Year: 1872




Come here and pray, and pray to yourselves, and
don't expect that there is to be much singing; Tor


couple Of minutes later the penitents are On
the benches Immediately beneath the PLATFORM
and the pastors assemble at the front OF the stage
their knees and wrestle with the Lord for the saliva
tion of these souls pierced with a sense OF sin.
Five minutes pass by In silence only broken by
the sobs of the penitents and the subdued ex-
CARNATIONS OF the saints. Then one OF the pen-
tents, overcome with emotion and no longer able
to keep silence bursts forth into q passionate cry
'Help, Lord, or i!.perishln


Drother now VINO wishes to, pray, but make 1t
short"


The invitation is accepted, and one by one the
pentents give voice to the need they feel Of pardon


"And now" says Brother Inskip, .qet us sing
Just one verse OF hymn," and Immediately leads


The h blood 2d the s,I blood, the precious blood.
just no now " By Sy'i faith see see ''
"Let us now be done with agonizing," continues
Brother Inskp, 81 want you now to realize that
Jesus loves you and died to save you."
Upon this the enthusiasm takes on milder form,
and subsidies into the ecstasy OF conscious sal
walton. One by one the returning sinners avow
that they have found peace and Joy and r. rest the
hymns Hymn are sung with growing frequency and
sson to that il as been % I for them
to he here" The exercises, however, conclude
az s ss pen2





OF it, or they will not be equal to the duties OF the
morrow"


On Sunday night the "go to bed at ten o'clock "
rule was, however, sadly infringed. After the ex-
gether in dining hall No. 2, and started meeting
on their own account. white brother soon ar
rived and "bossed the exercises, crowd OF spec
tatOrs thrOnged into the hall, and the tmprovsed
congregation plunged at once into the exercises OF
Southern darky camp meeting: Negroes and
negresses told their experience with African vague
and African
rature speedily reached fever heat and unmeaning
negro hymns were struck up to blow the flame to
white heat


Wen cross the River Jordan;


Honor the Lambi honor the lamb


ApG MonoT s"se the hetns honor oae he IaD
! is a specimen OF these incoherent melodies The
audience would doubtless have contentediy pro
longed the singing all night had not the white


But we have met here for business. Just let us
look for moment at this serious thought, Am
tit to die Am living as would like to die p"
"LAID OUT" BY EMOTION.


stalwart negro. on the outer fringe Of the crowd,
who had been looking on with fixed eyes that gilt
tered with dangerous light, began to gurrge mar
failing fell backwards In a ht, foaming at the
mouth and with hands and limbs rgidly hxed.
stricken man; but the white master Of the cere-
| monies impatiently cried out 'Ihere's only one
man hurt; two or three are enough to attend to
| him; come back and let us 60 on with the eXer-
| cses |" and struck up another hymn


This, however, was In fact the end OF the meet
ing Before the hymn had fairly got under way the
superintendent Of the grounds appeared on the
scene and represented that he had no option about
allowing them to hold meeting after the forbidden
| gregaton must at once disperse There was q fee
Bile protest to the effect that the Lord was working
powerfully and 30 forth, but the order was Obeyed
and the people slowly dispersed.


Breaking Camp-Departure OF the Sanc-
titled Ones.


SEA CLIFF GROVE, July 13, 1872
| After nine days Of shouting and praying, and
singing and eating, and drinking and sleeping the
| sancttfied hosts of the Lord and Of the Methodist
Church struck their tents to-day and left for parts
known and unknown. AS pecuniary enterprise
the camp was failure. Thousands who had
booked themselves to attend this meeting from
Baltimore Philadelphia and regions east west,
north and south received evil reports of the land
and at the last moment backed out Of their
rangements. Several persons who had come here
to stay till the close obliged to go away after
two or three days. because OF sickness superinduced
by an intemperate use Of the spring water with
which the encampment ls supplied. The well from
which, by means OF a steam force pump, the reser-
voir and the grounds are supplied Is, 1t appears an
old one but of almost inexhaustible supply. 1t has
not been used for many years, nor has it had
an outflow to keep it as pure and good as it
should be. The water works, too, are all
new and the water necessarily tastes Of the iron.
THE SEA CLIFF ASSOCIATION


are doing all that they can to make the encamp-
ment the finest In the country, and with very
good prospect Of succeeding. They now propose,
either In the fall or next spring, to plant out full
| grown shade trees along the several walks and
avenues OF the village ground 1t ia said also that
the railroad company have promised to build q
! spur from their main track to the camp ground, q
distance OF one mile and half in direction, or
four miles in another.


| Yesterday and the day before and to-day the
workmen have been taking down and packing
away the unused tents. Next month, when the
Home camp meeting is held, doubtless the mem
bers present ON the ground will be greater than
during the meeting just closed. The association
have been liberal enough to allow the present pos
SCISSORS of tents to retain and occupy them free of
| charge from this time until August 20, when the
other meeting will open. They have also cut down
the price OF board to 81 per day,and OF lodging lin
separate rooms) to 1fty cents nght-just enough,
as they say, to cover expenses. They have lost 1t
| Is said about 800 day the boat which they
hired to run between the city and the camp ground.
| Rev. Mr.. Boole wao as President of the Sea Cliff
Association has been ''serving tabes during this
| encampment and has taken very little part in the
| religious exercises, did on Thursday night make a
full confession OF his errors, and declared before all
the people his purpose to resign his position and all
|
PRISE fIe at the same time asserted that member
of the association had made single dollar by their
connection with it, nor was 1t their purpose so far
| a. he knew, to do so. The enterprise was origi.
| mated solely to secure


SOCIAL AND CHRISTIAN ENJOYMENT
TO the churches of the metropolis. But, notwith-
| standing this disclaimer from so high source,
| there are many things which indicate the scheme
to be a magnificent land speculation. Mr.. Booe
in his confession also freely admitted that the great
need OF the Christian Church to-day Is spirituality
Condensed 1t has more religion than ever, but 1t is
too much difrused and the power is wanting.
He particularly cited the Methodist Church. whose
numbers wealth and influence exceed those OF any
other denomination in this country, but yet whose
churches not half lled nor ts preachers or peo
pie half useful as they should be- IL was, therefore,
might nor by power, but by the spirit OF the Lord


that the salvation of the world IL TO be accomplish


ed. While Christian people are wasting their time