Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-25
smith TO SOLDIERS
Scores of Converts Visible Result Of
Services Friday Night.
MANY EX.SERVICE men WE'RE PRESENT
People Of All Walks Of Life Hit the
Cody Trail-Ex- soldiers outsang
All the Rest-Gypsy Smiths Ser
mon Made Touching Appeal to
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All the Rest-Gypsy Smiths Ser
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Thousands.
(By Staff Correspondent.)
Rock Hill, Oct. 21-Ex- service men
20 the rumber Of about 400, sat at at
tention without the direct word OF
command being given at the Gypsy
Smith tent here tonight surrounded
by 1900 other people and heard a
powerful message from the evange-
list preaching from the text found in
Daniel 5:27: Thou Art Weighed in
tie Balance and Art Found Wanting
Ex- soldiers, some of them who per-
haps had not been inside the door of
a religious meeting in months listen
ed with great interest to the simple,
straight forward message from Gypsy
and the hearts of many of them were
moved.
1t was Service Mems night at the
big tent. They came from all sections
of York county and they began to
gather around the Rock Hill postoffice
before o'clock which had been desig-
mated as the hour at which they were
TO march in a body to their reserved
seats in the center Of the tented tab
ernacle. At the call Of assembly they
lined up in the street in correct for
nation as they used to do in their SER
vice days and they responded with the
old time snap and ginger to the terse
commands of Hiram Hutchison, for
mer lieutenant who was asked by
Perry Gill; commander of Frank Roach
Post of the American Legion, Rock
Hill to round them into marching or
der.
They marched with snappy step to
the beating Of drum toward the big
top and when they reached there the
vast congregation already arrived
stood up and cheered. A fine looking
bunch of chaps they were-wel.
groomed, clean-cut, intelligent look
ing lads. They took their seats with
out making any fuss about 1t as most
audiences are won't % do and they
waited most attentively for the exer-
cises of the evening to begin.
Gypsy Smiths choir leader Prof.
Allen conducts a song service each
evening for about thirty minutes pre-
ceding the sermon and 1t was said
that there was more pep put into the
song service tonight than usual. Most
interest centered in the hymn the
chorus of which includes the line:
Love Lifted Me-" The choir sang 1t
over and over again. Various sections
of the audience were invited to sing It.
That section in which the ex-soldiers
were seated was invited to sing it last.
Practically every service man entered
into the chorus and they fairly shook
the top of the big tent with the VOL
ume of song from 400 healthy throats.
They sang it like they used to sing
Good Bye Broadway, Hello France
or other popular song Of days agone.
Gypsy Smith was pleased and Choir
Leader Allen was pleased wh!lo the
regular choir was apparently sur
prised.
Man to Man Sermon.
1t was a regular herman sermon
that the Gypsy preached. 1t was
sermon that got next to the skins OF
the soldiers and that got next to the
civilian congregation as well. The
Gypsy shot it out in simple fashion
in a fashion that appealed to an un-
usual degree somehow.
In dramatic fashion he recited the
story Of Belshazzar the king of Baby
lon who was left in charge Of the
great city while his father was away
with the main army fighting the
enemies of the kingdom. He vividly
described the city of Babylon. He
vividly described BelslaZZar as n
young fellow intoxicated because OF
temporary power and who conceived
the idea of holding a great feast dur
ing his fathers absence at which time
a thousand lords and ladies would fete
him and pay homage TO MIN.
L was a great feast, he said. Men
and women were drunk with wine.
Half naked dancing women were there
to amuse them. Belshazzar was not
satisfied but = remembering that his
grandfather Nebudchadnezzar had
captured the golden vessels from the
temple of the God of the Jews he sent
for them that his mobiles and their
ladies might drink his health from
them. Thus they desecrated the holy
vessels of God.
Then he saw an arm without body
appear on the wall and begin writing
an unntelligible writing. Belshazzar
was worried He sent for his wise
men and soothsayers. They could not
interpret the inscription. His mother
told him that he had in jail a young
fellow named Daniel, Jew and a
prophet who could read the writing.
Daniel was seHt for and BelshaZzar
offered to make him the third ruler in
the kingdom if he would read the
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