Dr. Len G. Broughton: preacher, lecturer, author, organizer and reformer

              DR. LEN G. BROUGHTON

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Preacher, Lecturer, Author, Organizer and Reformer
EXCLUSIVE SOUTHERN ONTROL
INCORPORATED
English-American Bldg. - Atlanta, Georgia


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One of the Most Famous Speakers in America.—
Wilson Daily News.



SOME THINGS SAID

Dr. Len G. Broughton
THE people have awakened to the fact that in the person of Dr. Len. G. Broughton there is a great man in Atlanta—great as a builder, having built out of nothing the largest church in the South, and established himself in the forefront of religious thought and civic reform; great as a spiritual leader—making his church the center of the unusual spiritual awakening of the South; great as a business man, conducting his church institutions with the methods of large corporations; great as a magnetic orator, having now a regular Sunday night audience of from three to four thousand; great with a Daniel bravery, fearing nothing but wrong.  Such is Dr. Broughton, strong enough in any of these lines of power to reach national reputation in any one.  Combined as they are in an educated, cultured aggressive character, and a winning personality that makes friends with all who hear him, we may safely expect Dr. Broughton to become one of the greatest ministers of this generation.  In fact he is alreadyrecognized outside of the South as one of the three or four ablest ministers in the United States.

To the spiritual power and simplicity of Moody, the faith of George Muller, all of the bravery and much of the wit of Sam Jones, add a great personal magnetism, an organizing ability, and a power of oratory his own, and one can have a conception of one of the most aggressive and growing men in the Southern pulpit.

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Sam Jones:
He weighs 140 pounds; 135 pounds of this is backbone and 5 pounds hair.



New York Herald:
Dr. Broughton is the only supply in New York this summer who packed his house at every service.



John Temple Graves, (Atlanta News.)
Dr. Broughton, like all men of decided views and emphatic words, has his enemies.  And also, like all such men, he has his partisans—devoted and unyielding.  And therefore it is not to be expected that his way would always lie along a path smooth and rose-hedged.



The Baptist Visitor, (Chattanooga.):
He is absolutely fearless in his attack upon sin, and his application of the gospel to meet the needs of the hour.  He fears the face of no man, and regards neither party nor person.  He is not influenced by friend or foe.  He hews to the line and lets the chips fly where they will.  Sam Jones said, 'Broughton weighs one hundred and forty pounds, one hundred and thirty-five pounds backbone and five pounds hair.'  He is tall and slender, with long black hair rolling down upon his shoulders.  His features are classical and thoroughly expressive of his striking personality.  He is a man of indomitable will and knows how to bring things to pass.  He is perfectly willing to be called sensational if he can only destroy the works of the devil and succeed in saving the lost.



The Boston (Mass.) Transcript:
He is courageous and earnest and we do not doubt he is as true as he is bold.



The Clarendon Light, (Boston):
The scholarly equipment of the doctor is both generous and ample to meet the requirements of any pastorate in the land, while his overmastering zeal and consecration of life and service is manifested in all the lines of christian activity.  His marked personality is evident in all his public ministrations and his strong passion for the salvation of others renders him fully competent to lead God's people into higher realms of thought and action.



Gaffney Ledger:
Great as a preacher, builder and business man; fears neither man nor his satonic majesty.



Senoia Lecture Course:
For an hour and a half the famous preacher and eloquent orator held the undivided attention of every one in the audience.  It does any man or woman real genuine good to hear such a lecture as we had that night.  Dr. Broughton is a man of exceedingly plain, but elegant speech; warm hearted and very sympathetic in his nature, and at the same time brave and fearless in the doing and saying of that which he believes will be for the good of his fellow man and for the glory of God.  Long may he be spared to carry on the noble work that he is now doing in the world.



The Leaf-Chronicle, (Clarksville, Tenn.):
Dr. Broughton address last night was one of the greatest, grandest and most inspiring we ever heard fall from mortal lips.



London (England) Christian:
Dr. Broughton inspires all as a man of striking personality.  He will allow neither man nor church to build a wall of conservatism around him.




