In a homely Methodist Church on Manhattan’s upper west side, audiences of homely Christians listened quietly last week to the warm words of an oldtimer evangelist. “Gypsy” Rodney Smith had visited the ...
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Fifty years ago, a gypsy boy of 17, with honeyed voice and horny hands, found God in the boom-diddy-boom of Salvation Army drums in the East London slums. General William Booth asked him to rejoice ...
"Football crowds should rise as one man and sing hymns of praise to God instead of drinking and carousing," exclaimed Gipsy Smith, hard-hitting English evangelist. "Some strong man is needed to start ...
Gypsy Smith was working in a hotel when the pandemic hit Oregon. Since the travel industry was hit hard by the health crisis, Smith decided to look for a job in health care. Health care seemed like a ...
A capacity audience which crowded into Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon gave Gipsy Smith a hearty reception when the remarkable evangelist came across the river to turn his attention to the ...