Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-23
In THE CITY OF CANVAS.
The Annual Methodist Camp Meeting is Now
in Session with a Good Attendance and
Other Favorable Conditions.

otuCi EoSVIdpic Iou0iLiOuSs
The annual district campmeetine
opened on Wednesday last under favor
able conditions and there is the best of
interest so far. The grounds and ac-
commodations generally are all that
might be desired. Spiritually the meet
lngs are interesting and the camp-life
Is restful and invigorating. Saturdays
and SundaJ attendance was quite sat
lsfac5ory to the managers, although
somewhat below that of some past years.
Dr. Bolton, of Chicago, was utilized to
the fullest extent on Sunday. All were
greatly pleased with his masterful
manner of preaching. He is an elo-
quent and logical man, full of the great
work he is engaged in. His sermon
Sunday night was along practical and
patriotic lines and he dwelt on the
country's great events and the men who
were masters of the situation az differ
ent periods.
Several of the strong men of the dis
trlct, among others, Rev. Wright of
Sparta, will conduct services next Sat-
urday and Sunday. The district CON
ference meets this week, which has the
effect of bringing d large number of
clergymen to the meeting.
The bible readings are under the su-
pervision of Rev. Wright, the children's
meetings and general singing are con
Quoted by Rev. Bell and wife.
The array of tents is quite as imposing
and numerous as on any former occasion.
A list of those who have tents or share
one are: J.. w. Groves and family, M.
d. Chase, O. G. Munson, John e. Nuz-
um, d. o. Mahoney, DR.. w. A. Gott,
Blanche Dunlap and Sunday school
class, j. p. Joyce, FL. p. Proctor, L. G..
Boyle, E. W. Hazen, F. NJ. Towner. E.
M. Rogers, Reed Hunt, B. f. Purdy, Mrs.
Everson, G.. w. Nuzum, c. d. Williams,
Mrs. Casson, Mrs. Stumble, Mrs. Field,
I'll. d. Williams, Frank Williams, Joseph
Forsythe, Mr.. Stevens of Sugar Grove,
Rev. A. J. Coram, Rev. McClung, Mrs.
S. Ii. Gorsline, E. III. Briggs, T. Gorsuch,
S. G. Jackson, Mrs. Julia Cook, A. j.
Morrison, Isaac n. Groves, M. G. Davis,
Mrs. Ady, Mrs. David Strawn, Marvin
Henry, Fletcher johnson, John Devlin.
W. d. Dyson. Fl. e. Packard. C. j.
Smith, F. E. Tate, Henry Petit, VIM.
Lake, W. F. Lindemann. E. S. Goodell,
-Hamp. Miller, Whitney Nichols, Fred
Miller, John Ripley, Rob Clarke, F. A.
Briggs, Don Miller.
Sparta camp-Mr. and Mrs. Hutser,
Miss Minnie Horter, Mrs. James Ford,
Eddy Ford, Miss Lillian Ford, Mrs. Cora
Roberts, Jessie V. Waste.
The ministers are: Henry Goodsell,
presiding elder, Sparta; III. w. Bolton.
Chicago;G g. w. Foster, Reedsburg; BENZ.
Mott, Necedah; Kingston p. Ki'bourn,
Valley Junction; Jonn Vincent, Trempe-
leau; L. r. Leake, Wonewoc; Frank
Bell, Soldiers Grove; S.. H. With erbee,
Melrcse; j. P. Armstrong. West Salem;
L. E. Peckham, Springville; c. H. Cham
bers, Newton; T. M. McClung, Ironton;
J. A. Neill, Tunnel City; v. II. Helms,
Bloom City; G. c. Hubert, Bangor; FL.
O. Jacobson, Arkdale; J. d. Brothers,
Galesville; John Ford, Bloomingdale; A.
J. Coram and G. w. Nuzum, Viroqua.
The secretary gives notice that the
annual meeting of the stock holIers and
election of association officers will oc-
cur in the tabernacle, Saturday, Aug.
20, at l o'clock p. IN. Following offices
are to be filled; President, Vice Presi-
dent, Treasurer, Secretary, and three
Directors. Each person holding a share
is entitled to one vote.
Next Friday will be observed as mem
Orial day, when brief addresses will be
delivered at two o'clock o.. m, in mem
DRY of those regular tenters of the past
who have passed away since the last
campmeeting. They are Aunt Betty
Thompson, Joel Outcelt, Chas. A. Rob
erts, Mrs. Fred Eckhardt.
The daily program of exercises is as
follows.
Six o'clock a, M, prayer meeting.
Nine o'clock Bible reading.
Preaching at 1890.
Preaching at 2 p. M, followed by social
meeting.
Childrens' meeting at 4 p. m.
Song service at 7:30 p. m.
Preaching at s o'clock.
CAMP MEETINGS OF EARLY DAYS.
Clifford Howard, in the July Ladies
Home Journal, writes that the first camp
meeting in America was held ON the
banks of the Muddy river, in Kentucky
in August, 1893, and was conducted by
the MCGEE brothers, two eloquent evan
gelists. 1T lasted for little more than
a week, he states, ''and the novelty of it
and the success which attended it were
SO marked that there rose an immediate
demand for a continuance of this form
of worship. Accordingly, the meeting was
speedily followed by a large number of
camp meetings throughout the west. So
great was the interest they excited that
in some instances a single meeting was
attended by two or three thousand per-
sons, resulting in the complete desertion
of the neighboring towns and settle
ments for the time being, The first
camp meeting marked the beginning of
a revival of religion which assumed such
proportions and wrought such wide
spread good that it has passed into his
tory as the Great Revival 1t was the
reaction following the period of doubt
and unbelief, and swept through the
country in a glorious wave of triumph.
The earlier camp meetings were not held
undlr the auspices of any particular de-
nomination. People of all churches and
phases Of belief attended them and took
an interest in their management. Bap-
fist, Presbyterian, Methodist and other
ministers conducted the services. De-
nominational differences were cast aside.
All churches were merged into n in
the tide of revivalism. But after the
first excitement reused by the Great Re-
viyal died away this particular form OF
worship became a Methodist institution.
Other denominations gradually aban-
doned it and left j. 20 the Methodists
who have maintained it to this day, and
continue to find it a source of good and
a no less worthy means of salvation than
on the occasion of its establishment one
hundred years ago.
Special train to Sparta fair on
Friday.
Mitchell Brown, town clerk of
Webster, was a caller Tuesday.
Mrs. McWilliams is visiting at
Valley Junction.
Postmaster Reeve was up from
Readstown, Tuesday.
Miss Jewett, of Sparta, is visiting
in the city with Nettie McMichael.
Let the crowd be a big n that
goes to Sparta ON Viroaua day, next
Friday.
R. r. Lemen and family, of Chase
burg, and Mr.. Arnold and family, OF
De Soto came to attend the funeral OF
c. A. Roberts.
The arrival Of a little daughter al
Ara Fayor's brings the first grand child