Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1899 — Battle Ground Campmeeting. [ARTICLE]

Battle Ground Campmeeting.

Arrangements Completed for One of the Most Profitable Sessions In the History of th 6 Association. The Battle Ground campmeeting will begin Aug. 3rd, and end Aug. 14th. The following arrangements have been completed for the meeting: Paul Gilbert of Jeffersonville will conduct the singing, and Professor Statton of Brazil will play the cornet. Each evening evangelistic services will be conducted by Rev. C. Fenwick Reed of Terre Haute, while Rev. D. G. Bacon of Cincinnati will be in charge of the morning Pentecostal meetings. He will also lead the / young people’s meetings. For the services on the Sabbaths Dr. H. Gobin, president of DePauw Uuiversity, will preach on Sunday morning, Aug. 6th, and Rev- W. A. Spencer, D. D., Secretary of the Church Extension Society, Philadelphia, Pa., will preach in the afternoon. On the second Sabbath, Aug. 13th, Dr. C. Wilcox, formerly of Lafayette, will be one of the preachers, and Rev. W. R. Halstead, D. D., of Frankfort will be the other. The children’s meeting will be conducted by Mrs. Mary M. Chapham of Attica. The Battle Ground cornet band has been engaged for three coocertsoiTthe. grounds during the meeting. The Woman’s Home Missionary Society and Foreign Missionary Society will have special services, probably on Tuesday, Aug. Bth. Oh Wednerday, Aug 9th, will be DePauw University Day. The programme for the services will be under the planning of President Gobin ai d Chancellor W. H. Hickman, D. D, On Friday, Aug. 11th, will be Temperance Day. Hon. S. E. Nicholson, Field Secretary of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, will deliver the address at 10:30 a. m., and a speaker selected by the W. C. T. U. will speak at 2:30 p. m. A round trip rate of one and onethird fare has been secured on the roads. For information concerning rooms write to Mr. A. A. Jones, Battle Ground, Ind. For other information on programmes write to the president, Rev. C. A. Brooke, D. D., or Rev. G. W. Switzer, Lafayette, Ind.