The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-25
BROUGHTON in MACON.
The Great Revival There Attracting
Large Crowds.

Inc Macon Telegraph has the following
short sketch of one OF Dr. Broughton' g
sermons in the Georgia city:
want to be practical tonight. T
want to get in your hearts. AS l see it,
the church of the Lord Jesus Christ has
LOST much of its ancient power. am no
pessimist. 1 hate them; they are the
cause of nearly .all the troubles we have.
We want men to-day who are capable of
looking on the bright side of life. But
instead of concentrating ourselves on
our Christian work, we should stop occa-
sionally and see things just as they are.
We have lost much of our powern
Here DR.. Broughton gave some inter
esting statistics, showing how little pro-
gress some churches made
Ihere is something wrong" said he,
somewhere. With such showing any
business concern would make an assign
ment right way. Some churches base
tnelr PROGRESS on the amount of money
they give to missions. What is the mat.
ter? There never was time when the
ministry was better prepared; we have
got all the influence needed, but that is
not power There is a differences big
difference. Paul had no influence, but
he had power. Jesus had no influences;
he was crucified; but he had the power to
bring the dead to life by his words Peter
Aie ~ hV iphuChCc, OuG uG nuQ WONDERFUL
power with God. Why can't we have this
power? We don't want it. 1t won't do
lot the anaesthetic and refined people,
II am going to tell you what accounts
for this loss of power. One thing is we
don't insist on rigid keeping of our COW
enant VOWS That was the matter with
Sampson. His hair WAS no longer than
mine, reckon, and had no more strength
in 1T, nut it was sign of his vows, and
when he put his head in the lap of Deli
lah and was shorn of IL, he was deprived
of his work OF separation from the world.
And that's what's the matter with us
we put our heads in the lap of the world
and are shorn of I'LL the distinctions that
separate us from it. The line of separa-
ton must be kept up. It's a straight
jacket gospel, but it's all right
IN Again, church members have .lost,their
love fol the church-vows given up. We
have substituted formality for worship.
We don't know much about the latter to.
day Ill city churches. Two people cannot
sing out of the same book unless intro
duced, they can't shake hands with stran-
gers-their 'raisin' won't allow it. We
want to get rid of that and come down
to real old fashioned heart worship. The
most dlgniiied thing ever saw was nm
Egyptian mummy. 1t hadn't breathed
in $500 years. If it did breathe once it
would lose its dignity.
Another cause for the loss of power is
the greed for gain. We are after human
things instead of divine things. There's
the insatiabls thirst for more. Never
satisfied. 1t saps the spiritual life of the
church. Talk about squeezing II dollar
until the eagle hollers; if that were posi-.
BILE the world would be full of screams
from the pockets Of so called Christians.
We have departed from the light way to
raise money for the Lords kingdm.
There's too many cake walks and potato
walks and kissing frolics and sideshows.
There are even charity balls. ~
DIR. Broughton here touched up the
hospital barbecue. 1.-THE social club is
the devils traps for souls. tell you this
social club life is the hotbed of hell
And then such places come together and
give entertainments for sweet charity
sake-the idea is .preposterous, it is iniq-
uitious. l know about this club life.
Governor Northen, after four years
official residence in Atlanta said that the
Capital City Club was the most mon
strons demon at work in that place.