The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-02-23

the mans concern for her soul rang
in her mind all the day long.
In his sermons during the past week
DR.. Torrey has spoken straight from
the shoulder to the people of Philadel-
phia. One night in speaking on the
Ten Commandments he spoke in
scathing language ON certain modern
evils. At one point in speaking of the
sixth commandment, he said:
There is another kind of murder,
and hardly know how to approach
it. 1t is the most awful and the most
appalling kind of all kinds of murder,
kind of murder that is sweeping
over our country. Mothers murder
ing their own children yet unborn to
avoid the highest and hottest of re-
sponsibility and opportunity-that of
of motherhood. Some of them run
after a man who has NJ. D. to his
name. 1t ought to be D. M.-damn-
able murderer"
Saluted With College Yell.
A series of revival meetings has
been commenced by the evangelists in
the various universities and colleges
of Philadelphia. The first was held in
the Medico-C hirurgical college. 9th
ers will be held in the University of
Pennsylvania and in other schools.
The faculty and 700 medical students
gathered in the operating amphithe-
alter to hear the famous evangelists
and as they entered saluted them lus-
tily with the college yell. Amid hush
ed attention DR.. Torrey preached for
three-quarters of an hour to the stu
dent body. He said in part:
There is no more noble profession
in the world than yours. If were not
a preacher of Jesus Christ's gospel /
would be a surgeon and be proud of it.
There is no man on earth who can
WELD greater power for good than a
Christian man of medicine. Your mere
example, given at a time when your
patients realize that the things of this
world are not all, can accomplish won
ders.
Il know surgeon Ia Europe who.
before performing an operation de-
clares before the assembled students
in his clinics, Gentlemen, l am a
Christian and asks them to pray for
the success of the knife. will not
call on any of you here to openly con-
fess Christ, but hope that deep down
in your hearts you have the convic-
lions of Christianity and will some
day use them in your practice"
In no uncertain terms DR.. TORY
told the students that he believes In
a personal devil
There is one in every one of u.s.
he said, "a power of appetite, of pas
sion, of sin, power of evil outside
than we can master
of ourselves. We need hiding place
from the devil-first, because the Old
Book says so, and. second, because
my experience and my personal OBJ
servation teaches me that there is a
devil. Theosophy, Christian
Science, Spiritualism and all the other
cults are simply footprints of the de-
vii. They are all rot, and yet some of
the ablest men and women In this
and England believe in one
or other of them. They are not In
sane; they are just as sane as we are.
What does it mean? Only that the
devil is more than a match for you
or me. We need a hiding place"
Striking Moral Results.
The moral results of the revival are
being strikingly seen in the part OF
the city in which the meetings are be-
Ing held. Not a single prisoner APP
peared In the police court before the
on Sunday from the three
districts which adjoin the armory
where the revival meetings are being
held. This is an event, 1t is stated,
which has rarely If ever occurred be-
OiC. u HO PohSOAhSn III inc ulseiiSI
leclare that they have had little or
nothing to do since the revival began.
t is said that the saloon-keepers are
loing scarcely one-third of their usual
mount of business. This new order
# things is declared to be due to the
act that the young men of the neigh
'orhood are attending the revival
Meetings instead OF loafing on the
treet corners and in the saloons.
When a policeman was asked about
he change he said: I'VE haven't en-
Dyed such cinch in my twenty-five
ears experience. hope DR.. Torrey
nd Mr.. Alexander decide to make the