The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-10
GYPSY SIXTH
GRILLS LAZY
T|ANS
Inactive Church Members
Are Attacked in Friday
Night Sermon.
PERSISTENCE IS
WOEFULLY LACKING
Children's Service This At
ternoon and Ladies'
Meeting Sunday.

Inactive church members were
soundly berated by Evangelist GYPSY
Smith last night in a sermon of more
than an hour, and as truth after truth
were hurled at the great cmgrega-
ton, ready support from eight or
nine ministers was heard in a hearty
amen.
The sermon, which was based on
the second chapter of st. Mark, dwelt
allegorically with the conversion of a
soul by love, faith, persistence and in
genuity. The passage of scripture
read was the old story of the faith
of those men OF old whose faith was
so great that, to get at the Savior,
four of them even let a sufferer down
to him through the roof of the build
ing. He stressed the thought that
Christians were woefully lacking in
the matter of ingenuity.
Boosts Advertising.
The evangelist also boosted adver-
Using, calling attention to the value
of such and was not long in con-
vincing his audience that advertising
has long been the means of placing
before the world our stock in trade,
whatever that might be.
At one point in his sermon the evan
gelist drove home his truths by por-
trayal of the ordinary young peoples
Christian meeting. He showed, in an
inimitable way, the hypocritical atti-
tude ordinarily assumed at such gath
erings, not only by the young people
themselves, but by church leaders
as well. The illustration was Civ
en-, he explained, as serving to ex-
plain in great measure why the
churches of today are making no ad-
vance. In many churches of the east,
he said, not one member had been
added in years, and he thought that
this was an extremely bad showing
from a successful business standpoint.
''Do you think you could get a single
man in this city to put dollar into
a business which brought in no more
returns than that. You are too indif-
ferent, men and women, and every
time you take the name of Christ or
parade as one of his followers you
are hypocrite and you and the world
knows it."
How the Y. nj. C. A. Started.
Illustrating the uses of love and
faith, he then took up the question
of persistence He told Of the work
Of a young girl in London who per-
sisted in her attempt to get a young
man into the church, and save his
| soul, for nine years. Her persistence
| finally won, and as a result OF the
notable work, she was responsible for
/ laying the foundation of the Y. NJ.
| c. A.
your Y. NJ. C. A. today is tribute
to the persistence Of that young girl
for that young man is the founder
of the Y. NJ. C. A, and your own
association is an outcome of that
young girls persistency."
Concluding his sermon with num-
Der of apt illustrations, he pleaded
with the audience TO get busy working
for souls. "Be willing to try anytime
new under the sun. Advertise. Get
some new blood in your services. Do
something"
/ The attendance laSt nlghC was equal
to that of anv of the week, and seats
were at a premium. Noted in the vast
audience were many STRANGERS, some
of them corning especially TO hear
Gypsy Smith at his hest while 9th
ers were in the citv vesterdav and
decided to delav their departure. to
get the opportunity Of hearing the
evangelist.
Service for Children.
! A service for children will be held
at o'clock this afternoon, when the
youngsters will he especially enter
tanned by Prof Cole who in the course
of the service, EMPLOYS feats of rnagic
to illustrate religious lessons. He will
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