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Camp meeting

noun

Religious (usually evangelistic) meeting held in a large tent or outdoors and lasting several days.

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"Camp meeting" Quotes from Famous Books

... they hardly dare say amen, either because they do not believe what you say, or for fear they shall be called fanatics. You know how they tried you and how hard you talked to them about it in the conference in Boston, last spring. You thought it was because they had no religion. And then the camp meeting too, at Lake Champlain; I suppose the most of them thought that you were going to prove that the door was shut, and that the past was true; and a good many of them might still have thought so, if elder Marsh ...

— A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath • Joseph Bates

... the eldest of the hunters, who was called Abe by the others, said, "they are as light-hearted as if they war a-going to a camp meeting; they don't know ...

— Captain Bayley's Heir: - A Tale of the Gold Fields of California • G. A. Henty

... working in the printing office I have remembered vividly all these years. During the campaign of 1844, the Whigs held a gathering on the Tippecanoe battle ground. It could hardly be called a convention; a better name for it would be a political camp meeting. The people came in wagons, on horseback, afoot—any way to get there—and camped, just as people used to do ...

— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker

... come out in de starch dresses fer de camp meeting. Dey took dey hair down out'n de strings fer de meeting. In dem days all de darky wimmens wore dey hair in string 'cep' when dey 'tended church or a wedding. At de camp meetings de wimmens pulled off de head rags, 'cept de mammies. On dis ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

Words linked to "Camp meeting" : meeting, group meeting