New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-05
BROOKLYN NEWS.
DIR. BROUGHTON ON HEAVEN
HE GIVES HIS IDEAS OF WHAT SORT
OF A PLACE 1T WILL BE.


The Academy of Music was crowded at AIS
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, when the Rev. Dr.
Len G. Broughton spoke. Every seat was taken an
hour earlier when the song service by the Fske
Jubilee Singers began. The Rev Theodore s. Hen
derson, who presided. remarked. as he introduced
DR.. Broughton, that the large audience showed that
the power of religion not waning, although
a prominent minister hao stated that the power of
the pulpit was decreasing. DIR. Broughton spoke
Heaven" He said in part:
My first point is that heaven as final hope of
belief in christ is fixed and determined fact
Christ went TO prepare place This means ter
ritory with geographical location. some eau
heaven aea eever S W Du' pi--e-e uoeS 'o'
The way to heaven is plain. Who will be there?
that great multitude will gather around the
You can find them in Brooklyn, members of some
these CHURCHES get about What they
system You always find plenty of room IN caurcheS
somebody's toes now? It's so easy to get toes
in Brooklyn. If l am, Goo help me GA .,,+
there viii be COSMOPOLITAN population in heaven
Some won't like this, but we must cast all pre1u-
dice aside , .o. .. 10
cea VIII iR rs he
Of God clad in white. spotess robes, bearing palms
Some men live as though they thought the train
them to get out and wash their robes and wander
In the palm forests TO gather the leaves. zen
robes you will wake up the Judgment with soiled
robes.
We need to-day in our churches greater liberty
for worship. freedom from some of the time non
Brooklyn where If a man jumped up and clapped
his hands together, praising God, there would be
ing to place where we will not be afraid of prais-
nj Tbo Uuo IL W." U re a IN beerep hut tbev are
going to pray in words of praise: 1 want to t go
God. give something, give me something"
What will become of some of you people when you
and praying all the time! Why it's almost i'm
possible to get most of you to go to more than one
You ask how we are to wash our robes reply
Brooklyn church people would have US believe, or
by being. good but it is to be through the redeem
atoning blood Of Christ viii find his bed in the pit
of hell.
During the latter part of DR.. Broughton's re-
marks some one in the depths of the gallery. TAX
ing courage from the speakers remarks about lib
erty in praising God. broke out frequently into
such expressions as ''Oh, good! Oh. good! Glory
to God!'
After giving opportunity for confessions,
which was not taken advantage of by so many as
DR.. Broughton wished che meeting was dismissed
after a song.
THE HORTON LAW DENOUNCED.
There were fully forty-fve hundred persons in
the audience. Before the speaking the following
against the Horton law was unanimously adopted;
Whereas. so-caled sparrng exhibitions given in
the Roron law have f into nothing less
than prizehghts of the most brutal and shocking
character; and
Whereas. These exhibitions of brutality are de-
moralizing not only to those who attend them
and gamble the results of brutal prowess, but
to the vast numbers who read in the newspapers
the detailed accounts of these savage contests; and
Whereas The fair of the Empire State
has been furnished and the standard of public
morals lowered by the sanction of law given to
these disgraceful combats between human beings
for money;
Therefore, We demand the repeal of the Horton
law, recommended by Governor Roosevelt and
the enactment of such stringent measures by the
present Legislature will prevent public sparring
exhibitions in this State.