The Washington times., 1917-02-03
TABERNACLE SEATS
HELD FOR CHILDREN
Special Meeting for Them Is
Being Held This
Afternoon.
CHOIR LEADER GIVES SHOW
Gypsy Smith, Jr., in Tabernacle
Sermon, Decries Perfume
tory Church Signs.
CHOIR LEADER GIVES SHOW

Employing feats of magic to Illus
trate religious lessons Prof. Forest
Cole, choir leader for Gypsy Smith, jr.,
will conduct q Mystery Meeting" for
children in the tabernacle at Six
teenth and V streets northwest at 3
o'clock this afternoon.
Prof. Cole is an adept in the sleight-
of-hand art, and has had considerable
success in other cities in arresting
the eyes and attention of children
with his tricks and then preaching
little sermonettes to them.
VIII Have Reserved Seats.
Front seats at the tabernacle will
be reserved for the little ones this
afternoon so all of them may see the
tricks. The adults will have to take
q back seat literally as well as f1gur-
atively. 1t will be a children's day,
but the services promise to be equally
as interesting to grown ups.
Tonight at 1880 o'clock, Gypsy
Smith, jr., will take as his subject.
what Must l Do to Be Saved?" He
will point out what he, rowing
seafarer, did to be saved, and sug-
gest the course which others should
follow
Service for Women.
The service to be conducted at
the tabernacle tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock will be exclusively for
women. Even the men who have
been serving sas ushers will be ex-
cluded.
1t is expected the evangelist will
extend invitations to converts at to-
morrow nights services. He will
have preached a week in Washing
ton tomorrow night and believes some
of the men and women who have
heard his sermons have "feached a
decision to get right without further
delay"
The Rev. John Carpenter Palmer,
chairman of the executive committee
Of the revival, today received re-
quests for reservations from church.
goers in Cherrydale and Clarendon,
Va; Congress Heights and Anacostia. |
and Berwyn. Md. Some night next |
week will be designated for their par |
ucipation in the services, and seats |
VIII be roped on for them.
Thanks From President.
DR.. Palmer has received a letter
from President Wilson conveying |
thanks for the Invitation to attend
the revival services. Central Presby- D.
terian Church, which the President :
attends. is actively cooperating in J
the conduct OF the campaign. Speak
er Clark and several Congressman i
have indicated in letters that they
will attend several OF the services.
Last Nights Sermon.
BE willing to try anything new with
in reason TO win a SOUL" said Gypsy
Tr 81. Z
night IF / were a little dog, wouldn't
wag my tail around some Christians,
they are so dead" continued the evange-
list, berating his audience for sitting |
still in content, while thousands Of peo-
pie outside the church are losing all |
opportunity to become Christians.
The weather last night was too much
for many OF the faithful ones who have
been attending meetings, and the big
tabernacle was pot more than three
fourths full at the close Of the sermon.
Policemen were stationed at each side
entrance with orders to keep the doors
closed. and instruct the people to go to
the rear door.
Text From st. Marx.
The sermon, based on the second
chapter of st. Mark, dweIt aIegor-
ically with the conversion of a soul
by Love, Faith, Persistence. and In
genuity, of which, according to Mr.
Smith, the latter is the most lacking
in the present day Christian.
Gypsy Smith drove home his point
by giving humorous portrayal OF the
ordinary young peoples meeting in
the church, telling of the hypocritical
attitude assumed, not only by the
young people in the society, but by
the leaders Of the church as well.
This illustration, he said, served to
show the reason churches of today
are making no more advance. In 49,
churches of one State in the East, he
said, not one member had been added
during the past year. ''Do you think
you could get a single business man
from San Francisco to Maine to put
a dollar into a business which brought
in no more returns than that. You
are Indifferent, and every time you
take the mime of Christ or parade as
one of his followers you are a hypo-
crit"
Asks for PersIsteney.
mo, we must wake up. become per
sIstent." And he continued. telling
how. the work of a single girl in Lon
don, who persisted in her attempt to
gain the soul of a young man, laid
the foundation of the Y. NJ. c. A.
Your Y. NJ. c. A. today is a tribute
to the persistence OF that young girl"
He concluded his sermon with
plea to his audience to get out of the
rut and get busy work ng for souls.
BE willing to try anything new un-
der the sun that is legitimate. Ad-
get some new blood in your
services. DO something"
Just before the services dast even
ing DR.. T. Z. Davis representing II
the southwest section of the city, II
presented the evangelist with
large boquet of roses. The south
west section of the city was repr--
sented by about 45O people last
night The churches which ap-
peared in force were the New York
Avenue Presbyterian, First Presby- N