Rodeheaver at Philadelphia. On that occasion, at the evening service, Mr. Morgan was introduced by Mr. Rodeheaver to the Philadelphia Taber

nacle Choir in which he found many of his Ocean Grove chorus singers, and was invited to lead the singing of one or more of the hymns.

It was on this evening that Mr. Morgan gained the impression that Mr. Rodeheaver would like to pay a visit to Ocean Grove during the Camp

Meeting, and that he might perhaps be induced to assist with the singing.

A few days later a meeting was arranged at Philadelphia by Mr. Morgan, the invitation was extended and informally accepted, and later the resolution was adopted, directing Mr. Morgan to extend the formal invitation on behalf of the Association. And so it came to pass that Mr. Rodeheaver was here.

A REMARKABLE CONSTELLATION

Many a musical star of distinguished magnitude and brilliancy has shone upon Ocean Grove during the past fifty years. Each season too has had one or more constellations whose meteoric splendor or clear and steady radiance has illuminated our sky with fine effect. To the latter class belongs an unusual group shown in the accompanying picture. Each of the

individuals that make it up is so well known to Auditorium congregations as to be quickly and pleasantly recognized by large numbers of our readers. Of one this is particularly true; for even with his face turned almost wholly from us, there is no mistaking the "man who made the music go" in Ocean Grove for nearly twenty years, the popular and eficient director, Tali Esen Morgan.

Of the other five, the central place and foremost mention belong to the veteran singer and composer, Dr. William J. Kirkpatrick, whose name, along with that of Sweeney, was familiar for many years upon the covers of the songbooks annually introduced in the summer services here. White hairs have come to Dr. Kirkpatrick; but such hymns as "Lord, I'm Coming Home" and ""Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus," written by him and sung the country over, can never grow old.

Homer Rodeheaver, next on the right, is distinctly a man of the present generation. Young, earnest, magnetic, he is perhaps the best known conductor of gospel music now living. His help in the Billy Sunday campaigns has everywhere contributed immeasurably to their success.

Among the numberless religious songs produced during the past quarter century, not one has met with such instant success and overwhelming popularity as the "Glory Song." At the extreme right in the group stands its composer, Charles H. Gabriel. But it is not only by this one effort that Mr. Gabriel is known. The thousands who heard the Paterson Choir and afterward the Ocean Grove Chorus-sing "Sail On" and "All Hail! Immanuel" do not need to be told that in him we have a composer of unusual gifts; while his "Brighten the Corner Where You Are" probably has been sung oftener, in public and in private, than any other hymn.

Clarence Reynolds, next to Dr. Kirkpatrick on our left, needs no introduction to anyone who has been in Ocean Grove. As official organist and a musician of extraordinary powers, for several years his daily renderings of that marvelous production, "The Storm," have given more pleasure and caused more admiring wonder than any other one thing that Ocean Grove has offered to its visitors.

Artistic talent does not always run in families, but one can feel no surprise that Charles H. Gabriel, Jr., who, at the end on the left, completes the group, should be a musician of exceptional ability and rising reputation.

Was not the assembling of such a company as this upon our platform a noteworthy event?

The coming of the Paterson Tabernacle Choir to Ocean Grove on Saturday, August 21, 1915, to assist on that occasion in the Camp Meeting singing under the direction of Mr. Rodeheaver-affectionately called "Rodey" by his choirs and those who know him—was an event never before equaled in the history of Ocean Grove. One has only to comprehend. that there were one thousand singers of this great organization present on that occasion, not to mention the hundreds of friends who came with them in two long special trains, to understand the magnitude of the undertaking.

That this large number of singers came all the way from Paterson to Ocean Grove altogether at their own expense, to participate in the afternoon song service and to sing at the evening preaching service, is a remarkable

tribute to their former leader and an indication of at least one of the lasting results of the Sunday Campaign at Paterson, particularly when one realizes that to do this they had to arise at five o'clock in the morning and could not get back before midnight.

Large choruses have come to Ocean Grove on many other occasions to sing in the Auditorium, and many oratorios have been rendered there, but nothing like this has ever occurred before. The singers filled the immense choir loft and occupied in addition two entire sections on each side of the gallery beyond the choir seats, while the two center sections on the main floor were reserved for their friends.

Words cannot describe the volume of sacred song that rose and fell from this great body of singers, while the effect upon the congregation, which filled the Auditorium to its capacity and stood in rows outside the doorways, was to change the old time "Amen" to joyful clapping of hands. Nothing within the history of the great building, which has been the Auditorium for the last twenty years, has quite equaled this.

On this occasion Mr. Rodeheaver, as he frequently does, introduced some of his friends to the Paterson choir, among them Mr. Tali Esen Morgan, the musical director of Ocean Grove, who responded with a few appropriate remarks, saying that he hoped next year there would be a "Paterson Day," when the Tabernacle choir would come again. To this there was a ready response by the choir itself, in which the congregation joined.

BILLY SUNDAY AT OCEAN GROVE

Ocean Grove congregations are composed of people from all parts of the United States, with frequently some from overseas. This occasion of his first visit here enabled him to reach many who, in the natural course of events, never would have heard him, and through these to extend the influence of his sermons to many more who could not themselves be present.

The coming of Billy Sunday and his work throughout the Camp Meeting of 1916 were so much of the nature of an innovation that unusual interest attaches both to the comparatively small details of the event and to the summing up-so far as such can be made-of its results.

The Sunday party arrived at Ocean Grove shortly after five o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, August 25, having traveled by automobile from Philadelphia by way of Trenton. Although warm, fatigued, and dusty, they proceeded directly to the Auditorium, where a large concourse of people eagerly awaited them. Their reception was enthusiastic, though neither prolonged nor very formal. Mr. Sunday was welcomed by the president of the Association and the mayors of the adjacent towns. He

replied cordially, briefly but very distinctly stating his purpose in coming here and then withdrew during the singing of a song led by Mr. Rodeheaver.

Very little special preparation of the Auditorium for the series of services was required. In the middle of the large platform a smaller one, at a slight elevation, was erected for Mr. Sunday's own and sole use. The pulpit was removed and its place supplied by a neat pine preaching-desk,

and of the Trenton Tabernacle Choir on Tuesday, pate in the singing under the leadership of "Rodey."

made expressly for the purpose. Suspended overhead Iwas the audiphone of the somewhat peculiar shape which Mr. Sunday has found especially effective and which is everywhere a part of his necessary equip

ment.

The camp meeting singing was led by Mr. Rodeheaver, who has been Mr. Sunday's chorister, accompanying him in his evangelistic campaigns, for the last seven years. Other interesting features were the presence of the Paterson Tabernacle Choir on Saturday, August 26, August 29, to particiThese occasions were

in the nature of reunions of the members of the choirs. Every one who was at Ocean Grove and heard the singing of the Paterson Choir, which came one thousand strong to sing at the Camp Meeting service, will remember it as a notable occasion.

Miss Grace Saxe, who has been a member of Mr. Sunday's staff of assistants in his recent campaigns, was also at Ocean Grove during the