Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-25
AT OCEAN GROVE.
Program of Auditorium Events for
the Next Two Months.
CORRESPONDENCE O The Evening Stnr


the Next Two Months.
Correspondence of The Evening Star
OCEAN GROVE, N. J.. June "a, 1898.
This most famous of all the many camp
meeting resorts on the continent will open
its long and continuous series of summer
services tomorrow. For the last few days
the influx of worshipers has been very large,
and today several thousand transient Wis
tors are intown to attend the opening of
the Auditorium Sunday morning The
camp grounds and several of the buildings
devoted to the worship of God have been
renovated and beautified since the Audi
torium bell tolled out the knell Of the camp
OF 81. The venerable Rev. Elwood H.
Stokes, D. D., L. l.. D., who, ever since the
founding of the resort in 1867, had been the
president and guiding spirit of the camp
meeting association, had passed away be-
fore last seasons meetings were over. His
place was temporarily taken by Bishop ].
F. Fitzgerald of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. who last fall was permanently
elected to the presidency. The bishop is a
much younger and stronger man than was
Dr. Stokes, and so the resort is looking
forward to an era of even greater activity
than it has ever enjoyed. The mammoth
Auditorium, which seats ten thousand peo-
pie. is perfectly adapted to the work of
the camp, and in week or two ii will
again be thronged with the multitudes who
come from all parts of the country and
even from abroad to get spiritual strength
at Ocean Grove.
Another important change in the manage
ment OF the camp services is the withdra "
al of Prof. John r. Sweeny, who for TWEEN
ty-hve years has conducted the music
there. His successor is Prof. Tallie Nor
gan of New York
An outline of the summers program OF
meetings follows:
Sunday. June 26-Auditorium opening,
with sermon by Bishop Hartzell of the
Gently returned from his diocese in Africa.
Saturday, July National concert in the
evening by the Auditorium choir and noted
soloists.
Sunday. July 3-Sermon by the Rev. A.
j. Palmer.
Monday July 4Patriotic exercises in the
Auditorium. Judge Charles E. Hendricks
son of Mount Holly, N. j., will preside.
Oraticn by Judge F. Frank Fort of New
ark, N. ].
Tuesday. July 6-Annual meeting of the
Sabbath Observance Society.
Friday, July 10-Annual meeting of the
Woman's Homo Missionary Society
July IL to %, inclusive-Ocean Grove
Sunday School and Chautauqua Assembly.
sermons lectures and variety of exer-
cises: Bishop John n. Vincent and others
Saturday. July 23-The Kings Daughters
conference, presided over by Mrs. Margaret
Bottome of New York, president of the or
der.
Sunday. July 24-ocean Grove Floral
day."
Monday and Tuesday, July 25 and 26-An-
nuai meeting of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. Mrs Emma Bourne of
Newark will preside
Wednesday, July 27-African Methodist
Episcopal Church jubilee and reunion.
July Is to 31-The National Temperance
Society camp meeting. Col. George w.
Balm of Kentucky will deliver several lee
lures.
Monday. August 1-Ocean Grove memoir
al day.
August . to r, inclusive-The Ocean
Grove Summer School of Theology The
Rev. DR.. ]. Embury Price. dean. will lecture
on Theology" History" "Chronolosy. u
Archaeology" and "Oratory"
Saturday and Sunday, August 10 and IL
Annual meeting of the Womans Foreign
Missionary Society.
Monday. August Unwilling Workers -
day.
Tuesday. August 16-African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church conference. with
jubilee concert in the evening.
Wednesday and Thursday, August II and
1S-Woman's encouragement Society meet.
ings.
Friday. August 10-Camp meeting, pray.
er meeting and sacrament of the holy com.
munich.
Saturday. August 20-Inaugural service
Of the camp meeting. Sermons by the Rev
Joseph l.. Roe presiding elder of the New
Brunswick district, and the Rev. J.. q
Reed of Ocean Grove.
Sunday, August 21-First Sunday of the
camp meeting. Sermon by Bishop c. c
McCabe.
Sunday. August 2s-Second Sunday of thu
camp meeting. Sermon by Bishop Goodsel
| of the Methodist Episcopal Church
| On Tuesday, August so, the camp meetina
will close with the usual services, aftei
which the evening will be devoted to Mrs
William B. Osborne's Missionary Trainins
| School.