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BOOKINQHAM POST-DISPATOH, RICHMOND COUNTY, flf. C. PAGE FXVB MCLENDON MEETING (Continued from Front Page) who went to scoff, remained to pray. The huge tent between Ran dolph and LeGrand streets has been practically filled at each night service. And the Sunday services have been attended by thousands. Fully 12,000 were in and around the tents at the two services last Sunday and the Sun- Aitr Kofnro AnA loot AA rrtA'iv i ucijr m-mv.. u.w -Mi tnuwwf i night hilly .2000 people were on the outside unable to find seating space within; however, they were cooler and could hear and see what was going on almost as well as though they were under the tent. One of the most far-reaching effects of the meeting will be the work of the McLendon Club of Richmond County that was or ganized last Friday night. This club is to ,work against blind tigers etc. A full report of this club is further along in this ar ticle. - The sermon preached to the negroes Monday night on ""Heaven" is also in this issue J and should be read and preserved. Also, the advice that he gave the negroes last Friday night. Mr. McLendon will preach Fri-j day night on "The Unpardonable! Sin," and Saturday night on "The J Judgment." He will hold three services this coming Sunday at 11 a. m., 3 in the afternoon and! 8 at night. The subject of the 11 o'clock sermon will be "Let i Us Run the Race." Sunday af- ternoon "Thou Art Not Far! From the Kingdom." Sunday! night "The Harvest is Past and You Are Not Saved." Monday afternoon he preaches to women only and Monday night will see the close of the meeting; his subject Monday night will be "And He Said Tomorrow." If conditions should arise Mon day that would warrant a con. tinui. ... 2 of the meeting for a day or so longer, it is possible that this may be done. But so far as ndw known, the campaign will close Monday night; that will be the farewell service, though, as stated, it is possible it may be held over here for a day or so longer. His next meeting will be held at Lincoln ton beginning in about two weeks, and after a four weeks' stay there "Cyclone Mack" will go to Richmond for a six weeks meeting. From there he may re turn to Fort Worth, Texas, for a "repeat" meeting. He is be sieged with invitations and it is hard for him to decide just where to go. Last Sunday morning he was carried to Samarcand for a ser vice for the girls of that institu tion. Sunday morning the four Sun day schools of Pee Dee mills will march in a body, 500 strong, to the tent (St the ii o'clock service, a special section ot seats to oe reserved for them. The three services Sunday should eclipse all previous service in attendance and interest. The climax is ap- ims unursaay; nigni mr.inight WM his best effort so far; McLendon preaches to men only othertj think the sermon on "Faith" at the tent; and a service for j on Sunday was Uie best; and still women only will be held at the others say the "Heaven'' sermon Methodist church tonignt by Monday night was the best. At any Miss Palmer. j rate, ALL are good, and it would be The account of the girls' sapper of invidious to make a comparison. Tuesday night is en page two. J KteeWhero m this issue can be seen : ttie "Heaven" sermon. The Post- COMING ' Dispalch has been unable to get the I Friday night sermon on "Be sure TOTHF STAR THPATRF I youl si1ls wi" filul you out ia its lflE 01 All IUEiAIIuj ' nntirntv. and is here nierelv diving mi m,t 1 : 1- A- HjT ' Monday and Tuesday, July 24th and 25th "WOMAN, WAKE BP" Matinee at 2:30 Night at 7 Admission 10 and ,25c. A few Oxfords and pumps that sold, some of them, as high as $5.50, now closing out at $1.50. Your size may bean the lot W. E. Harrison & Land Co. MCLENDON CLUB OF Club Organized To Meet Every Other Month To Fight the Liquor Evil. 167 Earnest Men Have Banquet At Rockingham Hotel Last Friday Night and Launch the Movement. Club Held Its First Meeting Sunday Afternoon and Elected Officers. Illicit Sale and Manufacture of Whiskey Must Go. Beyond doubt the climax of the great Cyclone Mack revival now in nrogrcss in Rockingham was reach ed nil Friflav niirht of last week ... wnpri i7 ,.mest men launched a movement that it is hoped will spell the death knell to blockading and blindtigerism in Richmond county., Friday night, July 14, 1922, should be a red-letter day in the moral life of our people. The movement start ed has far-reaching possibilities in fact, anything is possible with a united public sentiment behind it. Promptly at 6:15 Friday night 167 men assembled at the Rockingham Hotel and marched into the large dining .room. Mr. Ford, manager lot' the hotel, had the tables arranged I nicely, and the service, and meal passed off with quickness and pre cision. At the beginning Director Jones, the choir leader, brought everyone into closer touch With two snappy songs. Then Rev. Leon M. Hall, chairman of the McLendon HWhai'. j 1 On Sunday several hundred additional persons signed. Sunday afternoon immediately after the service, a formal organization was perfected. ' IThe following officers were elected: T. C. Leak, presi dent; J. L. Hawley, vice president; Carter, of Hamlet, Secretary; A. G. Corpening, treasurer. 