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Updated: September 2, 2025
The wrath of the Dean family reached its culmination on that Sunday night when Dan came home with the news that Job had attended the Coyote Valley camp-meeting and had been converted; "now he would be putting on holy airs and setting himself above folks." That night in Dean's shanty Sally and Dan and "Pap" put their heads together to plan how they could in some way make Job Malden backslide.
Is everyone of your bones broken, as they deserve to be, you villain? Answer me, you varlet!" A low, deep moan was the only response. "If that means yes, I'm glad to hear it, you wretch. You'll go to the camp-meeting with us again, won't you, you knave?
Even to this day our most successful revivalists, those who work conversions wholesale wherever they go, do it more by frightful pictures of hell-fire surrounding the sinner's death-bed than anything else. You could hear the same thing at our camp-meeting tonight, if you were there." "There isn't so much difference as you think," said Father Forbes, dispassionately.
"Well, well," said Father Orin, with a sigh of evasion, "if you are going on to the camp-meeting, Toby and I will have to leave you here. We have a sick call 'way over on the Eagle Creek flats. And it's a ticklish business, going over there in the dark, isn't it, old man?" he said, patting his big gray horse.
I had been feeling mean all the morning as if I had stolen a sheep, but when the order to charge was given, I got happy. I felt happier than a fellow does when he professes religion at a big Methodist camp-meeting. I shouted. It was fun then. Everybody looked happy. We were crowding them. One more charge, then their lines waver and break. They retreat in wild confusion.
"Well," said the old showman, in the midst of my meditations, "here is an honest company of us one, two, three, four, five, six all going to the camp-meeting at Stamford. Now, hoping no offence, I should like to know where this young gentleman may be going?" I started. How came I among these wanderers?
I have often had occasion to call for volunteers for service, and have often found that many people who can say “Amen” and “Praise the Lord,” and perhaps shout in meeting, become suddenly silent when it comes to volunteering for work. The test of their love proves that love is wanting. In a certain camp-meeting there was a young man who professed to be saved, and was saved, so far as I know.
A circuit-riding preacher held religious services once or twice a month, and in certain regions at a certain season religious enthusiasm found vent in a camp-meeting, but religion often had little effect on habits and morals. Local government and industry were home-made.
I shouldn't wonder: for they say he is very learnt. Oh, if that be, we may hear him preach at the next camp-meeting. How I should like to hear him hold forth! ha, ha, ha!" The young creature laughs heartily at her own fantastic conceits; and her clear silvery voice for a moment silences the birds as if they paused to listen to a music more melodious than their own.
There was certainly a fascination about this alternating brilliancy and gloom. On nearly every island there was at least a cottage, and on the larger islands were great hotels, camp-meeting establishments, and houses and tents for the entertainment of thousands of people.
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