The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-24
MAKES GRAVE CHARGES
"HONEST MEN CAN'T STAY IN
THE BUSINESS"
THOSE IN THE POOL FREEZE HIM OUT
False Converts " and Who They Are, the
Subject Last Night. "Why Prayer
is Not AnsWe ed" discussed
al Morning Service.
at Morning Service.

The Tabernacle WIS crowded last
night when the service began at 130
O'Clock. Every seat in the house was
taken and many chairs placed in the
aisles were occupied.
False Converts" was Rev. Len e..
Broughton's subject, and his text was
Kings xvii, 80: "They feared the Lord
and served their own gods.
'Everybody's got to have a god the
preacher began. 1T is said that there's
not country on earth that hasn't
god. | don't believe there's man that
hasn't one of some sort They say
they haven't, but they have. Man must
worship something.
THE people in my text feared the
Lord. Did you ever notice how quick
folks call on God when they get in
trouble? And they always get i'll trouble
when they forget God. North Carolina
is having pretty hard time about now.
| rejoice, though, that the black cloud
is being dispersed and the clear white
sunlight is shining through. But do you
know, according to my thinking, it is
not so much politics as sin and punish
ment for sin.
Raleigh, too. is having some ups and
downs. The hand of prosperity is not
being revealed here as plainly as I'd like
to see it. What's the matter? Raleigh
has forgotten its God, and you are going
to keep having ups and downs, until you
change your course in this respect
you are like the men in my text
you fear God alright enough, but you
are not serving him. And for this he
lays his hand on nations, States and
cities as well as on individuals.
Il was talking to farmer to-day. lie
used to be Il jovial, merry. light-hearted
fellow. But to-day he had long face
and a sad countenance. Once sleek and
fine-looking. he is now drawn up like Il
cracking. | asked him his trouble.
On, things are in an awful fix he
replied. I'm raising cotton for AZ cents
Il pound and / can't live at that. We
must elect a president that will put the
price of cotton up
Il told him that was not the trouble.
You must run the cotton gamblers out
of Raleigh. You must break up the
pool. They'll tell you to plant less cot
ton. But that's not the remedy. You
may plant only Il bale to the State and
as long as you've got lot of thieves
managing the market, you'll get nothing
out of it.
IAN honest man can't stay in the
business as it is now conducted here.
Just let him try it. The first time he
offers little more for a bale of cotton
than one of the fellows in the pool, the
whole gang will jump on him and run
the thing up and up on him until they
run it out the top and bust it and him
too That's their way of doing bust
ness You may talk about your gold
ticket, silver ticket. diamond. lead, pew
ter or any other old ticket--none of 'em
will bring prosperity to the cotton farm
err as long as they have to bring the
product to these gamblers.
There's not a man in Raleigh that
doesn't fear God. They acknowledge
him: they say he's a wonderful God;
but they go on serving other gods
That's what call a false convert. They
acknowledge God because they are
afraid: they serve other gods because
they love them.
'Who are these false converts?
Il. The man who is satisfied with his
own salvation.
HE was concerned once. Maybe he
cried then. He ought to cry. He's mean
enough. / believe in seeing sinners cry.
'2. Those who are not concerned about
others.
IF you have been saved you'll find
yourself concerned about somebody
else
y. Those who are satisfied with the
salvation of themselves and their friends
Go out into the highways and
hedges. Whenever man is converted
there's a convert born right there. He
hac In atrif of tln
Christ in his heart This is the great
principle of salvation.
r. Those who substitute feeling fol
service.
Il believe in the giving of Christian
experience. as our fathers used to do
There's too little of that now. But lei
your acts back up your words. / believe
in the experience of daily religion. But
don't let an experience stand in youl
way. I've known men and women tC
make somebody else's experience an idol
Remember that experience is largely ;
matter of the liver. If you want the
other fellows experience you'll have t.
swap livers with him.
-. Those that substitute pleasure FOL
duty
lie who allows his pleasure TO come
i'll the way of his duty TO God is false
convert. | wouldn't give the snap of my
finger for church member that goes
TO Il ballroom whether that church mem
Der dances or not. The theatre in AT
lanta is the curse of the church.
20. Those who refuse to give God thai
which belongs to Him.
Il believe the Bible just as certainI,
teaches that you owe God one-tenth OF
your income as il teaches anything.
thn
such "A hard time is that you've been rob
bling God | know / stole from Hin
until | felt like / was justified to kep,
on stealing.
-. THE only life in this world that,
really worth living is the life that's lait
on Gods altar. for God to take and d,
as he pleases with it, It's II great dea