Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
GREAT INTEREST MANIFEST II
GYPSY EvANGELtsT's PRO-
POSED PARADE TONIGHT.
TEN THOUSAND FOLLOWERS
EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE
Romany Evangelist Secures Permit Tor
Parade and Receives Hundreds of
Letters AppIaudirs or crteisins the
Project = Sentiment of prominen.
Ministers Divided.

Chicago. Oct 1S.-Unless the hopes
and predictions of Gypsy Smith aud
members of the I4aymens Evangelistic
council prove to have been ovcrest-
mated. o'clock tonight will see a
mighty line OF 10000 enthusiastic
christian persons begin a march from
the Seventh Regiment Armory build
ing. thru the red light district to the
Alhambra theater and the Emmanuel
Baptist church, where speeches will be
delivered.
The evangelist and members of the
council hope that inhabitants of the
district both men and women, will be
attracted by the procession to the two
halls, and the revivalist has given or
ders that marchers and church work
ers are not to occupy seats until all
who come from the outside are cared
for Along the line of march invitation
cards will be distributed urging all to
attend the meetings.
A. r. Clark will be grand marshal
of the procession, which will start af-
ter the first evening meeting. Two
mounted policemen and a platoon OF
police will head the line After these
will come Gypsy Smith. members of
the Laymen's council. and volunteer
workers. and the great body OF the
parade. comprising men and women
who have attended the revival meet
ings. individual members of churches.
students. Y. NJ. c. A. members ani
a total of over 10000 persons.
Line Of March Comprehensive.
From the armory at Thirty fourth
street and Wentworth avenue they will
march north to Thirty-third street,
east to State street. north to Tweny-
second street, west to Dearborn street
north to Archer avenue, southwest to
Armour avenue, south to Twenty sec-
ond street, east to State. street. and
north to Twentieth street. Here Gypsy
Smith and some of the marchers Will
enter the Alhambra theater and others
Will continue to Michigan avenue to
the Emmanuel Baptist church, where
the Rev. Johnston Myers and A. C.
Dickson will deliver addresses.
The final word delivered by Gypsy
Smith was to beg all marchers to en-
ter the parade in a spirit of reverence
and without levity or curiosity.
Jam At the Meetings.
| Three thousand persons. some of
whom declared they had come many
! miles to hear the Romany preacher
but who failed to arrive at the Armory
building before s o'clock. failed to gain
admission to the evening meeting. and
for an hour after the doors were locked
the crowd pressed close to every door
of the building, all the efforts of the
special corps OF policemen being need
ed to keep them from forcing thru the
doors and into the aisles of the build
ing.
| BY 1880 O'clock every seat in the
armory was occupied. and the doors
We're ordered closed. BY this time ev-
cry street car wag unloading numbers
more at the Wentworth avenue doro
while hundreds were coming on foot
in carriages. and automobiles. At each
door policemen tried 20 keep the crowd
back, but not until after 9 o'clock did
they begin to leave the vicinity of the
buiking.
| For his sermon the evangelist took
| the subject of losing Jesus. and urged
upon his hearers the necessity for
! maintaining their interest in spiritual
concerns after being enrolled in q
christian church
"Don't think everything is over be-
cause you are a member Of a church.
he said. "Multitudes of good people
lose Christ because they live on sup
position. Religion is not a fire escape
for you, while you let your victim suf-
fer
"No one Is proof against losing
Christ I might lose him. The wave OF
a hand. the flash of an eye, the rustic
of a skirt. and this heart of mine might
play me false"
Gypsy's Mail voiunnious.
When Chief Of Police Steward !s.
sued a permit for Smith to lead a pa.
rade through the red light district IN,
correspondence Of the evangelist a
once assumed the proportions Of
commercial institution, people OF nj
classes and standing In life wi-itins
him. many to express approval of th,
purpose. but some to doubt the wis
dom OF the means.
The mail OF the evangelist come
from ministers announcing their In
tention of Joining in the parade. on
is from a woman Of the red light dis
trict, expressing gratitude for the in
terest aroused In the life many ar
i anonymous. some are illiterate. an
others are expressed in the purest Eng
Il lish.
II One letter, which particularly at
tracted the attention OF the revivalis
was simply signed "A Member OF tn
Red Light District" The woman. aft
er apologizing for the epistle. said:
I'VE are all human here. Most 0
the girls are here not so much throug
their fault as through trust and he
lief in some man, who went on hi
way unscathed. leaving the poor gil
to this life
"one afternoon this week a grou
gathered together and one read alou
parts of your sermons from the IA
pers until she broke down and cried
In their hearts many OF the wome
! Will welcome. the procession Monday.