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The services were well attended. Often the number of ministers present exceeded a hundred and of the laity five thousand.
On Wednesday morning, July 22d, this first Fraternal camp-meet- ing at Round Lake terminated with a love feast.
The good-will which this meeting established between the two great bodies of the Methodist Church North and South led to the D.D., Cincinnati, Ohio; C. C. McCabe, D.D., Chicago, Ill .; J. B. Foote, Syra- cuse, N. Y .; J. T. Walker, D. D., - ; William McDonald, -; J. L. Gil- der, New York City; Sela W. Brown, Galesburgh, Ill .; Lewis R. Dunn, Paterson, N. J .; J. Gardner, D.D., Hamilton, Canada; John B. McFerrin, D.D., Nashville, Tenn .; John J. Murray, D.D., Pittsburgh, Pa .; D. D. Lore, D.D., Syracuse, N. Y .; Bishop H. H. Kavanaugh, D.D., Louisville, Ky .; John Potts, D.D., Toronto, Canada; George Douglass, D.D., Montreal, Canada; L. W. Bates, D.D., Balti- more, Md .; John Poisal, D.D., Baltimore, Md .; A. J. Kynett, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa .; L. D. White, Potsdam, N. Y .; E. O. Haven, D.D., LL.D., Syracuse, N. Y .; Charles F. Deems, D.D., New York City; Bishop Jesse T. Peck, D.D., San Fran- cisco, Cal .; William Hunter, D.D., Pittsburgh, Pa .; Bishop R. S. Foster, D.D., LL.D., Cincinnati, Ohio; Leroy M. Lee, D.D., Richmond, Va .; Bishop D. S. Doggett, D.D., Richmond, Va .; Cyrus D. Foss, D.D., New York City; Bishop Gilbert Haven, D.D., Atlanta, Ga .; B. I. Ives, Auburn, N. Y .; Alexander Clark, D.D., Pittsburgh, Pa .; Bishop S. T. Jones, Washington, D. C.
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appointment of a commission by their respective conferences to harmonize their interests. The commissioners met at Cape May, N. J., and amicably determined the adjustment of the long-existing differences. Bishop Pierce in a letter to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, wrote with marked emphasis that the Fraternal meeting at Round Lake was the chief factor in settling them.
At the close of the first Fraternal camp-meeting in July, 1874. the Presiding Elders of the Troy Conference and the Trustees of the Round Lake Camp-Meeting Association were requested by the bishops and many of the ministers and laymen attending the ser- vices to appoint a similar meeting to be held in July, 1875. The desire of the signers of the request was at once complied with and a general invitation extended to "the great family of Methodists " in North America to a second fraternal gathering on the grounds at the designated time.
One of the incidents of the summer was the launching of a small steamboat, to which the name "Ordelia," the name of the wife of the president of the association, Mrs. Joseph Hillman, was given. The vessel was forty-five feet long and carried forty passengers. A yacht and about fifteen row-boats were also owned by the association. A new boat-house was erected on the north side of the landing at the foot of Covel Avenue.
The area of the grounds was greatly enlarged by the purchase of sixty-five acres of land on the west side of the railroad, and subse- quently of fifteen acres on the north side of the property, east of the railroad, the entire area of the grounds being about two hundred acres. Avenues and building lots were laid out on a part of the later purchased property, and a new map of the grounds was printed in the Round Lake Journal issued in June, 1875.
The presence of nine bishops and the frequent attendance of thousands of people made the second Fraternal camp-meeting nearly equal to the first one in distinction. The first of the series of excel- lent sermons was preached on Thursday evening, July Ist, 1875, by the Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., of Fort Edward. The meeting was conducted by the Rev. Bishop E. S. Janes, D.D., of New York City. During its continuance about thirty-five discourses were delivered by ministers representing different branches of the Meth- odist Church in the United States and Canada.
1 The following ministers preached: Revs. Joseph E. King, Fort Edward; S. V. Leech, Baltimore, Md .; L. N. Beaudry, Green Island; Hiram Dunn, Schroon
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Assured by eminent geologists that mineral water similar to that of the springs at Saratoga could be obtained by boring through the strata of the Hudson River shale, the Round Lake Camp-Meeting Association employed Conde & Denton to drill a well near the south- west corner of Burlington and George avenues. On Saturday noon, July 10th, a number of people assembled there to witness the beginning of the undertaking. The following poetical composition was written and read by the Rev. Joseph E. King, D.D., of Fort Edward, entitled:
SMITING THE ROCK.
