ORDER
OF WORSHIP
| OPENING MUSIC | Opening Music, sung by group, not used in this service | |
| EXPLANATION
OF THE SERVICE |
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| CONGREGATIONAL
SINGING: |
Caithness, C.M., vs. 1, 5, page 2 | |
| Rathburn, 8.7.8.7, vs. 1, 4 page 3 | ||
| Olney 135, vs. 1-2 page 4 | ||
| PR |
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| LORD’S PRAYER (Using trespasses) | ||
| READING AND INTERPRETATION OF GOD’S WORD | 1 Corinthians 10.1-13 | |
| SONG | Wondrous Love, 159, vs. 1-4, page 5 | |
| OFFERING | ||
| PRAYER | ||
| SONG | St Anne, C.M., vs. 1, page 6 | |
| SERMON | Rev. Leslie R. Shultz | |
| PRAYER | ||
| CLOSING SONG | Amazing Grace C.M., vs. 1-4, page 7 | |
| DISMISSAL | ||
EXPLANATION
OF SERVICE1
In
this period the "Anxious Seat" or "Mourner's Bench" was
common. A mourner" was one who became alarmed at the state of his/her soul
and began to pray and seek deliverance from the bondage of sin.
The music of the camp meeting revivals typically included much of the call and response type of singing. The responses were often short ("Glory Hallelujah") and somewhat stereotyped. Refrains were common, allowing all to sing together in spite of the absence of printed music.
The verses often used texts of Isaac Watts, sometimes considerably modified. There were many "Stock" couplets which could migrate from song to song and were often interrelated on the spot. Sometimes new verses would be improved in the inspiration of the moment, allowing the oral tradition to grow and change.
No
instruments were apparently used, perhaps conserving the older psalm singing
style, or perhaps simply because none were available.
The
music of camp meetings is best preserved in several old collections printed
between 1815 and 1855. Bearing titles such as Kentucky
Harmony, Southern Harmony, and Sacred Harp, they often recorded music which had already been
circulating for years. These books are still used in part of the south.
Two kinds of music have their roots in the camp-meeting hymns. One is the Negro Spiritual which took shape in the first half of the 19th Century, often taking the texts and tunes and modifying them in characteristic ways. The other is the later Gospel Hymns which used the call and response idea in a richer harmonic and melodic idiom.
Pioneers of the Northwest Territory were reverent. Daniel Boone said: "All the religion I have is to love and fear God, do all the good to my neighbors and myself that I can, and do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest."
One
of the most widely read of writer's of "westerns" today is the late
Louis L'Amour. His many, many books give a good "flavor" of the
frontier as it moved west. It is interesting to note that he presents his own
philosophy through his interesting characters and his ideas stand out in his
writings. In The Lonely Men he says of going to church, "It was a fine
get-together in those days. We'd listen to the preacher expounding of our sins,
most of us kind of prideful we'd managed to sin so much, but ashamed before his
tongue-lashing, and some were kind of amazed that they were so sinful after all.
Seemed like with farming and cussing the mules, a body didn't rightly find much
time for sinning."
I'm
convinced that describes the mood of the camp-meeting worship of our past.
(Henry Rust)
1.Henry Rust, “Worship Through the Centuries: Worship of the Frontier,” ©1989 Educational Ministries, Inc., Brea, CA. Used by permission.