Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-01-30
NEWS OF THE STATE

FAlhMON1, w. va. Jan Zc.--i ne Ii
Union Evangelist Services being
held at three Fairmont churches To- 4
Gated in different parts of the city
are proving very successful. 1t is /
the first time that a real revival" |
service has been conducted in Fair
mont since the Lyons tabernacle
meeting seven years ago. This lapse
in religious interest is not due, how
ever, to decline in spiritual things
but to condition which had no REM
edy for in recent years it has been
impossible to heat churches with the
decreasing supply of gas and the
regular Sunday services We're FREE
quently abandoned in Fairmont. For
tunately weather conditions have fa-
vored revivals this winter and there
is a religious awakening throughout
northern West Virginia which is
very gratifying to church workers.
The main revival at Fairmont is
being held in the First Methodist
church, one of the finest churches in
the state. The fact that there has
been no worry about heat was mem
toned on the opening night along
with jest about the leader Of the
community singing being named
James Heaton. There has been a
change made in the furnace of that
cb,1,.eb ca +ha4 onaJ no., - ,,.oI -.
well as gas which assures a con-
tinuous meeting assurance required
as attempts to conduct big meetings
at that church in recent years had to
be abandoned owing to lack of gas.
The ministers are taking leading
church members to task who do not
live lives that would be expected of
church members, those protesting re-
ligion. Dr. j. G. Bloomfield led off
in this direction by charging that the
court house ring" had no difficulties
in securing whiskey under prohibit
ton, intimating that those identified
with this crowd or stand in with it
could secure booze. This charge brot
forth the announcement that it had
been discovered that panel of the
boozeroom in the court house had
been manipulated SO that it could be
removed and the door unlocked. The
explanation for the disappearance of
whiskey and wines was discovered by
putting electric bells in the room ac-
cording to an explanation printed in
The Fairmont West Virginian. DR..
w. J. Eddy preached a sermon during
the first week of the meeting which
was directed at card playing and
dancing, in which he questioned the
wisdom of parents in permitting
young folks to participate in either.
The ministers take different nights
during the meeting but there is no
way of showing in advance which
one will talk. The sermon of Rev.
Charles D. Mitchell was notable one
for he urged that the revival" plan
ned could be helped along best by
the church members getting in the
right mood. He advocated a religion
without Hypocrisy or cant.
Meetings are being held at many
points in northern West Virginia
and while Kingwood and other towns
have had shortages Of gas (which
have served to decrease interest in re
ligious work to an extent the period
following the war is. expected to be
long remembered for its religious ac-
4 tivities.
MOUNDSYILLE, W. Va. jan
Moundsville has no public auditorium
which has led the progressive citizens
to favor a soldiers memorial which
is to include hall-not an opera
house as some people seem to have
been led to- believe. The plan is to
have the building house the public
library and possibly it will be arrran-
ged for the Y. M. c. A. to have space
in the building.