The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-29
SOLD OUT TO THE DUKES
SAYS THEY ENDORSED THE SALE
OF CIGARETTES.
He FavOas THE TENNESSEE LAW
Pays His Respects to the Capital Club and Has
Some Spicy Things 10 Say About
Evening Dresses. Great Crowds
Hear His Sermons.

The congregations that crowd the
Tabernacle Baptist church to hear Rev.
Dr. Len G. Broughton, who is con
Quoting meeting there, grow larger with
each service and the interest daily in
creases One of the largest crowds ever
seen in a church here was that which
heard him Sunday night.
Last night the congregation was not
so large, due partly, perhaps, to the
Indictment weather: but the interest man
ifested was very marked. The subject
of Or. Broughton's discourse was 'Pris-
oners--tae different kinds IN the Moral
World"
This subject. he said, was suggested
by recent visit TO jail. In that jail
two men under condemnation of death
were pointed out TO him. Both Were
convicted of the same crime, but one look
ed happy and was singing; the other
was the very picture of despair. why
this differenceY / asked the jailer.
THE hopeless looking one is indeed
hopeless he said. He has been re.
fused a new trial; the Governor has de-
clined to interfere to prevent the exc
cution of the sentence. He must surely
die. The other has been been granted
new trial. He hopes yet to be free.
And so also tonight there are two
classes of prisoners in the moral world
one without hope. To the latter class
belong those who die without Christ.
Il believe when man dies his soul
goes as straight to heaven as an arrow
/ don't take any stock In this intermediate
state business Mind you. / don't be-
lieve a man receives his full reward inn
mediately; nor does the soul that goes
to He'll receive Immediately its full pun
ishment The influence Of a mans life
and words go ON and I've no doubt the
last souls find from time to time their
punishment intensified. We've only one
account of a mans going to hell. That's
the rich man. He shut his eyes in
death and opened them in hell. That's
how Quick he went there. The man who
dies without Christ is a prisoner without
hope.
Mr. Moody says that to him the sad
dest thought in the world is that there
is n soul in hell, lost. and he might have
saved it. tell you it is an awful thing.
These graves that confront MS.
.(Hear me and quit looking around
at those people coming in.o
..The graves of those whom we could
have saved but did not stand TN ever
lasting accusation against us before high
heaven. It's an awful thing.
There's another prisoner without
hope. It's the man " no has committed
the unpardonabe sin. He's Just as
much a prisoner without nope rs if he
were already dead and in hell The
spirit of God has tlhe.. its Eight and Et
is in a lost state and tcere to remain.
This coming of the judgment day is
not with the rafting of chariot wheels,
not with the footing of horns. with earth
quake shock or cyclone violence. As
softly and quietly as on feet shod With
down, comes the Lord and w:.hdraw:i
His spirit.
1.-THE regenerated man is still a pris-
oner, tempted and liable to fall, hut
he's a prisoner with hope.
but let me say right here that the fact
that you are liable 10 temptation is NJ
reason why you should sin. I've no pa
thence with this 'oyersatcn by fault'
business, that SO many church members
Spring on the deacons. When they are
about to be disciplined for some mean
ness. The truth about il is they usually
overtake the fault. I've never yet seen
whiskey barrel with legs or demiJohn
chasing a man down the street. Most
OF these overtaken-by-a-fault fellows
start out in the morning and run the
very life out of them trying TO oyertake
the fault.
Another prisoner who has hope is the
uncOnverted man who is doing his best
] say stand up and he stands. i say
kneel and he kneels. If he does not give
M the struggle he'll eventually enter in
Il was preaching at a church some
time ago. / saw at the first service thai
the thing was as cold as Il wedge, but
/ decided to extend my usual invitations
ANYBODY that wants us to pray for then
friends. stand up ] said. Up popped
a little woolly-headed fellow. lie was
so small he had to hold up his hand
Nobody else stood up. Anybody wan
us to pray for them!' Up went tina
boy again. The next night the sanl'
thing happened. and the next and th'
next and so on till Sunday. In tn'
meantime. however, one Of the 'aacoh'
had come and said: You know tlat tow
headed hoy?' / told him | did, Wen
he's not bright. He's idiotic, and every
body's laughing about his silnl'ng ~
on every sort of invitation. If ! wef'
you ia tell him to quit told him I,
tell the boy himself. He said no, bu
he was mighty fraid that boyd thro"
damper on the meeting. 'Damper on nj
ice house! ! said. That boys the onl!
sign of life I've seen in this church, On
Sunday | gave an invitation for people
who wanted to join the church to COM
forward. Up came that boy. The dca
cons looked cross-eyed and shook thei
heads. but there was 10 way out of it
That boy answered my questions al
right and we had to take him in. Bu
/ had many doubts about it. for every
body kept saying he WAS an idiot. s.
that night i thought III test the thing
,.hody nnt any frIniIa thnV Wanf Ia,