The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-29

killed. Whatsoever man soweth that
shall he also reap
~ have never seen q man. says Mr.
Moody. who has sold whiskey ten years
| and has not reaped drunkards in his own
family / wouldn't trust Il man who is
drinking whiskey at night, however good
he might be otherwise. I'd rather he'd
drink during the day. When man be-
gins drinking secretly at night you may
look out.
THE reapng will be greater than the
sowing.
AS in agriculture, so in human acts
We sow small things. we reap great
ones ] have never been so surprised
chagrindd and Inundated as when l
picked ND the News and Observer the
other morning and found that the West
ern North Carolina Methodist Confer
ence had sold itself out to the cigarette
habit. / picked another paper up ana
in that | read an attempted defense OF
the conference. 1t was an attempt ana
that was all. No church, however grand
its past history, however great its flu
ture prospects. can long live that gives its
endorsement to traffic that is hardly
second to the whiskey traffic
II was talking about cigarettes in n
sermon one day in Tennessee, and after
the service n man came up and said:
You were shooting in the dark. We
don't even allow cigarette sold in this
State; go back to your North Carolina
folks where you make EN- and denouncc
the things.
do you know, I've been ashamed of
myself ever since. There can be no
question about the pernicious effect of
cigarette smoking and nobody knows it
better than the man who makes them.
The paper in which they are wrapped is
bleached with arsenic, the tobacco is
soaked in alcohol and opium, the smoke
is filled with nicotine. Hot and poison
charged it passes into the lungs and
saturateS the tissue until it causes de-
composition and consumption, deadly and
rapid, sets in. 1t is self-murder. As
certain as you continue this habit you
are going to reap what you SOW. There's
no way around it.
From cigarettes DR.. Broughton turned
his attention to the Capital Club, which
he denominated bar-room, social club
and dance hall all in one.
II paid my respects to this club the
other night" he went on TO say. After
| did so | heard that member of the
ing to the Tabernacle folks about the
club, that there wasn't man in the con-
gregation that could get into it-that
they were too poor. Perhaps they are, j
said. Let some of them go wreck a
bank or steal Il fortune. though, and
they'll not find the least bit of trouble in
becoming members"
Then the Doctor discussed dancing and
evening dresses. He quoted Sam Jones
as saying that with cutting dresses off
at the top for ball rooms and at the
bottom for bicycles. he didn't know
where the girls would end"
You wear in n dance hall with men n
thing You ought to be ashamed to wear
in your own room with your sister-and
call ii an evening dress. 1t ought to be
very late evening dress-that's all it's
fit for You go out to dance with q
thing like that on. You dance until the
pores of your skin are congested, with
all the blood at the surface. Then you
go out into the cold air, holding on to
the arm of a little thimble-headed dude
who doesn't care anything for you and
doesn't know how to take care of YOU
if he did, You get home and sleep all
next day. You keep this up until there's
little hacking cough and one day a
doctor is called in. Then you find that
You are slowly dying from consumption
Mothers and fathers examine into
your libaries-look into the books and
papers and magazines that your boys
and girls read. Whatever is sewn in
their minds will spring up and bring
forth fruit. God only knows to-day and
destiny only can reveal the lives that
have been fixed and sealed by vile books
and nude pictures-yes, if you please,
by the pictures Mr.. Duke sends ont in
packages of his cigarettes.
Whatsoever ye sow that shall ye also
reap"
At night DIR. Broughton talked about
the objectionable Sim"
This sin, he said, was blasphemy
against the Holy Ghost-a belittling of
the works Of God.
Il tremble at many things men do to-
day. When a man lies to the Holy
Ghost he's coming dangerously near the
objectionable sin. l want to impress
upon you the danger of trifling with
God. No man need pray after the
spirit of God has taken its flight from
him. How long may we go on in sin
How long does God forbear? How long
before there comes despair? Once the
spirit leaves you, you are as much a
condemned man as any demon in hell.
| tell you il means much to trifle with
God as some of you in this house and
in this town have been doing.
You can no more save yourself than
a man can lift himself by his boot straps.
How high would he get? He would get
so high he would root a hole in the
ground with the top of his own head.
It's not by might or power, but by my
spirit. sayeth the Lord.
There's such thing as a man stay
ing away and away until he wants TO
do nothing but stay away. Two or
three years ago when you attended a
| meeting you found yourself reaching
| around and pulling out an old handker-
| chief to wipe away the tears. You didn't
want anybody to see you but you were
WnnninU juct tho