emphasized from time to time, but the construction of permanent buildings made the securing of these unnecessary.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Most regular summer residents and visitors to Ocean Grove are familiar with the names and locations of our principal and permanent

blocks of tents-Auditorium Circle, Bethany, and Bethesda. But many, probably, have scarcely thought of the history and significance of their appellations.

The first, to be sure, is obvious enough, the name being frankly descriptive, but glancing through the Fourteenth Annual Report of the president, printed in 1883, one will find the following interesting and suggestive paragraph, referring to our attractive Bethany:

"The plot of ground lying between Central Avenue and Pilgrim Pathway, Ocean Pathway and Bath Avenue, so long the unsightly receptacle of old bunks and tent poles, has been transformed into a beautiful. canvas village, called Bethany, because of its proximity to the Jerusalem Model; 'Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs

FOREGROUND

off.' This cluster consists of twenty-four tent cottages, all of which have frame attachments in the rear. . . . The square court in the rear is well supplied with water, trees, and such conveniences as the place demands. This whole tent village is inclosed with a picket fence. . . . Inside the ground is covered with sods, fresh and green, with painted tubs before each door, filled with earth for flowers."

During the thirty-five years since Dr. Stokes, with his quick and

poetic imagination, bestowed the name of Bethany and wrote these words, fewer apparent changes have been made in the Bethany Block than in most other parts of Ocean Grove. The installation of separate water and gas service, the substitution of the present pretty green hedge for the

original fence, are the chief ones. The little canvas village is still the same Bethany, nigh unto Jerusalem.

In the Sixteenth Report, two years later, we find the first mention of Bethsaida Block, close to the end of the lake and Ross's, now the North End, Bathing Ground. Its name, chosen for a like reason, has grown only more appropriate with the passing of the years and the establishment and evolution of the "Pool."

Dr. Stokes wrote of the popularity of these tiny tent communities and the demand for accommodations in them. Could he revisit Ocean Grove, the earthly home of his great heart, to-day, he would find this popularity and demand not less, but greater, with the outward surroundings even more beautiful than he had ever known them.

AT THE OLD-TIME CAMP MEETING

When The Methodist, a paper published by the Rev. Adam Wallace,

announced to the people of Philadelphia that it was proposed to form a Camp Meeting Association, and have a camp meeting by the sea; and that Ocean Grove had been selected as its site, the Christian people of that great city immediately became interested; the talk of Ocean Grove and its Camp Meeting was universal.

"My father," said Charles W. Karsner, "was always an ardent campmeeting follower, and early announced that as for him and his family,

Ocean Grove Camp must be the destination, and we packed up for the shore. Well! The day came and the people came. There was the grove of trees, the sea, the stand for the preachers, the benches and straw for the people, and an altar was erected. Mr. Perry, of Philadelphia clothing house fame, and myself, slept under a little A tent, on straw. The tent was so small we were obliged to go in on our hands and knees. But never was sleep sweeter, or rest more refreshing.

"But such a Camp Meeting! I wish for ability to fittingly describe it. The preachers were aflame with zeal, enthusiasm, and power, and the faces of the people fairly glowed with the sweetness of that peace which passes all our understanding. The shouts of the saints and saved, mingled in happy exaltation. The camp fires seemed endowed with more brilliancy; the sand hill east of Pilgrim Pathway seemed to swell with pride; the waves tumbled more joyously; the sea roared louder; and everybody knew when that camp was over, that the Lord had been there and had placed his seal of approval on the work of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association.

"My father's tent was located near the Auditorium, on the east side