The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-03-23
10000 HEAR TORREY.
At THE SUNDAY
MEETINGS
FORTY PROFESS CONVERSION,
AMONG THEM BOY OF io-EvAN.
oELisT MAKES ATTACK ON
"sHALLow uNIvERsALlsM."

The Light Guard armory was
thronged Sunday afternoon and even
ing with men. women and children
anxious TO hear the Rev. Reuben A..
Torrey. the evangelist. who has been
conducting mission in this city dur
ing the last week. II is estimated that
some 10000 people were present at
the two meetings, and many were I'M
able TO gain admittance in the after
noon.
In the afternoon, DR.. Torrey preach
ed on the theme. "Gcd Is Love- He
said the bible is Gods love story"
"Universalism can't be true" SAID
the speaker. 1T isn't true by the
text on which 1t is based. God Is
love-
Il am not going to tell you what l
think Of the love OF God. am GO
ing to give you the bibles plain
statements about 1t. There are peo
pie who start out with this text as
4 foundation and build a superstruc-
ture OF speculation that contradicts
the plain teachings of the book from
which they take their foundation
stone. Either the bible is true or It
/ Is not true,
If the bible is not true. we have
no proof that God Is love, 80 that all
these universalist schemes built on
the foundation that God IL love- crum-
BILE away. The shallow universalism
OF the present day cannot stand"
In the evening meeting. DR.. Torrey
took for his subject What IL costs
not to be Christian"
THE world Is full of people who
hate to think" said the speaker. How
many business man there Is In this
city tonight who few years ago had
a business proposition made to him
and just because II promised well on
the surface. accepted 1t, and has led
a life ever since that has been drag
for D bare existence. Simply because
he hated to think.
How many young woman becomes
acquainted with young fellow who
has pleasing manners. is good waltz
Ell and Is popular and attractive and
consents to marry him without consid-
ering whether he has the mental and
moral qualifications to ft him for
life companion? Afterward she wakes
up to find that she has married fool
or worse, just because she didn't
think,
I'm going to ask you to do some
thinking tonight. What does 1t cost
not to be a Christian? Let ms sit
down and count the cost.
I'm the first place It costs the sacri-
Ace OF peace. A Christian has peace.
There is no peace for the wicked.
There Is not man or woman In this
audience tonight out Of Christ that
has peace. Money won't give you
peace. nor friends, nor influence.
Again, not to be Christian costs
you the highest, purest, hottest Joy.
A real living faith In Jesus gives
man Joy un$peakable. Nobody out Of
Christ can know that Joy.
mot to be Christian costs the
sacrifice of hope. Hope for the fu-
ture is more important than present
possession. would rather be the
poorest child OF God tonight knowing
certainly that at the dawning OF erer-
nifty l am to be an heir Of God. than
to be a millionaire tonight with no
outlook for eternity.
Not to be Christian costs the
sacrifice OF the highest manhood and
womanhood and the favor OF God In
this life and the acknowledgment OF
the Savior in the world to, come. And
not to be acknowledged by Jesus In
the world to come means the cost OF
eternal life. Do you ask me what
eternal life means? can tell you
what its beginnings are. but its full
ness no tongue can describe. Take
that moment Of your life whose Joy
was purest. deepest. hottest; multi
ply it by infnity and carry out the