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underbrush was cut down and the small tnres thinned out, leaving some great oaks to give shade and shelter. When the work of clearing was completed, it wai like being in a cathedral roofed iu by a green dome, upheld by curiously carved and twisted arches. Here and there the rays of sunshine struck through the leaves and made flecks of gold on the soft moss, which carpeted the place; but for the most part the space beneath the trees was filled with a shadowy and subdued light that was delightful and seemed to impart to the scene a character quite unlike that of the open spot where sunshine met with no obstruction, and all was bright and suggestive of the farm and field, and the work that had to be done there. The soft, green gloom made the place seem like one set apart for worship. Benches were made of basswood logs split in two, with two legs at each end. These were placed about the little opening in the center of the great group of trees in such a manner that they all faced the minister’s stand, which was a fearfully and wonderfully constructed thing.“Looks suthin’ like a hearse off’n wheels, an’ sut-hm’ like the cabin of a eanawl-boat,” Baid Bill Green, irreverently. “One good p’int about it is that it’s stout, an*11 stan* a heap o' pounding’.”In front of this stand was an anxious : seat, to be occupied by conscience strick-| en sinners who were expected to seek salvation in this season of grace. At each corner of the camp platforms were built on stakes driven into the earth. These platforms were covered with soil to the depth of a foot. On them fires would be built at night whose lurid glow would give the scene a brilliance it had lacked by day, and impart to the place a weird, strange splendor that would not be without an element of fascination for the most matter-of-fact attendant.Among the “women-folks” horse stealing was almost entirely forgotten iu the pleasanter excitement of camp meeting.In this saying I should except, however, the families of Mr. Boone and Mr. Porter.With them anxiety for Dick’s safety took away the capacity for enjoying the camp meeting as they would have enjoyed it under other and pleasanter circumstances.“I wish the man ■who stole my hosses’d feel the power o’ the Dord constrainin’ him to come foiTud an’ confess an’ rc-In mn mv hnr/l-nirnf nrftniltv.” Raid
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Royal Center Record
Royal Center, Indiana, US
Fri, Apr 27, 1900
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