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Vol. IV. No. 22 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 
1906 
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GYPSY SMITH 
One Who Heard the Great Evangelist During 
His Visit to Boston, Just Closed, Writes 
His Impression of the World-Famed Man 
For This Paper 
‘Gypsy ” Smith has come and gone. 
In a religious campaign of a few weeks 
he has left an unparalleled record in 
the number of conversions. Without 
sensationalism, without graces of ora- 
tory, without ‘display of learning or 
refinement, he has repeated in culti- 
vated Boston, the successes which at- 
tended his labors in England and 
Australia. For the last two years, 
well known evangelists, Dawson, 
Campbell, Morgan, Dixon and 
_ Broughton have been laboring to this 
end, with only moderate success, to 
be followed by an uncultivated gypsy, 
whose success here as elsewhere has 
been phenomenal. 
Born in a gypsy tent — his mother 
dying of smallpox — with a youth of 
poverty and hardship, he was con- 
verted at the age of 16, learning later 
to read and write. He had astern 
father who kept the lad from bad 
companions. He never learned to 
drink or swear. His father was a 
Christian, and active in the Salvation 
Army, which the son also joined. 
He has the marks of a Gypsy — 
strong features, and dark complexion, 
a face almost villainous but for the 
sweet spirit that shines through his 
‘swarthy skin, transfiguring the man. 
With a slouch hat and a red_ handker- 
chief about his neck he would look 
the traditional Gypsy horse traider 
But his demeanor is modest, assured 
and unassuming. He speaks dis- 
tinctly, with no foreign accent. Bos- 
ton’s culture cannot criticise his de- 
livery. His gestures and tones are 
natural. You are impressed by what 
he says, rather than by how he says 
it. His words have a virile force 
which grips the attention. He has 
acquired a speech of idiomatic and 
forceful English, sincere, sensible, 
earnest, which hits the mark ; such a 
diction as Bunyan or Cobbett might 
have used. There is a_ twinkle 
of humor in his eyes, but he is too 
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earnest to indulge it, saverarely. He 
impresses one as a descendent of the 
prophets —a plain man with a mes- 
sage for plain men. 
His discourses are brief, not over 
fifteen minutes, followed by a short 
prayer and a tender appeal to the un- 
converted, during which people from 
the audience rise and pass to the in- 
quiry room, sometimes to the number 
of one hundred 
Daily, at noon and evening, the 
great hall is packed, the evening meet- 
ings overflowing to the other halls. 
You come away wondering at the 
power of this plain man. More than 
one thousand have been converted 
during his brief stay. He has won the 
approval and enlisted the cooperation 
of our ministers of all denominations. 
Rev. Dr. Gordon of the Old South, 
who has not been supposed to be 
greatly interested in _ evangelistic 
methods, has become his warm friend 
and supporter. 
To have heard this man of God isa 
privilege, to have come under the 
power of his words is a blessing. No 
one can doubt the genuineness and 
value of his work. 
We subjoin a few of his sayings: 
‘“‘Tf God can use a crooked stick, he 
can use a polished one.”’ 
«Are we to be apostles and never 
to have any acts? If we are doing 
our duty, we could write another 
chapter in the Acts of the Apostles.’ 
‘“‘T would rather see four or five thou- 
sand Christians awakened in Boston 
than the same number of outsiders 
converted.” 
“Have faith in God. Why not? 
You exercise faith in all other affairs. 
You would not sit in that chair if you 
did not have faith in it. O yeof little 
faith, use what little faith you have 
and you will get more faith.” 
‘‘When I was a boy, I tried a long 
time to get peace and the assurance of 
faith,—to get Christ. At a friend’s 
house, the friend said to my father, 
‘Take the lad to the garden and show 
him the cherry tree.’ When we were 
under the tree, my father acted 
strangely. He looked up to the tree, 
and opened his pocket, and _ said, 
CARD 
Open Meeting of Ever Ready Circle 
of. King’s Daughters 
- The Ever Ready Circle of King’s 
Daughters, Manchester, held an open 
meeting in the Baptist vestry on Mon- 
day evening. The meeting opened 
with a song service, after which Rev. 
E. Hersey Brewster led in prayer. 
Miss Carolyn E. Allen rendered a 
solo in her usual pleasing manner. 
In introducing Mrs. Tuttle, the 
speaker of the evening, Mr. Brewster 
said: “I,am not at all familiar with 
the work brought to our attention this 
evening, yet we are all interested ina 
general way, for God planned us to be 
so. We receive our inspiration be- 
cause we are prompted by love. Love 
for all, whether man be unfortunate 
or fortunate, for you know His love 
does not respect person Your plat- 
form I think is love for man: you 
have said that you would do some- 
thing definite for man, so we have 
with us this evening one who will tell 
us a little about the fishermen of 
Gloucester, and the work the Fisher- 
man’s Institute of Gloucester is doing 
through love : love for God and Man.” 
Mrs. Tuttle in opening her remarks 
told first of their building which is 
situated on Duncan street, a street 
which runs to the water’s edge, from 
which 300 to 500 fishing boats sail 
carrying from 5000.to 6000 sailors ali 
told. ‘*Our building ”’ she said, ‘is 
of brick, with reading and writing 
rooms on the ground floor, a chapel 
on the next floor in which are held 
the evening services. The average 
attendance at these meetings are from 
75 to 100 men and all seem to love to 
hear the story of Christ.” 
A silver offering was taken in aid of 
the work. 
‘Cherries, come down and fill my 
pocket. I want you. Cherries, come 
down.’ I said, ‘Father, if you want 
the cherries, you will have to take. 
them.’ ‘Just so, my boy,’ said he. ‘If 
you want Christ, you must take him.’ 
And I did.” 
‘God has a large contract for your 
salvation. Faith takes the job.”’ 
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