The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1900-07-11
July H.,

Have no more. Inc young fOlkS had good time,
bu: regular business was almost reduced to nothing
a good many strangers in the city, but they
came to have fun, and not to patronze dry goods,
grocery and furniture stores. Many feared for the
dissipation 1t is to the credit of the city that very
little drunkenness visible. There was some of
course, but it not the Streets and it is to
be hoped was invisible elsewhere
On Monday night of the Carnivars first day the
moral sentiment of the city was shocked by the ap-
pearance of some fifteen gamblers who set I'D their
booths the principal streets and began their work
or fleeing the unwary and the wicked 1t took the
moral sentiment of the ;lnut tweny-four hours
TO realize what hand and to crystaize and
the gamblers informed that they could not carry
on their business in Roanoke The prize fight was
also to be of the features of the occasion Prep
araiicns had been made and champion imported.
he same force which operated to suppress the gamb-
lers suppressed the prize fight The pastors of the
city, with few exceptions took action in the matter
The presence of powerful moral sentiment in Roa-
nokc is of the pleasing features of its life This
sentiment when aroused with irresistible force
On two previous occasions it has acted. Once when
the question of the suppression of the whskey traffic
became an issue and more than half the voters of
city of $4,000 people declared by their votes their op
position to this business Later when mob held
the city and when nine had been shot down in the
street and some thirty forty others wounded this
moral force once more asserted itself After that
awful night which came so Unexpectedly and when
all authority was gone and officials did not dare to
open their mouths, there not dollars worth of
property destroyed and not of blood spilled
The moral sentiment arose on the following morning
and placed its hand upon the angry and the turbulant
and stopped them. On the occasion of the Carnival
this moral sentiment to the rescue and saved
o'F city from the disgrace of gambling and PIE
been foremost in maintaining the good of one of Vir-
ginias youngest cities by active opposition 70 the
evil.
Church work goes The School of Methods
and the Carnival brought many visitors The three
presbyterian pastors are busy at work. The chill
dren of the First Church and of the Robert Moor
man Mission had delightful outing to Ivnchburq
Between three and four hundred were on the train
hey had chance to see the beautiful new building
OF the First Church in that city The BUILDING is
gem, of which all might well be vain The conqre-
CATION of the First Church have determined to raise
$500 for Foreign Missions this year. Upwards of
tour hundred dollars have already been pledged
Bethany, Woodsde and Vinton are all improving
since they have had the services of regular pastor
Some improvements have been made to the property
of Bethany.
The Second Church seems to be holding I'D its
end OF the work, and they have good congregations
mere plenty OF work here for all the pastors and
work tor more if we had them We need man so
much to look after work in the country around and
gather UP the Presbyterans who are coming to this
section IT some man who is able to support him
self in part would come, these might be saved to our
church.
SALEN-Sunday, July Ist the regular quarterly
communion was held in the Salem Presbyterian
Church. There was large attendance at the morn
ing service and the occasion one of precious interest
and solemnty. There were three additions to the
church, making ten in all since our report in April
to Presbytery. The first Sunday in July marks the
fourth anniversary of the present pastorae allusion
to which the pastor made in the course of the SER