Henry Blount Describes Christian Citizenship and the Reign of the Demagogue:

A very large crowd, and among them some of our most cultured and prominent people, assembled in the Baptist church to hear the world-renowned Dr. Len Broughton, of Atlanta.  Dr. Broughton took for his subject Christian Citizenship.  He handled his subject with the ability and the fervor and the dramatic impressiveness of a sceptered monarch in the dynasty of eloquent and thrilling utterance.  It was one of the strongest, most forceful and most eloquent sermons ever preached in that church.  It had the sweep of an avalanche down a steep mountain side.  It had the rush of waves when navies are stranded.  It had the force of a storm when forests are rended.  It was a tornado of logic, wild and unbridled and set free in the furious sweep of its massive powers.  It was a cyclone of argumentation in its resistless march to overwhelming conviction, and ever and anon—yea, as quick and as electrifying as the flashing of lightning from the cloud wrapped bosom of a raging storm—it was dazzingly and thrillingly ablaze with the sunbursts of sublimest eloquence as it arose over the Orient hilltops of dramatic fervor and impressiveness.  All in all, it was a great sermon, a magnificent effort and long will it be remembered by all who sat under the enslaving witchery of this magnetic and thrilling speaker.—
Wilson Daily News.



The Augusta Herald:
Dr. Broughton and the Tabernacle are as live wires as Atlanta has in her midst.



Atlanta Constitution:
Dr. Broughton is a partisan without a party.  He is a politician with the courage of conviction for his guide rather than the dictates of any leader or machine.

He does not believe in the fetters of conventionality and custom when they in any way interfere with his ideas of advancement or progress.

He embraces opportunities and is in no way afraid of innovations.

He places love of humanity and fraternal friendship above church dogma and denomination.  He believes in carrying business methods into his pulpit and pastoral work and advocates the instituting of pastoral teaching in business.  He believes in himself and his work and prefers to take his own course rather than have his own methods handicapped by the dictations of others.



Texas Standard:
Dr. Broughton has perhaps the greatest institutional church in America; except perhaps Dr. Conwells.



Sam Jones:
The average man has three enemies, the world, the flesh and the devil.  Dr. Broughton has only two, the world and the devil.  The doctor hasn't any flesh to bother him much.

If you can get a sort of combination animal, a sort of goat and mule together, he can work at both ends and will make the fur fly.  He has plenty of room to perform in.  That's Dr. Broughton's style.




Miss Nancy and Sir Tom—
The South's Real Problem, Her Poor Girls and Boys.

This is a new lecture.  It deals with a subject specially adapted to Dr. Broughton's mind and heart—the poor girl and boy.  Perhaps no man is better prepared to discuss such a subject than Dr. Broughton.



DOWN IN THE DUMPS
THIS IS THE OLD STANDBY, AND NEVER WAS DULL OR HEAVY. IT IS A SURE ENOUGH CURE FOR THE BLUES OF ALL SORTS



The Sacred Biographies. …
Many declare these the most popular lectures Dr. Broughton has.  Each lecture contains (3) sacred characters from which humorous, pathetic and helpful lessons are gathered and discussed Like Wendling's famous Bible character lectures, these will hold any kind of audience in the world.




LECTURE SUBJECTS

Down in the Dumps
Christian Citizenship vs. the Reign of the Demagogue

Miss Nancy and Sir Tom—
THE SOUTH'S REAL PROBLEM, HER POOR GIRLS AND BOY



LECTURES ON SACRED BIOGRAPHIES:
Sacred Mothers { EVE—THE MOTHER OF MOTHERS,
HANNAH—THE MOTHER OF THE GREAT,
RAHAB—THE MOTHER OF STRATEGY AND WAR

Courtship and Marriage {REBEKAH—'SIGHT UNSEEN',
RACHEL—LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT,
RUTH—THE WIDOW IN LOVE AGAIN

Husband and Wife {MRS. ENOCH—THE NAMELESS WIFE
DEBORAH—THE STUBBORN WIFE,
JEZEBEL—THE WIFE OF WRECK AND RUIN

Sacred Old Maids {MIRIAM AND MARY