he said that the beginning of Swedish Methodism in the United States was fifty-one years ago, when Rev. o. T. Hagstrom, then preaching to an English congregation in Brook 1yn, established the Swedish Bethel ship beside a New York dock for Swedish and Norwegian sailors. The work was successful and other mis- sions were started, but the ministers of those days came largely from the con- verts at the Bethel ship. Rev. MT. Hagstrom went west in a few years, taking with him most of the ministers ito labor in a field which was largely populated by Swedes. Recently there has been a desire to return to the east and begin the work which was left and neglected, hence the mission churches That are starting up all over New Eng land and New York state.
 Rev. F. o. B. Wallin of Hartford preached yesterday morning in the Midd1etown house, and at 23O o'clock yesterday afternoon Rev. Otto Ander- son of Springfield delivered the ser mon. Last evening President Carlan- der preached.
 To-day there were fully 300 Swedish Methodists on the grounds, represent ing 500 members of five churches. A sunrise meeting was held at 6 o'clock. The Connecticut Temperance union, MT. Thomas L. Norton, president, will hold it's annual gathering in this de- lightful grove next Friday, September B. and earnestly invites all friends of sobriety to share in the feast.
 The program is as follows:
 9 a. m,-BibIe Hour-Rev. J. H. Knott, Copper Hill
 10 a. m-Scripture and Prayer.
 1O:2O a. Address Temperance Missionary Work Rev. J. B. Dunn, D. D., general secretary National Temper nnce society.
 11:10 a. m.-Address-"S Sunday School Temperance Work" Cullen B. Foote president Connecticut Sunday School association.
 1:9o D. m.-Chiidren's Hour-Short talks to boys and girls.
 D. m.-Twenty Minute Song and Praise Service.
 2:2o D. m-Address-"The New Pa 4riotism," Rev. Levi Gilbert D. D., New Haven.
 D. m.-Address- -"Our Enemy's Strategic Point" G. c. Bidwell Hart ford
 6:30 D. m.-Young Peoples Hour Subject "Young People for Christ Rev. Henry B1atz, jr., Westville.
 7.3O p. m.-Half Hour of Song and Praise.
 8 D. m.-Address-"The Campaign , Rev. F, E. Marble Ph. D., Wallng- ford.
 EXCURSION OF ODD FELLOWS.
 On September the New Haven ant Pawson Park stamer Margaret will gc to New London with Polar Star ant Morning Star lodges of Odd Fellows O New Haven and take them up the rivel for a visit to Fairview, the state home for Odd Fellows.
 DIED AT THE HOSPITAL.
 Willis Peterson, a Swedish sailor wht shipped from Boston, died at the hos pital yesterday morning of 8 severe at tack of malaria.