The patriarch of one hundred years : $b being reminiscences, historical and biographical, of Rev. Henry BoehmBoehm, Henry
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The patriarch of one hundred years : $b being reminiscences, historical and biographical, of Rev. Henry Boehm
Boehm, Henry
Boehm, Henry, 1775-1875; Methodism
On Tuesday morning the Lord’s supper was administered. There was a most
melting time. I have given this record just as it was written in 1806. I
added: “O how the power and love of God unites the hearts of his people.
Glory to my God and Saviour that I have lived to see such times of the
outpouring of his Spirit! Agreeable to the report of those who were most
active in the work, there were eleven hundred conversions and six hundred
sanctifications.” This may seem an exaggeration, but the record was made
at the time, and there could be no object to state anything but the
truth, for it was written simply for myself, and not for others.
July 15 the camp-meeting began near Dover. For several days we had been
preparing seats for six thousand persons. The people came in crowds.
There were four hundred tents, wagons, and carts within the inclosure.
Some slept in wagons, others in carts.
On Thursday John Chalmers, an old warrior, opened the campaign from Exod.
xiv, 15: “Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.” They
did go forward with banners flying, and a shout was heard along the
ranks of our Israel. The work of revival commenced in a powerful manner
under the first sermon, and continued through the night. There were
sixty-eight converted and twenty-nine sanctified. Glory to the Highest!
On Friday at eight o’clock Lawrence M’Combs preached on 2 Cor. iv,
5. He had a powerful voice, and was an admirable man to preach at
camp-meetings. Brother Kendall preached in the afternoon. On Saturday
morning Daniel Chambers, a local preacher from Baltimore, preached on
“The Lord preserveth all them that love him, but all the wicked will he
destroy.” Joshua Wells preached in the afternoon from Psalm lxxxvii, 3:
“Glorious things are spoken of thee,” etc.; and William B. Lacy at night
from Isaiah xxxiii, 16. The work went on all night. Will the reader be
surprised that I added, “Glory! glory!”
Sabbath was a high day in Zion. There were about ten thousand people
on the ground. In the morning Samuel Coate preached on John iii, 17;
John Chalmers preached in the afternoon; and Brother Ridgeway at night.
One hundred and ninety-eight were converted and one hundred and sixty
sanctified. Halleluiah! This was during the day. The work continued all
night, and one hundred and twenty-seven were converted and one hundred
sanctified before the sun rose in the east.
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