The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-01-21
TABERNACLE TO Be
OPENED SATURDAY
Public to Get First View of In
terror When Gypsy Smith
OediCateS II.
CHURCHES JOIN CAMPAIGN
Many Members Urge congrega-
tons to Attend Evangelistic
Services.

Washingtonians will get their first
view OF Gypsy Smiths tabernacle,
near Sixteenth and V streets north
west. Saturday night, when the Ie-
nowned evangelist dedicates the giant
structure to the cause OF the gospel.
At that time GYPSY Smith will make
an address informing the public of
the aims and objects of the revival he
Is to conduct from January 2S to Feb
ruary IS. and also teu why the six
sawdGst trails are there.
With Impressive Ceremony.
Wherever he goes, the evangelist
insists on impressive dedicatory ex-
crcises in the tabernacle which is to
be his church for the time being
The reyivalist Will be presented by
the Rev. John Carpenter Palmer,
chairman OF the executive committee,
which made the arrangements for
the revival
TIE revivalist will be presented by
the Rev. John Carpenter Palmer,
chairman of'the executive committee
which made the arrangements for the
revival.
The chorus Of 400 mixed voices,
ably trained by John w. Reynolds,
viii be turned over to Prof. Forest
Cole, Gypsy Smiths choir leader. A
rehearsal for the program OF hymns
and sacred music to be sung at the
dedic6tory exercises will be held in
the tabernacle Friday night.
From the pulpits of all the Presby-
terrain churches and many other
churches ministers today invited the
attention OF their congregations to the
Forthcoming evangelistic campaign
and urged all the men, women and
children to attend 'the services as
often as possible during the month!
All of the ministers complimented
The personal workers for their splen-
did organizations within the foclIs
and expressed the hope that the vari-
Gus congregations would vie with
each other in turning out the largest
attendance during he revival.
The members of the various COM
mittees which have virtually com
pleted arrangements for the campaign
have stirred up extraordinary interest
in the revival and thousands of Wash
ingtonians are asking: who is Gypsy
Smith, jr. ~
Born ThIrty-five Years Ago.
Gypsy Smith. jr., was born thirty
FIVE years ago, on December 81, at
father, a Salvation Army captain. had
just gone to Newcastle to establish
, the first corps of Salvation Army
workers outside the city OF London.
His father is a full-blood gypsy, while
his mother is an English woman, the |
frst convert of his father.
gypsy Smith, jr., attended the pub !
lie schools; known as Tettenhall Col |
lege, at Northampton, until he
reached the age of fifteen years, when
he decided to go to sea. He appren- (
ticed to a firm of sailing vessel own ,
ers and served four years, then en- I
tered the steamer service.
Was Junior Officer.
He was connected with the trans
Atlantic liners plying from Glasgow
to New York, and rose to the rank of
Junior officer. During his sailing ca
reer he circted the world three times,
touching at nearly all important
ports.
Abandoning the sea career at TWEEN |
ty-four, he married Dumbarton, Sco,- |
land, woman, and was in business in |
Manchester, England. for two years.
Then he came to New York as ship