Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-28

you sinners. If you come anywhere
near me l will pound you until you zee
your sin. The only way for you 10 see
your sin. and see 1t in all Its reality. Is &c
hold 1t up in front of you untii you cry
out to God Almighty for deliverance.
won't trim to please you. l won't Wate,
down my message to satisfy you !! won
preach a hodgepodge sort OF MIX ano
water gospel that has no heart In II.
You are sinner until God Almighty saves
YOU. We have been too mealy-moutned
No. 1 am not old fashioned: | am up "a
date.
IF any one of you preachers dared &c
preach one sermon in your pulpit twice
,over in three months all of washington
would be talking about 1t. Isn't It strange
that II a man has a message from God
Almighty to your poor soul you can only
bear 1t once. and yet you Will go 10
theater to see the same play over ano
over again when you get chance II you
think you can creep in without anybouy
seeing you? You will pay your money
to hear the same singers dozen times.
How is it that the supremest message OIL
all tires you If you hear it second time
from the same text? 1t is not stale except
to stale people. 1t is as new as the morn
ing dew. 1t is always new to those who
have an appetite for it. No church can
claim a monopoly of this teaching.
Band to Head Tonight's March.
onstration will be postponed until tomor-
row night. but. the weather permitting
there will be a march. headed by thirty
FIVE pieces from the Marine Band. The
line will form in front OF the nal
and march four abreast west on Ne"
York avenue to eth street. thence
south to D street. east on D street to In.
diana avenue and then. to 1st street
south TO Pennsylvania avenue and Wes'
on the avenue to 18th, south 10 I street
west to Ohio avenue and thence to lotn
street and north to Pennsylvania avenue
to the New National Theater.
The meeting in the theater will be pri'
marily for those who are picked up along
the line of march, and If the crowd can
not all be accommodated in the theater
a later meeting will be held on the out
side.
The night services will continue through
Friday night, a special meeting for col
ored people being held In the metropolitan
A. NJ l.. Church Saturday night The
usual Sunday afternoon meeting for mer
will be held in Convention Hall Sunday
afternoon and the last regular meeting
Sunday night. The series of meetings VIII
close Monday night with a lecture by
Gypsy Smith on his own life, for which
all seats will he sold.
Little Fish in a Pond.
At the afternoon meeting in the First
Congregational Church yesterday Rev.
DR. Joseph T. Kelly. pastor of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church. presided and Rev.
DR. Roland Cotton Smith. rector of st,
Johns Episcopal Church. welcomed the
evangelist to the capital in behalf OF
the local Episcopal congregations Rev.
DR. J. ]. Muir. pastor of Temple Baptist
Church. also assisted at the service.
Before those ministers of several de-
nominations Gypsy Smith pleaded against
strong denominational lines and against
the belief that ones own denomination is
the only right one.
Don't light a match and call it the
sun" he declared Don't put up your
parasol and call it the armament Don't
put up Il mud house and call 1T the
church. The church extends farther
than that.
over in England we have many little
ponds without any streams flowing in
or out of them. There are fish in those
ponds. and to those fish that pond Is the
whole universe. If they could go up
stream they would see little more of
this universe If they could go down
stream they would see more of this
world. You see the application Of my
story Why don't you get upstream
why don't you get downstream? These
are the streams to get up and to &c
Gethsemane Bethle-
hem"