The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1922-06-28
SUNDAY WAS BANNER
DAY FOR CHURCHES
Gypsy Smith Squadron from
Jackson Here - Immense
Interest Shown.

One hundred of Jackson's foremost
business and professional men, ac
companied by five-piece orchestra
and about half a dozen ladies, came
to Brookhaven early Sunday morn.
ing for a series of services in the
Mary Jane hampton Auditorium anG
the various churches of the city. The
visitors were billed as 1.-THE Gypsy
Smith Squadron" though Fred Sui
lens called them the Lords Awk.
ward Squad"
The first meeting-and the only
one attended by the entire delega.
tion in body-was held in the
hampton Auditorium at $3.50 Sun,
day morning. This meeting, tc
which the men of Brookhaven were
cordially invited, was for the Mems
classes of the Baptist, Presbyterian
and Methodist Sunday schools. The
seating capacity Of the auditorium
was quickly taxed to it's uttermost
and some fifty or more stood in the
foyer and aisles during the services
Attorney ]. A. Maui welcomed the
delegation of visitors in brief talk
saying the occasion was a great one
for Brookhaven, for Jackson and fol
the State of Mississippi. On behalf
of the churches of the city he extend
ed a warm invitation to the men and
women from Jackson to attend
church services after the meeting in
the auditorium dismissed. He then
introduced Hon. Julian P. Alexander
of Jackson, who took charge of the
program.
Pointing to the hundred men on
the auditorium stage, Mr.. Alexan-
der said: Grouped before you are
leading business and profession
al men of the capital city of Missis-
sippi; they are not only leaders in
commercial enterprises and civic i'm
provements, but are leaders in all
just causes. They are here this
morning to tell of faith newly
found, or an old faith, recently re-
vived. We are not professional
speakers, but we hope, by example
and voice, Ito have an influence foI
good. Our songs are not rehearsed,
our speeches not set, our prayers not
written. In fact, our program for
the morning will simply be a trans
planting of our MONDAY meeting
from Jackson to Brookhaven. Those
you see on the stage are just ordi-
narily good men and extraordinarily
good women-who have risen above
their own business in their attention
to the business of the Master"
After singing Love Lifted Me,
and an eloquent, earnest prayer by
Judge Stricken, Mr.. Alexander intro
duced B. E. Jacobs, who spoke of the
revival of Gypsy Smith at Jackson.
He stated that Gypsy Smith differed
from most evangelists in that he
appealed to ones reason instead of
ones emotions. "The people of Jack
son have been drawn closer to God,
and closer to one another, by the
powerful message delivered by Gyp-
sy Smith," declared Mr.. Jacobs. "And
it is the desire to spread this same
message to our sister cities and towns
that prompted the visit to Vicks-
burg last week and the visit here
this morning"
"The country is now in the back
wash of the great war;" continued
the speaker, "and there is a great
try is in the grip of strikes, strife,
anarchy, crime-waves and Bolshe-
vism. Civilization is threatened as
never before. Education cannot
save us; and If Christianity fails,
then the country will, as in the time