Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-01-30
CLUB LIFE VERSUS HOME
Rev. BeauChamp Goes After Mod,
ern Social Organizations.
EVIL IN THE Gu:sE OF GOOD
mo Place Where Liquor Is Dispensed
and Where Gambling Is Allowed
Can Be Made Respectable" Says
Trinity Church Pastor.

large congregation gathered in
Trinity Methodist church Sunday
evening To hear Rev. w. Is. Beau
champ preach his sermon on Modern
Club Life VS.. the Home"
After "A few Introductory remarks
in which he paid high tribute to
Governor Glenn of North Carolina,
for that gcntlcman's attitude in regard
To the temperance cause in the Old
North State. the speaker took up the
modern club and its tendency to dc.
stroy The home life.
He quoted St. Paul's declaration
that the time would come when Sa-
tan would be transformed into an
angel of light. and declared that we
seemed to have come upon that time.
Satan did not go about his work with
the oft-pictured horns and cloven
hoof. but as Il gentleman Of culture
and undoubtedly one of high social
prctcnsiOns. He had no fault to fin,l
with the God-given social instinct OF
man and he could imagine club in
which it were possible for good infIu-
ences to predominant over those Of
an evil tendency.
He was especially severe in his
structures upon the su.called take
cubs winch grew up under the Mann
law amendment. lie declared that
the charters OF some Of those clubs
were curlusllics. 70 read them one
would think that the organizations in
question were OF IL more literary char
actcr even than Il Browning Club,
and some Of them pretended to he
organized for purposes OF charity
He especially objected to the parad.
Ing oil charitable deeds before the
public, while the essential features
ol the organization, involving the dis.
pensing of liquor and gambling. were
zcalously kept from the people a,
large or were only known incident.
ally. But there must still be Il uil.
terence. said the speaker. "botwccu
what is essentially right and what Is
essentially wrong. Evil may still
dress itself in the guisc of good. for
hypocrisy is the homage which vice
pays to virtue"
No matter how many good men
hilSht DeiUnS 10 an organization.
charitable OF otherwise. il IL dispcus
cd liquor and permitted gambling.
ana buth oil THESE evils were an at.
tachm2nt OF practically every modern
ciup, the tendency was To degrade.
In laCi. he regarded such clups MS
even more dangerous than the open
saloon itself, Tor there young men
might drink in secrecy and gamble.
without fear Of publicity. white the
laws regarding Sunday selling wcr.
not applicable
he gave DIS an illustration the OK.
perlcnce of Il scnool-mate Ut his one
of the brightest young men he ever
knew. Following his graduation from
college the young man had taken d
position AS civil engineer with :,
Southern railroad. He joined mod
cra club in Montgomery, Ala. Up
TO that time he never knew the tasl,.
oi liquor But in the Cub he began
To take light wines and from thar
wetn to, the gutter; lost his pusition
ana today Is on his fathers farm
whcrc his people are trying to keen
MN out OF the way OF temptation
ms man had been offered a position
win ii South American corporation
at salary of $4,000 a year if no
would only sign pledge to leave
liquor alone, but he did not have man.
hood enough to take that stand. That
was one of many cases in which I'm.
club had ruined the individual and
the hCme.
There is not young man in this
CITY,. said the speaker. "wbo can
afford 10 become a member of any
club that disDenses Intoxicating ii.
quors as part Of its business. AS
ne goes into it he becomes i'm the
estimation of every conservative
business man less worthy of respect
and confidence. There is no place
where liquor is dispensed and wher.
gambling is allowed which can he
made respectable and helpful and
uplifting"
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