Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-12
pIrMAN CAMP MEETING.
Program Complete for Religious Services at
Pitman Grove Same Workers as Last
Year.

Program Complete for Religious Services at
Year.
The New Jersey Conference Camp Meet
ing Association, which owns and controls
the mecca of Methodism at Pitman Grove,
has about completed the arrangements for
the thirty second annual camp meeting in
these woods and the indications are for an
unusually big season. The camp will
open on July 20, the first two days to be
devoted to the camp missions. The third
day will be Epworth League day, the rally
to be under the auspices of the Camden
District League.
The regular order of camp services will
open on Friday, August /, the initial SER
mon to be preached by Rev. George L. Dob
bins, Presiding Elder of the Camden Dis
trict of the New Jersey Conference.
The evangelistic leaders will include the
corps of workers who were in charge of the
services last year.
Rev. Joseph H. Smith, the widely known
evangelist, will conduct service each day
in the big auditorium during the last ten
days of the camp.
Rev. DIR. E. l. D. Pepper, whose Bible
readings have delighted Pitman cottagers
in years past, will be in charge of the $50
service each morning in the auditorium.
Evangelist E. L. Hyde, the popular
leader of the Young Peoples rallies, will
again conduct the evening tabernacle meet
ings, and also take charge of the altar
meetings.
The temple services each afternoon and
evening will be under the direction of
Evangelist Lizzie Smith, who has been the
directing head of these meetings for years.
The children will, as usual, be under the
instruction of Mrs Carrie Thompson, of
Camden, and the meeting will be held each
afternoon in the Tabernacle.
Many of the prominent clergy of the
New Jersey, Philadelphia and Newark
Conferences have been engaged to partici-
pate in the auditorium services.
The order of services for the camp will
be as follows Sunrise service, a. M;
Bible reading, $50 a. M; song service, 10
a. m. preaching service, 1870 a. m; noon
tide prayer and altar meeting, II M; chill
dren's rally in Tabernacle and holiness
meeting in the Temple, 1.3O p. M. song
service, 2 p. M. preaching service, 2.30 P.
m; young peoples meeting and vesper
service, 6 p. M; song service, p. M;
preaching service, 7.3O.
COTTAGES FILLING UP.
Many of the Camden and Philadelphia
cottagers are domiciled in their pretty sum
mer homes, and it is expected that only
few of the several hundred cottages will be
without tenants by the time camp opens.
Considerable improvement has been
made and is now going on in the renovation
Of cottages, and number of lots have been
rented, on which new cottages will be
erected before next season.
The old Fourth Avenue House, which for
years was the camp meeting home of many
visitors, has been torn down, and the
ground will be used for cottage lots. The
association has improved the outer avenues,
and contemplate laying about l2OO feet
more of water main.
The usual ordinances will be operative
this year, with some additions. The
directors have recinded the license ordinance
passed last year, and substituted another,
which fixes license fee for privileges or
business carried on within the limits of the
grounds of the association. A new sched-
ule of prices for boarding house licenses
has also been made, and penalty OF $40 is
fixed for violation of the ordinance. A
new ordinance is one which prohibits the
sale or delivery of newspapers, magazines
or other literature within the grounds of
the association on Sunday, under penalty
of $40 for each offense.
The officers and directors Of the associa-
ton are: President, Rev. Aaron E. Ballard,
D. D., Ocean Grove; vice president, James
d. Hoffman, Clarksboro; secretary and
manager, Rev. Henry G. Williams; treas
urer, Rev. John S. Heisler, D. D., Cam
den; Rev Henry M. Brown, Cranbury;
Rev. Edmund Hewitt, D. D., Camden, and
John w. Kelly, Pitman Grove.