>INCIDENTS AND CHARACTERS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF METHODISM > >By > >The Reverend John Elmore DuBois > >Edited by Elizabeth A. DuBois >© 1998 DuBois Publishing Co, Simsbury, Connecticut. All rights >reserved. > >TEN >Camp Meetings [cont.] > > Preachers were of different timber too; that is, externally. Their >jeans or copperas suits formed no striking contrast with these >surroundings. But when they entered the rude pulpit they were full of >the Spirit, and preached with convincing power. Some of the finest >exhibitions of moral manhood, and some of the finest specimens of pulpit >oratory and eloquence, have been witnessed at camp meetings in Alabama. >While these meetings have been attended with much good, and have ever >been an important factor in the growth and development of Methodism, >they had to suffer trial and persecution at the hands of the sons of >Belial; but have been pushed on over the head of every opposition and >are still the means of much good. > >Preach Frolic; Out-praying the Priest > > While living in Perry, I attended one of these meetings in Marengo >county. It was a glorious occasion. Mr. Lambuth, the father of our >Chinese missionary, was there and did some good preaching. He >introduced one of his sermons by saying, "There are persons in this >congregation that have been circulating false reports, and I intend >right here and now to expose them." After continuing in this way for a >while until he had riveted the attention of all, he announced his text, >"Ye have said it is a vain thing to serve God." It is useless to say he >had an attentive congregation, and much good was done by his sermon. > > At this meeting were some working women. They were all the time in the >front ranks of the battle--praying, talking and singing. There was an >Irish Catholic in attendance, who afterward told some of his people that >he had a woman there that could "out pray the priest." > >[Tomorrow: Necessary Fried Chicken; Protracted Meetings that End Too >Soon] > > >==== ALABAMA Mailing List ==== >--snip--- >NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political >announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, >etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal >and exclusion from this mailing list. Spam crashes our servers and we have >to take a stand. >---snip--- >