July 26, 2024
Tag: Camp Meetings
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Two Faces of the American Camp Meeting
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The American camp meetings of the 1890s through the 1950s were good fits into the hard-scrabble life of that era. Many areas lacked traditional churches and there were few other diversions. John Davis was one such evangelist; he called his meetings, campaigns! For those who wanted spiritual experiences, it was Davis who provided them using…
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February 16, 2022 3 Comments
By age 17, John Lewis Childs had a well-planned and nearly perfected career path doing business as no one had done before. He sold seeds through a catalog. It made him one of America’s richest men. The post office in his small Long Island community grew so fast due to the volume of mail he received, they compared it to Boston and Baltimore.