The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
GipSy Smiths Dramatic Story
Of His Life and ConOersion
SINGERS HAVE
MEETING TODAY
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The Gipsy smith auditorium is practi-
oally completed The choir loft is all
ready and all the singers will meet at the
building on First avenue, between Twen-
/ ty-second and Twenty-third streets, this
afternoon at 3 O'Clock The seat assign
ments will then be given out and the
choir will rehearse together for the first
time. There will be Approximately 700
singers and they are being selected from
all sections of the city. There are four
divisions and a corps of managers and
workers is now busy getting everything
in readiness. The revival begins on Oc
tober and will last through the I'D.
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she had woman's heart for her sick
children. She came nearer and nearer,
and, as ! have said, one day she came too
near. and She took the smallpox, There
We're mother. sister brother, all sick with
it, and little babe was born in few
days. There was no Christian to help.
one day mother-she was my step
mother, but dear TO us all-ealled father
to her and said: Cornelius, l am dying.
Promise me to stop drinking and lying
Promise" Father went and sobbed ont
his tears on the grass. He was in agony
and ! shall never forget how he listened
when mother sang:
y have Father in the promised land.
Polly. where did you learn that song?
I never heard you sing it before?' asked
father, and mother replied that she had
heard 1t when a child, and she believed
it and knew that God would take her
home. Fathers tents were pitched on
village green, and he pondered those
words in his heart, upon which there
came great burden, which was evident
to even the children about him. Jesus,
speaking of the Holy Spirit, said: When
the spirit is come he will bring all things
to your remembrance and the Spirit
had come to mother even in the little
heard through that hymn. Father was
weeping, ana mother said: do not weep.
l am not afraid TO die. 1 am ready. L
could not go to my Father without 1 was
ready. You will come, too, Cornelius,
end then she passed to her sanity rest.
Memorable Words
Then | heard these words: Rodney,
mothers dead" L shall nsver forget
them. They ring in my ears now, and l
shall remember the agony they brought
into the soul of that little gypsy boy
until I, too, pass on. When you hear
those words you, too, will know what
they means- oh, il you have a mother,
take care of her. Don't kill her by inches
and think you can wipe out a slow, dis
gusting murder. God has column where
He writes the names of the boys and girls
who honor their fathers and mothers.
Father was a changed man from that
time morally changed. and il there had
been a Christian there to point the way
and help him he would have been con-
verted. He was convicted of sin. He did
not swear lie did not drink. The chill
dren never swore, and have never
known the taste of liquor. Father, ] say,
was changed. He was not the same man.
He could not be. But he wasn't a Chris
tian, although he would put some OF you
church members to shame You are not
a Christian until you are born again. and
YOU have no right to call yourself one
until you are. Father would have been
converted man years before he was If
there had been "a Christian to help him.
| remember the scene OF two tents. two
wagons, two horses. a group of men and
women meeting two wagons and men and
| women, who proved to be relatives--uncle
and WIFE My father spoke to his brother
of his burden, of his hunger for the light
| that lighteth every man that cometh
| into the world. There is a problem for
YOU to solve. These men hungering for
something they could not find Can you
! tNplalHf :
Father determined he would go to Lon
don. SO to a church and try to find that
(which he sought-peace in the Lord. He
declared that he would go, and he would
not come back until he found it. He had
never seen a Bible never heard a hymn
sung except that Which his wife had part
/ ~ sung when she was passing into glory,
and he had never heard a prayer of
fered. He went on his way to London
and | followed for distance. He did
not look back, but went on, and one
/ night he found himself near a mission
room and heard the strains of that grand
old song, There Is Fountain Filled
| Vita Blood" and then the line, "It
breaks the power of cancelled SIM, and
presently he leaped sand shouted. I'm
converted. ] believe it,
Weary Look Was Gone
| | remember when he came back to the
/ tent and we called to one another for
we had been waiting days for him. Hes
coming" The old. weary look was gone.
There was JOY and peace in mis- counten-
ance. He's converted we repeated. Who
will say that it was not the dawn of a
new day for the world. He walked up the
steps of the wagon. and calling the chill
dren one by one, said: Don't be afraid,
| God has sent me home a new creature"