Camp-meetings, gatherings of devout persons, held usually in thinly-populated districts, and continued for several days at a time, are especially associated with Methodism in America. Their introduction into England (1799) led to the separation of the Primitive Methodists from the Wesleys. See BOURNE (HUGH).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 688
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