Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-19

Revivalist Paints Graphic Word
Pictures of Calvary.
HELPING MAN IN THE STREET
Explains the Duty Of Christians.
Thousands Ask Prayer-Ministers
on the Platform.
Listen to me-"

forward and elevating his eyes toward
the electric-lightedv vault of Convention
Hall last evening. Gypsy Smith, the
English evangelist. spoke words that
thrilled the great audience.
Unless your business men, your men
who stand for righteousness. pause and
give little less time to making dollars
and little more time to the shaping of
a continent, the devil will get hold of
America
The Romany gypsy revivalst painted
graphic word pictures of Calvary. He
portrayed with sympathetic coloring
the story of Jesus Christ and the cross
AS he told of the sufferings of the Son
or God on the cross, that men might be
sawed. hundreds of persons in the vast
audience wept
1t Is Appropriated that 5000 men at
tended the afternoon service yesterday.
ana that 1900 men. women and chill
dren, representing nearly every Chris
llan creed, were present in the evening.
Much of Pathos.
There was much of pathos through
out both meetings. Religious hypo-
critics were held up to scorn and make
believe Christians were excoriated
Are you fulfilling that sublime mis-
sion He has given every man. the
preacher exclaimed. as he leaned for
ward and stretched his hands toward
the mass of humanity before him.
Are you saving a soul for God? 1t is
not enough to sing How / Love Jesus
You have to do more 1t is not enough
TO sing Rescue the PeriShing' in your
parlOrS. We have been doing that too
long in our lecture halls and churches.
and the perishng are still long way
off.
We have been trying to save the
world. while afraid to come in contact
to say Why don't you be good? to the
man out yonder in the street You have
got to get down and help him, and
stand by him until he is strong enough
to stand alone in the love of God. This
is our business. God help us to do it,"
Old men and women with silvered
hair. young people with the bloom of
youth on their checks. substantial
business men and half-clad nomads.
who roam the earth aimlessly as Gypsy
Smith once did. arose in their places
when the evangelist in clear. convinc-
ing voice requested those who wished
to be prayed for to stand up and thus
express their belief in God.
Unk empt Auditor Weeps.
An unkempt man, whose soied shirt
was suiltless of a collar and whose tat
tered clothing was in keeping with his
unshaved face. sat near the outer rim of
the great audience. AS the speaker made
4 plea for the salvation of the poor way
farers of the earth and with much pathos
told of his early life as a gypsy boy. liv
ing in "A tent and wandering about aim
lessly. and how. at last. he was wonder
fully saved the unkempt man wept and
later expressed his intention to shake
off the habilimants of sin and misery
and aim for a better and brighter goal.
m M hntfo sod
than the collarless man, who followed his
example.
do you think I should stand here if it
had not been for one thing?" Gypsy
Smith added. Some of you know some
thing about my ancestry. You know l
have rot had your chances. There are
moments in my life when l look on the
picture of my former life and on a picture
pictures l pinch myself to prove it is me,
and that | am not dreaming. / was a
little heather, a nobody.
Nobody wanted me: 1 was outside the
pale of educational influence as we'll as
religious influence. Nobody wanted a
gypsy boy. l was not taught to read.
was not taught the Bible; 1 was not
taught to sing as little child Jesus
loves me. yes, / know. Nobody thought
there was anything worth being taught
that in me.
Tells of the Beginning.
Il was an outsider, nobody. a little
motherless thing with my brother and
three sisters in the old gypsy tent. and
you would never have looked for six
preachers in that gypsy tent. My father,
that strong gypsy man. that strong hand
some man, standing six feet and weigh.
ing 2iO pounds, as straight as a rule to-
day at seventy-six years, came home one
night tendery and sweetly, and he sat
down and said: My dears. don't be afraid
OF me: God has sent your father home
a new creature.
I'VE had never heard anything like that
before, and when we got close to him he
put those big arms around his children
and when he prayed on his knees. that
prayer was the beginning of this service;
1t made this service possible. All l am,
before God was made possible because
brought Christ home to his children into
the gypsy tent. That gave us a chance;
and when you take Christ home to your
house there will Ike chance for every
body in 1t. Take Him home with you
tonight.
Addresses the Ministers.
Turning toward the assembage of min
listers. representing practically every Prot
estant denomination in the District of
Columbia, the Romany revivalist said
with impressiveness:
Listen to me-
do you expect if you are a protesting
Christian and you are incOnsiStent--do you
expect a man who works with you is go
ing to believe in that religion? If he finds
out that you are a sham, that you are
unreal, that you are not what you profess
to be, do you think he is going to come
when you invite him to church? He will
scorn you and deSpise you and the So
called religion that he thinks you have
got and that you represent But let him
you. you compel that mans conscience
and heart and brain to say, That is the
kind of religion 1 believe in and when
you invite him to your church he will go.
Il have heard lot of cant and humbug
talked about the man in the street, and |
have got to the place where l won't hear
the man in the street lbeled."
What Man in Street Wants.
The evangelist declared that the man
in the street does want the Bible. He.
also wants the church and he wants
Christ
Il will tell you what the man in the
street does not want the speaker added
He does not want the poor caricature
of Jesus Christ that he sees in SO many
of us. who profess to follow Him. The
man in the street knows the real thing:
he adlnires the real thing and he will
take his hat off to the real thing but he
will hate the sham and the cant and the
humbug.
Think of your homes, think of your
your mother. think of all the interests
haf nd