Dr. R.C. Beaman, beloved former pastor of Chestnut Street Methodist Church, decided last week to leave Tarboro today for Rochester, Minn., to enter the Mayo Hospital for operation for serious stomach troubles, if the specialists decide that operation is advisable. The following is taken from a letter received Saturday by the chairman of the committee appointed to write Dr. Beaman a letter of sympathy from the board of stewards of Chestnut Street Church:
“I want to express to you my profound appreciation of the words of tender sympathy from the official board of dear old Chestnut St. Their kind expressions touch me very deeply, and I shall cherish them unto the last in loving remembrance.
“Well, I am taking the last desperate chance that is left me, and at the urgent advice of Dr. Bullock, who wants me to go at once, I am trying to arrange to leave for the Mayo Clinic next Monday morning. Whether they will operate on me or not after I get there remains to be seen. They may simply open up the abdomen, take a look at the stomach, and decide that an operation would mean certain death, sew me up again, and send me back home to die. But if they tell me there is one lone chance, trust in the Lord and abide the issue. I am facing the ordeal without the slightest fear. I am in my Father’s hand and all is well …. But somehow I have the feeling, the conviction, that I shall live.
“God bless each of you, and don’t forget to talk to Him about your old friend in the great crisis which he now faces.” After stating that at the last prayer service at St. James Methodist Church Dr. Beaman announced to his congregation his decision to go to the Mayo Clinic, a news item in the Tarboro Southerner of Jan. 9 has the following:
“This announcement by the pastor has cast a deep gloom over the entire congregation and there was not a dry eye in the congregation Wednesday when Dr. Beamon concluded his short sermon to his people.
“In this short talk Wednesday evening the asked that all his members be with him Sunday morning at the 11 o’clock service, for, said he, it may be a long time before he would be able to preach to them again.
“The Methodist church has never had a pastor who is more beloved by his people than is Dr. Beaman, a man of fine Christian character, whose life here has been indeed a veritable benediction to all with whom he has come in contact. His life has been an open book and his sweet gentle spirit has drawn all close to him.”
From the front page of the Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Jan. 11, 1926
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