Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07

Chicago.-A strenuous effort is un- der way to make this city too hot for his Satanic majesty, the devil If the campaign inaugurated is successful the forces of evil will retreat before the onward march of a victorious army whose slogan is civic purity and whose emblem is the banner of Christ. Rev. Dr. R. A. Torrey, whose singu- larly successful career as an evangel- ist has encompassed practically every nation and every country of the globe within the past few years, is the gen. eral in command of the campaign. Be- hind him and the ministers who are joined with him in the effort to drive sin from Chicago is what is known as the Laymans Evangelistic council, body made up of business men of Chicago, many of them prominent in financial, commercial and industrial circles. It is business mems move ment, backed financially and morally by substantial and successful laymen who believe in the efficacy of Chris tianity.
 
 the campaign has thus far been car ried on in a businesslike manner. The opponents of Satan, who are seeking to wrest Chicago from the grip of the evil one, have provided a big Gospel tent, heated by steam, radiators being run into the building and connected with a nearby plant The tent is guaranteed to seat 12, 800 persons.
 It is doubtful whether such a com prehensive campaign against sin in all it's hideous aspects has been under taken in Chicago since the days of Dwight L. Moody. It is possible that the present Gospel campaign may reach proportions beyond anything of the kind ever undertaken in this city.
 Rev. Dr. Torrey is an experienced evangelist. He Is practically fresh from his experiences in an around-the- world trip which astounded everybody in the amount of interest created, and in the results which followed the brief engagements of himself and his assist ant, C. M Alexander, who is now on another trip around the world, neces sitated by the illness of the great Cos pei singers wife, but made profitable from a moral standpoint by evangel- istic work.
 Dr. Torrey, before he started on his evangelistic tour of the world, was pastor of the Moody church in this city, and superintendent of the Moody into of Ha was closely associated with MT. Moody and managed the worlds campaign of that illustrious evangelist.
 It was during the eight years in which Dr. Torrey was pastor of the Moody church that he acquired the basis of his reputation as an evangel- ist. As he himself describes it, he was always an evangelist pastor" Each year of his pastorate was con tinuous revival campaign. Especially was religious fervor induced during the summer months. During the last year of his pastorate over 1000 per sons embraced the faith of Christ and joined his church. In addition to these there were many more who were converted to better life, and who united with other churches but of whom no actual count was kept.
 Dr. Torrey himself is most inter- csting personality. He was born in Hoboken, N Y, January 8, 1856. Early in life his father, who was a prominent Democratic politician, To- cated in Brooklyn, N. Y, and in that
 
 metropolis affording an excellent school for the study of life conditions, the present evangelist was reared. A The connections of his father, who