New England Camp-Meeting.
By S. N. H.
JUST as we are closing up this paper we have received the following and give it a place here:— The Camp-meeting at New Bedford, Mass., commenced Friday, August 20. The first public service was held at 7:50 P. M. About five hundred of the citizens were present. The attention paid to the subject presented was good. There are about fifty tents on the ground and one hundred and fifty campers. There are two large pavilions pitched side by side, so arranged that one speaker addresses the people in both. The largest tent, in which is the preachers’ stand, has various appropriate mottoes displayed, such as, “The Sabbath-school Is the Nursery of the Church,” “Christ Died for All,” “Behold He Cometh with Clouds,” etc. The grounds and pavilion are lighted by electricity. The social meetings are spiritual. The prospects are that we shall have a profitable meeting. Elders U. Smith, Farnsworth, and Goodrich, are present from abroad. The meetings on Sabbath and first-day were good. Large numbers of the best citizens were out all day Sunday, and each evening the tent was full to overflowing. We are looking for the special outpouring of God’s Spirit before the meeting closes.