The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-12
A PREACHER IN HOT WATER.
ATTACK on ATLANTA SOCIETY BIT
TERLN RESENTED.

Dominic Declares IAcentfousness the
chief Charm of the Dance-SnyS
Atlanta Dancing society Is Cor
rupt TO the COre-MaISes an Attack
on Catholic Converts by Saying He
Would Rather Send His Daughter
to One of Them Than Into Soci-
ETY..
Atlanta, Ca, July 11.-Rev Dr. Brough-
ton, pastor of the Third Baptist Church
| has brought a storm down on top of his
head by a sermon which he delivered al
his church yesterday on the subject of so-
ciety
Or. Broughton is the minister who re
Gently made a tour of the disreputable
houses of the city, and then went before
the grand jury to give evidence on this
subject, after having preached a very SEN
sational sermon. The grand jury ignored
his assertions, and now he has tackled
society in a way that bids fair to give
! him about the livelest time he ever had
in his life. Since his sermon, many well
known society people have come out criu-
cising and denouncing HIM and his meth
DDS and some of those who feel that they
have been slandered, have even threaten
ed, it is said, TO thrash him on sight
Among those who have taken exceptions
to Preacher Broughton is J. Carroll
Payne, vice president Of the Capital City
| club. He gives him a decidedly article
thrust in this language: Or Broughton's
knowledge of society, Obtained from per
sonal experience, seems to be confined
largely to the dem-monde in the nude if
we take his own word for lit. He Is as
ignorant of the social world which he con-
dennis as he is of the Catholic converts.
which he viely ISLANDERS. We can't say of
him that his lips We're cieansed with a
burning coal that he might speak the
truth He is foul in thought and utter
ance, and violates that commandment
which says, Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor
1he gun of DR.. Broughton's arraignment
of society was contained in the following
paragraph of his sermon: There are
mothers in the city who had rather their
! daughters would get in society and go TO
hell than to get in with good people and
try to make the world better Society wo-
men do nothing TO make the world. With
them it is all for a jolly time They
| would rather so to one dance than "A dozen
prayer meetings. The fact is, they don't
go there. Religion Is too dry. The chief
charm of the dance is Righteousness, and
prayer meetings don't furnish this. /
| know what I'm talking about Men don't
dance with men and women with women.
! Married women don't dance with other
men unless they are unhappy. The dress
is licentious, anybody knows 1t. The posi-
ton is worse than Hcentfous How low
and degrading, and yet it is society that
does this, and we must not touch socie-
ty. Atlanta dancing society is corrupt to
the core A prominent character who
| scarcely ever misses a swell german here
told me that he had never seen one when
whistles were not freely used by both men
and women. If l had a daughter here
I'd rather put her in a Catholic convent
which l regard as next door to hell thar
to rush her out into Atlanta society
What pity these girls are here | tel
you If 1t were not for the shop girls ant
other laboring girls 1 don't know wha
would become of our churches Sunday
schools and other works of benevolence
This society crowd never viii do IL. nnC
yet they are imprudent enough to saw o.
themselves, poor, deluded, smple-mindet
creatures We are the best people of At
1apta