The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-01
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At
t ABERNACLE
All Churches OF City To
Join In Two Of the
Services Today
HUNDREDS HEARD
SERMON LAST NIGHT
Evangelist Pleads With the
Men and Women to Live
More Circumspectly

In strong, earnest talk to both
church and non-church members,
Gypsy Smith last night held the at-9
tention of very large audience, and I
dismissed the hundreds with thes
benediction, without offering those
who cared to make such an avowal an
opportunity to so express their de-
sire by going forward at the close
of the meeting. He said in the
course of his sermon that he wass
going to hold three services Sundays
and that he wanted to make today
one of the greatest days of the5
months campaign. He breaches this
morning at II o'clock at the taber-.
nacle, and practically all city churches
will suspend or change their morning
service hour to afford their congrega-
tons an opportunity to be present
At 8 p. m. he breaches to men only,
using at that hou-, the celebrated
talk, "From Gypsy Tent to Pulpit"
At 7:45 o'clock tonight, the conclud-
ing Sunday service of Il he
will make strong effort
hundreds of their wrong
ing, aid the largest G
month is expected to /
The services will close Monday eve
ming.
Last night the children sang so
sweetly that Prof. Cole had about
thirty boys and girls leave their seats
on The platform and stand on the
rostrum, singing the chorus of a
familiar selection, and then leading
the congregation in singing it. II
never did see children take to singing
so well,'' said Prof. Cole, "and this
will be a pleasant recollection of our
visit to Pensacola. The children sing
better and with more enthusiasm IN
Pensacola, believe, then in any city
We have ever BEEN
Rev. R. ]. O'Bryant of the East
Hill Baptist church, offered the first
prayer last night at the request Of
the evangelist Then the audience
was pleased with THE Old-Fashioned
FAITH" sung by request, by Prof.
Cole
Tie 10Th chapter of the Book Of
Exodus was read as the evening less
son, and the text was from Deuteron-
omy, 1:19, "And we came to Kadesh-
Barnea."
MIR. Smith said that he wanted to
talk primarily to church members,
men and women, and especially to
those who have made sort of life
compromise, and had hidden, secret
sins in their hearts. He said the life
compromise robs US of our power,
what we might be, giving US sort
of negative experience. He urged
that they get on the positive side of
life. He said the old testament and
the entire Bible is filled with the nm
est SMILES, the clearest sentiments,
the most wonderful stories of most
dramatic power. And the remark
able part of the whole proceeding is
that every one of them is true. Thus
a man cannot take part of the Bible,
cut out portions and get all the won
derful setting. We must take the
whole book to get the full meaning
of it all. It does not matter which
part of the Bible we open, we viii
find the old gospel running through
it from beginning to end.
He told of the Israelites just
emerging from a bondage under
Egyptian yoke for 43o years, how
they had passed through the Red sea,
the waters thereof parting to allow
them through and encompassing the
armies of Pharaoh when the hosts Of
the king followed to capture tha
| former slaves. With all that, with
bondage of 430 years thrown off, the
speaker showed, the Israelites wera
not content to reach for the Promised
Land in ahead of them, but sent
twelve spies. "And, man, there's
bondage in sin. There is some pleas4
ure, it is true, but it viii come to
an end. The task-masters whom you
have been serving must be completes
ly overthrow, and cast off the evil
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