History of the Camp-Meeting and Grounds at Wesleyan Grove, Martha's Vineyard

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PREFACE.

THE History of the Martha's Vineyard Camp-meeting, published some eleven years since, met with much favor. That History covered twenty-four years, and, including the meeting held at Westport Point in 1845, gave brief descriptions of twenty-four camp-meetings. These annual assemblages have been continued through an additional eleven years, and the writer of the former book has been repeatedly requested to furnish an account, in which the late wonderful changes in the exterior arrangements should be noted. Believing the appropriate time has arrived, he has finally decided to comply, and now offers the following volume, which he believes will be found to be as complete as the means of making such a work will allow. Such as it is, he commits it to the public, in the hope that it will help to remove existing prejudices against such gatherings generally, and thus promote those great interests to which the institution itself was designed to contribute. (5)