1860-1947 Gypsy Smith
portrait

March 31, 1860, in a gyp­sy tent in Ep­ping For­est (near Lon­don), Eng­land.

Au­gust 4, 1947, on board the Queen Ma­ry.

A world fa­mous evan­gel­ist in his time, Smith made over 40 tours in Amer­i­ca, Aus­tral­ia, and else­where:

I’m God’s mess­eng­er from the gyp­sy tent. And it’s the mes­sage that’s im­port­ant, not the mess­en­ger. The way to Je­sus is not by Cam­bridge and Ox­ford, Glas­gow, Ed­in­burgh, Lon­don, Prince­ton, Har­vard, Yale, So­cra­tes, Pla­to, Shakes­peare or the po­ets—It is over an old-fa­shioned hill called Cal­va­ry.

Smith’s works in­clude:

  1. After
  2. Almost a Chris­tian
  3. Beautiful Land of My Dreams, The
  4. Beyond Earth’s Sor­rows
  5. City Where Com­eth No Night, The
  6. Do Not Dis­ap­point Your Mo­ther
  7. God So Loved the World
  8. He Is Com­ing Back Again
  9. He Knows
  10. He Wants to Be Your Sav­ior, Too
  11. I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
  12. I Will Sing of His Mer­cies
  13. Light of the Cross, The
  14. Numberless Bless­ings
  15. Song of Praise, A
  16. There’s a Rain­bow in the Clouds for You
  17. Will You Meet Me in the Home­land
  18. Write a Let­ter to Your Mo­ther
Smith’s bur­i­al place