Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-11
CONTRIBUTORS FAIL TO PAY Ex,
PENsEs OF CHICAGO RE. ;
ViVAL meetings.. ,
GREAT SERMON TO MEN =
MOVES MANY TO TEA!S
Speaks to Audience of 5000 and APP
peals to Them as Fathers-srinss
Message of Hope to the Hopeless
Evangelist Answers Some of His
Critics.

Chicago. Oct il.-"Chrlstian people
who fail To pay their rent" WAS the
expression With which Gypsy Smith
characterized some OF his audiences in
his address last night at the Seventh
out of patience with the size OF col
lections that have been taken during
the first week of his services here
The collections havnt paid the .eat
of the building he declared and pen
nies are the representative coin in the
collection box"
Fifteen thousand people heard the
evangelist speak at the two Sunday
meetings. and of this number over 500
professed TO have been converted to
christianity.
The speaker asserted that his real
purpose to teach religion to those who
have sunk the lowest and to whom
hope has long been lost.
''If 1 couldn't preach hope to the
worst people in the world" he declared,
Il would quit preaching. My doctrine
is to bring hope to the hopeless"
Sin Like Hiss OF serpent.
Gypsy Smith based his evening SER
mon upon the word Sin" Sin" he
said, "ls responsible for all the misery
in the world from the first man to the
last Take sin out of America and the
country would be on the high road
to eternal health. One can't pronounce
the world without hearing the hiss of
the serpent. Sin Is the history of all
the asylums and jails. 1t is the under
taker at funerals. the spade at the har-
vest of insurrection"
After hearing the usual call for those
converted at the meeting last night, the
audience appeared less responsive than
at some of the previous meetings, and
the evangelist became impatient.
II am not surprised he said. when
boys and. girls go wrong, when their
mothers and fathers, by not accepting
Christianity. teach them by their eX-
ample.
mothers and fathers. II we are go
ing to beat the devil, we will have to
begin to fight him at the cradle. Don't
wait to dram the concerns of the whole
eternity Into the last five minutes OF
existence"
When the number of people who had
gathered in the inquiry room still fail
ed ITO equal those of other meetings
the speaker asserted. "if we We're only
honest for ten minutes, we would all
be on our faces. You'll have sore con-
| sciences, if you have live ones, IL you
don't try to help some one before you
leave. If you are not for Jesus Christ
you must be against him"
l A.
In the afternoon meeting 5000 mer
comprised the audience, and before the
evangelist closed his exhortations near
| ly all were in tears and 400 men rose
and enrolled themselves as converts Of
the revivalist.
The speaker based his address upor
the one sentence: The noblest thins
any man can do is to give himself tt
Jesus Christ
Prior to the sermon Gypsy Smith
asked for toll of fathers who wanted
to see their own children converted
calling upon such as did to stand up
and after seeing the number who arose
he said:
mo one need be ashamed of follow
/, ing Jesus clear conscience Is the
most pleasant thing there is Will
which to live. The mere fact of ex-
pressing disbelief Is proof of deteriora.
tion in the individual
There Is childish fear in man,
men that to express conviction o
Christ and TO try to make ones dali,
life as he would have lived is coward.
ly. There are those who sneer at meI
who try to live christian lives as be.
Ing tied to their mothers apron strings
The noblest and best men who evel
lived have consecrated their lives t.
Christ They are the men who hav
made the world"
Has An Answer for Critics.
The speaker again referred to som
who are said to have criticised hin
as being an evangelist from tinancia
standpoint. You say I have made
good thing out Of it, he declared
you've got the same chance, If you'v
got the same sense. The world await
yea and the church await yea
Referring to his father as a. ma
who had been able to take a game
keeper in one hand and a policema
with another and crack their heads to
gether. the evangelist told the story G
, his parents conversion to christianit
and his return the same night to tn
little gypsy home. in which the speak
er and four others made their HON
with the father
The scene in the gypsy home de
scribed by the speaker aroused nearl
all of the audience to tears, and th
, speaker pleaded with the men to an
Inounce their conversion.
In order TO avoid the confusion tina
t has heretofore resulted from man
> leaving the armory before the compile
ton of the meeting. Gypsy Smith OF
dered the doors kept closed until tn
! converts had made their way to tn
inquiry room.
When asked about assertions mad
by NJ. NJ. Mangasarian that the wor
Smith was doing was ineffective an
an appeal only to the emotions. the re
vivalist said: "There are always pee
pie who seek to obtain notoriety at til
expense of the work others are doinl
i T. shall pay no attention to thl
, pamphlet. know my work and al
going on with 1t. This audience is m
Ianswer to his words"