'Tis a fair scene to-day that greets our sight, Thanks be to God, who gives the precious light. That glorious grove beneath whose grateful shade The fair white tents of Israel are made,
Where hungry multitudes are daily fed With manna from the bending heavens shed,
Whose grand, green arches ring with sacred song, Till all the conscious leaves the strains prolong. Von peaceful lake, that mirrors back the sky, Like Christian hearts, when Jesus passeth by,- Where on the earth can lovelier spot be found ? With grateful joy we call it holy ground. Be sure of this, the skeptic jeers despite, The smiling earth is not a hypocrite. If on the surface Nature is so fair, Beneath that surface must be treasures rare. Stir with a vigorous hoe her generous soil,
And laughing harvests will reward your toil. Deep in her entrails he doth find that bores For light and fuel, more than kingly stores. At Saratoga, by many a gushing spout, In floods she pours her healing waters out. We, too, for healing waters are in quest,
And come to Mother Nature's bounteous breast To pierce, mayhap, some deep, all-healing rill, And in this hope and faith, we start " the drill,"
Be this to us instead of Moses' rod, And when the waters flow the praise shall be to God.
Lake; C. F. Burdick, Presiding Elder of Albany District; Bishop W. L. Harris, D.D., Chicago, Ill .; - Register, Baltimore, Md .; Bishop E. G. Andrews, D.D., Des Moines, Ia .; A. S. Hunt, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y .; W. H. Hunter, D.D.,
; - Spear, D.D., , Ky .; Bishop Miles, Bishop J. P. Campbell, African M. E. Church, Philadelphia, Pa .; J. F. Clymer, Glens' Falls; Bishop Halsey (African), , Ga .; P. A. Moelling, D.D., Troy, N. Y .; J. T. Murray, D.D., Newark, N. J .; - Wiley, D.D.,
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After some happy remarks respecting the enterprise of the asso- ciation had been made by the Rev. John P. Newman, D.D., of Wash- ington, D. C., the drilling machinery was set in operation.
Amanda Smith, of Philadelphia, was on the grounds during the meeting, and heartily engaged in the religious exercises in the prayer-meeting tents. Mrs. Sarah Lankford, of Brooklyn, was also a zealous co-worker.
About two thousand persons, bishops, ministers and laymen, marched in procession, singing farewell hymns at the close of the meeting on Wednesday morning, July 14th.
ENC.COM.
COTTAGE OF REV. WILLIAM GRIFFIN, D.D.
The display of flags at the preachers' stand and on most of the cottages at the opening of the third Fraternal camp-meeting on Fri-
; T. H. Pearne, D.D., Cincinnati, Ohio; Bishop R. S. Foster, D.D., Cin- cinnati, Ohio; John P. Newman, D.D., Washington, D. C .; J. O. Clarke, D.D., Savannah, Ga .; Cyrus D. Foss, D.D., New York City; Bishop H. H. Kavanaugh, D.D., Louisville, Ky .; A. R. Sanford, D.D., Prattsville, N. Y .; Bishop I. W. Wiley, D.D., Boston, Mass .. J. B. McFerrin, D.D., Nashville, Tenn .; J. Hunt, , Canada; John Shaw, D.D., , Canada; Bishop S. T. Jones, African M. E. Church, Philadelphia; Bishop Thomas Bowman, D.D., St. Louis, Mo .; E. J. Drinkhouse, D.D., Baltimore; F. Bottome, D.D., New York City; A. J. Kynett, D.D., Philadelphia.
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day morning, June 23d, 1876, signalized the centennial year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The services of this meeting were under the direction of the Rev. Bishop E. S. Janes. The Rev. D. T. Elliott, of Charlton, N. Y., delivered the first of the twenty-eight discourses heard by the large congregations present at the services. Bishops Janes, Peck, Simpson, Foster, and Wayman, and other eminent ministers of the church from different parts of the country, officiated in them.1 Many of the persons attending the meeting enjoyed the daily excursions around the lake in the " Ordelia " and the barge " Centennial," towed by her. The services closed on Monday, July 4th, with an experience meeting.
