Albert Micajah Shipp
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 664
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...with prodigious 'energy, an immediate compliance with the conditions of salvation. The power of God came down, and one universal cry for mercy was heard all through the vast concourse of people. Some fell prostrate on the ground; others, rising to fly from the scene, fell by the way. Hundreds were crying for mercy all over the encampment, while the rejoicings of heaven-born souls and the shouts of victory over the powers of darkness were heard all through the crowd and surrounding 'grove. At the close of the sermon Mr. Dougherty turned to Mr. Bennett, and, with uplifted hands and streaming eyes, begged him, in God's name, always to preach a free and full salvation by grace through faith. The scene, said George Clark, who was an eye-witness, was overwhelming, and beggared all description. At a camp-meeting held in Darlington District, in 1805, the assembled rowdies perpetrated enormities over which it is necessary, even at this distant day, to draw a veil. On Sunday, when fully reenforced and roving about in a large pine-forest which surrounded the tents, it came to pass, under the preaching of the Rev. James Jenkins, famous through all the country for having a stir and a shout, that a lady in the congregation began to praise God aloud. From every point of the compass they came thundering into camp with the tramp of a herd of buffaloes, thus producing a scene of the utmost tumult and confusion. The lady had by this time become quiet, and every thing seemed to indicate that the time had come for Mr. Dougherty to launch a thunderbolt. He accordingly arose and said: "I desire very much to engage your attention for a short time; and as I am aware of your impatience, I propose, as a sort of compromise with you, to waive all the usual introductory services an...