The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-25
IT DOESN'T; TAKE BRAINS
HEELS AND CHEEK ALL HE CON
SIDERS NECESSARY.
He TALKS ABOUT "PARL0R BAR ROOMS "
Fayors Broader Decentralization and tx.
PEGS TO See the Millennium When All
Chu ches and SectS Of Various
Doctrines Are United.

L ne largest crowd tnat mas yet attend
ed the meetings at the Tabernacle was
present last night Many people who
went were unable to get seats.
Genuine Discipleship" was DR..
Broughton's subject, and Matthey XVI,
81 was his text; IF any man will come
after me let him take up his cross aud
follow me-"
This text" said the preacher" is the
yard-stick by which Christ measures
his followers. Any sort of old disciple
doesn't please the Lord. therefore Jesus
gives a test of discipleship.
who may be disciple? Listen: If
any man. How broad. viii come,
continues the text. 1t must be Il willing
service. Everywhere l go l find folks
waiting to be taken by the hair of the
head and dragged into heaven. God
doesn't get his disciples that way.
God doesn't want spasmodic disci-
pies. Some church members come out
well enough when you have a revival or
n visiting preacher, but when that's over
they go back into their holes and you
don't see 'em any more till something
else unusual comes along. That is not
true discipleship."
1t has been stated that DIR. Broughton
is in favor of more liberal denomina-
tionalism in his church. That this
statement is true he showed last night
In discussing his subject, he said:
do you tell me God ever intended to
have so many denominations in the
world as we've got to-day? | believe
God gave the world one church. and
only one as outlined in the New Tesla
ment. Denominations are the result of
prejudice. / want to see the day when
all denominations are united, joined to-
gether in one solid phalanx. | believe
the millennium would soon come, for
we'd convert the world.
THE genuine disciple must not only
give up prejudice, but he must give up
sinful pleasure.
NOW don't misunderstood me. | be-
lieve in pleasure-only let it be innocent
pleasure | believe in smiling-faced
religion-a big-hearted happy religion
that makes not only the world better,
but brighter. That's the kind of religion
that's going to save the world. If you
go around here with your face as long
as your arm, whining and weeping
about hard times and poverty, you'll
drive people away from Christ and your
self too. Quit your poor house talk and
talk something good and bright.
Il don't believe any mother can be Il
genuine Christian and allow a deck of
cards on her centre-table. I'm afraid of
them things-cards. I'm afraid they'll
get up and play themselves.
II don't believe any mother can be a
true disciple of Christ and allow her
daughter to preside over Il parlor bar
room. BY parlor barroom / mean a
punch bowl. | don't believe, though.
that you have many people of that kind
in this church"
Rev. DIR. Simms: Not one that
know Of"
DR. Broughton: Perhaps not, but it's
just about as bad to be there as to wish
you were there Some of you would
have punch-bowl or punch, anything
else if you could get into society. You
are no better than if you were in it,
Those of you who feel that way de-
serve no credit for not being i'll it,
You'd be there if you could.
1T don't take money or brains to run
with that crowd, calling themselves so
ciety. | never saw the day when |
could not go in the best society Raleigh
ever had. I've got as much sense as
two-thirds of them, and am just about
as good looking. But it don't take
brains, or good looks or money either, TO
go with that crowd. 1t takes heels and
cheek, nothing more.
IF any of you people here are a mem
Der of that pooling cotton combine
talked about last night, you've got to get
out of it. | understand they've been
giving me blue-bloody blaze to-day, and
charging that l had personal feeling in
what l said, or that I'd been talking
with certain people. That's not true
/ know this town. I've lived here. |
fought this kind of thing III Knoxville
until l broke it up and l came near get
ting my head broke, but that made no
difference.
Il don't know anything about who are
members of the Raleigh Cotton Tx
change, but I'll make this challenge:
That there's not a man in it, engaged in
this gambling. whose Christian influence
is worth the tail feather Of humming-
bird in Il miserable cyclone. Let come
what may this gambling has got to be
broken up.
Take up your cross, says the text.
I've seen crosses up ON top of tall
church spires. I've always thought they
were in the wrong place. The other day
| saw a cross OH mans watch chain.
1t had a diamond in the centre where
Christ ought to be. And who do you
suppose had that cross? The leader of
German club in Atlanta. That's not
the kind of cross Christ means"