Goldsboro, July 17—10,000 people have heard Evangelist M.F. Ham preach in his big tent, seating 6,000, during services here today and tonight. They came from all the surrounding country for miles around, and the city people turned out en masse. Not in years has this city been so moved by a religious revival.
One of the features of the revival has been the prayer meetings each day attended by 4,000 or 5,000 business men of the city. These have been an influential factor as well as the strong sermons by the evangelist.
Evangelist Ham tonight read a letter from Supreme Court Justice W.R. Allen who lives in this city, in which Judge Allen says: “I feel fortunate in having the opportunity to hear you preach during the last four weeks and regret that I have to leave to fill an engagement with the law class at the University made six months ago.”
From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, July 19, 1921. Mordecai Ham was a Baptist evangelist and temperance movement leader. His sermons attacked alcohol abuse, Jews and Catholics. He said Jews, Catholics and blacks were working together to destroy white protestant America, and accused Julius Rosenwald of Sears & Roebuck of running inter-racial prostitutions rings in Chicago. In 1928, when Democratic Governor Al Smith was running against Herbert Hoover for president, Ham said that voting for Al Smith was voting against Christ and that these voters would be damned. In 1934 Ham converted Billy Graham in a revival in Charlotte, N.C.
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