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13 WORLDLINESS OF Purging of Modern Christian . - Institutions Urged by Evan gelist Gipsy Smith; Calls His ,Critics Cowards. ' Olpsy Smith Meetings. Sunday, 8 p. ny Mass meeting for men only auditorium, Eigh teenth and Taylor. Meeting for all, auditorium,' 7:30 p. m,. MondayLast noon meeting, Taylor Street Methodist church, for men; 7:30 p. m., lecture, from "Gypsy Tent to Pulpit," at audi torium. ' This will ba Gipsy, Smith' last appearance In Port land during Ms present tour, . There will be no meeting at the auditorium this evening, the mass meeting for young people at the auditorium being today's only service. , .With words whose power won tense heating and , frequent applause, ; Gipsy Smith at the new auditorium last night , turned for the first time ontha critics . of his motives and faith, saying: "If you think I haven't religion, come, and If you wll ge better religion out of this book", (indicating the Bible which he held in his hand) I will sit at your feet and learn." "Cowardice, unbelief and stupidity" were the blunt terms used by the evan gelist to describe the excuses that blame environment or another for the evil in the lives of many persons. i , . - " 'My .envlronment'""What conven ient excuse," said Gipsy Smith with great scorn. "If you are a drunkard. It Is because you like to drink. If you are a thief, it is because you like to steal. -If you are a liar, it Is because you like to lie. If you . are lustful, It is because the devil of uncleanness Is in you. v V -"JDon't blame anyone for what you ''are, ' To blame a bad start, a bad moth er, a bad father and a bad environment for weak or .evil living are weak ex cuses," said the evangelist. . ; f '.'-.;' Dent' Blame the Devil. ; ' "I am tol(L by many men," he ' con tinued, "that I was born with the devil In me.' I tell such a man that by the blood of Jesus Christ he speedily can be reborn with the devil out. God made ' Adam good out of nothing. He can certainly make you good out of what's left,'..:.,', :y,v.,.:sv';,,;-":-".' - The gypsy told his hearers that for What they are they musn't blame either their pastorrfor the devil. He declared that the gray hair of the preachers is due largely to the backsliding ol con , gre?ations and added: .... "Don't blame the devil for what you are. The devil can't make you sin. He can' only , tempt you. The devil's only appeal to men ia the appeal he gave to Jesus on the mountain top: "Cast thy self down!' "Is that good theology?" questioned the evangelist, turning suddenly to the pastors who were on the speakers' plat form.. The chorus of "Ayes" led the gypsy to say further: , "I know it is good theology. It Is the . devil's business to tempt ' But you can resist when you want to. If I were In the devil's business I would tempt, too, ' but I couldn't make you ln. ; Xm your selves do that" V: '.' .: ';. .'',' ;, ' The class who blame the preachers and their humannesa for their own lack of disposition to be Christians or enter the churches were excoriated by the . evangelist. j ' :. ' ' CM Xnto Church. " ; " "If all the preachers went wrong, that wouldn't lessen . your obligation to at tend to your own soul's salvation," he crled.';-'.'.:'!...1'.;".-' -".'''':::? jft i- It you want perfect surroundings, that will make it impossible for you to , be wrong, remove to some little distant island of the sea, where there isn't anybody.-.-:-' - -.- -- ."If you love God, get into one of the churches. Help the praying people pray. Help -make this city what God t wants tt to be.". ;.:.:;..' '.;,''. VL- ; ,-.'