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ACTION URGED
The New Birth Is Subject
of Most Searching
Sermon
RECORD CROWD IN
TABERNACLE AGAIN
Good Singing, In Which
Practically All Joined,
Features Meeting

After resting a day, Rev. GYPSY
Smith, Jr., renewed services at the
tabernacle last night at 7:45 o'clock
to an audience which occupied every
available seat. The audience, per-
haps, was larger than that of Sun
day night, for people stood through
the sermon along the sides, and by
the wall, and at every entrance could
be seen lines of people, extending
back into the darkness.
The singing was participated in
possibly more generously by the con-
gregation last night than at any
previous meeting. Dwelling in Beu-
lah Land" was sung by choir, by
congregation and by sections. At one
time, five little boys, on the front
row, very readily stood on the front
seat, at the request of Prof Cole,
and sang the chorus of this selection.
The hundred or so colored people,
who fringed the back part of the
tabernacle, sang the chorus, and then
the huge congregation whistled it.
Rehearsal and Day Meetings.
Prof. Cole will meet children be-
tween the ages of 10 and Is years
of age at the First Methodist Church
this afternoon at 4 o'clock, for the
purpose of starting the training of a
choir of young folks, who are expect
ed to sing probably next Sunday
night. Prof. Cole is very anxious
that children not younger than 10
years be present, and that all come
with a desire to enter into the train
ing with a will.
Rev. Mr.. Smith will conduct the
first of the afternoon meetings at
8 o'clock, for one hour today. He
stipulated in his announcement last
night that the service would not
probably last over an hour. All are
invited and urged to come to these
afternoon as we'll as the night meet
ings.
DR.. Moffett, pastor of the FIRST
Presbyterian Church, offered a
touching prayer last night at the
request of Mr.. Smith, after which
Prof. Cole sang very prettily. Fol-
lowing Mr.. Cole, Mr.. Smith sang
with much feeling, my Wonderful
Dream" Immediately thereafter
plunging into the delivery of the
most searching sermon on 1.-THE New
Birth" he has yet been heard in
during the present series.
A Nursery Opened.
1t was announced that the good
ladies of the congregation, which
means the ladies of the cooperating
churches, had opened a nursery at
ia West Wright street, where chill
dren will be cared for by competent
nurses while mothers attend the
meetings.
The choir came in for a tribute of
praise from Mr.. Smith last night. He
said that he personally appreciated
the work of the large body of ladies
and gentlemen constituting the choir
and said he felt sure that he was
speaking the sentiments of the con-
gregation when he thus expressed his
own.
az am far more anxious that those
who give themselves to Christ dur
ing these meetings and this cam
paign do so intelHgently," declared
Mr. Smith. ethan that we have g
! great number. I had rather have
five men and women who are really
born again than to have fifteen thou
sand who are swayed by emotion
alone" That statement gives the
whole idea back of the sermon last
night
"'The New Birth"
Rev. Gypsy Smith Jr., took fol
his text a part of the 7th verse Of
the Bird chapter of st. Johns gospel
aye must be borne again" After
stating that this topic contained tht
most important doctrine of the New
Testament, he proceeded to discuss
the subject in part as follows:
"The Bible says that God createt
man in His own image. Man wa
also given the understanding and viii
of God and this implied the will to d.
Gods will-to live God.
"But temptation was also allowed
and this entered into and debauchet
the human heart, and the spirit o
God went out. Sin caused mans fall
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