93 examples of camp-meeting in sentences

You can't go to camp-meeting with that on your conscience.

For pungent proof, hear this: A young lady, a daughter of the venerable and hospitable General G-, of Upper Guilford, Conn., was once catechizing a black camp-meeting, and when the exercises were over, a colored brother approached her and said: "Look-a-yar now, 's MARY, jist gib dis nigger one obdem catekidgeble books.

Regular negro melodies these songs were, nearly all of them of the camp-meeting varietyand sung with that choral beauty which especially distinguishes all of their musical performances.

I was forcibly reminded of the conversation above quoted by some observations I once had opportunity of making at a Methodist camp-meeting.

"Why, you charming creature!" exclaimed Winnie, "I can't help comparing you to a fairy, preparing for a camp-meeting!"

For a moment the elder gazed up into the sky, half impressed with the idea that the camp-meeting platform had given way.

One youngster made a political speech from the top of the table; another impersonated Hamlet; and finally Elder Brown was lifted into a chair, and sang a camp-meeting song.

"There must be great excitement at the camp-meeting on this last night.

They were now drawing near the camp-meeting, but they could not see it, nor even the light from it.

I understand that you intend to chastise me for what I said at the camp-meeting.

The sound of sermons echoed from chapels as we progressed, the voices raised in the same tone one heard in a Methodist camp-meeting in Kansas, and the singing, when in French, having much the same effect, a whining, droning fashion; without spirituality or art.

The absence of many whites from the neighborhood by reason of their attendance at a camp-meeting across the nearby North Carolina line reduced the number of victims, and on the other hand made the rally of the citizens less expeditious and formidable when the alarm had been spread.

"Six years ago, on the low country of South Carolina, a friend asked me to go with him to a camp-meeting.

Her father had been converted at a camp-meeting and was a devout Methodist.

Brookfield Camp-Meeting.

It was the pioneer camp-meeting in the region, and, though the attendance was not large, it included nearly all the population of the vicinity.

" Returning to Brothertown, I now determined to hold a camp-meeting, under "our own vine and fig tree," in July.

He was on his way to the Conference to be held at Waukesha, and went with us to the Camp-Meeting at Brookfield.

Camp-Meeting at Greenbush.

The year closed pleasantly, and on my way to the Conference, to be held at Baraboo, Aug. 31st, I attended a Camp-Meeting at Lodi.

Brookfield Camp-Meeting.

The Brookfield Camp-Meeting was held in the latter part of June.

No wonder that prayer and song find such grand perfection in the Camp-Meeting.

Soon after this, the Selectmen, one of whom was a member of my church, applied to Mr. Fish respecting holding the Camp-meeting on the parsonage.

I consent, (I say,) on the following conditions, viz: That you undertake that no damage come upon the parsonage property, either wood land, or Meeting-house; that no attempt be made to occupy the Meeting-house; that there be no attempt on the Sabbath, or any other day, to interrupt the customary worship at the Meeting-house, and, that peace, order, and quietude be maintained during the time of the Camp-meeting.

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