The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-11
INDIFFERENCE
Of CHURCHES
IS SHOWN UP
Gypsy Smith breaches to
Enormous Saturday
Night Congregation.
SECOND WEEK OF
MEETING TO OPEN
Modern-Day Application of
Story of Woman at
the Well Made.

gypsy Snl1In Will spend MS second
Sunday in Pensacola today and preach
on Sunday for the first time in the
tabernacle, at 7:45 o'clock tonight.
At that time it is expected the tab
ernacle will be filled with the great
est crowd yet.
Mr.. Smith will not preach in any
of the churches this morning as had
been reported, but will rest up for
tonight's supreme effort, which gives !
promise of being the very ablest SER
mon he has yet delivered, and those |
who have been to every service this
week will know what to expect.
Prof. Forest Cole, however, the di- |
rector of singing at the tabernacle
services, will sing the offertory at
the morning service of the First
Presbyterian church today at IL
o'clock.
Great Childrens' Meeting.
Hundreds of children assembled at
the tabernacle Saturday afternoon at
8 o'clock to attend a service con-
Quoted by Prof. Cole, and it would
be hard to have found happier set
of children than those who crowded
into the street after an hour spent
watching the conductor and his little
friend, "Willie JONES'" who enter
tanned. The children were provided
with leaflets containing words and
music of the popular song used at
every meeting thus far, and they sang
it as if their lives depended upon the
effort. It was one of the most sue
cessful of childrens meetings, and
very near all the youngsters express
ed desire to again return to the
tabernacle for another service.
Young Peoples Societies.
Young peoples societies of every
church cooperating in the Gypsy
Smith movement will assemble at $50
o'clock this afternoon at the taber-
nacle for a service of half an hour.
1t is urged that all be prompt, as it
is the purpose of the leaders to finish
with the exercises before the crowds
begin to arrive for the night ser
vice Rev. 1. E. Philips, of the Knox
Presbyterian Church, will lead at this
service.
An Old Story Re-Told.
Present day application, was made
last night of the story of the woman
at the we'll who met Jesus, whom she
did not know, and Who revealed him
self to her, an outcast of her day,
among the first persons on earth
who saw him. Gypsy Smith stressed
the point that Christ, when the OPP
perfume time came for revealing Him
self to anyone on earth, did not hunt
up the churchman, the priest, the
learned man, but the woman of the
world, whose inward sins and past
life He read with such perfectness
until she went through the cities,
spreading abroad the glad tiding that
she chad seen Jesus, the Christ. !"
The speaker told his audience that in
Christ's life, the Savior did not seek
out the rich, the powerful, the mighty,
but the lowly, the outcast, even going
out into the highways and hedges to
bring them in.
Indifference of church member"
may have been the correct topic upon
which his remarks were based
last night to an audience, sur
prisingly large for Saturday
night, who followed the evange-
list from start to finish in an hours
appeal to them as church members,
as heads of homes, as fathers and
mothers, to put off such indifference,
to pray with their boys, their girls,
their friends. and be what the church
obligation called for, and what was
expected of them from having their
names on the church roll
Rev. Claude Roberts, of the City
Methodist Mission, led in a prayer
last night, and Prof. Cole was heard
RI solo and also in the direction of
the singing. A large number of boys
and girls, who attended the afternoon
meeting, which was conducted by
Prof. Cole, stood when he asked them,
and Joined in singing "their" song,
Brighten the Corner Where You
Are" until the vast audience could