The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-26
CROWD HEARS
DR.. BROUGHTON
Many People Turned Away
From Tabernacle.
THE INTEREST INCREASES
THREE SERVICES TO BE HELD
ON SUNDAY.
ONE OF THEM AT METROPOLITAN HALL
No Room for Christ" Was The Subject of Last
Nights Sermon Regular Services
This Morning and Again
This Evening.

The largest crowd that has yet attend
ed the meeting now in progress at the
Tabernacle Baptist church was prcsen;
last night.
People were packed in the large audi
forum like sardines in a can, and even
then a great number were rurncd away.
Also greater interest was manifested
than at any service heretofore.
These services will be continued 10 day,
as usual, and Sunday. There will BE-
preaching this morning n 1850 and t.
night at 7:3o o'clock. Tomorrow DR..
Broughton vii preach a IL o'clock, at
3 and at 7:3O. The o'clock service will
he in Metropolitan Hall.
Tonight the subject of the sermon will
he "Heaven-where il IS, what il IS.
who'll be there, and wha1 they'll do"
Sunday morning Dr.. Broughton Will els
cuss THE Main Matter in the Higher
Life" In Metropolitan Hall he will
talk about Sowing and Reaping, or
Sparks from the Devils Anvil" Sunday
nights subject will be THE Cnpardon-
able SIM"
Last night his subject was Room for
Christ" based OH Lake IL. z There is
no room in the iln."
Everybody in Palestine had to go an
nually back TO the place of their nativity
and pay their taxes" SAID the preacher
in the beginning Of his discourse,
THAT is why Mary and Joseph had
gone to Bethlehem. They went to the
hotel. They asked to be received as
guests They were met with the response,
There's no room i'll the inn'
Now this hotel may have really been
crowded, or pehaps it was not. and there
were other reasons Way the proprietor
didn't want Mary and Joseph there.
"The other day in Atlanta | started
TO see Il certain member ue NY church. ]
saw her at the window as | turned the
corner She didn't think | did. but
did just the same. / rang the bell and IA
little girl came / asked for he lldy
Mama said tell you she was out Oh she
did! Well is she out? TN 20 back and see
what she says
Perhaps that's the way It IVES with
that hotel keeper when he said, 'Tbtre's
no room in the inn.'
Maybe it was because Mary and
Joseph were poor. Their clothes were
not good enough. Too often We judge poo
pie by their clothes. We turn down
many a man and many Il woman on &C.
count Of the clothes they wear. whcs,
if we would 90 little deeper we'd
find heart as true as steel.
II knew a girl once who was about to
marry a dude-you know what that ls.
He was a very dudy dude. Her mother
demonstrated with her, told her the fai-
low had no sense or anything else. Yes,
| know mama, but hasn't he got pretty
foot! was the girls reply.
1--WE no doubt that if that old skin
flint hotel keeper had dreamed that the
Christ was going to be born that night
he'd have made place for Mary aud
Joseph. What an opportunity it WIS he
missed by his ignorance. You know
there's nothing hotel likes so well IS
free advertising. And what a earl II
would have been for that old hotel is
Bethlehem to have had the Christ born
in it, and the wise men coming there
and the angels singing around it.
Because of their ignorance they missed
the greatest blessing that could have
ever come to them. They crowded
Is there no room in your heart for
Jesus Christ? Are you, too missing tho
greatest blessing that mortal man car
attain?
"Oh. yes, there's room for all else
There's room for triekery and traffick
ing. but there's none for Jesus. You g,
rushing along striving for the almight,
dollar all the time, and all the time
sinking down to Hell. Too busy, yol
say. Who gives you the business. wh'
gives you life?
And you mother, you've got time t,
teach your daughter how to dance, bow
and smile; how to bang her hair, pain
her cheek and dress becomingly. Why
have you no time to teach her the wa,
of the meek and lowly Christ?
Even in some of the churches to-day
there's very little room for Christ
There's room for all sorts of preaching
all sorts of singing. They preach abou
anything but religion and put at thei
back little patent concern to whispe
and giggle while they preach. know
young preacher who was invited to
church to give them a sample. lie wa
one of these fellows that did not car
whether you sang the doXology IN IN
beginning Of the service, at the end o
$ in the middle. or indeed whether yo'
sang it at all or not. lie was after soul
and he didn't care much about how h
was to get them. When that fellow
went away the deacons met and unanl
mously decided that he had too much re
ligion for that church; and it was tn
truth, too.
There are too many lives, too man.
churches like the old hotel in Bethlehem
there's no room in them for Christ.
Pm glad there was one place wher
Jesus could find a place, though it wa
only a horse stable. I'll tell you ever
to-day you'll often find Jesus out in tn
stable when he's not in the great house.