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… meeting. Prices and styles of what might be purchased in the city did not fit the plans of the camp meeting committee, so good material was secured, and by …

… a camp meeting whereby believers, leaving their farms and occupations, could come together to worship together for a few days, living in tents. The Methodists …

… general camp meeting annually” was passed, and the General Conference Committee was authorized to execute the plan ( Ibid., May 26, 1868 ). Such meetings would …

… camp meeting near Milton opened with tents pitched in “Brother Nichols’” grove. “No pains were spared,” reported Haskell, “to make the grounds pleasant and attractive …

… ,” and a choice site was found on which to pitch the tents. In advance of the meeting, a special “camp meeting edition” of the Bible Echo was published and widely …

… made tentatively for speaking engagements en route home. In some cases camp meeting dates had been shifted to make it possible for the people to hear her …

… to camp on the grounds for the full meeting. She was nearing her eightieth birthday and had been attending camp meetings for forty years. She reported that …

During the camp meeting thirteen people were baptized, the Texas Conference was formed, and aggressive plans were laid for tent evangelism. It was decided to purchase two evangelistic tents, one sixty feet in diameter and the other fifty feet.

Now her mind was on the camp meeting to be held at St. Helena, June 20-30. A good site was chosen, the large tent was pitched, and about it a hundred family tents, accommodating 500 campers.

… the camp meeting 13 people were baptized, the Texas Conference was formed, and aggressive plans were laid for tent evangelism. It was decided to purchase …