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SK.OUGHEV. FOLLOWS "‘BO'B”
Staltoart Young Pastor of "The White Temple”, Portland, Who is "The 'Broughton of the Pacific Slope”, Assumes the
Pastorate of "The Baptist Temple" in the "Angel City.”
ITH J. Whitecomb Brougher, the
“Broughton of the Pacific Slope,” follow
ing the famous and beloved “Bob” Bur
dette as pastor of The Temple in the
great city of Los Angeles, with her
three hundred thousand people, one of
the most notable pastoral changes in
America has taken place. Brougher is
a sort of cross between Broughton and
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Burdette, both as to looks and preaching ability—
and to say this much is more descriptive than a
description.
The Golden Age recently paid loving
tribute to “Dear Old Bob Burdette,”
and we know our readers will be de
lighted to get better acquainted with
his stalwart successor.
Sketch of Dr. Brougher.
Dr. Brougher had a successful pas
torate at the First Baptist Church of
Chattanooga Tennessee, before going
to Portland, Oregon, as pastor of the
famous White Temple, where he was
the recognized leader of the religious
forces of the far Northwest. He was
born in southern Indiana, and his an
cestors on his mother’s side were from
Virginia and North Carolina. This
probably accounts, in part, for his fire
and energy in preaching, although
Brougher says, “His father was a
Methodist and his mather a Baptist,
and the natural produce of fire and
water together is steam.”
Educated in California.
Dr. Brougher graduated from Cali
fornia College in 1891, and has from
this institution the degrees, A. B. and
A. M. In 1894 he graduated from
the Rochester Theological Seminary
and become pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Patterson, New Jersey. Here he built up one of
the largest Baptist churches in the state of New
Jersey before going to Chattanooga. His church
in Chattanooga was recognized as one of the lead
ing churches in the South, and he preached to
great congregations there, as he has always done
in all of his pastorates.
During the six years he was in Portland, about
fifteen hundred members were added to the church,
and he was recognized as the leader of the reform
forces which closed up the saloons on Sunday,
shut up the gambling dens, put the slot machines
out of commission, and finally wiped out the red
light district.
Los Angeles Perseveres —And Wins.
When he was called to Los Angeles last September,
a universal protest was put up against his leaving
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Portland and he declined the call. But Los Angeles
was not to be defeated in its purpose. After looking
around the country to see if they could find a suit
able man for the Temple in Los Angeles, they came
back with renewed energy to Dr. Brougher and laid
the claims of the Temple Baptist Church so forcibly
upon him, that he finally yielded to what he believed
to be the call of Duty and Opportunity and agreed
to become the leader of the “Angel City” forces.
Temple Baptist Church has eleven hundred mem
bers, meeting in what is said to be the finest audi
torium of its kind in tne world. At the services on
TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH, LOS ANGELES, CAL.
Dr. Brougher’s first Sunday, four thousand people
were packed in the auditorium and hundreds turned
away. It is prophesied by knowing ones, that here
will be built up the largest Baptist church on the
Pacific slope, and one of the largest in the world.
Under the leadership of Rev. Robert J. Burdette, —
poet, humorist and guileless preacher—it has reach
ed its present standing in six years. With Brougher
as pastor, and Burdette as pastor emeritus, and a
number of paid assistants backed with just about
the finest body of laymen on the Pacific coast, the
Temple Baptist Church certainly gives promise of
becoming a great institut.oni
Burdette’s Beautiful Greeting.
From his resting place in far-away Honolulu,
where he is spending some months with his devoted
wife, the former beloved pastor of the great Los
Angelas congregation sent the following beautiful
greeting to the new pastor to be read at the
opening service, which occurred on Sunday, February
sixth: •
“A welcome with our lips, that hail him with
affectionate geeting of good cheer and brave en
couragement.
“A welcome with our hands, that will strongly
hold up both of his own in the war against all un
righteousness.
“A welcome with our hearts, that will enfold him
in the loving brotherhood of Christian unity.
“A welcome with our souls, that will knit them-
bring to the Christian church an ex
ample like this setting forth the beau
tiful spirit that should prevail when the hour comes
for laying down the burden of leadership to be as
sumed by another with differing methods.
It is great to be a leader. But it requires a
magnanimous soul to rise to the penacle where the
Cause he represents takes precedence over personal
ambition, and the glory of past years’ achievements,
for the moment to be cast in the shadows by the
rising of another Sun. This is characteristic of
“Bob” Burdette.
The public has for long years been conscious of
his magnanimity of soul and this crowning act but
endears his friends and admirers to this prince of
men.
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selves to his in the yoke-fellowship of
the gospel.
“With voice and hand and heart and
soul, a welcome from the church to
the pastor; from the people to the
preacher.
“Open the gates of the temple!
‘Come in, thou blessed of the Lord!’
Into our church; into our homes; into
our hearts! Welcome!”
“Honolulu, January, 1910.”
A Beautiful Lesson.
Such a welcome is not a surprise,
coming from our royal, big hearted
“Bob” Burdette; but how beautifully
full it is in every word and thought,
of just that Christian brotherhood,
that sweet spirit of the Master, that
should always characterize the feel
ings of an outgoing pastor toward his
successor. Yet, how often instead of
this hearty welcome of “voice and
hand and heart and soul” there are
the human jealousies more or less in
evidence.
It is refreshing indeed to be able to
