. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. ables andhitching grounds, as inmost other camp-meetiuy; grounds. Tlie great meetings for which Ocean Grove isespecially famous were for-merly held on the beacli,and later under canvas,but are now generallyheld in the Auditorium a vast structure, capableof accommodating six orseven thousand people, butnot a bit too large forthe purposes for wiiich itis utilized, as audiences ofthree thousand or so areeveryda) affairs at theGrove during the season,while gatherings of four,five and even six thousandare b\- no means uncom-mon. It is said that eightthousand persons hea
. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. ables andhitching grounds, as inmost other camp-meetiuy; grounds. Tlie great meetings for which Ocean Grove isespecially famous were for-merly held on the beacli,and later under canvas,but are now generallyheld in the Auditorium a vast structure, capableof accommodating six orseven thousand people, butnot a bit too large forthe purposes for wiiich itis utilized, as audiences ofthree thousand or so areeveryda) affairs at theGrove during the season,while gatherings of four,five and even six thousandare b\- no means uncom-mon. It is said that eightthousand persons heard thesermon delivered in thisauditorium .August 23, iSgi,by Rev. Dr. Talmage. Be-sides the Auditorium thereare various smaller placesof meeting, such as theTabernacle, the Young Peo-ples Temple, St. PaulsChurch, and ThornleyChapel. Of the OceanGrove gatherings it hasbeen written : Thousands of relig-ious people of all persua-sions come from far andwide to attend these Meth-odist meetings. Manv ofthe most gifted ministers nf. OCEAN GROlE AXD /7S /O/.VfS OI- L\Ti:KliST. w the gospel from all partsof the United States andCanada, attend and lead inthe services, and there canbe but few ministers whohave not been there, or donot hope to go at somefuture time. These meet-ini;s in the vast Auditorinare a grand sight to be-hold. Here seated in theopen air with simply a roofover their heads, is founda great and earnest multi-tude worshipping God andraising their voices togetherin one glad song of beach meetings arealso well worth coming longdistances to see and toattend. On every pleasantSunday afternoon they areheld on the shores of the
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