The Washington times., 1917-02-19
Fifty-fOur Respond to EvangeI-
lists Plea at Night, Thirty
eight in Afternoon.
LITTLE BOY COMES FIRST
Four Thousand Pack Taber-
nacIe in EVening-Hun-
dreds Turned Away.

Gypsy Smiths sermons yesterday
brought ninety-two penitents to the
''cinder PATH" and his sermon last
night before the largest crowd that
has yet visited the tabernacle at Six
teenth and V streets caused more un-
converted to hit the trail than at any
previous meeting.
Fully 1000 people heard Gypsy
Smith last night They packed the
tabernacle to overlooking, and hun
dreds were turned away when all the
seats had been taken and the stand
ing room filled.
Red faced and perspiring before
he had gone halfway through his SER
mon, the evangelist's collar was
wiIted. But that fact didn't seemed to
deter him. He pleaded as never be-
fore i'm Washington for the unsaved
to accept Christ When he called for
the penitents to hit the lone traif'
they came in a steady stream.
NInety.tvro Hit Trail.
Fifty-four penitents hit the trail
after last nights sermon. In his
special sermon to men only, deliver
ed yesterday afternoon, thirty-eight
took a stand for Christ, running the
single day during the present cam
paign.
A little boy. ten years old. elbow
ed his way through the crowd and
came down first last night.
A mother, leading her small son,
followed. Then came two colored
women and soon there was a steady
stream of penitents moving down to
shake the evangelist's hand.
Annoyed by Crying Baby.
Once in his sermon the evangelist
stopped abruptly and asked that a
crying baby be removed from the
tabernacle. He explained that his
nerves were on edge and he could not
stand interruptions.
Gypsy Smith pleaded with his
audience of men at the afternoon
service at o'clock to turn from lust
and drink and accept Christ.
Beware of your first glass;" he
warned. ''Shun the loose and care
less habit of making yourselves
cheap.
"First Step That Counts
ITS the first step that counts, and
you will find it out when it's too
late"
The evangelist visited the National
Soldiers Home and addressed the civil
war veterans at 2 o'clock yesterday |
afternoon.
Arrangements are being made for |
high school students to attend Wed |
nesday nights service. The taber- |
nacle will be turned over to them and |
invitations are being sent out today. |
Next Sunday aftOnoon the evangelist !
will talk to men only on "Erom Gyp-
sy Tent to Pulpit"
SAre You worshIpInE EIIJah's God!,
The evangelist took as the text for
his sermon last night "Where Is the
Lord God of Elijah?" The sermon
follows:
after Elisha had received the
spirit of Elijah he ran to the river |
Jordan. and shifting the waters. |
shouted, Where is the Lord God of |
Israeli vhereupon the waters of the |
Jordan divIIed and the prophet walk |
ed across on dry land.
"Elijah's God was a wonderful |
God" said the preacher "Are you a |
-worshiper of Elijah's God? Can the |
God you worship dry this land up |
for three years, and then cause CO. |
Vious showers to spray the earth? |
Can your God fila barrel with meal? |
Can your God resurreci the boy that |
IS. dead? Gould your God pour oil |
into the cruise? II you are not wor-
Shipping Elijah's God, you are wor-
shipping something.
do You Worship Money.-
as it money you are worshiping?
I know that money will fill your
stables with the fastest horses; it will /
put the finest car in your garage: il
Will fill your cellars with wine. ana |
will NIL your pantries with the finest
eatables. But when the Son of God
calls you, all RockefeIler's millions
piled on top of Carnegie's millions |
cannot give you back life.
THE story is told of a Y. NJ c. A.
secretary, who, tired of toiling away
for almost nothing, gave up his posi-
tiOn and went to the Klondike. Three
years later he returned, a rich man.
and was welcomed by his friends, who
clambered aboard the vessel that bore
him as il pulled into San Francisco
harbOr. His wife was asked where
their son was, and with tears run
ming from her eyes, she replied, We
left him buried on the banks Of the
Yukon. Oh, 1 would gladly give all
the money we have and ten years Of
my life If we had him back
No Golden Rule without God.
But, lTlendS, money cannot buy
life; neither can it buy peace with
God. You and l have got to face In.
judgment bar of God. and what Il c IN
ISOLATION it will be TO know that we
are right with Him,
you say. 4 believe If ] do the
square thing ] will be ali right. II
] live the golden rule. I'll be saved
You haven't got a man or woman IN
this town who would dare stand up
before this congregation and say
they are living the golden rule with
out Christ You cannot live the ser
mon on the mount unless you have
the power OF the author of the ser
mon"
The evangelist here entered into a
comparison of the business man who
rejects the offering of Christ, and Of
the thief who does the same. saying,
Both of them will slip into a Christ
less world"
Must BE Washed White.
Then, again. you say there is no
heaven, and there is no hell. That
doesn't alter the farr. You can't clip
from the Bible what you don't want
and take what you do want. You've