The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-08-29
HIS GREATEST DEED
EVANGELIST TELLS OF VICTORY
HE PRIZES.
Story of a Woman with a 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 left
ct a 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 of
various kinds and had seen thousands
stand up to profess a Christian life.
The convert of whom he was most
proud was a fashionable woman in a
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 a So
ciety life. She was e~xtravagant in
her dress and thoroughly worldly. 1t
must have been the dreadful secret
that she carried that attracted her
to 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 a 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.
"How can I ever tell my husband?'
she asked. Tt may destroy our home.
1t, may kill me-
where is your husband?' I
asked.
"She told me he was in Philadel-
phia and I said I 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 sc 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 a
dozen meetings and the fervor
reached him and he became a real
convert.
TN his enthusiasm he asked If
there was anything he could do to
prove his faith.
"'Can you stand a great sorrow?'
asked that pastor.
Eyes he said, gladly
"Then with great tact the preacher
told about that motherless little one,
while the wife sat by sobbing Is if
her heart would break.
WIFE he said, let us take the
first train tomorrow and get that
child. 1 have sinned in the same way
myself. l thank God for this day.
"And now" said Gypsy Smith,
there is a happy household out
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 a little girl
who never before knew a mothers
love. I tell you if I had accomplished
nothing more than that on my trip
over here my work would have been
more than repaid. That case alone l
regard as the chief flower of this cam
paign."