Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-19

What i've need in New England, 5 said Gypsy Smith. Jr., to an audience of over TOO at the Central Baptist church Tuesday night in the second meeting of his evangelistic series here,
 lis a baptism of the Holy Spirit for every man and woman who is on the church roll"
 The evangelists sermon was from the story of Samson and Delilah and
 he drew the lessen that Samson is the type of the careless Christian who
 loses his power and goes down to de- feat from which he can only be res cued and restored by reconsecration to God.
 Chorister Charles F. Allen. with Miss
 Hoagland at the piano. and supporetd by his chorus of 50 voices, opened ths service with some stirring singing in which two of the favorite selections | were Make Somebody Happy Today and I Am Coming Home He also rendered the solo He Bore It All Alone. Rev. F. Daniel Trick of the Fed erated church offered prayer and Rev l D. A. Legg of Trinity Methodist Epis- copal church made the announcements
 mentioning that there had been d very good attendance at the women'S prayer
 meetings in the morning Tuesday at I many homes in the city and at the
 mems prayer meeting at T15 just be- | fore the main meeting.
 This was Preston night In the cam | paign. residents from that part of the
 city having seats in section of the church. and Wednesday will be Laurel | Hill night
 After reading the Biblical story of 1 Samson and Delilah. Mir. Smith spoke ] in part as follows:
 | The text was taken from Judges l 1g 1n Cn ,S f his death were more than they which
 he slew in his life. The Bible has va
 rious methods of teaching it's truths First of all, there is the argumenta- tive method. You cannot get past l the logic of Gods book Secondly, | there is the winsone method. There
 are no more winning stories any where in the world than in the love stories of the cross. Lastly. we have the dramatic method And I think
 that the deeds of some of the men of
 the Bible are far more potent than anything they said or wrote
 Samson stirs me more profoundly | than any other of the Old Testament
 character. First, we see him crowned with the Iadrels of many victories. Then as a fool sneered at by a fawn- : ing spirit. Next as a slave de-
 throned, demoralized and lastly as a ) champion coming forth from darkness ), and erowrling his life with triumph. | He is the type of great many, of us.
 The type of Christian who was honest when he un1ed with the
 church and the things for which He , stood. Then getting careless, fell and slipped into unhappiness and unrest | and defeat. Then seeing the mess I they have made of it all, recensecrate
 themselves and rise to greater victories . than they have ever known. We were 2 all thrilled when we read for the first time the early stories of Sanson's
 life. His carrying off the gates o1
 the city. His tying the foxes to-
 gether and putting the firebrand be-
 tween them and turning them into t the Philistines' wheat fields, thereby j. destroyifls their crops. His meeting f 1 with the lion. His destruction of the fl thousand Philastines with the jaw { bone of an ass. And you will notice 7. that Samson never took any excuse e for defeat. His was superior to al S obstacles. and the secret of his sue e cess was That the spirit of the Lort e came nightly upon him.
 i He learned early in his life that the fl secret of power was the law of sur t render. This can be illustrated by tn, s mind in it's youth only attaining it. v triumphs by surrendering to the inint d of the teacher. The organ could nevel d give us any melody unless its sur n renders to the touch of the player -I and so you and I can only be power ful spiritually as we surrender to Q higher power.
 gI I have sometimes thought I ceul, Il see the. stage all set for the seeen, $ act and Delilah in the center of tn
 stage. The air orderous of olive 1t and myrrh, and Samson awaiting il 7. the wings for his turn; and then
 have imagined that the old patriarch that have gone on before looked dow le over the battlernents of heaven an .s shouted to him, Samson take care. ,e But there was one thing that sam Y son could not do He was the strong K est man in the worlds history, bu |. he could not take care And he los > his position as judge, his sight, hi
 strength, his liberty, all through fool .n nine Christians out of every hundre ,a who go d6#n, go dow ,a tie same way. T don q, ~ mean the same Sin, but the same prd cess-through fo6ling with our weak z ness. The devil isn't any fool. H i. knows us, and he is d master | strategy. He knows our weak point l He knows the weak places in our al l mour. He knows the unguarded mo ! nnent. The average Christian today l not guilty Of murder, or lust,
 gambling, or drunkeness, but the dey l does not care whether it's pride
 murder as long as he gets US. And
 Samson lost all through foolifig. | Do you remember the morning yc | were resolved into your church 1 | ! /