'The club will meet the second Sunday in Ancust at the Methodist church in Rockingham at 3 o'clock. Other meetings will be held at the points, r , ,;CThe following is the resolution forming the club; it might be termed the mud-sill on which the club stands: Purpose of Club. sam "The"nanie of the organization shall be the McLendon Club of Rich rnond County. Its purpose shall be to consider and foster all movements looking to ST the moral betterment f the community life; especially to encourage and compel the enforcement of the laws against the illicit manufacture and sale JJJJ of liquor. To this end the membership of this club pledges itself to wage an aggressive campaign against ALL the violators of the law after midnight "Ion July 15, 1922. xf- rzTAll citizens of Richmond County who will subscribe to the foregoing ij purpose are eligible to membership. The Club shall meet bi monthly in some designated church." t "SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT." Extracts From Great Sermon Preached by "Cyclone Mack" Friday Night, July 14, 1922, at Rockingham. Timely and Wholesome Ad vice Given Negroes. Many think the sermon preached Mr. McLendon on last Friday extracts ns caught on the fly. , The tent Friday night was filled as usual, fully 5,000 people present. Of this number probably 750 were negroes (and let the editor digress just here to remind the negroes or colored folks -that among the leaders of Uieir race the term engro is generally accepted as being prefer- able to the word "colored." Of course no decent person ever refers to a negro as "nigger." The cornect word is "negro," as more typical of the race rather than "colored." JThe word "colored" can mean a lot and RICHMOND COUNTY meeting, called the assemblage to order with prayer by Mr. McLendon. The first speech by Rev. A. E. Dal las, of the Presbyterian church, his subject being: "What this campaign means to the churches of this com munity." Senator-to-be W. E. Har rison next spoke for five minutes on "What the revival means to the com munity in a business sense." Cy clone Mack then for ten minutes thrilled his hearers, taking as his text from lsiah, "Because they have cast away the law." He vividly pic tured the demoralization of blind tigerism. He was followed by Solicitor-to-be F. Don Phillips who pledged his full powers to prosecu tion of law violates. T. C. Leak then brought the meet ing to a climax by offering a reso lution, resolving that a McLendon club of Richmond county be formed, the object of the club being to foster all moral movements, and especially to compel enforcement of 'the laws against blind-tigers and blockaders. The club is to meet bi-monthly (every other month) at some desig nated church. Immediately upon of fering the resolution the 167 as one man arose and vigorously cheered ami enthusiastically adopted the plan. The banquet and speaking were concluded at 7:30 and the 11)7 men then marched to the tent, between Roberson ami LeGrand streets, and occupied especially reserved seats. Just before the siTmon was begun, Rev. Leon Hall stepped to the pulpil and announced to the r.OPII people under the tent that this McLendon club had lust been started, explaill- d the object, and dramatically ask ed all those who wished to become members to come forward and sign their names. A rush followed, and so congested became the space around the pulpit that additional pledge sheets had to be provided and a score of places for signing. All in all, exactly 1,003 people, men and women, signed in the course of fifteen minutes on that first night. call of the officers, and at other embrace a mighty wide range.") At the beginning of the service (as dwelt upon more fully elsewhere in the Post-Dispatch) Rev, Leon M. Hall stepped to the pulpit and an nounced the formation of the Mc Lendon club of Richmond county, and asked all who desired to join, for the enforcement of the blind-tiger laws, to come forward and sign. And immediately 1,003 signed up; since then hundreds in addition have signed, but this deals only with the Friday night service. Advice To Negroes. After ttuv 1,00:1 had signed, Mr. McLendon came forward and start ed his sermon; he had sp'oken but a few words when a new thought seemed to strike him or a different mood swept over him, for he abrupt ly stopped, and leaving the pulpit wc,,t ovw to w section occupied by the colored people and standing on a bench proceeded to qufoMy talk to them. He didn't preach, he simp ly talked and gave advice. And so wise and timely was this advice that the Fott-DLmatch feels constrained to write fcere attracts from what he 8aid- He begged the negroes to live above the clouds, to live transparent lives-lives so that their word can be relied on and worth one hundred cents on the dollar. Such lives that their employer can say, "This man or woman knows God and is hon est" Continuing, Mr. McLendon said, "God never intended you to be white, nor whites tc be black. If you take Jesus Christ with you, you will be honest, tin and virtuous, and you'll win. You've got to he on the square. When one of you go wrong, it hurts you all. Be clean; be decent; abhor evil. Run out your gamblers, your loafers, your adulterers. You can't expect white folks to respect you when you don't respect yourselves and yet many of you colored people stand for wrong doing. Start a clean-up ca- 4)aign; report violaters of the law and do not shield them. Live for Jesus and in living for Jesus you can be mighty well assured you will be happier. Why, some among you are so low down that you ought to jump in a slop tub and commit suicide! Change about; right about front; head up, eyes to the Lord and you will make, better citizens, more capable servants, and have happier lives." After tiiis talk to the