April 29, 2026
Tag: Frederick Allan Mills
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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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April 5, 2026 2 Comments
Westchester County, just north of New York City, has always served as the summer retreat for wealthy New Yorkers. In the Gilded Era, at the end of the Nineteenth Century, many of those merchant princes who had amassed wealth as a result of the enormous industrial growth that occurred in the United States after the […]