Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-11
ADMIRING MOB
SAYS GOOD-BY
TO EVANGELIST
Ewes Dimmed With Tears as
Gypsy Smith Leaves
City.
HE IS GOING HOME

HE IS GOING HOME
This has been the greatest campaign
Of my life" said Gypsy Smith, the Eng
lish evangelist, as he stood facing hun
dreds of men and women who crowded
the Union Depot this morning to bid him
farewell after the conclusion OF his four
weeks revival in Indianapolis.
With tears IN his eyes Gypsy said F:
Friends, I am unworthy to have you
people miss sleep and your breakfast to
bid me goodby."
Menand women carried their little red
colored song books with them to the de-
pot and sang Love Lifted Me-" which
-~is the song favorite Of the evangelist.
He sang with them.
HUNDREDS WEEP
AT GIPSY'S FAREWELL.
The evangelist was escorted to his train
by Howard Cadle, a personal friend of
the evangelist; members Of the executive
committee Of the campaign and many
prominent Indianapolis ministers.
Hundreds of men and women shed tears
as the evangelist waved them a final fare
well.
When the evangelist left his room this
morning at the Hotel SEVERN, he was
greeted by a crowd Of several hundred
persons who had been waiting in the
lobby Of the hotel from o'clock to bid
him farewell.
PERSONS OF ALL
WALKS GRIP HIS HAND.
The evangelist shook hands with all
and told them how splendid the cam
palgn was and how wonderful the re-
suits were. Men and women from all
walks of life greeted him and he had
a personal word for all.
At Z 20 O'Clock the evangelist called the
room Of William McEwan, his choir lead
er. who was too i'll to appear Sunday
night.
Mr.. Evan, still very weak. walked from
the elevator and greeted the evangelist.
The crowd cheered Mr.. McEwan-
WOMEN SNAP
GIPsY'S PICTURE
The evangelist escorted McEwan to the
automobile OF Mr.. Cadle. The crowd fol-
lowed Women insisted chat Gypsy pose
for a picture and he smiled as the cameras
clicked.
After the doors Of the big car were
closed, the evangelist asked the driver to
wait Gypsy called a bell boy to the
car and put & crisp bill in his hand.
The crowd applauded and the evangel-
ist smiled as the automobile started to
the depot.
Gypsy VIII sail from New York on May
20 for England He will return in the
fall 20 America and Mr.. Cadle viii join
the evangelist's party.
CROWD BITS
GYPSY &C Fed.
To the s.--.ug OF God be with you
till we meet again." and Home. Sweet
Home" and to the waving OF handker-
chiefs and the shouting of gOOd-bys,
r.
dianapoIis campaign. This morning he
started for New York on the first lap Of
his Journey TO his home in Cambridge,
England.
There was q note OF regret IN the
last meeting, not only because the evan
gelist was going, but because William
McEwan. the choir leader and solOist,
was not able to be present. He was Sc
riousIy III at his hotel from ptomaine
poisoning. E. E. Young, the pianist, left
at 1 o'clock this morning for his home in
Chicago.
The last meeting was taken up largely
by the saying Of farewell. Every per
son who could possibly be accommodated
crowded into the big tabernacle and hun
dreds were turned away. During his
four weeks stay Gypsy Smiths audiences
have totaled nearly nearly two hundred
thousand and 1900 persons have signed
cards promising to live Christian lives.
JESUS WEEPING
OVER JERUSALEM
In closing his campaign the evangelist
expressed the hope that he had been sue
cessfuI He took as the text Of his ser
mon the passage from Luke, telling Of
Jesus weeping over Jerusalem.
= wonder what Jesus would say to
indianapolis" lie said. you have had
Jerusalem. God has spoken TO you as he
spoke to Jerusalem. This has been a time
Of visitation, fraught with opportunity
and laden with destiny. Jesus Christ has
been pleading with you. If he weeps in
Heaven he has wept over some Of you.
Think Of almighty God in tears of disaD-
pOintment because His love has been re-
fused. His grace rejected and an anarchy
set up against His viii and purpose.
"God forbid that I be farther from my
Lord than I was when we began. God
forbid that my heart be harder I want
my love intensified. II has been a won
derful day for me and I hope to go out
Of it a better man and my sympathies
deepened for my brother man. We are
going to preach Christ with more en-
thusiasm than ever before.
VISIT BROUGHT GREAT
GAIN OR LOSS.
you church members, you Sunday
school teachers, you mothers and fathers,
you have had your day. I hope my God
is not disappointed in you. IA visitation
like this comes to a city without ire
mendous gain or tremendous loss.
''You are making history. So did
jerusalem when 1t nailed Him on the
cross and lie prayed, Forgive them, Fa-
Their, for they know not what they do
He can't pray that Of Indianapolis be-
cause you know. II you are not better
for this visitation you had better never
have heard.
Rejection Of Jesus Christ brings its
own guilt, its own condemnation and its
own death. What viii be your record
when the books are opened? I shall
have to give an accounting, too. Every
mans work viii be tested by fire. VIII
your work stand the fire? Win your
| conduct, your thought and your decision
stand the test Of light? I have stood
on this platform trembling. Many could
have done better than I. But God
knows I have done my best. If I have
not helped you my heart aches at the
thought.
RECEIVED LETTERS
FROM MALIGSERS.
I have received a hundred letters since
I have been in Indianapolis from people
who say 1 am not preaching the gospel
I have had letters from people who have
tried to convert me. Not a day has
passed that / have not received such let