negroes, which, by the way, was received with an almost incessant flow of "Aniens," Mr. McLendon returned to the pulpit and " took up tin threads of his sermon. His text was, "Re sure your sins will find you out." His Sermon. Only extracts can be given here. "You may escape the law,'' said Mr. HcLendon, "hut you ran not escape "HEAVEN" Think About Heaven (Sermon on "Heaven" preached by "Cyclone Mack" at Rockingham, N. C, Monday Night, July 17th, 1922.) "I am. not going to tell you what sort of place 1 imagine heaven to be. I other care very little for my or any man's speculations on this point. "A great many people have an idea that we know nothing about heaven, and that we are to be left in darkness. If the Lord had want ed us to be in ignorance about the future there would have been noth ing in the Bible about it. I believe that all Scripture is given by inspi ration, and that all is profitable from one end of the Bible to the other. Brother, if you are in dark ness about heaven get. you a con cordance and the Bible and go from one end to the. other, and you will that God has revealed to us very much about it, and what he has revealed is very encouraging and is calculated to awaken in every w ise and true heart a desire to go there. I had been preaching for some time before I thought very much about heaven. But one day the death angel came to our home and took my only brother, and then 1 became very much interested in the country where I knew he had gone and 1 picked up my Bible, the only book that could give me a de scription of where he was going to spend his eternity. I read about that city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God, and that Jesus had gone to prepare a place for us, and God would wipe away all tears from our eyes and there would be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor disappoint ment I saw in the Word of God that the day would come when his corruptible body would put on incor ruption, and his natural body would be raised a spiritual body, and that his mortal body would put on im mortality, and after the furnaces of the sun had been burned in cinders, and the stars had fallen like the withered leaves of the fig tree, his sould would be rising upon the wings of the morning youth into the glorious heights of a topless heaven and an eiiHless eternity. "The trouble is we are so busy in this world, we have so much to think about, so much pleasure, so many multiplicity of cares, so much of the world, that, we don't stop to think about where we are going to spend eternity. Now let us remem ber that it is not all guess work and speculation. We have associat ed with skeptics, infidels, agnostics, and unbelievers so much that we even doubt the existence of heaven. A great many people talk as if it is ALL sPeculatio' 1 think the consequences of your sin. No one ever sinned but what had to pay for it. You can't go wrong in life and come out right in death. He then dwelt upon the misery in the world resulting from disease brought about through sin. "If you start out and eliminate all disease caused by sin, you would be sur prised at how little disease remains. Every sin breeds a moral ulcer. You can't tell a lie but that your moral constitution is poisoned and undermined by it. You can't read a dirty book or tell a rotten joke but you'll breed a moral distemper in your soul. Read clean books: don't wade through fifty feet of sewer pipe to get one bright gleam. Red the Bible- the greatest and grandest of all books." And then continuing Mr. McLendon declared that whenever you find a slop-tub mouth, you'll find a swill-barrel heart. "No man can he a good hus band or respected citizen and swear. Blind-tigers are body lice. Rocking ham, Hani let and Kllerhe have been called a boot-legger's paradise here toforebut, bless Cod, let's right about face, create a genuine public sentiment and in future make those towns a boot-legger's purgatory. Many of you people have been to Hell for your education, and had the Devil for your schoolmaster." And as a last exhortation "Cyclone Mark" passionately declared that "you can trample the blood of Jesus Christ, but you'll have anaw-, l'ul reckoning down the road." An invitation lor those who would Confess their sins and give their lives to Jesus was extended then, and over fl.ftv came forward. and Have Holier Lives. .that we would have to beg men to give up sin and turn In God if they really believed thai these things were true and that Jesus Christ bad gone to prepare a home for us. If we thought more about heaven I am sure it would incite us to holier I living, and it would make us bright: er and more sunshiny, and help us to bear our burdens more bravely. Now the Bible does not fully answer all the questions about heaven where is it? What is It? And who will be there'.' Why? Because our finite minds could not fully compre hend even if He had given us a full description of the exact condition in the other world, and a complete! revelation of the heavenly home. It vvould be useless for me to speak to one of those little children con cerning the problems of higher mathematics; 1 might accurately de monstrate some mathematical truths but their little minds could not grasp it because tiny would not know what. I was talking about. Listen; our understanding is ground ed on the nature of the things which we have experienced or learned. We are now in a human tiiiit.' stage of our existence, with the limita tions of the flesh and the conditions of time and