In the summer, a canvas canopy to shelter the congregated people in rainy weather was purchased by the association and extended over framework above the seats in the auditorium-space. A bell of six hundred pounds weight was placed in the tower on the preachers' stand.
The sixth Conference camp-meeting began on Tuesday evening, September 5th, 1876, with a service of praise and prayer, and remarks by some of the ministers present. On Wednesday morning, the Rev. Homer Eaton, Presiding Elder of the Albany District, who had charge of the meeting, preached the initial sermon. The daily after- noon services were assigned to Mrs. Maggie Van Cott, of New York City, the distinguished evangelist, whose earnest and impressive preaching attracted to the grounds not infrequently from four to five thousand people. On Sunday, September 10th, four hundred and eighty-seven teams entered the gates, which had been closed on Sundays for several years. Besides the discourses of Mrs. Van Cott,
1 Sermons were preached by Revs. D. T. Elliott, Charlton, N. Y .; E. C. Curtiss, D.D .. Syracuse, N. Y .; J. H. Coleman, Galway, N. Y .; H. D. Kimball, Troy, N. V .; William Bedell, Troy, N. Y .; G. C. Morehouse, Poultney, Vt .; Bishop E. S. Janes, D.D., New York City; J. B. McFerrin, D. D., Nashville, Tenn .; G. C. Ban- croft, Troy, N. Y .; S. V. Leech, D. D., Baltimore, Md .; S. Coleman, Williamsport, Pa .; Bishop Jesse T. Peck, D. D., San Francisco, Cal .; A. K. Sanford, D.D., Pratts- ville, N. Y .; D. B. Mckenzie, Hampton; Bishop A. W. Wayman, D.D., African Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Md .; T. A. Griffin, Presiding Elder of the Plattsburgh District; John Duncan, a blind clergyman, Ga .; Bishop M. Simpson, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa .; John Poisal, D.D., Baltimore, Md .; A. Schriver, Coeyman's Hollow, N. Y .; Bishop R. S. Foster, D D., Cincinnati, Ohio; Ware,
Va .; Duncan, D.D., President of Randolph Macon College, Wynona, Va .; J. M. Thoburn, D.D , Bengal Presidency, India; Clarke Savannah, Ga .; L. H. King, Newburgh, N. Y .; - Wiley, D.D., Madison, N. J.
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fifteen sermons were delivered by ministers of the Troy Conference and by several Methodist clergymen from distant places.1
On Monday morning, September IIth, at ten o'clock, a spring of mineral water was penetrated by the drill at a depth of more than thirteen hundred feet from the surface of the ground. Late in the afternoon several gallons of turbid water were drawn from the well in the presence of a crowd of interested spectators, when the water was found to be similar in taste to that of the Congress Spring at Saratoga Springs. Mrs. Van Cott began singing the long meter doxology, in which she was joined by the persons standing near her. Congratulatory remarks were made by the Rev. L. H. King, D.D., of Newburgh, N. Y .; the Rev. Homer Eaton, Albany; Joseph Hillman, President of the Round Lake Camp-Meeting Association, and by John D. Rogers, the superintendent of the grounds.2 Subsequently, when the well was drilled to the depth of fourteen hundred and three feet and was tubed, the water was submitted to Prof. Charles F. Chandler, of Columbia College, whose analysis indicated that its composition differed little from the water of the Congress Spring at Saratoga Springs.
On Thursday evening, September 16th, this thirteenth camp- meeting held at Round Lake ended with a sacramental service. Farewells were taken, with hand-shaking, and the singing of
" Amen, amen, my soul replies, I'm bound to meet you in the skies, And claim my mansion there ; Now here's my heart and here's my hand To meet you in that heavenly land, Where we shall part no more."
They were the Revs. Homer Eaton, Albany; W. J. Heath, Burlington, Vt .; S. Meredith, Troy; L. N. Beaudry, Montreal, Canada ; Rev. W. Butler, D.I)., Mexico; A. F. Bailey, Schuylerville, N. Y. ; P. Krohn, Albany; D. W. Foster, -; B. I. Ives, Auburn, N. Y .; John P. Newman, D.D., Washington, D. C .: M. D. Jump, Williamstown, Mass .; D. T. Elliott, Charlton, N. Y .; L. H. King. D.D., Newburgh; W. H. Meeker, Cohoes; Erastus Wentworth, D.D., Sandy Hill; Samuel Mclaughlin, Albany.
