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Camp Meeting Days Were
Part Of Life h Haywood
By w, u. mt<uruiiu
Soon after this time of the year,
or about the last of July, our
grandparents were getting ready
for the camp meetings?those "sea
sons of refreshing from the Lord".
But they never started betore the
wheat was harvested and the corn
"laid by". In Haywood county there
were three principal places set
apart for these annual occasions
which usually lasted for two or
three weeks ? Shook s Camp
Ground at Clyde, Reno's at Canton
and the Davis-Ferguson Arbor in
Iron Duff.
And those few who preferred
to stay at home during these meet
ings knew that they were in for
a solitary and lonesome time, for
nearly everybody attended, both
"saint and sinner". Sometimes it
was necessary for some one to
"look after the things" at home
or else go back between services
to do so; however, they always
managed to not miss a service if
possible. And why miss? For it
was?
"God's Appointed Time"
So the "earthly things" of lesser
importance were generally put
aside and, indeed, as we of today
would say, were sometimes neglect
ed because of the fervor, ecstacy
and excitement of the meetings.
For Instance, there was one old
saint Uncle Hasea Mauney, whom
the writer well knew; Who today
would lay everything down and
walk for miles to attend every
meeting (if it were at all possible
to do so) during the revival sea
son?simply putting their "trust |
in the Lord" that all would go well
at home? Not one!
Custom Lasted 59 or SO Years
The camp meetings in t^iis coun
ty were being heid as early as ibi
1830 's ? mention of them wai
I made at that time in the old re
ports to the County Court. Certain
citizens who had "bound boys" re
ported that he bounden had lost
time tso many days) "at camp meet
ing". These meeting; were dis
continued about the last of tht
80 s, when church houses had been
erected in the principal sections
throughout the county.
Under Brush Arbors
In making ready these arbors an
extensive frame-work of poles was
erected; over this a screen or lay
er of brush (freshly cut from the
surrounding woods) was placed to
keep out the sun?and rain to some
extent. In the front was a crude
platform of boards on which was
the preacher's stand; back of this
was his screened off private
"changing-place" and sort of study.
Also at the front was the long
"mourner's bench".
But we must not go too fast.
Before taking up the great signiflc- J
ance of the mourner's bench and
the activities that surrounded it,
let's see something of the outside,
that is, surrounding the arbor.
The General Picture
Here were the tents ? of all
those who could afford the luxury
and privacy of a tent in addition to
the expense of a covered wagon?
nearly all had a wagon. So you can
imagine what those old camp
meeting sites looked like on such
occasions.
Look at all this assemblage of
wagons and teams; saddle-horses
haltered under the trees; rows of
tents with here and there smoke
curling up from the cook's fires
surrounded by the Individual fam
ly groups; knots of bewhiskered
nen?joking, laughing, narrating;
women in long home-spun, bare
dot boys and girls;- an occasion
*
il horse or gun trade being made;
?ere and there a dog lying with
nuzzle on out-stretched paws or
waiting for his bite of food?and
with hogs and cattle roaming all
around!
There were few theologians in1
those days in the modern school'
sense; but many of the preachers
were well-versed in the Bible and
"sound in the doctrine". They
kpew nothing of social studies and
| sermons, and would have scorned
the idea of money-raising cam
I paigns. They considered it their
| mission to preach salvation from
i sin, to succor the needy and to
pray for and comfort the sick and
afflicted. And thus they went
! forth preaching?not only the love
of Christ, but the wrath of God as
well on unbelievers, without fear
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| Scout Map Reading
Class Slated Friday
1 A class on the use of the compass
or apology.
And in those days preachers
were supposed to preach "hard";
and if they became overheated (as
often was the case) they were ex
pected to remove coat and con
tinue to exhort, "score out" and
entreat sinners to come and be
saved before God's spirit would
perchance be withdrawn?and it 1
would be "eternally and everlast
ingly too late!"
(To be concluded next week.)
Transactions In
REAL ESTATE -
WaynesviUe Township
H. P. Carpenter and wife to
a
and on map reading will be held
Friday night at 7 p.m. at the
WaynesviUe Armory for Boy
Scouts of the Waynesville-Hazel
wood-Lake Junaluska area.
Instructor wil' be Lt. Col.
James M. Davis, commanding of
ficer of the 3rd Battalion of the
120th Infantry of the N. C. Na
tional Guard. All Scouts, scout-;
masters and committeeman are in
vited to attend this class. 1
Robert Bradford and wife,
M. O. Galloway and wife to Lent
Shepard and wife.
R. A. Malcom and wife to Bufua
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well.
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Fish.
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wife.
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