Culver Park Assembly - 1889

Ben Deerin, manager of the Culver Park Assembly, Lake Maxinkuckee, has issued a curcuoar letter from which we take the following:

Mr. H. H. Culver, of St. Louis has organized an association for the purpose of holding a big camp meeting in a beautiful woodland at the northern end of the lake.

His associates in the Aseembly are actice and successful business men. Their only object is to accomplish some good through an attractive summer neeting, where the people may hear the best preachers and lecturers, and enjoy the rare pleasure of sojourning at the quiet and lovely lake.

The meetings will be strictly undenominational and unsectarian, conducted by distingusished preach ers from all denominations.

The Culver Pak Assembly meeting will be held annually, beginning with a great meeting the present season.

The assembly goroounds and tabernacle will be opened informally on the 19th of July, with a fine programme.

On th 21st (Sunday), the Maughan Tabernacle will b dedicated by the world's greatest preacher, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, of Brooklyn, New York.

On the 20th (Saturday) the same eminent divine will deliver his famous lecture" "Big Blunders"

The three days following will be special days, when some of the most eminent preachers and speakers of the day will be heard from the platform.

On the 25th, Rev. Sam P. Jones, the renowned evangelist, will begin a series of meetings to be continued to the 29th certainly, and probably till the 1st of August.

After these meetings are over the Assembly will arrange for several special meetings in August and September. The expenditutres of about ten thousad dollars on this first annual meeting warrants the expectation that it will be a great occasion for the Lake and Northern Indiana.

The Assembly will provide ample accomodations for all who desire to spend one or more nights on the grounds.

All of the improvements are being made with a view to permanency and enlargement.

The music has been p laced in the hands of two western leaders of wide reputation - Profs. Excell and Gogg, of Chicago.

Anyone desiring full and particular information about the meeting should address the Secretary, Ben Deering, Box 610 St. Louis, and receive a copy of the illustated "Assembly Bulletin" to be issued about June 1t

May 23, 1889 - Argor Reflector (Indiana)