Word: campgrounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace talk, 10,000 of Jehovah's serious-minded Witnesses gathered last week in Leicester. Before the convention was over the Witnesses had added grounds for their pacifism. They complained to police that: 1) the local Home Guard had laid down a sooty smoke screen over their campground; 2) "men in khaki uniform broke into the grounds, causing damage, beating one of Jehovah's Witnesses and knocking him unconscious...
...phenomenon of U. S. civilization as quilting bees or rail splitting. Georgia has been a revivalist stronghold ever since pioneer Evangelists John Wesley and George Whitefield saved souls there in the 1730s. But lately revivals have not done so well, even in Georgia. Few years ago famed Old Salem Campground, 32 miles southeast of At lanta, a scene of Methodist evangelistic meetings since 1828, had to turn interdenominational to survive. Last week, as it wound up a rousing ten-day camp meeting, Salem seemed to have hit the sawdust trail for a comeback...