2 The sample of mineral water submitted to me for examination contains, in one U. S. gallon of 231 cubic inches:
Chloride of Sodium. Potassium 9.4363
394.2943 grains.
Bromide of Sodium. 1.4716
Iodide of Sodium. 1.3152 Fluoride of Sodium trace.
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The extension of Burlington Avenue to the new gateway on the north side of the grounds, the erection of a number of cottages,1 and the connection of the two public dining halls by the removal of the intermediate walls were some of the noticeable improvements made prior to the Union Evangelistic camp-meeting held at Round Lake in July, 1877.
The services of the Union Evangelistic camp-meeting were con- ducted by the Rev. S. H. Platt, a distinguished Methodist minister from Brooklyn, N. Y. On Tuesday morning, July Ioth, a love feast inaugurated the exercises of the day. In the afternoon the Rev. Daniel Steel, D.D., of Lynn, Mass., preached the first sermon. The fifteen and more discourses delivered by the Revs. T. DeWitt Tal- mage, John P. Newman, D.D., O. H. Tiffany, D.D., A. B. Earle, E. P. Hammond, and other eminent divines and noted evangelists of different Christian denominations contributed to make the meeting one of special interest and importance.ยบ The number of persons present at the services on Sunday morning and afternoon, July 15th,
Bicarbonate of Lithia.
2.7494 grains.
Soda.
48.9871
66
Magnesia
9.7846
Lime
13.4457
Strontia.
I.2038
Baryta
0.5520
66
Iron ..
0.6344
0.076S
66
Phosphate of Soda
0.0228
Biborate of Soda.
trace.
Alumina
0.03.16
Silica
I.2247
Organic Matter.
trace.
Density.
I.0059.
C. F. CHANDLER,
Chemist and Assayer.
NEW YORK, August 2d, 1878.
1 The new cottages were those of A. J. Waterman, Schenectady; Jesse Wilson, Hampton; Mrs. S. French, Troy; E. A. Peck, Troy; Philander Curtis, Schuyler- ville; Miss Harriet Russell, ; R. H. Robinson, Ballston Spa; Rev. John P. Newman, D.D., Washington, D. C .; Van Valkenburgh, Ballston Spa; H. Alexander, Albany.
2 Discourses were delivered by the Revs. Daniel Steel. D.D., Lynn, Mass .; Hiram Eddy, D. D., Jersey City; Edgar M. Levy, D.D., Philadelphia; G. L. Taylor, D. D., New Rochelle; S. H. Platt, Brooklyn; John P. Newman, D.D., Washington, D.
66
Manganese
Sulphate of Potassa.
I.0275
66
486.260S
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were not less than ten thousand. From six to eight hundred vehicles entered the gates. The temperance meetings on Monday and Tues- day were largely attended. Addresses were made by the Rev. Bishop Gilbert Haven, D.D, of Atlanta, Ga .; Rev. S. Mckean, of Fort Edward; Rev. S. H. Platt, of Brooklyn; - Johnson, of Brooklyn; Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, of Philadelphia; Miss M. E. Winslow and Miss Lottie Coffin, of Brooklyn. The services of the meeting ended on Thursday evening, July 18th.
HON. GEORGE WEST'S COTTAGE.
FROM THE FIRST SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSEMBLY TO THE GOSPEL TEMPERANCE MEETING, 1877-1878.
The first Sunday-School Assembly held on the grounds began its interesting sessions on Friday afternoon, July 22d, 1877, with from
C .; J. M. King, D.D., New York City; G. Hughes, Philadelphia; E. P. Hammond, C. C. McCabe, New York; A. B.
Earle, ; A. C. Rose, Stillwater; B. M. Adams, Brooklyn; C. H. Fowler, D.D., New York City; John B. Thompson, D. D., Catskill, N. Y .;
Phelps, Vineland, N. J .; O. H. Tiffany, D.D., New York City.
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three to four hundred persons in attendance. Its varied exercises were under the direction of the Rev. Alfred Taylor, D.D., of New York City. Addresses, Bible readings, sermons, lessons, microscopic and magic lantern exhibitions, concerts and praise meetings were so felicitously embraced in the week's programme that a more enjoy- able course of instruction it would seem could not have been pro- jected.1 A quintet from New York City, two men and three women of African descent, sang very attractively many Sunday-School hymns and songs during the sessions of the assembly. A concert, in which about a thousand persons and Holding's Cornet Band of Ballston Spa took part, terminated the exercises on Friday afternoon, July 27th.
