The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-12
THE ROANOKE TIMES. TUESDAY DECEMBER p, 1883.
DENousoEs THE CHARITY BALL.
Kew l.. G. Broughton, tho New Calvary
baptist Pastor, Makes Some Strour Talk.

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Rev. l.. G. Broughton, tho New Calvary
Baptist Pastor, Makes Some Strong Talk.
Rev. DR.. L. G. Broughton, pastor OF
Calvary Baptist Church, in an introduc-
tton or prelude to his sermon before a
large audience Sunday night, took for
his subject the charity ball to be given
december Is, and to use popular
phrase, jumped on it with both feet.
Calvary's new pastor started out by
saying that in the light OF the RESPONSE
hility placed on him as q minister of
inc gospel, that OF a Waterman on the
tower Of Gods Zion, he felt it his duty
as faithful sentinel to sound tho note
of alarm when an attack was made on
the kingdom of Christ. He made no
apology for speaking of this evil this
early In his ministry and his citizenship
In Roanoke, from the fact that he
deemed 1t an opportunity to demon
strate this early the position which he,
as pastor, occupied in reference to
these great social evils.
DR.. Broughton then read from THE
ROANOKE TINES the account of the
charity ball and commenced somewhat
on the extent and spread of the enter.
tainment as being such a swell affair in
the name of charity, and pointed to the
Righteousness of the affair to make 40
much show for the purpose Of raising a
few dollars for aweet charitys sake.
he raised the question as to what this
thing really was and stated that whe
he was student at Northern uni
versity he went to Jewish synagogue
to witness kissing show, where a kiss
hn nj fot IL.
benefit OF the church, and remarked at
the time that he never saw such a ri
diculous affair connected with religion;
but he said, lit was not half go ridicu
lous as this ball which is proposed to be
given on the 18th in the name Of
charity"
He continued: "This thing is after
all but goat in sleeps clothing. AS
Bin Ne says: "A goat will be a goat no
matter what you do with him Tho
only thing to prevent his being q goat
Is to kill him This thing you cell q
Charity ball, though CARRIED IN tho robe
OF charity, that sweetest of all virtues
on Garth, is underneath full OF all the
rottenness of the old fashioned german
and 1T only awaits an opportunity to
demonstrate itself"
In reference to its object OF raising
money for the poor, tho doctor told all
anecdote he witnessed in New York of a
well-dressed man who dropped q nickel
street car conductor gave him for
change, and, when the car failed to
stop, jumped off after it, landed in the
mud, hurt himself, and ruined a $40
suit OF clothes, and, after all, spent
the same nickel that cost him SO much
to pay his fare on another car. 1t never
occurred to him until he spent the
nickel on the second car what a big fool
he had been.
So" said he, cit is with some who
will attend this so-called charity ball;
they will be such fools as to lump over
the dash boards of their church disci-
pline and some of tie parental disci-
pline as we'll, into the mud and mire,
which Is concomitant with ball rooms
and reap as reward in many instances
soiled character and under all circum-
stances ruined Christian reputation,
all for the sake OF so-called dollar for
the poor"
He concluded by sounding a note of
warning to the members of his own
church nos to participate in the ball. II
they were going to engage in sinful
practices, to engage in them as such
and not to couple on Christianity with
sin.
He also denounced the Society of
Kings Daughters for allowing any of
their departments to engage in any
such sinful practice and warned the
church If this thing was not stopped by
this society, in order that the church
should not be particeps criminis to tho
crime OF dancing, that it would wash its
hands Of the entire organization.