Evening journal., 1915-01-19
CARD playing
Christians HURT
Church OF GOD
GipSy Smith Says DevoteeS
of Game Would Have
Table in the Temple
Wants men TO TALK
face TO face With Christ

Again last night rainy weather proved
no hindrance TO the revival meetings
which are being conducted nightly in
Bethany Baptist Church, corner Elm and
Jackson streets, by Gipsy Smith, Jr.
Nearly 400 persons were present. The
evangelist preached striking sermon,
with John 30; A. Behold / stand at the
door and knock as the text and the
parable Of the woman at the we'll as
the theme.
Mr. Smith pointed to the humbleness
OF Christ who knocks at the door of the
church and will come in if any man
viii open the door.
"lf God does anything for your home
the speaker said, He won't do it whole
sale-nevcr did-He''ll do it individual
ly."
Speaking of the transformation IN a
Christian life, hc said: "ll you put pig
in your parlor. don't know which will
get changed first, the pig or the parlor.
When God comes TO you and changes
you, you'll change your own heart.
God puts His stamp-mark, His trade.
mark on every child OF His who is truly
born again"
Mr. Smith told OF ter men who sat at
the home OF one, playing cards, while a
prayer meeting was being conducted in
a church adjoining, m which they were
listed as members.
iii the Devil had come after them
he said 81 wouldn't have said stop
thief for he would have been taking
his own. If we let you have your way
YOU would have a card table in one end
, Of the church and ballroom at the
, other. I'll let YOU reorganize the church
If you'll die and rise again in three
days"
4 Pointing 10 the way in which bug
dart into their holes when a plank un
der which they have been resting i
h lifted, he said: There's very few of u
I who haven't a plank in our life. God /
O not looking az the plnnk. He's lookin
Y at the black things on the under eide
n "As ] came to this meeting tonigh
picked up THE EVENING JOUR
s MAI. and saw in Il that ] had sal
n last night | did not believe tha
n twenty-five per cent. of the peopl
q who call themselves Christians hav
n the right to that title. ] said Il an
insist that it's so. Some of you ar
n regular onesters. You go 10 churc
once on Sunday and let that sufic
as spiritual food for the week. ShO'
>, me the mid-week prayer meeting q
any church and I'll tell you some
= thing about the spiritual pulse of tina
y church. Some people are like an oil
ditch. There's no ebb or flow, an
you can neither make them mad, sa,
OF glad. I hope I'll make you ma,
for then you'll wake from you
=, lethargy. called Christianity"
II "To become a Christian" the speal
y or said, lit is necessary; first, to hay
A. face-to-face, heart-to-heart tai
% with Jesus; second. to sacrifice
le order TO tell your experience
E. someone else; third, TO have a face
" tO-face talk with the people when yo
have told. The real test OF love
a sacrifice. When some people b'
OF come Christians you would never fin
C. il out IL you had lived with them fC
ne years. If you give your heart
Dr. God il must be voluntary. must
upselfish; irrevocable and a con
cd plete surrender"
r. In his closing remarks the speak,
to touched on intomperance. 81 don
rd know where there's been so muC
st drunkenness" he said. "as I'm Wi
I'd. mington and Chester. (Gipsy Smit
o. Jr., lives in Chester, where he a
TO tends Grocer Seminary. "If n
majority of Christian voters want
ed vote the license out, they can do
m but you won't, you're afraid, for pc
OF sonal reasons, of course, not God
IN reasons"