Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-04
HOSPITALITY Is
KEY TO BETTER
MORALE Gypsy
Fewer Lawbreakers Would
Result if Strangers We're
Entertained
RAPS 'FRIGID CHURCHES

If Indianapolis church members
would warm up" and the younger
members of the churches would greet
the newcomers to the city and invite
them to their homes, invite them to
be chums, there would be fewer per-
sons going wrong in this city, Gipsy
Smith told his audience at noon to-
day in the meeting at Keiths
Theater
The evangelist directed his remarks in
todays sermon to the GOODNESS Of the
churches, and the inclination to speak in
terms of decentralization. Gipsy said
the church members, as a whole, are
losing their deEOminationalism, and add
ed it is good thing.
Some people speak more Of denimlna
tionalism than they do of the word Of
God" he said
There are some things which accom-
pany salvation and when a man says he
has it we have a right to expect certain
things. And If they're not there then
that man is a liar.
by their fruits ye shall know them
Some OF you stand in the right place,
but you don't bear fruit"
In speaking of the GOODNESS of the
churches and church members of the pres
ent day, the evangelist said:
SOME CHURCHES ARE
GOOD REFRIGERAT0RS.
ION a hot summers day is the day
for some churches, for they are good re-
frigerators. If you've a strong faith in
God, then you'n produce work, and if
you don't produce the work there's pre-
cious little faith.
Read your Bible, cultivate an nc
quaintance with your Lord, and youll
learn something, If you're not too clever.
There are some people the Lord can't
teach anything. They're 50 clever.
IF you want the knowledge that com
eth from above you've got to get it on a
Calvary. Spiritual things are spiritually
discerned. If you want the knowledge
Of the Bible. you've got to know God.
"W hen you come to God, you come not
as a big man who happens to be a sinner,
but as a sinner who happens TO be big
man.
when you get to Heaven youn find
folk there that you never expected would
be there, and you'll miss folk you tX-
pected to see. And the big surprise viii
be that you are there yourself
''YOU CAN'T
FOOL GOD"
You can't fool Cod" Gipsy Smith.
evangelist, told a capacity audience in
the tabernacle last night in opening the
fourth and last week of his campaign.
This was the theme Of his entire sermon,
the proposition that while a man may
fool others Into believing he is religious
and that While he may hide his sins. he
cannot fool God.
your Lincoln said, You can fool some
Of the people all of the time and all Of
the people some of the time, but you
cant fool all OF the people all Of the
time the English evangelist told his
audience. 81 want to say to you that
you can't fool God a moment You may
fool yourself a little while, but even thea
you won't be very successful. You may
fool your neighbors, or your wife, or
your husband, or your children, but God.
never. Don't be deceived. God does see
God does know: God does care.
"You are sowing n harvest which you
must reap. Good or III, you will be
laborer in that field, and the thoughts,
the words and actions Of yesterday and
today and day before yesterday are form
ing the links which will cable you to the
eternal throne or bind you to outer dark
ness. You say 1t doesn't matter what
you do now. but 1t does matter. 1t leaves
It's mark on you day by day. II some
Of your doctors spoke the truth it would
stnrtle you. l can look In the faces Of
some Of you and tell you Of the sin that
Is dsmning you. If man can tell, what
OF God? Whatsoever a man soweth that
win he reap more abundantly.'
IF God should cease to be and His
throne should crumbIe and we could
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