The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-10-07
LEES CAMP MEETING.
COLORED PEOPLE ATTEND IN
LARGE NUMBERS.
The Singing Noticeable Feature.
Evangelist Gives Them Straight
Talk and They Heartily Re-

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Talk and They Heartily Re-
spond, Amen! Amen!!
Evangelist Lees camp-meetirg for
the colored people opened at the tent
Tuesday night of last week
Nearly every seat was occupied and
many were standing The service was
attended by three or four hundred
white people, including several OF the
pastors.
The singing was noticeable feature.
The Evangelist said it was the best
he had ever heard anywhere.
DR.. Greasy made talk before the
Evangelist arrived. He told the col
ored people to feel at home to sing
and say amen and hallelujah when
ever they felt like it. He wanted all
VINO loved Jesus to say 50 and those
VINO didn't he wanted them to learn
to love him before the service closed.
Rev. Mr.. Callahan told about his
first ministerial work, saying he was
missionary for some time among the
colored people. While preaching the
got L Is congregation stirred to fever
heat. One old sister came forward
before the close of the service, caught
the preacher by the hand and lifted
him over the chancel. The next
thing he knew he was under the
benches aud he was senseless until
after he was carried 10 his boarding
house.
Pastor Rush, of the colored M E
l., n1 hn
service Pastor Walker, OF the Zion
NJ E Church, offered fervent prayer
10 behalf of the meeting
Evangelist Lee, in his Introductory,
said be was glad to see his white
friends out He also extended
curdial welcome to the colored people
he said number of the best business
men In the town had asked him to
mold a meeting for the colored people.
He hoped to help the morals Of the
city-and he wanted the good to be
lasting. He did not want it to be like
the pastor who requested his sexton
To keep the thermometer in the church
up to 20 or 80 all the time After hard
work the sexton got the heat up to
the point desired. He then took the
thermometer and ran across the street
to the home of The pastor to show
MIN how it stood. The weather being
the door the thermometer was down
to zero.
"REPENTANCE
This was the subject of the Evan
pelist's sdiscourSe-and it was good
one The text was chosen from Acts
3:l9 Repentance is an essential neces-
SiJy for salvation, SAID Mr. Lee With
out repentance there is no promise OF
salvation. The first work OF the Holy
Spirit is to show US our condition and
then the remedy. All sin must be
oardcned or punished. He told his
hearers that when they shouted he
wanted them to have something to
shout about If you jump up on the
charge you for them," continued the
Evangelist He believed every sinner
had been convicted of sin. Some of
you when told about it by your preach
ers you got mad with him about it.
"Didn't you?" asked Mr.. Lee "Yes"
was the response by many. II begin
to feel at home already" said the
Evangelist.
"Some of you spend your money for
whiskey when your wives are hungry
and your children are barefooted. Not
only this but you threaten not to pay
the preacher. Isn't this so?("Come on
down tine line" cried one Old sister)
"The colored people are not the only
fools in Winston. There are white
fools too," said Mr.. Lee A colored
brother responded with hearty
amen" to this statement.
The Evangelist said he did not
know Of any race of people that were
more religiously inclined than the
negro. some of them, however, think
more of politics and the saloon than
they do of their own homes. They give
the barkeeper money to ouy the best of
everything to eat, while the cJlOred
men and their families live on com
mon food.
He discussed Third street again.
| saying 1t was disgrace to the town
| and the colored race. Said the faces
of the colored pastors burn
/ when they see theft members dis
| gracing their churches. He told the
| colored people that IL they ever expect
to elevate and raise themselves in the
estimation of the white people they
would have to educate their children
with the money they are spending at
the barrooms He advised them to
pay their preachers. He did not be-
lieve in aIraying the whites against
the blacks "You know the white
man is your best friend and the bar.
room is not" continued the Evangel
ist. IA voice in the audience said nc
the barroom was not their friend.
"Some of you pay the barrOOm mar
and let your grocery man go Witb0u,
his money" said Mr.. Lee, who adder
| hat he wanted to see the whites anC
blacks unite and build up Winston
both morally and religiously. Said b.
would have meeting to stir them vi
on the whiskey question. He bat
never won single election agains
the saloon without the aid Of the col
ored people.
The Evangelist referred to his visi
to p. H. Haues & Co g factory oI
saturday evening He said he wa
told by Mr.. Hanes that they paid ou
90, 500 for labor that day. He wanted
to know how much of that amour
} went to the families of the employees
He told about one colored man goin
| to the store that evening and payin
an old bill besides buying more gre
ceries than usual. He had bee
,, spending his money for whiskey. Th
Evangelist wished 500 others woul
do just like this man. He said 10 wa
I strange Prohibition works in the per
: itentiaries and lails.
He told the colored people that
: they had not spent their money Il
T strong drink many of them migf
9 own factories and homes, as well 9
horses and buggies. "Some OF yo
have to ride afoot-and In the wints
YOU ride with your big toes lookin
OUT said Mr.. Lee. Continuing
. said ii was burning shame and di
grace to see women going In saloon
.Have more respect for your sex, sa
The Evangelist gave his heare
Il good advice and his audience heal
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