Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-19
SAYS CHRIST IN HEART
. / IS GREAT NEED TODAY
Evangelist Gypsy Smith, Jr., Preach
es in Tabernacle to Large Audiences
on "The Lord God of Elijah"

What you need is photograph of
Christ in your heart said Evangelist
Gypsy Smith, jr., in tn ebig tabernacle
last evening. speaking on the text:
Where Is the Lord God of Elijah?" He
said any man who gets that photograph
| in his heart won't curse any more"
There will be changed front-a
| changed life." he asserted. The evan
gelist said that accepting Christ is the
! finest insurance" a man can have. Mo-
| rality, he said, 'is not enough" He
also pointed out eff there is a hell, am
safe in Christ. and 1 have you unbe-
! levers beaten both ways"
Power of Elijah's God.
"Elijah's Cod" continued the evan
| gelist, was a wonderful God. Are you
| a worshiper of Elijah's God? Can the
God you worship dry this land for three
years, and then send copious showers
| to spray the earth? Can your God fill
| a barrel with meal? Can your God
| resurrect the boy that is dead? If you
are not worshiping Eiijah's God you
are worshiping something.
| rs it money you are worshiping? /
know money will fill your stable with
fastest horses. 1t will put the finest
car in your garage. 1t will fill your
cellars with wine and your pantry with
the finest eatables. But when God calls
you, all Rockefeller's millions piled
on top of Carnegie's millions cannot
give you back life.
Many men make this almighty dol
lar''their God and worship it. But. you
say, cannot l make money for my child
to afford it better chances than I had?'
Yes, if you don't put it before God AL
mighty. That's where you are wrong.
The danger is in putting gold first. 1t
is human nature to want more all the
time. If you make money you figure
how to make more. The more we get
the more we want. 1t spoils our man
hood and dwarfs us. 1t makes many
lie, steal and cheat. But money cannot
buy life; neither can it buy peace with
God.
You say, I believe if do the square
thing l will be all right. If I live the
golden rule I'll be saved There isn't
man or woman in this city who would
dare stand up before this congregation
and say they are living the golden rule
without Christ. You cannot live the
sermon on the mount, unless you have
Service in the Afternoon.
The tabernacle was again crowded with
| a capacity audience at the service. and a
| large number Of persons came forward at
the close, WQen the evangelist maze an
appeal to his hearers to accept Christ as
their personal Savior and Redeemer.
In the afternoon he spoke on Trick
sters'' to an audience made up of men,
The life of Jacob formed the basis for
his discourse.
God had no part" said the evangelist,
Sin some of this drama Of Jacobs life
You say it is in the Bible, and the Bible
Is a faithful mirror and a true messen-
ger. 1t gives some of the bad parts of
mems lives and some of the good parts.
There are some things God has for
hidden the buying and selling Of A
brothers honor, a sisters virtue, an en-
ployerS conscience and servants lib
erty.
There are some of us who are seekers
after this worlds goods and some who
are seekers after men. Esau was seeker
after the goods of this world and Jacob
was seeker after men. Jacobs seeking
after men got him into trouble, for it
caused the unlawful purchase.
THE world is like Jacob in his early
meanness. He is the type and the ascend
ant star of the world in self-indulgence.
THE way of the transgressor is hard
and Jacobs subsequent career proves it.
You cannot harmonic his after pros
perity. David says in his psalm that he
couldn't understand 1t until he went into
the sanctuary of God.
Jacob was Sorely afraid and distressed
He had to pay penalties for his sin. He
had to fee from home in fear of his life
Then he was led into bondage Sin al
ways breeds bondage. Sin is a hard pay
master"