The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-11-14

CnlCaBO.-A strenuous eHOrt is I'M
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 victorious
army whose slogan is civic purity and
whose emblem is the banner of Christ.
Rev. DIR. r. A. Torrey, whose singu-
larry successful career as an evangel-
list 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 Layman's Evangelistic council
a body made up of business men of
Chicago, many of them prominent in
financial, commercial and industrial
circles. 1t is business mems move
ment, backed financially and morally
by substantial and successful laymen
who believe in the efficacy of Chris
tianity
Being business mems movement,
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 seal Il, 500 persons
1t is doubtful whether such a com
prehensive campaign against sin in all
its hideous aspects has been under
taken in Chicago since the days of
Dwight l. Moody. 1t is possible that
the present Gospel campaign may
reach proportions beyond anything of
the kind ever undertaken in this
city.
Rev. DIR. 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-
STATED by the Illness of the great Cos
pei singers wife but made profitable
from 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
a of He
was closely associated with Mr., Moody
and managed the worlds campaign OF
that illustrious evangelist
1t 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
list. AS he himself describes it, he
was always an evangelist pastor
Each year of his pastorate was a 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 &c
these there were many more who
we're converted to better life, and who
united with other churches but oil
whom no actual count was kept
DR.. Torrey himself is a most inter
esting personality. He was born In
Hoboken. N. Y, January 3, 1856
Early in life his father, who was a
prominent Democratic politician, 10
Gated in Brooklyn. N. Y. and in that
city, adjacent to New York, with the
metropolis affording an excellent
school for the study of life conditions
the present evangelist was reared,
Tba connections of his father who