Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-07-10
A LARGE MAJORITY
SIGN THE PETITION
Tazewell County Shows Up Well
in Asking For Right to Vote
on Statewide Prohibition.


on Statewide Prohibition.
l wish, through the columns of
your paper, to express my most sim
cere appreciation to the temperance
workers of Tazewell county who sup
ported me so loyalty, and worked so
diligently, in securing signers to the
petition which is to be presented to
the Governor, asking him to call he
prohibition election for Sept. %, 1914.
Nineteen hundred and thirty four
voters signed the above mentioned
petition. Almost every inan to whom
blank petition was mailed throw
down his work and went out after the
voters. Tho enthusiasm which some
OF the workers manifested was truly
inspiring
| think that ninety-fvc per cent.
Of the men approached signed the
petition chcerfully. The actual fight
Is Just beginning and il makes my
blood fairly tinglc" to be in it. IL
VIII not be an easy victory for we
wrestlc not against flesh and blood
alone but against brains, rum, greed
and devils. Virginia is going dry!
! advise all who feel able to send
one dollar FOR three months sub
scription to the Richmond Virgininn
or Roanakc Evening World. Both arc
dailics, are interested in Statewide
Prohibition, and will give you facts.
G. II. BROWN.
Baptist Revival Closed.
Rev. Mr.. Wiley, the evangelist,
closed his series of meetings here
last Sunday with three services.
AZ ii o'clock he preached to II large
audience in the Baptist church. At
3 p. M he held n young peoples
meeting in the Methodist church, and
nj night preached to large crowd in
the Presbyterian church. At each of
these services there were professions
of faith and n desire expressed to lead
the Christian life by number of peo-
pie.
AT the morning service in the Ban
tist church II collection was taken.
which supplemented by cash offer
ing on Sunday night amounted to
about $500. This amount will 20
into the Treasury of the Board, which
employs the evangelist, and four 9th
ers laboring in this State. Mr.. Wiley
greatly endeared himself to the peo-
pie here during his short stay. He is
,,t. al. l..
sccratcd Christian, and preacher of
unusual power. His knowledge of the
Bible and his absolute conviction of
its truths, show conspicuously in all
his sermons. He has had wide expe
ricncc in cvangelistic work and also
IN tho pastorate. His greatest work,
perhaps, was the founding and main
tanning for years of the now well
known Nineteenth Street Mission. in
Richmond, where nightly for years,
men and women of all characters
were reached and saved Through
the work of this good man and his
godly wife, ably assisted by others
whom he drew to his help, hundreds
OF people who belonged to the down.
and-out class, were put on their feet
again, many of whom are useful cit
izcns of Richmond and the country
today.
He was business man of Rich
mond, and he says himself, in the
and slavery of sin, and was
80 marvelously and mercifully deliv-
cred himself, that he was impelled
he says, to go after others, and he
went and has been going for years.
In the meantime, he felt it his duty
to sever his com. sction with the Meth
odist church, which he did, joining the
Baptists. or course this step sew
cred his connection with the mission,
which was established by the Meth
odists of Richmond Mr.. Wiley, with
i've others, is employed by the Bap-
list State Mission Board Of Virginia,
and paid by this Board to hold evan
gelistic services all oyer the State.
His ministry in Tazewell,, short tho
It was, will be long remembered and