Irregularities At The National Camp-meeting

From the New York Herald. The National camp-meeting at Sterling, Mass., concetning whose beginning, continuance and ending we gave sonie correspondeuee last Sabbath, did not pass off as smoothly ahd pleasantly as niight be expected. The ruembers of the National Association for the Promotion of Holiness had sole charge of the meeting. But there were sonie that had indignation among themselves and who thought that Brothers Inkskip, Boole ifc Co. took too much upon themselves and were not the onlyprophets of the Lord on the carcp ground. The Boston Herald tells how this little band conducted selves, and also how the greater band of camp followers behaved toward them. A Mrs. Otis, of Boston, and Miss Carrie Ward, of Brooklyn, said to have been at one time an editor or contributor, of Dr. Talrnage's paper, held service in a tent. Two ministers counected with the New England Conference, Messrs. Lansing and Ray, also gave the ladies their countenance and presence. They held meetings at certain times when the National association were conducting public meetings. But this discourtesy might be forgiven had they not also insisted on laying on of hands as a means of sanctification for which they were publicly denounced by Messrs. Inskip and Boole. The ladies were accused of being free lovers, and the curiosity seokers went so far as to lift the canvas of their sleeping tents and peer rudely in at the ladies, to their great annoyance and injury. They claim that the laying on of hands is a legitímate soquence of the doctrine of sanctification, and that Christ immediately before his deifioation said to and of His disicples that they should lay hands on the sick and they should recover. Moreover they claim that Miss Ward was thus healed of distressing inalady at Ocean Grove last snmmer. And why not? This is just as logical a sequence of the doctrine which Messrs. Inskip, McDonald and Boole preach as any other, and yet Mr. Boole states that it would not be received in ny Christian church.and that his association were determined to crush it out wherever they found it as an adjunct of their meetings. Belief in the potency of the laying on of hands is venerable, but since the apostolic age it has had very little else to recommend it. It is, to be sure, one of the posibilities of faith ; but is much more likely to be the comitant of superstition than offnith. And such, in too great measure, must be the natural fruit of the doctrine of sanctification as preached by many of its apostles at the present duy.