. Fashionable, lenient churches and fashionable, comfort ' seeking church members were likewise subject of the evangelist's attack. He told his hearers that these choose smooth ' paths, and cast out the rough and thorny vices, but keep the "respectable sins," and In this list ho Included card parties, . dancing, theatre going and wine suppers. , "In 30 years no one has ever Invited me to a, , card party, a whist drive, a dance, a wine supper or a theatre party," SL HI.' ... - he declared, .; "Tou answer, or course they wouldn't invite. . That would not insult you. And I answer you that if your Christian life was as it should be no one would Insult you by asking you to participate in these things. You must put them all out of your Uvea. You can't keep the respectable sins and Keep. Jesus. l..',',i.;v r.'.;-p -;.. John tha Baptist Weeded. . "Some John the Baptist will have td rise in America and risk his head in calling back the church of Jesus Christ from her worldllness. , . . . "You Christians are, as the Scotch would say 'on the awither neither one side or the other. And when you are gone from committing your respect able sins In the company of sinners, the sinners turn on you and. deride you: None have . less respect for, hypocrites than tha sinners themselves. . i "It you play the hypocrite, God will erpose you just , at the moment you want to make the best impression, God with a divine ventriloquism will ex pose you.. ' .' ' '-.,(. .- 'Tou must decide between the world and Jesus. . One must go. You can' ao wrong ana keep ooa. Among the cardinal evils the evange list named gambling, saying, "It will eut out the, soul, the life and the man. hood of you." He told of a boy who came down to the breakfast table and displayed to his mother, who waa leader of the church mission circle, a roll - of bills amounting to $250, which when he admitted having won. in a gambling hell, his mother declared must be re turned. The boy pointed to a vase and asked his mother where she got it She answered that It wa orlie of a whist drive, and when sne &a stt her boy said, "When you return that vase I will return thla money. You taught me the names and the nature of cards. tanas Christian Ufa. - With a sudden splendid rush of elo quenne the gypsy turned from the dark picture of sin and excuse and hyproelsy he had painted to the brightness and beauty of Christian living, saying that the life in Christ is grander than Mount Hood, more majestlo than Mount Adams, more Imposing than tha Cascade range. with tones unexpectedly tender ana appealing he concluded: 'It hasn't been easy to say to you some of the thlnga I have said. - X haven't apared myself and I haven't spared you. But I have tried to be faithful.. I've been trying to lead you up to . see the kind of Christian , life ; you must live to be worthy the love and the atonement of Jesus. "Won't you decide tonight to lead this- kind of lifer Responding to the appeal a great num. be i- the evangelist called It a multitude and said the power of God had not before so greatly rested on a meeting in Portland since be cams first rose and asked for prayers and then came forward crowding tha inquiry room. The majority of these were men but there were many children. So many people have written Gipsy Smith asking that he pray for them that he said last night ba could not rtd them all. Two of these said they thought they had committed the unpardonable sin, and she gypsy replying said: 'The only unpardonable sin I know Is the sin that will not be pardoned. God will pardon all who ask him." Many of the letter writers had been reading the evangelist's messages as re ported in the newspapers and wanted him to remember them in his prayers. Addresses 1600 Employes. The gypsy told of a meeting at O'clock yesterday when ha addressed ltOd employes of the 'Meier Frank store In a room especially, cleared for the purpose.. --:-: I, was ' treated like .- prince," he averred. "Mr. Meier introduced me, and I have never looked upon a brighter lot or department store employes... It was the first time in all the history et the world that I have been asked to address such a meeting. And certainly I - will accept all such invitations. I would rather speak to such a gathering man a smaller crowd in a drawing room." '' v-.) , . .-. 