Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-26
Joy Comes After Years Filled with Dark
neeI aud Despair,
INTEREST IN MEETINGS IS eROwlNt
Despite InolsmsDt Weather 1000 Person
Crowd Auditorium Last Night.
THRrY-1wo sElK.ss AT TIE AlTM
FortS-TwS Confessions at SECOND
Preshyterisn Sunday aiorninE-
work of choir rIoasss
HvanEcItsts.

Despite the mcement Weather 200 pei.
pic filled the Auditorium to near Dr. Torrey
at the mission meeting last night. As OF
the opening night Ct the mission. many
could not find seats and 80 stood in tbs
aisIes and in the rear Of the room
Thirty-two persons came to the front tc
confess Christ after the sermon was I'm.
ished number larger by twenty thar
On the first night, which 20 far had beer
the most productive OF Immediate an,
tangible results.
The vast audience was Intensely inter
ested. and when Di, Torrey had nnishe,
speaking. II did not melt away as mani!
audiences have done on similar occasions
A great majority OF those present rcmaiast
10 hear the evangelist eNpound the way oi
life to the penitents.
Dr. Torrcy'E own ConversiOn.
DR.. Torrey's theme was OF the blessings
OF the Christiun life ana the hopeless con.
dlton OF the unsaved. la his illustrations
he drow from his own fund OF experience
dwelt on the bitter as well as the sweet
told the story OF his own conversion. so IA
particular that he confessed an attempt az
suicide while despairng OF the unsuccess
OF his life The rapt attention with which
the audience listened to his words showed
this story Of conversion one Of the strong
points of his sermon.
six long, dark years did ! struggle with
myself before gave myself to Christ"
said the evangelist. "One day, in the attic
] was looking over a book IN my mothers
and what ] read there made me rebel
against the idea Of beoomtng q Christian
The article told OF the Christian life-what
TO do TO become Christian and how ~
do e.
Il found that Christian must be what
the Lord would have him be. so where the
Lord would have him so, and do what the
Lord would have him do. Until, got Go
that sentence everything looked all right
for IL seemed easy 90 believe and assent
TO all the things that had been mentioned
up 20 that. But there ] stuck. I won't
do it, said, Tor the Lord might want
me to he a preacher, and I have set ma
mind on hcecrning d ia'wyer. ! decided
then and there not to be Christian, ana
for years that decision embiuered my
lie
Final surrender brings joy.
Il entered Yale at To- TO NJ myself to
become a lawyer. MY father was wealthy
lie gave me plenty Of money and l went
in for good time. I sought JOY, but
found barrenness, wretchedness. utter de-
spair. ] plunged into dissipation and found
sorrow. Nothing 1 could do would brins
ne rest
MY despair was SO utter that one night
l Jumped from my bed ana ran to the
washstand. looking for revolver ] had
in the drawer there. l intended TO blow
out my brains. ] didn't find the revolver
I think It was there all the time but ]
believe God kept me from finding It,
Il dropped down on my knees in front
OF the washstand and prayed 70 God.
told him II he would take the heavy bur
den OF my heart would stve up the law
aud preach tho gospel Then / found the
Joy / had so long denied myself
Every Christian has SOY unspeakable
and full Of glory and nobody else has e.
some progressed Christians hold with one
hanA to God and with the other to the
world and more often than not It Is the
left hand they hold out to God. Real
Christians let 80 the world and hold TO
God with both hands.
Lies Told by the Devil.
"The devil comes ana says to you Don't
he a Christian, because ii will take all tho
sunshine out Of your life. The devil tells
lie It's only when you become Chris
tian that the bright sum shines all the time
along your path. Do you think it took the
sunshine out OF my life to become a ChriF-
Nanf DO YOU Ailnh u tooh AhN eAh'AAihN
out Of Mr.. Buffers lire here. or Jacobyis?
"Oh my friends, Christ gives the hope
Of eternal life. Has the world anything 70
put up against that? The hope OF the
future is more important than ell present
possessions. The hope Of eternal life means
more than pleasures and compauions and
wealth All these win pass away. but
happiness IN Christ will run through AL
eternity.
Or. Torrey gave this definition OF Chris
tian: man. woman or child who comes
20 God as q lost sinner. who takes Christ
as his Lord and Master and confesseS Him
as such before tho world and who strives
10 live day by day az Christ would have
him live.
At The SUNDAY afternoon meeting the
main aoor OF the Auditorium vac hiled
and there was ifair sprinkiins Of people
IN the galleries. pr. Toyrey preaehed on
Personal work" endeavoring to impreF,
its value uuon the minds OF his heafefs
I His text vas from Proverbs, He that
winneth souls is wise.
Confessions in Churches.
/ Converts arc being made each day who
do not come forward IN the meetings. but
nrefer 20 make their confessions public IN
their own churches II the Second Freab>-
terian church Sunday morning, after
sermon by W. s. Jacuby. forty-uire7 pc
sons came 10 the altar ana cnnfessea ChI'st
as their Master. on tire morning OF me
first day Of the mission about sixty persons
,Tere converted AT the various churones ~
"a result OF the mission spirit which has
spread over tho city since the ministers
arst began TO- arrange for the Uoetlnsr
The work 6f the BIZ cholr Is giaui9ing
IN the eyangelists. as we'll as % the
/ ministers of the churches interented M the
! mission movement Sunday al roth meet
, tnEs an the seats in The choir left wsfe
hlied. and. in fact, this conditon pleyallr
a. slr,ost every meeting The choir is
as,idea into three sections, 80 thai no one
needs 10 be present more than ons-third
id fbe time. which cannoi be considered "a
hardship on amy nf the singers, s0me ~
them want 10 DO present almost every even
inE and occasionally Il happens There h
no room for them in the choir