The first services of the seventh Troy Conference camp-meeting at Round Lake were held on Tuesday evening, September 4th, 1877. The Rev. L. Marshall, Presiding Elder of the Troy District, who had charge of it, preached that evening. The Women's Foreign Mis- sionary Society of Round Lake, of which Mrs. Joseph Hillman was president, held its annual meeting on Thursday afternoon, and was addressed by the Rev. R. Hoskins and Miss Pultz, returned mis- sionaries from India. On Sunday, September 9th, about three thou- sand people were on the grounds. The discourses delivered during this eight days' meetings were mostly preached by ministers of the Troy Conference.2 The services terminated on Tuesday September II.
1 Addresses were made by Revs. Alfred Taylor, D.D., New York City; Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D., Brooklyn; J. M. Freeman, D.D., New York City; Bishop Gilbert Haven, D.D., Atlanta, Ga .; Anderson, England; H. C. Farrar, Troy, ; O. A. Van Lennip, New York City; Rufus Wendell, Albany; B. B. Loomis, Albany; J. F. Clymer, Glens' Falls; B. F. Leipsner, Red Bank, N. J .; W. C. Steele, Brooklyn; J. McC. Holmes, D.D., Albany; O. A. Bartholomew, Troy; Mairs, Rufus W. Clark, D.D., Albany; Messrs. James H. Kellogg, Troy; Schenectady; A. J. Hutton, West Troy; Prof. Starr, ; Miss Lucy J. Rider, Poultney, Vt. Sermons were preached by the Revs. Alfred Taylor, D. D., J. M. Freeman, D.D., H. C. Farrar, L. J. Matteson, D.D., Troy. The micro- scopic lessons and exhibitions were by Prof. Starr.
2 Revs. L. Marshall, Presiding Elder of the Troy District; D. W. Dayton, Pre- siding Elder of the Saratoga District; S. M. Williams, Cambridge; D. B. Mckenzie, Hampton; George Skene, Hoosick Falls; L. S. Walker, Greenbush; S. McKean, Presiding Elder of the Cambridge District; H. D. Kimball, Canajoharie; A. F. Bailey, Schuylerville; S. Mclaughlin, Amsterdam; Erastus Wentworth, D.D., Fort Edward: William Osborn, - -; Homer Eaton, Presiding Elder of the Albany District; William Taylor, California; S. W. Brown, -; W. H. Washburn, Mechanicville; J. F. Clymer, Glens' Falls; Philip Krohn, Albany; John Anderson, evangelist.
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Few of the improvements made at Round Lake attracted so much public attention and comment as those begun early in the spring of 1878. Cognizant of the fame and popular features of the fine grounds at Chautauqua, the Round Lake Camp-Meeting Association contracted with the Rev. W. W. Wythe, M.D., the designer of the highly-extolled topographical representation of the land of Palestine there, to construct one on the west side of the lake at the mouth of the brook flowing through the north part of the grounds. The miniature plot, completed in July, was about five hundred feet in length, on a scale of two and a half feet to a mile. A model of the City of Jerusalem, made by the Rev. W. W. Wythe, was exhibited near it during the summer.
A large and well-appointed hotel, three stories high, with a base- ment and an attic, planned by J. L. Silsbee, architect, of Syracuse, N. Y., and built by J. W. Osborn, of Albany, was erected on the east side of Simpson avenue, between George and Saratoga avenues. The entire cost of the building was $22,661.24. A tunnel arched with brick, connecting the main with the eastern part of the grounds, was constructed under the highway opposite the boat landing.
