Describes attending a Camp Meeting. Transcription: They sang to the air of the Christmas Carol ?ǣGod rest you merry gentlemen Let nothing you dismay, ? many of their chaunts had pet chorusses to them, ? the favourite one being the rather ungrammatical assertion that ?ǣThere is a place of Rest remains ? For the people of G ?a ?w ?d! ? The whole of the forepart of the vessel was thronged, this way, both above & below. The majority both of singers & listeners were women; ? some older, earnest looking hard-faced men were there, but the look where you would you saw, the common place & uninteres
Describes attending a Camp Meeting. Transcription: They sang to the air of the Christmas Carol ?ǣGod rest you merry gentlemen Let nothing you dismay, ? many of their chaunts had pet chorusses to them, ? the favourite one being the rather ungrammatical assertion that ?ǣThere is a place of Rest remains ? For the people of G ?a ?w ?d! ? The whole of the forepart of the vessel was thronged, this way, both above & below. The majority both of singers & listeners were women; ? some older, earnest looking hard-faced men were there, but the look where you would you saw, the common place & uninteresting faces of women lit up with sectarian fanaticism. And presently a young men, smoothly shaven & with straight black hair stood up and preached. I heard it all, very poor theology as it was, with infinite repetition. Its marrow was this, sudden & violent conversion & ?ǣGlory. ? No thought of Religion as manifest in the detail of each days life, of home duties & doing unto one another as you would be done unto. Spiritual Dram-drinking thats all. / Two or three, both sexes marched round the boat anon singing hymns. One girl had a comely, though inane face, another fat & rather sensual looking. But the unwomanliness of the whole thing ? the air of brandishing their ?ǣfaith, ? as it were in people ?s eyes! Fancy one ?s Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 32, September 4, 1852 . 4 September 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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