camp-meetings

Wild-eyed itinerant preachers swarmed over the land; and despite the prohibition of the civil authorities, and the persecution for disobedience, the flames of religious frenzy were fanned by countless camp-meetings.

Chapter 15: Last Days 2010

We find in the stories and studies of authentic American life such features as camp-meetings and organized emotional campaigns for repentance and conversion.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

The excitement created was tremendous; three camp-meetings ran simultaneously and with marvelous success; there has been much talk of signs and portents, and not a few otherwise normal members of the community have proclaimed the advent of the latter-day miracles, and even yet their ears are patiently alert for the Trump of Doom, and their eyes lifted that they may witness the rolling up of the heavens as a scroll.

THE REJUVENATION OF MAJOR RATHBONE 1993

It is no wonder that their religious camp-meetings had become associated with the most grotesque ideas and narrations.

From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington

The Amazons, the earliest known advocates of women's rights, saw this point clearly; and consequently excluded men altogether from their communities, except at their yearly camp-meetings.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

It was in frequent use by the camp-meetings of the Methodist denomination, which sect, at the

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

Those who remember the early times of Kentucky know that the place of the agricultural and mechanics 'fairs of the present day was supplied by "big meetings," which, under the various names of associations, camp-meetings, and basket-meetings, continued in full popularity to a quite recent period, and were at last partially suppressed on account of the immorality which they occasioned and encouraged.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

The whole scene, with its extemporized words, its clapping of hands to mark the rhythm, and its alternation of solo and chorus, was probably not unlike the singing at some of the negro camp-meetings on the Southern plantations.

Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

Then our old-fashioned camp-meetings — where are they?

The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880 Various

Some of those old dames, I was informed, were decoy birds, who shared the profits with the preachers, and attended all the "camp-meetings" in the country.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America