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Title: Annual report
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher: (Ocean Grove, N.J.) : Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Contributing Library: New Jersey State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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converted. then the president, after a closing prayer, the last ever offered
there, pronounced the final benediction, in the name of the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost, the bell striking after each name.

Old Auditorium,
So thy great works we sum,
And now, adieu;
Our bosoms sadly swell,
Yet thy expiring knell,
New joys our hearts impel:—
Faith teet the new !

Women's Encouragement Meeting.

Commenced on Wednesday morning, August 16th, and closed, Friday
evening, August 18th. Mrs. Wheeler in charge. She was very efficiently

TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 61

aided by Mrs. Hammer, Miss Christiana Butler, Mrs. Rev. Dr. Butler,
Mrs. Judge Burris, Mrs. Grace Weiser Davis, Miss Cassie Smith, and a large
number of others. The meetings were larger than usual, and increased
in interest to the close.
A great many timid persons are encouraged by these meetings, and
drawn to do, first little things, and so on, by degrees, to greater, until
the weak are strong, and enabled to do nobly for God. Our summer
work would not be complete, without these services.
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Rev. Wm. Butler, D. D.,
Founder of M. E. Missions in India and Mexico.

Womans Foreign Missionary Society
Held its anniversary this year, Saturday and Sabbath, August 19th, 20th.
Mrs. Dr. E. H. Stokes, President; Mrs. K. Chandler, first Vice-President;
Mrs. Rev. Dr. Simmons, second; Mrs. W. H. Skirm, third ; Mrs. Anna
Kent, fourth; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Rev. Dr. Wheeler; Re-

62 OCEAN GROVE, N. J.

cording Secretary, Mrs. A. R. Thompson; Treasurer, Mrs. Rev. J. R.
Vankirk ; Organist, Mrs. W. H. Reeves.
The officers were ably aided by Mrs. Judge Burris, Washington, D. C.;
Mrs. Rev. J. H. Knowles; Mrs. Dr. Baldwin; Rev. Dr. Butler, Miss
English, of India; Mrs. Rev. Dr. Butler, founder of the Ocean Grove
Auxiliary; Mrs. Grace Weiser Davis; Rev. Geo. Hughes; Mrs. Wm.
Skidmore; Rev. Dr. Baldwin, who preached an able missionary sermon on
Sabbath morning ; Mrs. Rev. W. B. Osborn, Vincent, and Rubino Ravi, of
Italy; Miss Clemintine Butler, Mr. J. C. Day, Rev. C. H. Yatman, and
F. B. Hoagland, besides a number of other ladies and gentlemen, who

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