Evening journal., 1906-07-26
CAMDEN CAMP
OPENS WITH JOY
Pastor Barrett Talks Of
the Lost Sheep Parable
to Large Congregation
SUCCESS ALREADY ASSURED
speeIal 70 ne EvenInE IournaI.

Special to The Evening Journal.
DOVER, July 25.-"How much then is a
man better than a sheepY'.
Upon this subject the opening sermon
which resurrected Camden camp from the
dead was preached last night by Rev. T. |
S. Barrett. pastor Of zoar NJ. e. Church.
Sussex county. Mr.. Barrett is recent
transfer into the Wilmington Conference
and is a man Of mature experience and
commanding and dignined delivery.
Mr.. Barrett was preaching from the
twelfth chapter of Matthew, where a man
with a withered hand was brought TO the
Master and some bantering and taunting
bystanders challenged his right TO heal
or administer unto the sufferer because
It was the Sabbath day, to which the
Master made reply by asking II there was
any one of them who would not save his
sheep from the ditch If Il was In danger
and suffering on the Sabbath day. Then
followed the question of the text:
"How much then is a man better tnan
a sheep"
Camp Meetings Gods Work.
The preacher declared that even II a
campmeetlng had to be run IN full blast
on the Sabbath day. il was infinitely bet
ter to engage in the work necessary 20
save men from the ditch and TO reach
their spiritual natures while they could be
reached He maintains. he said, two camp
meetings on his circuit, Zoar Camp and
Tyndarrs Camp. and one Of the FIRST
things asked Of him when he was assigned
/ to the circuit was: Are you a camp
meeting many
Il was q little doubtful OF It myself at
FIRST" declared the preacher, but when
we had thirty-three conversions l ack-
nowledged the blessings of campmeetines.
The thirty-three converts were not such
conversions as may be depended upon "a
come and 90 like chaff driven by tn,
wind. but We're of such that became the
bone and slnew of q righteous community
and church triumphant"
Tyndalls camp. of which Pastor Bar
rett spoke. has greatly increased IN siz'
this year as a result OF the conversions
From a camp OF twenty-sx tents il ha.
grown to forty-one. zoar Camp will have
]
The Good Of Camden Camp.
To-days program at old Camden besar
with a platform meeting conducted by
Dr. T.. W. Cooper of Camden to prove &c
each other and the world that Camden
Camp has been a might power for coed IN
it's nearly a century OF existence. The
theme for discussion at the platform and
experience meeting was;
What good 1 have received from Cam.
den Camp"
There are men tenting on the camp.
ground this year WHO were here as boys in
1868 when the United States Government
had a summer encampment of troops fr n
Ohio and Pennsylvania encamped all
about thep lace In great numbers. 1t wal
war time, but the campmoeting went oI
as usual and there was absent none of ia
religious fervor. At that time Camdei
Church was associated with Asbury
Church, Wilmington, and Asbury and o.,
st. Georges, Philadelphia In the enterpris'
and many of the tenters came part cf tn
way In wagons from nearby boat landngs
The canvas tents in which the camdel
campers are dwelling are leased from
various IulidutllilA AcNt-uahria Ali'
more demands fer tents were receive d yes
? terday than could be supplied.
where is my tent that I paid you forg
asked rather disappointed woman O
Pastor Jester yesterday afternoon. an
the minister in charge looked surpr.s {
Somebody had taken her tent withou
, stopping 10 ascertain whether or not ther
. were enough tents TO fiji the doman,
Pastor Jester asked the inQuiring woma
to wait, and, jumping into a carriage. b
L came TO the city and purchased a ter
d outright from an outing party. taking
n TO the camp ground at once. BY nightfa
the tent was in place on Dover avenue.
Eighty Years a Carpenter.
one Of the carpenters at work on n
d boarding and bread tents was Isaac n,
s Knatt, Of Dover. who is nearly so yeli
il old and probably the oldest journeyma
o carpenter in the United States. Il stare
when I was 10 years old" said Mr. NJ,
Knatt land have therefore been at cal
e pentering nearly eighty years.