New-York tribune., 1900-08-13
BROOKLYN NEWS.
.DENOUNCES CONEY ISLAND
THE REV. LEN C. BROUGHTON CALLS IT
DEVILS HEADQUARTERS
SAYS HE WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO
SEE FIRE AND BRIMsTONE FALL ON
THIS CITY-ATrACKS UNITARIANs.

A sermon characterized by an arraignment of
the Devils Headquarters" which he said he
reached by boarding trolley car for Coney Island
and marked by invectives against the liquor traffic
and prfzehghtng In this State was delivered last
might at the Hanson Place Baptist Church, Brook
lyn. by the Rev Len G. Broughton Starting with
the statement that he was going 10 preach on
American Idolatry." which he said the wor-
ship OF the god Of money. he continued by refer
ring to Southern lynchings, adding: When you
have cleaned up the rottenness at your own door
you can then fling the red shirt at the South
He closed his sermon by the declaration:
We are building up an aristocraey in this Geun- I
try more perncious than the aristocracy of Eng
land for ITS the arsocTacy OF weats - on6 1ea no y
antsr ana roc n The 6est societv bur another
steals a ham from smokehouse and ne serves
The devil never made any kick over a dead dead
hRs SAID ~ M sr9gsh19n %hen the eS @
IN my congregation am not frightened; Ills II Is "a q
Jesus to set a Trap You can always depend a
politician setting a trap And then came theolo,
fheoiogians Who are advance agents of the devil;
questioners rattling 10 the ground. .,
between man and his full duty TO God. There is
The idol OF comfort pleasure preIT6iGe ana &
ican Cod to-day. Men and women in BROOKLYN ana
New-York TO-DAY are tottering TO their graves III
two hundred thousand people are engaged =, IN
this country in the sale Of liquors. An enormous
amount Of money passes through their hangs % oo
each furnishing them with $1,000 worth of fur
uirllre and enough left to pay salary of $l,WO
ge9h e% a6d 50 cath cethoe gye FIVE dollar gold piece
every man, woman and child when MchlnieiX, ,t Is
seyeTsI 6oarishing banks in Brooklyn.
cent at b an crme 4E6ei Of @ This IS oo2ny Is
intoxicants And the reason why the nacK man mar
are in the majority in committing crime in the
South tand we Of the South know iO is because he
.Prize4ghting is another awful evil. The bull
fights OF Mexico never appToXimated TO & that 9IlEe 9
Z hgnI On 5 IuHg M II nose bv the news5oys had an
srInfuI. Yes nearly enough for roomfql fItend I
asked me what I going TO do with an those
prizefghting extras: I said was going 10 90 some
You may blow. huff kick and scuff, but I tell
you that the ~ ynchngs in the last twelve nouns
iahd iR 1 snd s0df' That pTzeehf on FRIDAY night Wien
you have cleaned 9P & me & 9g sbf at the south
! stand ready myself &c fight lynchng. -,
bting say ssy voa viii never be able 70 enforce it
II you don't change your poiceTnen;; me for
bid. they arrest COW. Oh yes! spiendio
Then another thing. determined when | came
here 10 visit the DEVILS headquarters, ana SO i /
which could not he tolerated in Christian country.
OF al disgraeefu des Seen exisf? II
EXISTS by your permission by the permission OF the
eity Of NsTS srss9 9Tk as any @ one &C can be- but if lived
here would be woman sufraglst an9 give ef dIIFii
The ballot 10 help wipe out some OF these Iearlul
inns Those miserable nude dances!-and thou
san SANDS Of fsf y9u9g d peGRe pG aox % this city to exist with
such things going on all the time / zen xi3a you i
would be surprised to see fire and f,ss ne
sodoro and Cionorrah. II 1 lived here would
start a crusade against Coney Island would get
ste sunnort Of all the ministers IN THIS CITY end
Wore than half in New-York. You might get the
In he morning Dr. Broughton renewed the attack
-, 49,. T-ri+arfsns which created much stir when
he was holding revival services in Brooklyn IN the
winter , -. -. -,..o.. +oya
a,-o1,nced nv return under big black heads as
though ] was some wild beast that had escaped
and had lust been recaptured. l nave peen crlu-
ciseS for what said that time about Unitaflans,
and n has been said that would not recognize any
church but nv own That is not so. have never
refused 10 cooperate with any Christian cnurch,
i,t a church that denies the divinity of Christ Is
rot Christian church and 1 will not cooperate
with such. That is the situation, ana II the Ohl-
aarians DO not like il they can lump IT.