St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-07-20
HIS GREATEST DEED
EVANGELIST TELLS OF VICTORY
HE PRIZES.
Story of 2 Woman with Secret, and
Two Souls Brought to Grace
Chief Flower of His Amer
lean Campaign.

Gypsy Smith, the English evangelist
who sailed for home recently, pre-
.paratory to a campaign in Australia,
told the story the night before he LETT
&C dinner given in his honor, OF the
greatest conquest, in his opinion, he
had made in this country on his tour
of seven months.
He said he had preached $50 times,
had answered innumerable calls or
various kinds and had seen thousands
S. I'd up to profess Christian lie.
The convert of whom he was most
proud was fashionable woman in
western city who had come to his
meetings with a secret that was eat
ing out her heart. He said:
This woman was not yet OF middle
age and her life apparently had been
given up to frivolity. She led So
ciety life. She was extravagant IN
her dress and thoroughly worldly. 1t
must have been the dreadful secret
shat she carried that attracted her
% my meetings.
"Her friends were surprised to see
her go in. At the first meeting she
attended she was visibly shaken. She
came again and the storm broke.
"She sought me out and unbur-
dened her soul. There was a moth
erless little girl in another city for
whom she longed. Her conscience
was stirred.
"For all her married life she had
been concealing great sorrow and
sin and she had gone into worldly af-
fairs to attempt to forget it all. She
asked me what she should do.
"Tlow can ever tell my husband?
she asked. 1t may destroy our home.
It may kill me-
Where is your husbandT l
asked.
"She told me he was in Phi1adel-
phia and l said l would talk to the
pastor Of the church that they attend
ed occasionally.
"That man had a long head. He
told the woman to telegraph for her
| husband to come home at once. She
did so and he responded. She met
him with tears in her eyes but a
smiling face, for she had been
wrestling in prayer, and asked him
| to come to my meetings.
HE was surprised at first that he
should be called home for such a
purpose and was not inclined to like
| it. He saw that his wife was worked
up over the matter and he yielded to
her entreaties to listen to me be
cause he feared the effect if he dis
appointed her. He attended half
dozen meetings and the fervol
reached him and he became reaI
convert.
tn his enthusiasm he asked il
there was anything he could do tc
prove his faith.
"'Can you stand great sorrow?
asked that pastor.
Yes he said, gladly
"Then with great tact the preacher
told about that motherless little one
while the wife sat by sobbing rs il
her heart would break.
] "'Wife,' he said, let us take the
first train tomorrow and get thai
child. I have sinned in the same way
myself. / thank God for this day
"And now" said Gypsy Smith
there is a happy household ou
there in the west, and openness where
there was secrecy, and love where
there was deceit and sharing the hap
piness of that couple is little CIR
who never before knew a mothers
love. I tell you if 1 had accomplished
nothing more than that on my triI
over here my work would have beer
more than repaid. That case alone
regard as the chief flower of this cam
paign.''