Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-10-01
PROHIBITION PROSPERS.
A GREAT DAY OF PROGRESS
FOR THE CAUSE IN COLDS
BORO YESTERDAY.
The Baptist Church Thronged Last
Night to Its Utmost to Hear
Rev. r. G. Beaman's Thrill
ling Arraignment of
the Liquor Traffic.
Daily Argus, Sept. %.

Daily Argus, Sept. %.
The high water mark was reached
yesterday in the Anti-Saloon cam
paign in our city. The Rev. r. C.
Beaman, of Durham, was the central
| figure of the day. In the morning
he preached an eloquent and power
full sermon in ST. Paul's M. E. church,
from the text, "Who Gave Himself
For Our Sins'' etc., Gal. Ia. The
large auditorium was we'll filed.
While the ushers were taking up
the morning offering Mrs. William
Douglas sang a beautiful solo, which
moved the hearts of all her hearers
to deeper religious sentiment.
The sermon was an eloquent and
forceful presentation of the central
theme of the text, the gift of Gods
love in the person of our Saviour.
The interest of the day, however,
centered in the Mass Meeting held at
eight O'Clock last night in the First
Baptist church. By half past seven
the people began to enter the build
ing, and by eight o'clock the floor,
the gallery, and all the Sunday
School room available were crowded
to their utmost capacity. The SER
vices we're entirely informal. Some
singing by the efficient choir, brief
prayer by the Rev. M. Bradshaw,
and sentence or two of introduction
constituted the preliminaries. Mr..
Beaman is a man of commanding
presence and of fine appearance ON
the rostrum. He spoke last night
for one hour and fifteen minutes, and
during the entire discourse held his
audience in rapt attention. It was
large caliber, rapid fre-cannon
from beginning to end, before which
the walls Of the enemy crumbled.
He said he did not come here to
handy epithets with saloon men nor
their friends, that he made no war
on individuals, but upon the saloon
as an institution, and this he dis
cussed from three points of view:
the business the humanitarian, and
that of the home.
All his propositions were plainly
and fairly stated, and such was the un-
erring power of his logic, the aptness
and force of his illustrations, and the
abounding pathos of the whole, that
it is Uncomfortable that any man
present, who loves Goldsboro and
seeks intelligently to promote the
city's welfare, who appreciates the
nobler virtues of manhood, would
vote on the eighth of October for the
saloon to continue in Goldsboro. He
gave trustworthy authority for the
statement that if the money which |
1aboring men pour into barroom tills |
in this country within the space of
ten years were devoted to the pur-
chase of homes it would provide
every homeless man and woman in |
all this broad land with a comfort |
able home; that the same amount de- |
voted to the purchase of the railroads
of this country would make the Ia
boring men, in our mines. in orr
factories and fields, the owners of
every mile Of rail over which bounds |
the Kissing locomotive, drawing it's
loads of merchandise or of human
freight. He made a conseryative>l
estimate of the amount of money
that, if the saloons are permitted to
run in Wayne county, will! be spent |
in them for liquor within the next
ten years, and proved conclusivelv
that it will be sufficient to blly and |
furnish homes for every man and
woman in the county who own no |
homes to-day.
The issue with ms is clear cut. Let