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 Nathan Bangs 1805-1806, 1817

 

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Nathan Bangs on the Hay Bay camp meeting
Bangs History of the Methodist Episcopal Church vol. 2 ch. 6

This year, for the first time, a camp meeting was held on the Bay of Quinte circuit in Upper Canada, which was attended by the writer, being the first he ever witnessed. It was held in an open field, and the exercises were accompanied by a mighty display of the awakening and converting, as well as sanctifying grace of God. On the third day of the meeting such awful sensations were produced under the preaching, that many stout-hearted sinners were bowed before the Lord, while the people of God were “filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory.” A great revival of religion was the consequence of this blessed meeting, particularly in the Bay of Quinte and Augusta circuits, which eventuated in the conversion of hundreds of precious souls. 

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