Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-06
Evangelist Gypsy Smith. IT.. viii ii t,

EVanSellSt GypSy. smith, dr., will to- night close. the third week. of his spe- cial meetings under the auspices of, seven churches in this city and has one more week to bring. him to the end of his engagement with them.
 Friday night at the Central Baptist church he again had congregation of 800 before whom he delivered an earn. est and appealing address that men might give God the first place in their, lives and obey Him. e-7
 MT. Smiths text Friday evening was taken from second Kings. second chapter, fourteenth verse, Where is the Lord God of Elijah ?"
 At the the opening of this second chapter, We see Elijah with his ser, want Elisha, on their way to the ap-- pointed place in the desert where God was to take His servant to Himself. They had been through some wonder ful year and scenes, for for God had done some marvellous things. Then the prophet Elijah knew they were com ing to the close of their journey, the last three milestones had been pass ed-Bethel, Jericho and Jordan At each one of these places the prophet had turned to his servant and had said "Tarry here, I pray thee" And
 each time the same answer had come from Elisha AS the Lord liv- l ct and as the soul liveth, I will not leave thee" You could not blame Elisha, he was just young man, and
 he wanted to see how God was going to take Elijah to Himself without
 passing through what we call death, and at each one of these places the sons of the. prophets had also come out and said to Elisha, Do you know
 that your master is to be taken from you today?" and each time Elisha
 answered. Yea, I know it. Hold ye your peace" On arriving at the river Jordan, while Elisha is wondering how they
 are to get across, suddenly the old
 prophet takes the robe from his shoulders and smites the waters of the Jordan so that they part and they are able to go over on the dry river bed. On arriving at the other side, the waters come back again and flow
 on as before
 Then you remember as they were walking and talking, you remember Elijah said, Elisha, have you any
 request to make of me before am
 taken from your" And Elisha said
 ''Yes sir, that double portion of your spirit might fall upon me" And
 Elijah said, You have asked a hard
 thing, nevertheless if you see me when I am taken away from you il
 shall be so, but if not then the re- quest shall not be granted And ] 1 feel sure that Elisha made up his mind that as far as he was concerned
 nothing should interfere with his 1 seeing the vision.
 Suddenly, you remember, the old | prophet is caught up with whirl- l wind, and the young man seeing the 1 vision erys out My Father, .ny 1 Father, the chariot of Isratel and the l horsemen thereof.p Then he sees the
 old prophet take the robe from his Ishoulders and fling it down out ot the chariot, and then the clouds en- velope the chariot, and the young mar sees it no more.
 And Elisha realizes that he is alone He does not feel any different. He i. sure that he saw everything, and ye his master promised him a doubl, i portion of his spirit, and suddenly h,
 sees the robe of Elijah lying on th,
 ground, and he takes hold of it ant wanting to test his own power, h,
 means to do with that robe, if possi
 ble, just what his master did a mo
 ment or two before, and so he rushe to the waters of the Jordan an, smites with the challenge of our tex Where is the Lord God of Elijah ?'-
 and you know the waters parted a they had done for Elijah. And thel Elisha knew that his masters Go was his God and that the spirit ha also been given to him.
 Elijah's God was a wonderful Goo wonder if he is your God, for ever
 man has God. That is a, mans Go around which his whole life moves
 that thing that he lives for; u tha thing that is predominating his lift ] and l find men everywhere who ar t making money their God. There i nothing in the scriptures to show tha el God does not want any of us to ac r lcumulate money, for I believe the fac ulty of making money is given f g some men, just as surely as othe men are gifted to preach the gospe 2 but when money stands between U
 and Almighty God, then it is wron, r land yet some men worship it to tf exclusion of everything else-just a much as though they were to put i hundred dollar bill in mahogan frame and hang it on the wall an
 worship it several times da.
 Money is a great thing to have, but very poor master. It will build you 2 most magnificent home; it will fl d your garage with the finest of Amer g can and European makes; it win fl q your cellars with the finest foods ar . wines from the four corners of tf : world; it can supply you with u