Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-08
SON
CHRISYS AGENT
OF REPENTANCE
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dered away, and the coin was lost because
some one in the house was careless. It's
up to you to see that there is no one
lost in your house through your careless
ness.
"In my judgment the prodigal son was
prodigal before be spent a cent of his
money, and before he even went to his
father for his share of money.
WHO WENT AFTER
PRODIGAL SON?"
when the sheep went astray, a man
went for it, and when the coin was lost
a woman found it, but the prodigal son,
who went after him? Nobody. Jesus
was teaching the magnanimity of re-
pentance. The prodigal son was a moral
agent and he came home when he re-
pented.
Nobody comes home without repent
ance The prodigal son had to walk home,
as no one went after him in a golden
chariot. You say his father ran to meet
him. Yes. And your Father will run
to meet you if you'll but come home.
when you come home there'll be Joy
in heaven. But the coming belongs to
you"
This is my last chance to make an
appeal to you In this theater," said the
evangelist in appealing for those members
of his audience "who had not yet come
home" to now acknowledge their Christ.
"Do you want to leave this campaign
or have the campaign leave you just as
you were when 1t startef?" he asked.
The gipsy's appeal was answered by
hundreds of persons.
ALL-AMERICAN
NIGHT STAGED, TOO.
Indianapolis had her all-American
meeting in the Gypsy Smith tabernacle
last Saturday evening. Last night she
poured out her patriotic fervor again in
what might be termed an au-allies dem
onstration.
Grasping the war as one of the great
battles in the progress of the word OF
Almighty God, Gypsy Smith gave a long,
but intensely gripping recital Of some Of
his own experiences as Y. NJ c. A.
worker with the British forces at the
front during three long years Of his work
of saving souls for the Master.
Standing with head erect, his piercing
black eyes flashing, he waved aloft
small silk Union Jack In one hand and
the Stars and Stripes in the other, while
the greatest crowd of the Smith meetings
sang one verse Of the immortal national
anthem of the two English speaking
countries with the words Of America"
and another with the lines of God Save
the King" Even during the war the
hymn was not lifted to such sublime
heights as last night.
CHAMPIONS UNION
OF BRITAIN AND L. S.
The evangelist, who upon several occa-
sions has declared the Indianapolis choir
to be the best he has had in America,
was moved TO say in tones Of awed ad-
miration after n particularly effective
piece Of singing that it is the best Of his
life
Then, waving to the two flags, Gypsy,
in solid earnestness said:
ANY man who would say one word to
divide those two flags, to bring discord
between those two peoples over which
they float. is an enemy to the race and is
the foe Of Almighty God. Say all you
can to cement these two peoples and say
nothing to divide them"
The rafters echoed with the cheering
How a TUE man Of God regards the
Germans was revealed by Gypsy in no
uncertain light With a bitterness which
has crept into his discourse only while
speaking Of the devil and other loath
some objects he excoriated the German
people.
He had the fear that America is for
getting why the war was fought because
America no longer has ever present with
her the scars of the conflict as has Eng
land and France.
But Gypsy Smith must have gone to
rest last night confident that Indianap-
oils has not forgotten, that indianapolis
feels Ike he did when he said:
i've been opposing war all my life.
hate war. But II there ever was a con
flct that was justified 1t was this war
against the greed. the lust. the murder
the blood, the cruelty, the wantonness of
Germany. The Germans outraged the
soul of the world!
But you say: Don't you forgive
themT Yes-when they repent. That's
the only way Christ forgiveS; when men
repent. That's the way / forgive. The
only sorrow the Germans have shown
is the sorrow of thief who IS found out
before he gets what he wants. Think Of
the millions upon millions of bereaved
wives and mothers and sweethearts, and
the Germans have never yet expressed any