Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-22

in answer to their prayers. These peo-
pie all spoke of God in their church. l
wonder what would happen if every one
should speak of God in one Of our
churches. Some would say it was a new
religion, but I wouldn't. / would say it
was an old one being revived"
The evangelist declared that he was
afraid that sometimes the word of God
is covered up in such a way that nobody
can recognize it.
when you talk about something you
are not sure of and nobody else knows
anything about, they call 1t metaphysics"
he said.
Gypsy Smith waved a copy Of the New
Testament before his audience.
This work is the sword of the spirit"
he said "If you use 1t without the
power of the Holy Ghost you do more
harm than good"
OFFICERS OF
FIRST CHURCH.
He declared that the officers OF the first
church stood for all the things that
Jesus Christ came to make possible. He
said the officers of that church were not
the men with the most political pull or
the mean who stood highest in ssociety,
or the men who were most prominent in
business. or even the most intellectual
men, but the men who were the best He
said that church officers should be Gull
tured and that they would be if they had
true religion.
There is no incompatibility between
culture and evangelism he said. Jesus
Christ was the most perfect gentleman
and the greatest evangelist.
IT you are an office bearer and wont
get saved you had better use some com
acss~ ha .
church officials in the audience. IF you
are putting a man who is not saved in
a church office in order to hold him you
are beginning at the wrong end. The
Qualification of an office bearer In the
church of God is that he be a good man.
The first Qualification is goodness.
God can't and won't use unholy men
in his churches. If you are not a good
man you will be curse in church
office
DO your wife and your children be-
lieve in your religion? Can you kneel
down on your hearth rug and pray and
have your children gather about you and
say their father is a good MANI"
EXPERIENCE
AS MINISTER.
Gypsy Smith, in Illustrating his points,
told of some of his early experiences as
minister. he said when he was % years
old he had a church attended every sun
day by 900 persons. He said he was
called to speak at another church and
found it divided in two factions. He said
he could do nothing until he succeeded
in welding the factions together and that
the welding resulted in revival lasting
twelve months.
some of your church office bearers
don't even know what II means to be an
office bearer in the church of Cod he
told them. THE office bearers make the
atmosphere largely in any church. II
you are a good office bearer you will be
there on a Sunday night. You won't be
there only occasionally on Sunday
morning and absent Sunday night.
Don't you see what it Is to be an
office bearer? 1t Is living as a co-part-
ner with the Son Of God in the subjuga-
ton of the world.
IF you are a good office bearer you
will know everybody in the neighborhood
and you will know whether they 90 to
church You know where they live when
there is an election on. / know your
l politicians. l know what they do in my
country. The prime minister OF England
is a friend of mine. l received a letter
/ from Mrs Lloyd George just a few days
ago In your city.
T WAY OF THE
POLITICIAN.
/ When election comes you don't walt
/ for a man to come and cast his vote. You
| go after him with a flag bedecked auto
mobile. Do you do that much to get him
to church? No. All you do Is ring a
/ bell and sometimes you don't do that.
Then if he does go to church you don't
| speak to him. If he gets in the wrong
/ pew you call an usher and make him get
/ out Then you sing, Rescue the Perish
mgr
This fraud has got to stop.
IF we who are used to going to
church hesitate to take a seat, what will
/ the fellow who hasn't been to church for
ten years do? The beauty of the Saliva
tion Army is that everybody has got to
serve. Suppose poor, lost man or
woman in the gutter In your city to-
night should decide to get out OF the
/ thing they are in. Would they go to your
swell church? You know they wouldn't.
They would 90 to the Salvation Army
| Why? Because they have lost confidence
in you
4 hope the church viii be lifted to a
place where every lost man or woman will
have faith in you"
The evangelist said he would like to
see every office bearer write a letter to
things over and venture something for
Jesus. He declared he had known Of
fee bearers who had made it impossible
/ for preachers to do anything.
ALLOW PREACHER
/ TO CREEP IN.
/ Il know churches where the choir runs
/ things and allows the preacher to creep
in where he cnn," he said. THE preacher
is not your servant. He is the servant
OF God. You can make it impossible by
/ the lives you live for his sermons to do
any good.
IF Jesus Christ should come to preach
1 in some of your churches he would find
/ 1t impossible. to do anything until con-
ditions were changed"
/ At the close of his talk Gypsy Smith
asked all who desired to give their hearts
/ to God to arise. More than 5000 per
! sons arose to their feet. at least 1000
/ Of them signed pledge cards.
/ At the opening Of the meeting Mr.. and
/ Mrs. Homer RhOdieheaver, who are as
/ sisting Billy Sunday in his campaign in
! Cincinnati, sang. The evangelist him
self also sang.
| Before he started the sermon a large
bouquet bearing no name was handed
up to him.
'T love flowers" he said in receiving
them. Il WAS born among them. 1 am
q child OF the woods. Sometimes my
Gypsy heart cries out, oh, God, for the
woods"
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