Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-24
Gypsy SMITH ACTIVE
Evangelist Speaks Before An
other Mammoth Audience.
SESSION IN INQUIRY ROOM
Announces Big Street Parade Next
Wednesday Night.
SOLDIERS OF CHRIST IN LINE
Compliments the Chorus and Di,
rector Foster, Saying They Are
the Best Ever.
OLDIERS OF CHRIST IN LINE

Gypsy Smith, the English evangelist,
again addressed a mammoth audience in
Convention Hall last evening For almost
two hours the audience listened intently,
and at the conclusion of the sermon sew
eral hundred persons proceeded to what
is known as the inquiry room." where
second service was held for those who
| responded to the evangelist's entreaties.
Next Wednesday night" Mr.. Smith an
nounced, I'VE are going to have one of
the biggest street marches this city has
ever seen. We are going to leave this
hall at 10 o'clock sharp and we're going
to march to the New National Theater.
where we will hold another meeting until
we'll on to midnight. 1 hope that 10000
of you will be there and march with us.
It's not going to be rabble sort of a
crowd: we are going to march like SOL
diers-soldiers of Christ"
Text for the Sermon.
The text for the sermon was taken from
the gospel of st. Mark. chapter 5. verse
80. which narrates the cure of a man
possessed of devil the cure Of a woman
afflicted with a horrible disease and the
raising of a small child from the dead.
the Lord over devils the Lord over disease
and the Lord over DEATH Mr.. Smith re-
marked land which in the same breath
can also be termed the mans Savior. the
woman's Savior and the child's Savior
the Lord and Savior omnipotent, ever
present. and always with us. Some peo-
pie ridicule the idea of the existence of
| a devil. They say there is no devil. Well,
all you have to do is go into any of the
saloons of your city, into the tenderloin
nf rich
palaces, and keep your eyes open. and
If you're fair with yourself and your
Maker you'll find traces everywhere of the
DEVILS handicraft.
Discusses the Devil.
"If you don't think there is devil. Just
try to live twenty-four hours as good as
you'd like to be. as good as you imagine
Christ was before the men Of your Chris
tianideals. and I'll wager before the twenty
four hours have spun around the dial of
your clock you'll be fully convinced of
the presence of the devil No I'm not
a skeptic-not by any means I've seen
many men who've seen devils-to be sure
they weren't the right sort of men to
take as criterions. I've seen many men
who've seen many little devils. Well, If
these fellows have seen many little devils
I've a right to believe in the existence
of bigger and more horrible one Wheth-
err he's big or he's little, you'll find
traces of him everywhere.
I'm ST. Mark here the Savior drove the
devil out Of a man, and he can drive
him out Of you, you, you and you. There's
hope for the worst man, there's hope for
the worst woman, and as good as you
think yourself now, strive always to be
better, and when you compare yourself
to some one else you know and mentally
say and feel I'm vastly better than he
as Christian get down on your knees
and thank heaven you really are better,
and offer up your applications that you
may be ten thousand times better still.
Sin Is the Basis.
"As I have said to you before this
evening, Jesus is head over devils, dis
ease and death, and what is at the bot
tom Of all these? Ask yourself fairly and
think hard Isn't it sin? Why you can't
mention the word without Kissing like
serpent. Without sin, there would be no
disease, without sin there would be no
death, without sin there would be no
devil Isn't it right? Listen again. Your
very instincts, without taking into consid-
Grafton your full religious beliefs, tell you
that sin is at the bottom of all these
three-death, disease and devils.
And, my friends, who's heir to them?
Upon whom do they light? Who suffers
from them? Where are their earthly bur-
dens cast? Listen to me again-man
woman and child. Isn't that so? Think,
If the Christ is the Lord over death. dis
ease and devils, isn't He the Savior OF
man. woman and child? Why. yes, He's
the Savior of you all. He knows you ALL
each one individually. You're His. chill
dren. He loves you with the devotion not
only of an earthly father. but of heaven
ly Father.
Recalls Visit to Arlington.
"A few days ago I went through your
beautiful Arlington, and there, marked by
small stone slabs in regular rows-sad. de-
pressing and almost gruesome-lay thou
sands of Americas unknown dead soldiers.
You don't know who they are; / don't know
who they are but He does. Think. He
does He knows and loves and cherishes
every one of them. He died an earthly
death for their sakes as we'll as ours. He
knows them all. Isn't He the man s
Savior, the soldiers Savior?
There is one thing which impresses me
forcibly here in America, and that Is the
willingness of the men to come to Christ
Listen to this, 1t is a fact. Five times out
Of six in my meetings here In America
men arise in my audiences to TIE prayer
appeals and these appeals are not alone
directed to them. They are directed to
man, woman and child. Isn't that no.
BILE thing isn't that thing the MANHOOD
Of a nation should be proud of? All, l tell
you. it takes something more than tenn
porary appeal to a mans emotions to
have him publicly acknowledge CONVEX
sion to Christ.
Fight Of Christian Is Hard.
Yes, my friends, all through your
mortal life the fight Of a Christian is
hard-and among those things the hard
est to fight are those deterring elements
which drag a man down from his faith.
Keep up the fight, model your lives as
YOU should and believe implicitly, ever
lastingly and faithfully in the love of
your Savior Be the man, woman and
child He would have you. shake off the
Weaknesses the lettering factors of your
faith and heaven Will ask for no more.
Mr. Smith announced that a week from
this evening he will hold revival meet
ing for the benefit of the colored people
Of the District of Columbia, and all other
colored people who care to attend. The
meeting will be in Metropolitan Church,
NJ street, and will be under the auspices
Of the colored ministers of the city.
Meeting for Young Folks.
And next Friday afternoon I'm going
to hold another meeting here for boys
and girls, young men and young women.
between the ages of ten and twenty
years. / don't want any one else pres
ent. It's TO be their meeting, and I'm
going to speak to them. I'm going to
make an honest appeal to the youth of
this city. / want to talk to them at the
age when their character is taking
definite form, and which will influence
their matured manhood and woman
hood
Previous to opening the meeting last
evening the evangelist created amuse-
nv a lad