Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-21
HUNDREDS CONVERTED
BY GYPSY Smith
RoMANY. EvANeELlsr's REVIVAL
SCORING MARKED SUCCESS
IN CHICAGO.
RESULTS OF PARADE ARE
BEING REALIZED NOW
Woman Forsakes Underworld and De.
y cIares She Will Die Before Turning
sack-Bartender One Of 400 Converts
Last Nisht-smith's Singing Effec-
tive-Answers Critics and Letters.

Sive-RnSWeFS NfitlcS ana IeIIeTSs
Chicago, Oct. 21-Of the entire
Gypsy Smith mission last nights meet
ing at the Seventh Regimental arm
ory was marked by the greatest emo
tional and dramatic intensity. Respond
ing to the call of the Romany evan
eglist, 400 men and women made their
way to the inquiry room.
While the rain beat on the roof Of
the great hall 5000 voices beneath the
girders took up the refrains of gospel
songs, sang them over and over again,
and refused to stop even at the COM
mand of the leaders.
His spirit answers TO the blood
And tells mo am born Of God.
The chorus echoed from gallery to
gallery and back and forth from the
choir to the audience. Gypsy Smith held
up his hands, but the song went on
Then tears filled his eyes andhestood
waiting for 1t to cease.
After the refrain died to the faint
est pianissimo and then ended altho-
gether, Gypsy Smith stood silently on
the platform, which raises him high
above his hearers. Tears coursed down
his cheeks and his eyes were lifted to
the blazing arclights above him.
Gypsy Sings With Fervor.
For half a minute oppressive silence
held the audience in its grasp and then
the evangelist began to sing. His voice,
clear and sweet and with a caress that
pierced to the hearts Of his auditors,
reache the farthest corners of the
hall Men, women and children leaned
forward with tear dimmed eyes. Gypsy
Smith sang as he had not sung before
during the Chicago mission. Apparent
ay oblivious of his surrounding, heart
and soul seemed poured into the song.
o love of God, that brought me here,
o love, 80 deep, SO true;
Come fill my longing heart with life,
And rapture through and through.
Behind him thee horus began to mum
softly the harmonies Of the song, and
the effect was as Of a solo supported
by the diapason of a great organ.
Preacher Defines Conversion.
Both evangelist and audience seemed
to share in an unusual religious fervo-.
1t bordered on ecstatic emotionalism,
but the preacher decried this at the
outset.
.It is not emotion, it is not frenzy,
1t is not consciousness that you have
been bad that brings you to Jesus" }"
he said. "It is your will.
"You must will to come. You can
reach Christ no other way. Being a
Christian is an awakening of the in
telligence. 1t is the I will of the soul
answering to the command of God"
When the preacher reached the point
most eloquent in his plea to turn from
the ways of uprighteousness a man
started down the aisle from the rear
OF the audience. He ran forward with
his arms waving in the air and crying
to the gypsy revivalist for aid. AS
he reached the platform he fell to the
floor In faint.
Hundreds rose to their feet. Gypsy
Smith upbraided these. Then he led
them into another> song as the uncon-
scious man was carried away and the
incident was forgotten as quickly as It
occurred.
Effect Of "Red Light" Parade.
The audience learned of develop
thru the ''red light" district.
Listen to me, men and women" the
preacher cried, leaning far out over
the rail.
"One Of the men who came into the
inquiry. room last night was levee
barkeeper on Monday night. Tuesday
he threw up his job and that night he
came to this meeting. Today he is look
ing for clean job and God will help
him to find it. He is on the road to
a better life.
Listen! Every one of you. Listen!
One Of the girls who came into the in
quiry room last night-a beautiful girl
was In the red light district Monday
might Last night she said: TIL die be-
fore go back there again She won't
have to go back there again. She is
in Christian home today and there
she Is striving to recover the woman
hood God gave her and she dragged in
the mud.
Listen! In the inquiry room last
night was q former Baptist I1sesaaGsiiise Oh ~
He was in the Alhanlbra theatre Mon
day night. He told me had contracted
the morphine habit and had gone to the
gutter. What he heard and saw thai
might gave him a. new hold on life.
"Was 1T worth while?"
Answers Writers Of Letters.
Gypsy Smith said he had received
countless letters during the day asking
him if he were not urging men and wo.
men to do more than human nature
would permit in turning from vice t.
VIRTUE.
"You can do anything, If you will.'
he said.
srhatever you are you make your
selves. Don't blame your mother OF
your father or me. You can be pure
and good II you will.
Women, II You are not as pure a.
the snowflake 1t is because you wan
to be bad God gives it to you to b,
good Il you will. Make yourselves beau
tiful by being willing to come to him.
Seven hundred Welsh singers alter.
mated with the regular choir In songs
and after the benediction thousands re.
manned In the hall singing. The evan
geliA 1on1Sed coat and hat. tle1