GIPSY SMITH: HIS LIFE AND WORK

by GIPSY SMITH

NEW YORK: FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY, 1911

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER

1 BIRTH AND ANCESTRY WITH SOME NOTES OF GIPSY CUSTOMS

2 MY MOTHER

3 A MISCHIEVOUS LITTLE BOY--WITH SOMETHING ABOUT PLUMS, TROUSERS, RABBITS, EGGS, AND A CIRCUS

4 THE MORALS OF THE GIPSIES

5 MY FATHER, AND HOW HE FOUND THE LORD

6 OLD CORNELIUS WAS DEAD

7 CHRISTMAS IN THE TENT--A STORY OF THREE PLUM-PUDDINGS

8 THE DAWNING OF THE LIGHT

9 LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE--PREACHING TO THE TURNIP-FIELD--SINGING THE GOSPEL IN THE COTTAGES

10 I BECOME AN EVANGELIST--THE CHRISTIAN MISSION AND REV. WILLIAM BOOTH--MY FIRST FROCK-COAT AND MY FIRST APARTMENTS

11 GROWING SUCCESS--WORK AT WHITBY, SHEFFIELD, AND BOLTON--MEETING MY FUTURE WIFE--ROMAN CATHOLIC RIOTS

12 BALLINGTON BOOTH--MY MARRIAGE--THE CHATHAM FOSSILS

13 HULL AND DERBY--A GREAT SUCCESS AND A PARTIAL FAILURE

14 HANLEY--MY GREATEST BATTLEFIELD

15 DISMISSAL FROM THE SALVATION ARMY

16 HANLEY AGAIN

17 MY FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA

18 THE MANCHESTER WESLEYAN MISSION

19 MY SECOND VISIT TO AMERICA

20 WITH THE CHILDREN

21 MY MISSION TO THE GIPSIES

22 AMERICA AGAIN

23 GLASGOW

24 AUSTRALIA

25 MY FATHER AND HIS TWO BROTHERS

26 LONDON, MANCHESTER, AND EDINBURGH

27 MY FIFTH VISIT TO AMERICA

28 SOME FRESH STORIES ABOUT PETER MACKENZIE

29 AS THE NATIONAL COUNCIL'S MISSIONER

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