The first meeting at Round Lake in the summer of 1878 was that of the Sunday-School Assembly, under the direction of the Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., of New York City. He and his able co-helpers, whose methods of Sunday-School superintendence and teaching, black-board exercises, Bible-readings, lectures, and sermons delighted and instructed great numbers of children and adults, made this meeting one of special excellence and commendation.1 The vocal and instrumental music was under the direction of Prof. S. A. Ellis, of Boston. The Prof. O. A. Van Lennip's museum of Oriental curiosities and relics, Frank Beard's chalk lessons, Professor Starr's
1 The following persons assisted the Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D .: Rev. Rufus Clark, D.D., Albany; Prof. W. C. Wilkinson, Rochester Theological Seminary; Rev. J. A. Worden, secretary of the Sunday School department of the Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; Rev. L. T. Townsend, Boston; Frank Beard, New York City; Anson Green, D.D., Toronto, Canada; J. M. King. D.D., ; Prof. C. B. Stout, New Brunswick, N. J .; Rev. George Skene, Hoosick Falls; Rev. William Irvin, D.D., Troy; Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., Brooklyn; D. R. Niver, Albany; James H. Kelogg, Troy; J F. Clymer, Albany; B. B. Loomis, Plattsburgh; Mrs. John P. Newman, New York City; Clark Wilson and wife, - -; Rev. J. A. Worden, Rev. W. H. Boole, D.D., New York City; Rev. . Edward Eggleston, D.D., Brooklyn; Rev. P. A. Chadbourne, D.D., President of Williams College, Williamstown; Rev. John P. Newman, D.D., New York City; Prof. E. Warren Clark, -; Rev. B. K. Pierce, D.D., Boston; John E. Searles, jr., New Haven, Conn .; Rev. C. H. Fowler, D.D., LL.D., -; George H. Thompson, Troy.
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microscopic exhibitions, the singing of the Rev. Clark Wilson and his wife were also enjoyed and appreciated. The daily issue of the Little People's Paper, edited by the Rev. George Skene, was also popular.
A correspondent of a well-known religious journal made the fol- lowing observations respecting the varied exercises : " On looking over the programme, the wonder is how all this could be covered in eight days. The wonder is no less to those who were there. But it was done, and that with a breadth and thoroughness that was scarcely less than marvelous-not only the two hours a day in the normal classes, but three lectures a day at the platform, and three conferences a day in the section tents, with two lectures a day at the Palestine park and model of the City of Jerusalem. * * *
"A Palestine park, showing the cities, rivers and sacred mountains of the Holy Land, presented the largest and finest representation of Palestine ever made, while a model of Jerusalem did the same for that city. A personal examination of these, with the lectures given, fixed them more clearly in the mind than could anything else, except a visit to the land itself. Indeed, a lady of eminence, who had traveled over Palestine, said that she had never received so clear a general impression of it as she did by these representations."1 Fifty- five of the sixty-two persons examined on the subjects of the course of instruction of the second Round Lake Sunday-School Assembly received diplomas on Thursday, July 25th. On the afternoon of that day, the Round Lake Sunday-School Alumni Association was organ- ized. George B. Thompson, of Troy, N. Y., was elected pres- ident, and the Rev. George Skene, secretary. On Friday morn- ing, a short, farewell service closed the varied exercises of the assembly.
The second Union Evangelistic meeting, conducted by the Revs. E. P. Hammond, A. B. Earle and C. C. McCabe, was begun on Tuesday evening, July 30th. The noted evangelists were assisted by a number of distinguished divines of the different churches. On Friday afternoon, August 2d, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society held its annual meeting. Miss Fannie Sparks, of the India Mission, and the Rev. John P. Newman, of New York City, addressed the society. The pathetic singing of Charles Hale, a blind boy, and the heart-cheering and soul-stirring hymns of the Rev. Clark Wilson and wife were enjoyable features of the seven days' services.
1 Cor. Presbyterian at Work.
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FROM THE GOSPEL TEMPERANCE MEETING TO THE SIXTH SUNDAY- SCHOOL ASSEMBLY, 1878-1882.
The Gospel Temperance Meeting held at Round Lake from August 6th to August 17th, 1878, drew there the largest number of people interested in the cause of temperance ever known to have assembled in one place. On four different days, upwards of ten thousand, it was estimated, were on the grounds. And on no day were there less than four thousand. Francis Murphy, the renowned reformer and apostle of temperance, who had the direction of the meeting, evoked no little of the enthusiasm which made it so remark- able in its results. He and his zealous co-workers by their persua- sive and practical speeches and personal experiences incited more than four thousand persons to take pledges of total abstinence from drinking spirituous liquors, and to wear the blue ribbon badge attesting their determination to keep their promises.1 Prof. S. A. Ellis, of Boston, conducted the singing of a choir of fifty voices. The meeting closed on Sunday evening, August 17th.
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