sense to circumscribe us, therefore, we can hot possibly fathom all the conditions in the other world. If I were to go into your backyard anil unearth a grub worm (the chrysalis of a butterfly), and I would speak to him in a lan guage he could understand, and say to him as he crawled through the mire and mud with his heavy body that some day you art! going to be a higher and far more wonderful being than you are now-, the time will come when you will have wings aglow with the radiance of the rain bow and you will fly through the golden sunlight, and have fellowship with the flowers, and sip the sweet nectar of blooms, and eat honey in stead of mud and filth that, would be beyond his comprehension, be cause of his narrow vision and low estate. "So our eyes "have not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered in to the heart of .man the thing for which God prepared for them that love Him. It is beyond our com prehension, but He does give us enough of the truth about heaven golden streets and tlu?se wonderful foundations and these magnificent distances, and these jasper walls, are we to take it in any sense lit erally? I answer, why not? But you say that is materialism in heaven. Well, why should there not be materialism then'.' Is there auy reason against it? We are literally steeped in materialism in the twen tieth century. In science, in eco nomics, in business and everywhere else. This age is overwhelmingly Materialistic. Tbwi w-hy should we be so sensitive of a real literal heaven, such as is described in the Bible? Transfigured and glorified in the hereafter now I am not talk ing about a gross materialism such as we know here in North Carolina, but something infinitely rarer and finer. Some people say heaven is a state or condition. I don't believe it it might be possibly better to btj in a heavenly state than in a heav enly place. It might be better to be in hell in a heavenly state than in heaven in a hellish state. If the Bible is worth the paper that it is printed on, heaven is a place just as much as this tent is a place, or that North Carolina is a place, we are not to be disembodied spirits in the world to come. But redeemed spirits in redeemed bodies, in a re deemed so iety, and thank God, in a redeemi I universe. Heaven is a place where there is going to be some high class folks, old Knoch that lived way back yonder when the world was young is going to be there. You remember he walked with Cod without a single break for three hundred long years and one day he walke heaven that God si up. so near to I, 'Enoch, come ! up and spend the day w ith me,' and be accepted the invitation and there's no night there and so he has just been spending the day ever since. "Abraham will be (here, who stag gered not at the promises of God; but believed God because God was God, and God's saving so made it so. Muses will be there, who refus ed' fo hobnob with the high-brows of Egypt, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season. Joseph will be there, the man that stood pat for his vir tue, and refused to submit to the in trigues of a sinful woman. Old Job will be there, the man that gave .he devil high blood pressure, try ing to get him to side step God. Old Elijah will be there, the one Unit defied old Ahab and Jebezel, and pulled fire out of heaven in three minutes and used only sixty three words in doing so. Yes, and all the purest, noblest, most unsel fish the world has known, all those who are spirit-filled and blood washed, and fire-baptized will be there, and the great omnipotent, omni present God, that has lived way back in the dateless days, in the beginning where ages were but drifts of foam on the mighty sea of time, away beyond the gates of the morning, and Jesus Christ the one that left heaven and clothed himself in the flesh of humanity, will be there. The world never saw Christ except, in disguise, disguise of hu man flesh, disguise of seamless robe, disguise of sandals, disguise of voice, from manger to Joseph's tomb, a perfect disguise, but. when we see Him in His glory, there will he no hiding of luster, no sheathing of strength, no supression of gran deur, no wrapping out of sight of God-head, but we will see Him in that world of light as He is. The Holy Ghost will be there, the third person of the Trinity, this one that has been here from the beginning. and has always been interested in all the work and works of God. The one who has been interested in the World's generation, and who has been interested in humanity's re generation. The one that took up the reigns of government on the day of Pentecost, and who has been making the truth effective and con serving true orthodoxes, who re proves the world of sin, of righteous ness and judgment. He regenerates sinners, and leads them to the world's great altar stairs that slope through darkness up to God. All the holy angels will be there; Ga briel and Michael and the covey of golden-winged chanters that flew around the mountain of Bethlehem on that first Christmas morning and sang, "Peace on Earth, and Good Will To Man,' will be there; and the great crowd of angels who to feed our faith, inspire eur hope, cheer our souls, and fix our heart's affections on heavemly things. "In John the 14th chapter, Jesus tells us that heaven is a place and we can see how this must be tins, for if selfconscious personality must survive, it must survive somewhere. (Sanaa fisMsail aa lap 11.)
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