Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-14

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Smith gave the church people ard others
Of this city to understand that he is here
to do business.
After the predminaries were over the
evangelist said: Now we are ready to
get down to business"
Gypsy Smith read his text as only
Gypsy Smith can read IT. At times he
would pause and say: Pay attention to
the story of my text 1t is a story of
q great failure-a failure on the part OF
those who surrounded Jesus 1t is the
story Of a failure of the disciples"
As he continued reading from the ninth
chapter of Matthew, beginning with the
fourteenth verse, a slight disturbance
was heard at one OF the doors leading
into the tabernacle. The evangelist
looked around and said: Don't look at
that door. Watch me. If anybody comes
in who Is dangerous, l will tell you"
Then the evangelist continued by telling
in his own words the story of his text
how a man brought his son to the dis
ciples and Of the failure of the disciples
to cast evil from him.
QUESTION PUT
TO AUDIENCE.
Even Jesus can be disappointed In
those who love Him. said the evangelist.
''The sneering, questionable and worldly
crowd is always there. Pardon me if
ask a question. I wonder If I, knowing
that You were a Christian and 1 came to
your church, hoping that you would ease
my tired heart and hoping you would IN
loosen the tangles about my heart-I
wonder II you would fail. l come
hiring mr. Lrr%
not able to help me. Invent away dis
appointed. 1 went away worse than l
came. You boosted that you were
Christian and you couldn't help me.
you couldn't have been with Jesus
and not have made this city a better
place." said Gypsy Smith
Several people from the audience cried
out Amen"
The evangelist looked down and said,
1T is easy to say amen. l mean the
folks who are saying amen. Just what
/ abhor In you I abhOr in myself
God help US from playing with re-
ligion.
THREE YEARS
IN FRANCE.
your failure makes it harder for the
man who is sincere. lived for three and
half years In the blood and the mud
OF France. I was as homesick and as cold
as the boys who were doing the fighting.
/ thank God l was privileged to live with
the braTest boys that ever lived. They
take off their hats to Jesus. They stand
for the real thing every time.
You talk about reaching the masses
and saving the city. Get yourself saved.
Start with yourself. ! ask you why you
Joined the church? What's your intelli-
gent idea about it? Did you join the
church to help save the world7 If you
didn't you are a fraud"
Pausing for a second, Gypsy Smith said
with a twinkle in his eye. You can't
get religion without knowing it. You
can't get married without knowing it."
He then told how he got religion when
only gypsy boy.
l couldn't spell my own name" he
said. Il was in the lumber business
when I professed Christ. I was selling
clothespins and that is an honest profess
sion when you buy your timber
IF your religion isn't worth talking
about, you haven't any religion" he de-
clared.
Suddenly shrill voice OF an uncom-
Portable baby In the audience pierced the
air OF the tabernacle.
NTERPRETS TALK
OF CRYING BABY.
Gypsy Smith looked down from his
high pulpit and said: my message does
not appeal to babies I can interpret
baby talk. What that child is saying
Is that he wants fresh air.
The evangelist then asked those pres
ent how many they have brought into
the church this year
The world is not going to be saved
oy ministers and evangelists," he de-
eiared earnestly. 1T Is going to be saved