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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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its Epworth League, prayermeeting and Sunday School, it is above the average ofchurches, both in attendance and spiritual intelligence, andworks in perfect harmony with the Association. The Flag.—Mr. M. W. Morse, of Newark, carried outsuccessfully a novel plan for the purchase of a magnificentflag to be used in all services at the Auditorium. On Satur-day, August 8th, it was presented through the choir to theAssociation in the presence of a large assembly, who wereaddressed in an earnest and eloquent speech by GovernorVoorhees, who left the Sea Girt encampment for the occa-sion. At the close of his address he formally presented theflag to Bishop FitzGerald, who in a speech ringing with re-ligious patriotism received it in the name of the Association,whose loyalty it will represent. The Ladies Elim Associate -i still continues its kindlybeneficence to toil-worn ministers and evangelists in givingat small cost the recuperative forces of the Grove. One htm- 41 TWENTY-NINTH ANMAL REPORT
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OCEAN GROVE CAM! MEETING ASSOCIATION. 4-3 dred and thirty-live of these gospel laborers, divided amongthirteen different denominations, were made partakers ofthis benefit. A tastefully arranged lawn part) largely aidedin their funds and reinspired their zeal for another summer. Neptune Township High School.—This school building,conceded to be the finest on the coast, if not in the State, hasbeen located, erected and furnished in ( )cean Grove at a costof less than $60,000. Its accommodations are large and well adapted to thesanitary as well as intellectual needs of the children, and thetaste displayed in its architecture cannot otherwise than en-large the artistic feeling among the pupils. It was dedicatedby Hon. James L. Hays, Chairman of the State Board ofEducation, and is now in successful operation, with all itsdepartments more than filled with the children who comefor admission. Reporters. — It is a pleasure to express our approval ofthe general fairness of the reporters duri

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