THE CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR
June 29, 1904

NEWS
scans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle

transcribed by Dorothy Wiland

Old German Hymns As Camp Meeting Feature.
Big German Methodist Camp Meeting to Be Held During July,
With Well-Known German Ministers as Star Speakers.

Old German hymns ringing out from a mixed choir of 100 voices and a male choir of 45 voices is to be one of the features of the big German camp meeting of the German Methodists of Cincinnati and vicinity, to be held from July 8 to July 17 at Hillsdale park on Vine street.  All of the preaching of the camp meeting will be in German, and the “Tabernacle,” as it is called, where the meetings are held is a big building seating 12,000 people.  Fully this many German Methodists are expected to be present at every meeting to be held during the camp meeting week.  The camp meeting will be in the nature of a rally for all the German Methodists of Cincinnati, Covington, Newport, Bellevue, Dayton, Mt. Healthy and all the little surrounding places.  Meetings will be held every afternoon and evening during the interim between July 8 and 17, and well known German M. E. preachers will be the speakers.  Among the speakers of the meetings will be Revs. C. Golder, J. H. Schimmelpfennig, F. Cramer, A. K. Nast, J. E. Brown, A. H. Grentzenberg, H. E. Wulsin, D. Graessle, C. B. Koch, F. Munz, G. Kaleisch, E. Roser, W. H. Traeger, P. G. Graessle, Oscar Rogatsky.  But the German hymns are to be quite as strong a drawing card as the preaching.  For fully half a mile over on the Vine street hill the good old German tunes, carried by 145 voices, will echo on the still, evening air.  Congregational singing when thousands of voices will mingle will also be a feature of the camp meeting.  Of the choir music Rev. J. G. Schimmelpfennig will be director, and of the congregational singing Mr. Henry Weigle of Newport, Ky., will be director.