GIPSY SMITH’S ADDRESS TO WOMEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3552, 21 October 1926, Page 4

GIPSY SMITH’S ADDRESS TO WOMEN.

In the Wellington Town Hall recently Gipsy Smith addressed himself to the women.

“If I could win every wife and every mother for Christ,” the missioner began, “ I should have hope of every man and every child in your city. You women are building the future New Zealand; you women ai’e settling what the future generations of New Zealand are to be. Some man is influenced by you; some boy ox*, youth also. Some little child is being moved by you, and only God knows what the outcome of it all will be!”

“W|e men are no worse or no better than what you women demand,” continued ‘Gipsy Smith.. “You set the standard and if it is low it is what you allow. If you women were loyal to one another, and loyal to Christ, you would raise the moral standard of your city in less than six months —and every man knows it. You can draw a chalk ring round yourself and stand in it —and no man will make a move toward you until you allow him, to do it. . . .

You .tolerate in a man what you won’t tolerate in your sisters. It is you who set the two standards you! , “I would to God I had my way with your cursed drink,” he declared. “i would set on fire every distillery in the universe. (Applause). If I had my way with the churches of New Zealand I would not have them praying for Kingdom Come on Sundays, and then go and vote for the brewery on Monday!” “Mind what you do” was the chief note struck by the missioner. “You’re building for eternity: do not build a madhouse when you may build a palace!”