Gipsy Smith

Your Boys Gipsy Smith

Rodney "Gipsy" Smith MBE (1860-1947) was a British evangelist. He conducted evangelistic campaigns in the United States and Great Britain for over 70 years. He was a contemporary of Fanny Crosby and G. Campbell Morgan. He travelled extensively around the world on evagelistic crusades, drawing crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands throughout his life. Gipsy never wrote a sermon out for preaching purposes. He wrote several books and could sing as well as he preached. Sometimes he would interrupt his sermon and burst into song. Several of these hymns he would sing were recorded by Columbia Records. During World War I he ministered under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. to the British troops in France, often visiting the front lines. As a result of this, King George VI made him a member of the Order of the British Empire. His works include: As Jesus Passed by (1905), Gipsy Smith: His Life and Work (1906), Your Boys (1918), Real Religion (1929), Evangelistic Talks (1929) and The Beauty of Jesus (1932).