Describes attending a Camp Meeting with William Roberts. Transcription: lying in straw, a woman on her knees half delerious with overwrought feeling & fanaticism, while some dozen [word crossed out] men were praying & singing round her. A painful sight to witness. / Anon in one of the tents, [William] Roberts was accosted by his sister, [Warren] Butlers wife, & by her led to where his own wife & their child was. / All three had been ?ǣcamping out ? since Tuesday) Wandering about, rather moved for my own part to witness all this morbid rhapsodizing. As time wore on, a great crowd had seated it
Describes attending a Camp Meeting with William Roberts. Transcription: lying in straw, a woman on her knees half delerious with overwrought feeling & fanaticism, while some dozen [word crossed out] men were praying & singing round her. A painful sight to witness. / Anon in one of the tents, [William] Roberts was accosted by his sister, [Warren] Butlers wife, & by her led to where his own wife & their child was. / All three had been ?ǣcamping out ? since Tuesday) Wandering about, rather moved for my own part to witness all this morbid rhapsodizing. As time wore on, a great crowd had seated itself on roughly-supported plank, in a partially open place & were listening to a sermon. 10 o ?clock & Roberts, Mrs Butler & I enter a vehicle & return to Sing Sing, Mrs Roberts & boy remaining at the ?ǣCamp. ? After parting with Mrs B, (who by the way during all the ride kept asking her brother in a drawling affected tone, to?ǣ treat her, ? to which [word crossed out] Roberts repled he would if she ?d accompany them to where it was feasible:) we supped at a tavern, then to an adjacent hotel & abed together. 4. Saturday. Up, breakfast & aboard, Roberts ? wife, boy, Mrs Butler all there. Boat crowded, and speedily the major part of the occupants, mindful of the ?ǣSpiritual Bust ? they had been partaking of, set to work singing and preaching. All the hymn tunes sung were rather lively ? one, the well known ?ǣThere is a land of pure delight Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 31, September 3-4, 1852 . 3 September 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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