Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-23
ONLY ONE REFUGE FOR MAN
Evangelist Torrey ellis dis Auditors that
Haven is in God,
DEVIL IS SMART mJ HIS WAYS DEVIOUS
Points out Many wnys I'm which Ne
Lures the Unwary into sin
Assures His Hearers There
a. r. HclI

There is one safe hlding place from
conscience. from sin, from the devil. and
from the wrath 60 come, and that hiding
place IS one man--the Goldman"
So spoke Evangelist r.. A. Torrey in his
sermon at the Auditorium Thursday night.
After first declaring the Inability OF man
20 get away from the pangs Of an
awakened conscience and his powcriessncss
10 break away from sin unaided by the
Divine Being, DR.. TOrrey turned TO con-
slider tho dovll and his work
There are not only evidences an around
Of a Divine Creator" he said "hut every
where there arc footprints Of the enemy
Of God and man. He entraps man with
filthy vice. or he catches him with sub
lie and ailurfng delusion
I'm an eastern city not long ago, I
saw a man come snoaking down an alley
toward a pile OF empty beer kegs-a broad
shouldered man, who might once have been
erect and handsome. but who now was
bent and haggard. He stopped at the kegs.
and, looking about TO see that no one
was watching him. drew from beneath his
ragged coat tomato can, into which he
strained the dregs Of stale beer from the
kegs. Then he hid the can Of beer under
his coat and shambed away. The trouble
with that man was the devil had him by
the throat.
MY friends. the devil has many men
by tho throat with hold not OF the to-
mato can sort. II IL not filthy, but at
tractive Tho devil is cunning. He draws
men TO a host Of philosophical fabrica-
lions called religions; there are thcosophy,
esoteric Buddhism, spiritualsm, Christian
Science, Dowieism and the rest of them.
Their existence surely means there is "A
devil -.rt.
Devil Is smart.
"Ah, the devil has no lack of brains; he
IS man OF intellect and philosopher. II
YOU think that man Is a fool because he
IS " Christian Scientist. you are the big
eest fool of all; some Of the brightest
men in the country are Christian Scientists.
OF course, when you take up Mary Baker
Icddy's book, which makes as much sense
backwards as forwards, Il is hard TO be-
lieve that brainy men follow her; but they
do. Take theosophy. or spiritualsm, and
IL Is the same thing; eminent iurlst, the
scientist. the statesman, are their adher-
ents. When you think of all the people
who are misled by these things.l you realize
that It is not 50 much by vice as by subtle
delusion that the devil catches people.
You ask how / know there Is n devil
The man who banks on the Bible comes oui
ahead IN the long run, and the man who
viii not believe the Bible comes out in the
rear The Bible SAYS there is devil;
believe there is a devil because the boob
says so. But ] have better reason fol-
believing there's a devil7-it's because my
personal experience tells me thcre is one.
But, thank God. there is Il hiding plae,
for the devil, aud that is God. know there
is a God. The untutored savage know,
that European travelling In the deser
one evening saw his Arab guide bow dowr
in worship, and he asked the guide Il
whom he was praying To God was thu
answer. But, how do you know there 4
- God2. asked tho atheist Can you Sc,
liim2 Can you hear Hini9 Can you pu
out your hand and feel IIim2 In tn
morning he remarked to the guide, "A came
was prowling about the tent last night.
How do you know asked the Arab. hi,
you sec him? Did you hear him? Coult
you put out your hand and feel him
No, was the response, but there are hi
footprints. The Arab waved his han,
toward u sky flushed with tbe glories o
the dawn. Behold, there the footprint
OF the Creator he said.
Believes There is "a He'll.
''You need also a hiding place from tn
wrath to come. Il believe there is a wratl
TO come because the Bible teaches It, an,
because my reason tells me so. There
also hell .s ~ s-ta
"a young man: handsome and winsome
falls into what, he calls love with an in
pocent girl; leads her on to ruin. Will
the girl goes the inevitable way dies u
horrible death and Is buried in the pot