The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
REV. MIR. ToRREY's BIBLE CLASS.
The Closing Hour of the Session Yes
terday Morning.

The last hour of the morning session or
the institute was taken up by Rev. r. A.
Torrey, the superintendent of the Bible In
sttute of Chicago, who made an exposi-
ton of a Sunday school lesson. DR.. Torrey
began his remarks by saying:
II am going to try to imagine that this
is a great big Bible class to-day, and you
or rather the Holy Spirit is the teacher,
and He is using me to bring out the
DR.. Torrey carried out the idea he thus
expressed in a manner at once entertaining
and instructive. The lesson which he chose
to demonstrate was the first thirteen verses
of the thirteenth chapter of the first
Corinthians The theme was the excellence
Of Christian love. DR.. Torrey extracted
tanned in the verses selected and by we'll
put questions led others to do likewise.
eloquence, the gift of prophecy, beneficence,
and martyrdom. After celebrating on this
line of thought the doctor proceeded as fol-
lows:
What will take the place of, love? Moth
ing. l may be eloquent, l. may have faith
that will move mountains, may give away
everything 1 have to the poor and then
march out to the missionary field, but if
/ have not love L am practically cipher
in Gods sight.
How am l going to know. whether I
have love or not? Paul gives fifteen every
day manifestations of love.
Love suffereth long. That means it is
insulted and lied about and robbed, and
it keeps on loving. 1t endureth long. Then
love is kind; love is not harsh or brusque.
Love is sometimes stern, and has to be
''The next manifestation is love envieth
not. If 1 love, all other mems progress are
as dear to me as my own. 1t is an impos-
sibility for love to envy. 1t is a common
thing for professed Christians to discredit
or discount the progress of other Chris
love vaunteth not itself Love is so
much occupied with the excellencies of
others that it has no time to talk about its
own.
Love does not behave itself unseemingly
If l love / will be considerate of other
Mathematics Of society, and I know that
if l break them l am going to hurt some
body else's sensibilities. What then is the
truest secret Of being true gentleman or
Love seeketh not her own. What is the
first law of nature? Self-preservation.
What is the first law of love? Self-sacrifice
or self-renunciation. Christ is the great
exemplar of love. He that was rich for
our sakes became ;nne p poor that 1T through His
Love is not provoked. If l love another
person he may do what he pleases and he
Love taketh no account of evil. Love
keeps books. Love reckons not evil, it
takes no account of it.
Love rejOiceth not in iniquity. How
many champions of the truth there are To-
day who get up and parade the evil and
failure that is in the church and just de-
light in it, What is the trouble? They
have not got love.
Love beareth all things Love believeth
all things, If a man loves we'll he will not
all the time be boasting of his sharp
sightedness to see the faults of others. 1t
cannot help seeing something that is sug-
gestive but it says, No. l believe the very
best about that man.
Love hopeth all things. When love
looks upon a man it looks not at what he
is but at what he might become. God
locks at us to-day, not in our weakness and
infrmity
What is the thing, then. we need most
as successful Sunday school teachers? We
reed love. If you have knowledge and have
not love you are not worth two cents a
Sunday school teacher. Love covers all
things as long as it can, and when 1t cannot
cover, it hopes, and when it cannot hope it
then endureS"