The Washington times., 1917-02-11
Gypsy Smith, Jr., Brings Effects
of Sin Clearly Before Minds
of His Hearers.
WAS A THINKING AUDIENCE
Forty-eight Boys and Girls Re-
spond to Prof. Coles Call At
the Afternoon Service.

fects of sin clearly before the minds
of his audience in last nights power.
full sermon at the tabernacle at Six.
teenth and V streets.
He preached from the story of the
Samaritan woman at the well, who.
barred from society, received spiritual
inspiration and started. a revival
The audience that faced the evan.
gelist last night sat impassive for a
part of his sermon.
A little boy, sitting on the front
bench, looked up at the dramatic
figure, a cap dangling in his hand.
Once. he dropped the cap, but he
never took his eyes off the evangelist
His hand was clasped in that of a
woman with white hair, across whose
kindly face varied emotions came
and went.
Urges Stand for Christ.
A pretty girl of less than seven
teen years sat and looked thought
full as the evangelist tore to shreds
the deceit the world plays on its fallen
women.
she turned to her mother and whis-
pered something. A frmer clasp of
her hand was the only response she
got
Gypsy. Smiths jaws set hard as he
leaned forward. Bible in hand, with
his favorite "Listen!'
at want every man and woman of
God in Washington to take a stand
for Christ before ! leave here" he
thundered.
Thinking Crowd.
The auditorium was well filled. But
the crowd was a thinking crowd. 1t
manifested little emotion as a whole,
and when the end of the sermon came
Gypsy Smith. jr., dismissed them with
out an invitation for penienents. After
the meeting Mr.. Smith said:
"It looked largely like a converted
audience. I believe it appreciated
what / had to say about the poor
Samaritan woman"
Yesterday afternoon Prof. Forest
Cole conducted revival services for
500 young boys and girls. When he
called for penitents forty-eight came
forward. The youngest was about
ten years old. This ran the total of
converts for the series Of meetings
up to 121. There have been four calls
for penitents.
%Way God Always Works.,
Gypsy Smith, jr.. took his text from
the fourth chapter of John. His SER
mon follows:
when the Samaritan woman
changed her heart, she began to tell
everybody about it: and she brought
many persons to Christ. So must you
do. There are persons in TINS city
avhom no preacher under Gods heaven
could touch with a sermon, but whom
you could bring to Christ. God work.
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sinful creature, before she found
God, sinful to the extreme, but that's
the way God always works"
To have revival in ones life there
is one thing that is necessary; a heart
TO heart and face to face talk with
Christ, said the evangelist.
Our -Four Personalities.
1t is said that we have four per
sonaIities, namely: That which peo-
pie outside OF your home know: that
which you know yourself to be, and
that which God knows you to be-
When you are willing to find out
what God knows you to be, then is
the beginning of a change in your
life, of a change in your home.
I'VE go into a studio and have our
pictures taken and call for them
later. The artist has retOuched the
proofs we took; he has taken from
them ali the bumps, all warts, all
pimples that appeared in the proof.
He has made you different from what
you are. There is not a photographer
in America TO-DAY who could make
pictures like people are and stay in
the business.
Must Expose Dark Side.
But God gives only the artists
proof; He has no one to retouch those
He takes of you. All the moral warts.
all the spiritual blemishes appear on
the pictures. Gods power only comes
through the studio; a person must
first gain Gods idea of Him. then will
come the revival in his life.
al remember well when / was only
a small child in our nome in England
After the winter SHOWS had melted
we would go out in the yard to the
old plant that lay in the pathway and
would turn ii over. When we did,
there always appeared on the bottom
thousands Of those little bugs that
love the filth, the slime. the dirt--the
bugs that hate Gods sunlight
lit is so in our lives. We may have
the upper side of the plank warm
ished; we may add coat of veneer
when the revival comes around, but