The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-12
CHURCHMEN
ENDORSE
LIQUOR
Matter Up in Four.Mile-
Creek Church.
EARNEST WORDS
OF THE MINISTER
Anyone Offending Again Must
Leave the Church.
WARMING TO THE PASTOR
is WRITTEN ON WINDOW
Resolutions Adopted to Go Before the
Dover Association Setting Forth
that the Church Does Not In
ANY Way Favor Sale Of
Liquor-Cyclone's
Pledge.
Anyone Offending Again Must
Leave the Church.
WARNING TO THE PASTOR
is WRITTEN ON WINDOW

According to reports received at Henrioo
Courthouse yesterday, the services at the
Four-Atile Creek Baptist Church on Sun
day morning last were unusually inter
esting.
For some time past It has been an open
secret that several members OF the con-
gregation had placed their signatures TO
the petitions which under the Mann law.
a saloonkeeper had to draw up before
he could obtain a regrant OF his license.
The Dover Baptist Association in which
the church holds membership. has for
some time been laundering about whiskey
in the churches and the petitions present.
ed new phase OF the subject which
created considerable Of stir.
PREACHED ABOUT IT.
On Sunday morning last the Rev. G..
II. Sheriff, pastor of the congregation,
preached to the Four-Milc Creek people
and In his sermon he took to task such OF
the members as had placed their names
on the petitions.
The sermon was in no sense OF tho
word an intemperate one Mr.. Sheriff
said he believed many persons had sign
priety in church-member to do So In
the future, however. the members must
not do 1t and he did not believe they
would
But right there came an interruption,
In the midst of Mr.. Sheriff's sermon,
young man arose and declared he knew
a prominent member of the church who
not only admitted that he had signed a
petition but declared he would do SO
n gain when the occasion arose.
'Then ne will have to leave this church
or shall" the pastor Is reported to
have said.
PAPER TO DOVER ASSOCIATION. +
with a view to making the position OF
the church plain to Dover, Mr. Sheriff
presented paper which he had drawn
up setting forth to the Association that
the church did not endorse the sale OF
whiskey and that furthermore 1t did not
sanction the action Of some Of Its mem
hers in signing the petitions. inc ma
jority of the slgners, 1t is said, were NOT
ut church, The paper was adopted una
nimously. But after the service rather
startling discovery was made upon q
window pane, whether they meant any,
thing or not, were Inscribed Woras say
10 have been these: Look out, Sheriff.
Constable samuels. who was present
throughout the service. gave an account
of the meeting substantially similar with
The above. The Constable was one OF
those who signed the petitions. He says
that after the service he explained to
Mr., Sheriff why he did so, and Indicated
to the minister that II requested to do SO
again he will refuse. II would rather have
the flyc fingers Of my rignt hand cut on
than sign another petition" said tho
Constable yesterday.
In the County Court, which met yes
terday for the May term, three whiskey
licenses were granted under the Mann
law. The applications were postponed
last month that the men might have more
time to work on their petitions s. L..
Henley, who had to have over $50 sigma
lures, was granted retail license to sell
at Short Pump In Tuckahoe District; =.