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Show f pulalvo in human nature, or, as Uioso of tho faith would say. it Is the spirit prompting. When a man or woman feels tho hopelessness of worldly things, If the earlier training has been religious, there U a reaching out for something beyond this life to cling to a hope of something better. Tho deslro of frail humanity to feel the supporting band of a power supernatural ln9plrea countless thousands to embrace religion. re-ligion. When a man like Gipsy Smith, with an abundance of self-confidence, feeling deeply a spiritual awakening, appeals to large bodies of men and women, his words of hope and cheer are accepted, as was manna in the desert by the children of Israel on their flight from Egypt, to be a benefaction bene-faction from heaven. Men and women, under a religious reawakening, present a study of soul promptings and disclose to view the sorrows of this world how few are really free from earthly tribulatione. -j RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASM. j; Denver is palpitating with a rolig- ji ious revival. A man named Smith, a !: Gipsy, U drawing audiences number- j1 ing thousands. He is preaching no i creed, but Is exhorting men and worn- :: en to lead pure lives. The man is said I! to be a magnetic fellow, with rouKuI t eyes, strong, resonant volco and he 1 i leads a reat choir in pong. At the 1 Auditorium, a day last week, 14.000 . people were crowded into tho building I, and the vast audience sat spellbound j by the appeal of the orator, i; When tho meeting ia about to end, , j1 Gipsy Smith requests those who are j! sick or sorry, hopeless or in despair ,i to rlso and those who do so are re- I quested to remain after the meeting, j when they are organized Into a band for I pnyer. i' This is somewhat after the order of j an old revival meeting ot tho Metho- j ! dists and appeals to that which is im- |