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2 BROUGHTON LEADS MACON REVIVAL FAMOUS LONDON-AMERICAN PREACHER IS INTRODUCED BY DR. J. L. WHITE, HIS OLD WAKE FOREST SCHOOL MATE— j , "MORE RELIGION AND LESS MACHINERY,” SLOGAN OF AUDITORIUM MEETING. flgßSfr iIMBSI Tis a great thing—a picture of old-time naturalness, to see Len G. Broughton and J. L. White yoked up together again—and that is what we are seeing in Macon, tlic “Central City” of Georgia, this week. - During the Atlanta Bible Conference last spring, Dr. White, who had but recently re turned to Macon as pastor of he Vineville Avenue Baptist church, wired Dr. Broughton to come to Macon in September for a week’s preaching at the City Auditorium. Now Broughton loves his old Wake Forest schoolmate so well that J. L. White generally gets whatever he asks of Broughton. And as for me, the opportunity for a few days of fellowship and inspiration, with the pulpit editor of The Go’den Age who has been my unselfish friend for years, was such a wholesome temptation that I was ■« ready to yield—T was like the old woman in Carroll couniy said about going back to live with her husband after they had been separated: ”1 was mighty glad to get the chance.” Tin* Baptist churches of Macon are all unit ing and Clnistian leaders of other denomina- f tions a; e beautifully co-operating in the meet ings. ’ * J ■ ' .. : . jMr Dr. Len G. Broughton. Sunday. morning Dr. Broughton and I wor shiped at Vineville Avenue church, and heard a force fir, heart moving sermon from Dr. J. L -.White on “Constraining People to Come; In” i • Dr. Broughton’s crowds Sunday afternoon and night were magnificent, and with old-time persuasive power he sought to have every Christian before him realize that he—not an other--that he himself was sent of God to ’win the lost. Comments are heard on every side: “He is the same Broughton we used to love over here; but he is different, somehow. He looks so much stouter and he seems so desperately in earnest. Broughton was always in earnest, but now religion is his one passion.” Dr. J .L. White said: “We have come to this down-town auditorium to reach every body. Everybody ought to go to church—but everybody won’t. Some folks have a ‘kink’ in their head about going to church; they will go to a tent or an auditorium like this when THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF SEPT. U they won’t go to a church. But when they get religiou or religion gets them, then they wil! love the house of God.” An Automobile Parade. Dr. White went on: “People have heard about this meeting, but they will hear about it some more. I want us to have an automobile parade Monday afternoon with music and ban ners to attract the crowd that seldom goes to church. ’ ’ And the parade came off. And I’ll tell you, people, it was a touching, inspiring sight to look on a man of J. L. White’s culture and prominence leading an automobile parade where the drumbeat caled the careless crowd to “stop, look and listen! and come to the Broughton meetings day and night this week.” Verily, enterprise and spiritual energy and not starch and “dignity”—l mean artic dignity, are winners in-the kingdom’s cnoquering work. “ Not a Political Meeting. ’ ’ • “I have heard many questions,” said Dr. White, “concerning the /why’ of this evange listic campaign right now while a hot political emapaign is on. Well, people need religion all the time; but our distinguished brother k from London who used to condemn spiirtual and political wickedness in high places, has i not been invited here to take part in politics] t There are no strings on him and there is no ; telling what he will please to say before he i gets through next Friday night, but he has I been invited especially to lead Christians to a higher plane of living and to help us win loss i men to Christ.” I * * i “Amen!” said several unctions voices and a spirit of deep reverence fed on the great audi ence. “Only One Thing Fit to Tie To.” » My brethren and friends,” began Dr. Borughton. “it gives me great personal pleas} ure to be back home, but let me emphasize in this opening service what Dr. White has just stated that I did not come here to spec ialize on side issues. The longer I live and the more I see of suffering, sinning humanity, the more I am convinced that there is only one thing fit to tie to in this world, and that is 1 old-time religion. ’ “If a man gets rightly related to God, he ’ will put himself in right relation to his fellow man, his municipality, yea to everything and everybody.” “So I came here, not to jump into your lo cal affairs, but to preach the old-time gospel of Jesus Christ who saved me when I was a poor lost boy in North Carolina. I have not lost one whit of my conviction that it is a Christian man’s duty to keep his conscience on top and do his full duty as an aggressive citi zen, but the longer I live and the more I see sin and crime defying our laws the more I am convinced that God in the heart must be the basis of our laws, our civic progress and our truest civilization. ’’ Not Enough Religion to “Grunt.” “I believe in religion that expresses itself— some people haven’t got enough religion to even grunt—but there are times when the Lord says: ‘Be still —stop shouting, and let me speak to your heart and conscience—let me give you a love-motive, a spiritual dynamic that wi’l send you out into the world to do By WM. D. UPSHAW, Editor. that thing for which my Father sent me—to give yourself in love, in labor, in personal sacrifice to lift the lost out of the mire of sin up to God ” -. 4 Dargan’s Poem of Introduction. You ought to have heard Dr. E. C. Dargan’s little speech presenting Dr. Broughton to that overflowing crowd on Sunday night. He began with his meeting Broughton on somebody’s veranda in Virginia some seventeen years ago, touched the high peaks of his acquaintance with him since then in this country, followed him to Rowland Hill’s historic pulpit, with a world outlook in London and then threw him at the hearts of that waiting, eager throng in a positive prose poem of beauty and e oquence. You should also have seen Jelks. the conse crated young banker, lead that music. His smile fairly rippled with music .and every movement led to symphony and song. Wooster Gathers “Broughtonian” Gems. Breezy as the ocean and as refreshing quite, there came to Macon for the Broughton meet ings our old friend, Rollin C. Wooster, Yale man, scholar, gentleman, preacher, philanthro pist and genera’ hustler in the kingodm of Dr. J. L. White. God. When asked to gather some Brough ton gems for The Golden Age, Wooster says: “ After having been intimately associated with Dr. L. G. Broughton for five years, and after having been ordained to the Baptist min istry at his hands and in his great church in Atlanta, it was a genuine treat to hear him again in Macon’s auditorium. I gathed ten striking sentences in his glorious afternoon sermon. Here they are: “God has laid on my heart the common place things. What I would love to bring about by my preaching is a revival of relig ion pure and undefiled.” 4 ‘lf you have any other object in life (speak ing of automobiles, fine homes and business) than to glorify God, you will find it to be a curse instead of a blessing.” “Christ’s shepherd-heart seems opposed to the spirit of this age; where do you stand? How many of you will go out and ’ove Macon to Jesus?” “When a human being comes to me and tries to sell me a book telling how to save ; souls, I feel like buying all the books he has (Continued on page 6.)