Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-27
TORREY MISSION PROSPERS
Generous Sized Crowd for Monday Evening
Grssts the Evangelist
THRN-FVE CONVERSIONS THE RESULT
Talks ON "The Most Important Ques-
ton That Wan Ever Faced and
Answered"-rerfect Peace 20 Bc
Found Only in christ

generous Monday evening crowd at
tended the Torrey mission at the Audi
torium last evening. the first floor being
hlled. Those who expressed a desire to
lead now life by coming forward at the
invitation of IN Torrey numbered thirty
five MI. Butler sang several solos and
briefly told the story Of his own CONVEX
sion.
Or. Torroy spoke on "Thc Most important
Question that ANY Man liver Faced and
Answered" taking his text from Mathew
xvii. p. What shall / DO with Jesus.
Which is the christi"
The minister divided his talk into five
parts all relative to the central thought.
that of accepting the Christ His five divil
sions were that IT. a person accepts Christ
he Will be accepted Of God. have peace Of
conscience, deep abiding joy. be child
Of Cod and have everlasting life.
nc you accept Jesus Christ. God will
accept you. and il YOU reject Jesus Christ
God will reject YOU" declared the preacher.
Continuing, he said: "Our acceptance be-
fore perfect God does not depend merely
on our own works, because our works are
not perfect; no man Is accepted before God
on his character alone, because our chnrac-
ters are not perfect. We all have siuued
and the only way for acceptance before
God is to accept the sin bearer Jesus
Christ While preaching in a Chicago
church along this thought I stated that IL
any womau-even the most deep in sin
would come and confess her sins those
sins would be wiped out and remembered
against her 10 longer. Unknown TO me a
member OF that church had brought in a
woman known as one low in the depths of
sin. She heard me say, There is no con-
domination for them that accept Christ
With tears streaming down her eyes she
walked down the aisle and thanked me for
the message I had brought to her
Way 20 True Peace.
There arc thousands in Omaha seeking
peace Of conscience where peace is never
found. Many are seeking peace merely IN
good works or by giving to the poor
Martin Luther found peace by simply be-
/ licving. No one ever found true peace
except through the toning blood OF Christ
] once knew Of a man who killed one Of his
fellow creatures. He sought peace by living
/ an honest life ana joining the church, but
/ he did not find the real peace until he had
an abiding faith in Jesus Christ. True,
/ abiding and satisfactory Joy depends on
! what We do with Jesus Christ. Many seek
/ JOY in accumulation OF wealth, pleasures
I or this world. in study of philosophy,
/ science or letters, and some in sin. but none
ever found satisfactory JOY in those things.
! Satisfying JOY is only found in accepting
/ Christ as a personal friend and Savior.
| There is joy unspeakable for every man
I and woman iH this building through abso-
lutte surrender to Christ. We can become
! children of God only by accepting Jesus
| Christ Tho doctrine of the Bible is that
1 Christ IL the Only begotten child of G ID
and the minute any sinner accepts Christ
| he becomes a child of God
! our obtaininSi everlasting life depends
! entirely on wlIDt- we do with Jesus Christ.
He that hath the Son OF God hath the life.
Eternal life iss IN the Son of God. Tho
teaching Of tag Bible is that the moment
a man believes in Christ he hath ever
lasting life to Dtsiu with"
A room has been arranged at the Audi
forum for the care of babies, enabling
! mothers TO attend the meetings. Two
nurses will be in attendance and look after
! the babies during services. DR.. Torrey
said he hoped to have a babies choir before
the mission has closed.