A TALK TO BUSINESSMEN.

Shannon News, 3 September 1926, Page 3

A TALK TO BUSINESSMEN.

‘ . $ . “GRASP THE HAND OF GOD.” AUCKLAND, August 30. “I used to be in the timber business once. Yes, I sold clothes pegs to people at their back doors when I was a gipsy boy. When I was converted I was 16 years of age and I could not spell my own name. I was given a Bible in one hand' and a dictionary in the other. Off I started, and I have not been to school yet. I will celebrate my jubilee next June as an evangelist, and for 50 years I have preached Christ in six' continents, and I’m not done yet.” Such was the confession made by the famus evangelist, Gipsy Smith, in responding to a welcome accorded him at a luncheon this afternoon which was attended by a large and representative gathering. He appeal-, ed to business men to pause in their money making to think of Christ. “If some of you would sooner attend a Rotary lunch, a golf dinner, or . a Chamber of Commerce dinner than come along and help others, well it is time someone with 'Christian audacity looked you in the face and told you something you ajl ought to know. When the Duke and Duchess of York come here next year some of you will fall over yourselves to shake hands with them. You would never forget it, but the Duke and Duchess will be but mere specks in the great eternities, and so will I. If you grasp the hand of God it will be something that you will never forget.”