4 . ; r r - The gypsy said' ha waa looking for ward with' keenest anticipation to the meeting Monday night when he de- II ., , . . . ' nvei 1119 lecture, i1 rom uypey Tent to Pulpit" He admitted that he never slept in a house until he was past 17 yeses of age. He Invited the people to come and hear him, saying it would be interesting to learn the inside of the gypsy life from a gypsy. Dr. Young, A Mail Carrier Load Seems heavier when he has a weak back ana utaney xrouoie tryea Duchren, mall carrier at AtchUion, Kansas, says: I have been bothered with kidney and bladder trouble and had a avr nain across my back. When ever I carried a heavy load of mall, ray kidney trou ble increased. Some time ao, I start ed taking Foley's Kidney Pills and since taxing mem i nave gotten entirely rid of all ray kidney trouble and am as sound now as ever." Foley's Kidney Pills are tonlo in action, quick in re sult :- No matter at what stage your Kianey irouoie may De, ,iaae vxiiejra Kidney Pills at once for quick and per manent reuei. SKIDMORE DRUG CO. Two stores. Main store 1S1 Id it urancn store Morrison and Wast Park SIS. . ,i .I..'. MOUND "TOI1P TO ' TICKETS SOLD NOV, 27. RETURN UNTIL DEC. 2, ?Mwm ! Apple Show (TTVEE! A. INLAND EMPIRE EXPRESS JSTKT) nm Arrives Spokane 9:45 P. M. ' : OOWU' M, y ONLY DAY TRAIN ON ANY ROAD F7 p NORTH DANK LIMITED l na -Arrives Spokane 7:00 A. M. - '' U IVla FASTEST NIGHT TRAIN ON ANY ROAD Observation Cars, Tartar Cars, Compartment Standard and Tourist , Sleepers, Dining Cars and Modern CoacTies. 1 e . ' ,' ' . i i i- City Ticket Office, Fifth and Stark Sts. . ' 1 4 ItORTH BANK STATION, Eleventh and Hoyt Streets' chairman V; of ths executive committee announced that , tickets for the lecture are going rapidly; Tbey are being sold at the Toung Men'a Christian Associa tion, tha Toung Women's Christian As sociation, Sherman, Clay & Co., and. at the auditolum, just before and Just aft er each service. Members of the choir of 1000 voices gave testimony, to the esteem in which they hold the gypsy evangelist and his wife whom he called bis "silent partner,", by presenting them at the close. of tha service last night with a traveling cup and clock, and for Mrs. Smith, a "rose leaf necklace." ; - ; ' -; - One of the" other interesting featurea of the meeting waa . an attendance of 159 mutea from tha Church of the Stranger. PORTLAND GIRL WEDS ; , IN HONOLULU COTTAGE Salem, Or.. Nov. 15. Friends of Miss Eva Patterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Patterson of East S2nd and Tamhill ' streets, Portland, have re ceived notice of her marriage to tr. Val Priestly Osburn of Honolulu. Tha ceremony was performed in a romantic thatched cottage on Walkckl beach. Dr. Patterson was formerly of Pasadena, Cal. wv- ,.;m . - n V. , ' in , .J VETERAN OF TWO WARS S DIES OF HEART DISEASE Forest -' Orove, :i OrJ - Nov.' 25. John Hauser, a veteran of the Bpanl&h-Amerj lean and Chinese Boxer wars," died sud denly at bis home in this city Thurs day evening, of heart disease. vH was about town during tha day, -.v .''.' Mr. Hauser was born In Berlin, Ger many. 6 i years ago,' and came to Amer ica .. with bis parents when .he ' was, 8 years of age. Ha lived in Ohio, - and came to 'Washington when a young man: He enlisted in the regular army, and ww stationed t atr Vancouver Barracka for about 10 yeaMC At tha outbreak' of the Spanish war he want to the Phllip-t pine' Islands, . being , sergeant" of Com pany O, Fourteenth ' Keglmant At the BANKi'iviiQTICE "j i t 7 This Bank has. cobipHed M table, illustrating the rapid i ' growth of Savings at interest of 4 per cent per annum, . iuuiuuuiiucu iwkc a year. - , , . On request, we will take pleasure In mailing a topy ; to your address, or personally explain the same to anyone - calling, who may be interested in the subject of Savings. HIBERNIA SAVINGS BANK 'A Conservative Custodian- " ' Onen Saturrfav Nip-hta 6 in ft. ' SECOND AND WASHINGTON STREETS' ' ' 1 : Established IB Xtws . "' l Assets $2,250,000 ' John A. 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