GIPSY SMITH MISSION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19904, 25 September 1926, Page 24

GIPSY SMITH MISSION.

The Dunedin Council of Churches is responsible for the coming visit of the famous preacher popularly known as Gipsy Smith to our city. Gipsy Smith has been an evangelist for nearly half a century, and there is no name more honoured in the religious world of the Old Land, lie had no difficulty in packing the vast Albert Hall, of London, which has accommodation for 10,000 people. Ihe following is a brief account of his farewell service in Auckland: Ginsv Smith’s final mission service in Auckland on Sunday evening attracted an attendance for which hundreds of extra chairs had to bo provided in the Town Hall, and considering the unattractive weather, the meeting, free from interrup tions and almost unanimously to the invitations for “decisions.” was one of the most successful of the fortnight’s mission. The service was broadcasted, -and mainly foi the sake of listeners-in. from some ot whom a request had come the missioner and Mrs Young sang at the conclusion nf the service an evangelistic duet. The Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher thanked Gipsv Smith for his inspiring addresses, and announced that 1300 persons had signed the decision cards surrendering themselves to Christ, while thousands more had redcdicated themselves. “Thai means nothing to the materialists,” he said, -“hut to Christian men and women it is a