The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-26
70 PEN|TENTS
HIT THE TRAIL.
SUNDAY NIGHT
Overlooking Meeting at the
Tabernacle With Excel
lent Results Reported.
EVANGELIST WAS
HEARD AT HIS BEST
Mems Meeting in Afternoon
One of the Largest of
Kind Held Here.
NEW DECISIONS.

Seventy-five penitents, the largest
number of any night since invitations
have been given, trailed down to the
front of the tabernacle last night,
and the meeting took on more inter
est perhaps than many previous ones.
Fully $500 people heard Gypsy
Smith. They packed the tabernacle
to overlooking, and people stood sew
eral rows deep in the darkness to
hear one of the best sermons ever
heard from the lips of any evangelist,
barring none, according to the opin'
ion expressed by many. The evange-
list was sick, almost too weak to
stand. In fact he kept to his bed
until a short time before the opening
hour. Red-faced and perspiring be-
fore he had gone half way through
his sermon, the evangeiist's collar
was wilted But that fact, and also
the fact that he was not we'll, did
not deter him. He pleaded as never
before in Pensacola for the unsaved
to accept Christ. And when he
called at the ending of his sermon,
they came to him faster than the at
tendants could care for them.
Rev. l. l. Roberts of the Gonzalez
Baptist church, offered a prayer.
There will be no sermon tonight,
but a meeting of personal workers
will take place in the tabernacle.
The leader was not announced. To-
morrow night the meetings will be
resumed, and on Wednesday night
there will be a special sermon to
pupils of the Pensacola High school,
at which time a special program will
be rendered by the young people On
Thursday Christian Endeavorers and
other young peoples societies will
hold forth.
A whirlwind canvass for money to
defray the expenses of the campaign
was started last night. About $485
had been subscribed through the ac-
Invites of Jas. B. Perkins, who adopt
ed original means to a successful
! end, when one enthusiastic man in the
audience sent word to the platform
that he would stand for the balance
of the $1,000 needed, the canvass
came to an end.
This announcement was received
with cheers.
Last Nights Services.
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 whereupon the waters of the
Jordan divided 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 copious
showers to spray the earth? Car
your God fill a barrel with meal
Can your God resurrect the boy that
is dead? Could your God pour oil
into the cruise? If you are not wor-
Shipping Elijah's God, you are wor.
Shipping something.
"But friends, money cannot buy
life; neither can it buy peace with
God. You and have got to face the
judgment bar of God, and what E
consolation it will be to know that
we are right with Him.
"Then, again, you say there is NJ
heaven, and there is no hell. Thai
doesn't alter the fact You can't cliI
from the Bible what you don't want
and take what you do want. You've
got to accept it just as it is.
mo, sir, morality isn't enough
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