Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — Doesn’t Believe in Camp-Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Doesn’t Believe in Camp-Meeting.

The editor of the New York Christian Advocate, the leading “officialMethodist newspaper, says that he has steadfastly refused, for twenty years past, to preach at or attend any campmeeting keeping its gates open on Sunday, and that camp-meeting Sabbathbreaking has been repeatedly rebuked by bishops and conferences. “In the early days of Methodism,” he adds, “when churches were few and the population widely scattered, they (the camp-meeting Sunday services) were justified. And now in sections not supplied with churches, where it is a choice between no services at all, Sabbaths of idleness and dissipation, and campmeetings, we do not disapprove them; but in the thickly settled, church-sup-plied communities we believe them (whether there are conversions or not) to be doing on the whole Satan’s and not Christ’s work,” No opiates or poison. '< Only twenty-five cents. Red Star Cough Cure.