New-York tribune., 1901-08-30
THE WORK AT OCEAN GROVE
MANY CONVERSIONS REPORTED AND
GREAT EARNESTNESS SHOWN AT
THE MEETINGS.

Ocean Grove. n. j.. Aug. % CSpeciaD.-The camp
meeting services In Ocean Grove to-day were un-
Usually impressive. and many conversions were re-
ported by the leaders of the ten distinct meetings
All the devotions were characterized by renewed
vigor and spiritual earnestness, governed some
what by the fact that Rev DIR. William Franklin,
the aged leader of the Helping Hand meeting, lay
deaths door all through the day. The be-
loved preacher Frustrated yesterday by heart
disease while leaving the chapel. as was told IN
Thursdays Tribune
A great many Christians received spiritual com
fort from the services in the James Tabernacle
this morning a well known clergyman, who has
had recent family bereavements. and who has been
spending the last week the camp meeting, wept
aloud the altar and prayed earnestly for COM
fort. There was scarcely person in the building
who did not weep with him. The Rev. Dr. Joseph
Fl. Smith. who has made the holiness meetings so
popular. kneIt beside the sufferer and comforted
him, while the congregation sang several soothing
hymns.
In the absence of the Rev DR.. Franklin, the
services in the Helping Hand meeting to-day were
conducted by Miss Lizzie Sharp who has been act
ing as assistant the aged minister. The chapel
crowded with worshippers, principally work
and leaders
The Rev. DIR. L. Richardson of the New-York
East Methodist Conference. preached the mornin5
sermon in the Auditorium o a large congregation.
He his from the first verse of the Ninety
first Psalm HE that dweleth in the secret place
OF the Most High shall abide under the shadow
of the Almighty
The preacher told of mis- conversion forty-thrse
years ago and his personal experiences before
he became Christian. He said:
have kept my A. b. c.. of religion. I don't
know how it is with you, brothers, but I never
ger away from In Ine IneIcT & co1vsr1sd and
married one Of the sweetest girls in Connecticut
Speaking of the secret place referred to in the
text. he said:
You may enter in. Now is the accepted time. e.
Nox.r iS tha 1aty nP G9lV V9Tin
the secret place when enter in2 First the mercy
5orb @ SevS5 s6d s6 not only Found IN oceaa Grove
everywhere, and we can carry It along with us Us:
broom hearts. Let Ocean Grove take re-
newed power.
The Rev Charles H. Yatman delivered ''bottls
sermon" TO children O'Clock in the Temple.
He had five bottles. with which he Illustrated his
remarks each in turn at different stages IA
the sermon. representing i've different ypes OF
NIr Yafmsn G called .sMr. Aiways second MIR
Most Always" third Mr.. seldom fourth
Always was bright and sparkling Mr. Most Al
ways little muddy and so or on down down Tbt Thg hns & 20
children enjoyed the sermon immensely
b5ssp 5iSepe ee5n sf IN dfi@ tRe Temps at p NJ when
he delivered another interesting sermon on The
In response to frequent mportunings from visitors
Tro % f Snce; or and @rchestra the camp meet
ing officials have rescnded their recent ORDER Ia
services and beginning to-day, the large choir
will sing and the orchestrG OF forty Innsei2s VII
service. Professor TAN Essen morgan
directs the singers and players, and at to-niGhts
preaching service ne gave al enjoyable scns ser
vice.
The Auditorium this evening was crowded Ions,
| hearing Jack Cooke. the boy preacher from
across the sea, who as usual, preached powerful
1 sermon on salvation from text submitted nI z
minister on the platforms. His brother. . Hayden
| Cooke "she Recitirg Evangelist. assisted N the
service and at the altar service which lasted Ions
| after 10 o'clock. OF penitents asked IoI
/ PRAYERS. and a number came forward 10 thS altai
! and. after season of prayer, professed eonVer-
] sion. =, -
1 OF the '.s3de' meetings He puts in the day read
/ ing his Bible and studying works on cheolOgy
Cfran he sDends tha entire afternoon searching TIT
1 Scriptures and BishcO FitzGerald, the prestden
! OF the cam meeting association, says ne neVe
! knew a minister who quoted the Bibie SO duentS
! as the young Englshman does.