Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-02
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BOTH MINISTER
:. .ANDHUNORIST
Head of Temple Baptist Church
of Los Angeles is Visitor
In Honolulu

Pastor CT one of the ia:A st and
m st unique churches in tht L 4t2 ID
! States, and a humorist and le' tur1r
with. a reputation, extending from
coast to coast and from lakes to gull,
James Whitcomb BrougheT, d. d., Of
! the Temple Baptist church Of Los An
geies, Cal, is a visitor in Honolulu.
/ He is going TO stay in Honolulu three
weeks, but will not speak in any
local church while here. He is here
for pleasure, he says. 49,. .A. d.
IL am not altogether. a minister, 5
declared Doctor Brougher. Il am a
business man, a member of the firm
I OF Lord & Church, manufacturers of
character. People come, TO my
church because give them a chance
70 laugh. am stern believer in
the humorous as well as the serious
side OF life.
Imagine the Hippodrome. the larg.
est playhouse OF New York City and
OF the New World Imagine it filled
with people from footlight 10 the last
row in the topnpst gallery, People
the stage with big chorus choir, and
In front of the choir put a lean, up.
standing, shock-headed man. Imagine
all this, and what you have is not the
lIippodrome on a Saturday night, but
the Temple Baptist church. Los An
geles, California. with James Whit.
comb BrOugher, D. d.. in the pulpit.
DR.. Brougher belongs to the eccentric
type OF preacher, but he is not nm
couth or uneducated. He looks more
the political orator or the villain in
the melodrama. than he does the
preacher He has no fatal gift, of
beauty. He might be eonfounded with
lApDllos. but never with Apollo But
as he stood with his snappy eyes.
lurking under heavy brows, rowing
over. his audience. taking them In row
by row. tier by tier, box by box, gal,
iery upon gallery, mounting upward,
upward to the very top. to the fifth
and last balcony, one was sensible Of
q great and growing magnetism with
In the man. As he moved he gestursd,
leaning forward at times, one hand
upon his knee, his eyes narrow. his
pugnacious chin thrust. up: and them
he would straighten and stride to and
FRO again. a very plain. a very ordi-
nary looking man. But presently a
change comes over him harmonies ap-
PEAR in his speech; metaphors flourish
and sentences swing; periods are
rounded; the thunder Of oratory rever-
herates, and the spell Of the preacher
has possessed the man and the con-
gregation. The audience was keyed
by he mans histrionic power to a.
state OF nervous tension where the !
rustiing Of a program rang. In ones
ears like the. sudden breaking of q
wave upon the seashore. Sensational?
OF course he is SO was Jeremiah. Il
DR. Brougher is a preached. of unique
type. His ability to hold an audience
is surpassed probably by no other pull
pit speaker in the United States. Tall,
angular and gifted with a power of
facial expression possessed by few
men, his is personality that speed
lily awakens interest, and there are mol
dull moments In q service conducted
by him. He believes in entertaining
his audiences, not for the sake merely
of entertaining. but to arrest the at.
NelltiOH OF the IHulIi6TeuI uulll ne CdQ
drive home the great truths Of the
gospel. His rich humor is so inter-
woven with pathos and earnest reli-
gious thought that those who laugh at
his rare wit go away to ponder long
upon the serious messages which out
live in memory the lighter vein which
has its place in every discourse
DIR. Brougher is a brilliant pulpit |
orator. He is a mdch-sough a.
traction for the lecture platform As
a beauty tonic, Brougher's lectures
are better than anything you can buy
at a drug store Pay him dollar for
a bottle Of his heart medicine. 1t will
remove ali wrinkles, freckles and
blotches, and give you sweet dispo-
sition and relief from all trouble.
Brougher's medicine, with laughter.
improves the circulation and is a sure
preventive of DYSPEPSIA and cold, feet.
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