The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-27
AND is NOT EDUCATION
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The Subjec' Of Last Nights. Sermon at The
Baptist tabernacle Was Heaven
Where Il is, What il is, and Who
Will Pc There"

Despite the violent wind and bitter
cold last night the services at the
Tabernacle Baptist church were well at
tended. Though the congregation was
NOT rs large as it has been on other
nights this week, the interest manifested
was much greater. Several persons pro-
fessed faith.
DIR. Broughton talked about Heaven
His text was from the fourteenth chap-
ter of John: Il go to prepare place
for you. that where | am there We ma!
be also
II always love to talk about Heaven
began the preacher. THE hope OF IL mas
;nspired more lives than any other one
thing in the world Blot out the nope
of heaven and life becomes blank.
Everybody hopes to get to Heaven one
day-the worst man as well as the pes'.
The hope of heaven is the one star that
never wrinkles, the sun that never diins
or sets.
.sIf If were not for the hope of heaven.
how could we stand by and near the
clods that rumble so heavily upon the
coffin that holds all that's dearest IN
the world-all our hopes, all our loves.
all our ambitions-our very life!
Il. What is heaven!
"rTbe text saws it is "A place. n great
many people want us to believe IT'S q
state of being. 1t is both. a place ana
a state of being. 1t takes both of these
to make a man perfectly happy.
Also it's a mansion. i go to prepare a
Mace for YOU in my Fathers house.
where there are many mansions And
over this mansion God shall rule.
-. Who'll be in Heaven?
This is a part Of the subject we don
like to think about. The Bible says
there'll be a great crowd there. John
saws, And behold / saw a great multi
tude.' ! have no patience with the Ut
tie narrow, shrivelled-up soul tnat
doesn't expect or want to see anybody
there except the fellow that has come
through his theological mill. "A great
crowd whom no man can number. Some
folks even here can't stand crowd.
The bigger the crowd the better l ike
il. 1t always did inspire me TO look into
the faces of great mob of people. And
don't care much what kind, of a crowd
il is, either I'd rather preach to dogs
than to empty benches, You can teach
dogs something but benches are dead
things.
1T will be cosmopolitan crowd--al
tongues, and kindred and peoples Yes
all. sorts Of folks in heaven. No select
set there-but black and white and ret
and yellow and brown, all the races
will be represented. DO you know
rather like that idea of heaven!
And just here let me say that those
of us who come up from the South VII
have to answer for the manner in whlci
we have Christianized the brother II
black. Now don't want to explode M
dynamite mine here, for l know It's
pretty dangerous time to be INDUCING II
this sort of talk, but in dealing with tn
race problem / believe We've got thu
cart before the horse. We've com
menced civilizing the negro before WI
have tried 10 Christianize him. We have
educated him and made him meaner
instead of giving him new heart ant
making him better. / have never be
lieved the mission of the church was L
educate.
Mind you. think the races ought L
stay separate in their religious work, bui
we owe it to them and to ourselves te
and the negro in it as much as possible
He is here and here to stay, and LEI
us make of him as good a citizen as pos
sible Christianity is the hope of th'
negro and the hope of the South in soiv
ing the race problem.
"One morning servant girl employed
in my house came in with tears III he
eyes. l asked her what the trouble was
oh I've just got religion, she exclaimed
and I'm so happy Fve-been reproach
ing myself ever since that day. ina
servant had been in my employ man.
wears and I had never inquired after thu
salvation of her soul. Now at famil.
prayers she comes in and kneels down
with me and my family as we call OF
the Lord for guidance and protection.
"The negro is going to be with us il
heaven. and the Indian and the China
man and the Malay and all the nation
and tongues of the earth. All Of then
will ne there, but it will be a pur
crowd. They had ON white robes an
had nalms in their hands, White il
tbe Scripture means purity and pain
leaves signify victory. Pure III near
and victorious over sin. Where did the
get their robes! Is there any slde-trac
between death and heaven where W
can STOP ana WISH Oui eioehc'7 ''HN 49,
palms? Not bit of it. As the tree fails
so must it lie. If you are not right whe
you die. you'll be wrong through a
eternity
-. What will we do in heaven!
John heard them shouting in HEAVIER
That's played out on earth. we ar
too proud to shout now. The BAPTIST
have stopped shouting Now and the
~ fai1 ta YaI
grunt. but that's about all. Even tn
Methodists have quit shouting. They sal
amen: blessings and thanksgiving an
honor to our God That means there
prayer in Heaven. Most Of the PRAYER
on earth are 'gime somethin'. GIN
somethn', gi'me somethin' don't ear
much what it is so it's something
Heaven our PRAYERS are thanksgiyn
and praise. The difference betwee
mans prayer and the angels PRAYER
promarily that angels begin with amer