The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1922-06-28
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of the Jews, suffer another forty
year setback with its pestilence and
scourge."
Mr.. Jacobs pictured the flags of
all nations, telling of the patriotic
pride one feels at their power, then
added that the power of any flag
failed utterly, unless raised under the
Banner of the Cross. He spoke of
the energy wasted in useless attacks
on other churches, and illustrated
by telling of two battleships that
started out to hunt down an enemy
fleet, but got confused in the night
and commenced to fight each other,
which not only caused a needless
loss of men and ammunition, but so
destroyed their strength that when
the enemy approached little later
they were powerless to resist the at
tack.
Then followed many "testimo-
malls" for God by men recently con-
verted, and some who had grown lax
and listless in church work. Mr..
Wright, after listening to several
tell of how mean and worthless they
had been in the service of the devil,
said, II have been many years in
Jackson, and I know some of these
men are telling the truth when they
say they were bad ones. Why, some
of them were so onery that even I
wouldn't associate with them" He
said that it used to be in Jackson
that one could not stand on street
corners without having to listen to
men telling dirty stories or else
making remarks about young girls.
All that, he said, is thing of the
past since the Gypsy Smith meet
ings.
Fred Sullens, known throughout
the South through the columns of
his newspaper, the Jackson Daily
News, recalled the results of the
Gypsy Smith meetings, giving the
number of converts as 700. He
spoke of many church members -
like himself-who kept their religion
in their wives name and told of the
great blessing these men were miss
ing. He said he never knew relig-
ion could declare such precious di-
vidends, and said he had really new
er known happiness-real, genuine,
100 per cent happiness-until since
he had made his religion personal
matter.
ut used to be my delight to pin
person on the point of my pen and
make him writhe and wriggle> and
squirm; to stab him with sarcasm,
slash him with slang, smash him
with sentences, punch him with pa
ragraphs, punish him with phrases,
riddle him with ridicule and wound
him with wit" said Mr.. Sullens.
Now all that is past. Gypsy Smith
cured me. He raked me with ma
chine-gun fire, he shelled me with
shrapnel, he sprinkled me with mus
tard gas. But liked it. That's the
amazing thing; I liked it,"
Mr.. Sullens told of going to the
Baptist church at Jackson and giving
talk-he's a Presbyterian-and of
ten persons joining the Baptist
church after his talk. 'I tSld the
Baptist minister that l did think he
ought to let me take at least one OF
those converts back to the Presby-
terian church as souvenir" laugh
ed Mr.. Sullens.
The meeting ended with Nearer
My God to Thee" played by the or
chestra. The visitors then divided
into three delegations, a delegation
for each of three local churches.
A notable incident of the service
was the presence of delegation of
forty members of the knights of Co
lumbus, many of them from Jackson.
The organization held special meet
ing here Sunday morning, followed
by a public song recital in the af-
ternoon. The Knights of Columbus
marched in body to the Hampton
Auditorium immediately after the
close of their business session, and
gave hearty response when the CO.,
NChdAI' AOA At1OAV ANNANS Via A0SASsA
service was propesd.
BY invitation of the local pastors,
laymen from Jackson conducted the
IL o'clock services at the Methodist
and Presbyterian churches. Messrs.
Julian P. Alexander and Frederick
Sullens delivered addresses at the
Methodist church; Messrs. v. ]. Stri-
cker and L. L. Patterson at the Pres
byterian church. Large congrega-
tions attended each of these services.
A dispatch from Brookhaven to
the Jackson News says:-
The capital city visitors "broke
ground for a great union revival to
be held here during the early au-
tumn, under the auspices, of the three
evangelical churches. AS result
of the inspiration brought from the
capital city laymen are already join
ing hands with pastors to make the
event a great success.