Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20
TORREY ENDS SERMON
IN DRAMATIC STYLE
DECLARES SOME ONE PRESENT
MEDlTATES SUICIDE
Says Spirit of Holy Ghost Has De-
seconded on Congregation-More
Than Five Thousand Sit
Spellbound

A dramatic pause occurred last night
at the close of DR. Torreys sermon.
DIR. Torrey had preached an eloquent
sermon on Gods Blockade on the
Road to He'll" He said he felt there
was some person in the audience VINO
contemplated suicide, that the spirit OF
the Holy Ghost had descended, and
that he would close his sermon at that
juncture, although ne had not intended
doing. so. For several minutes the vast
congregation of more than 5OOO peo-
pie sat spellbound. Then several peo-
pie rose in different parts of the house,
many of them being young people ana
children.
mo man or woman need go to he'll"
said DR.. Torrey. God is not willing
that you should go, and if any one does
go it is outside the will of God. IL
men will continue in sin they will be
lost, but God has done everything in
his power to bring men to repentance.
God gave his son to die on the cross
to keep you from hell.
God has filled the path to hell with
many obstacles. The first of these OBJ
stacles is the Bible. No man can
continue in sin without trampling on
| that book, and there is no book that
can make him so uneasy as the Bible
Another obstacle on the road to hell
is your mothers influence. Some of
you have tried to forget your mother,
but her words ring in your heart.
"a mothers prayers are another OBJ
stacle in the road to ruin. We can
forget mother. but we can't get out Of
! the influence of her prayers. 1 am
here preaching tonight instead of be-
ing in hell, where 1 deserved to 60,
| simply because of my mothers pray
ers.
ssT ,,ea5 70 COW 4Io+ M ono 1,od apvy
part in my conversion. L went to
bed with no more idea of being con-
verted than of jumping over the
house. I had drank that day, for
did every day. and 1 had played cards,
for / did that every day, too. During
the night / awoke and tried to take
my life, but instead I was converted in
five minutes.
Saved by Her Prayers
"Only one sermon had ever Impressed
me, and that was forgotten in a few
minutes. 1 was within one step of hell
and 1 had started to take that step,
but instead I took Jesus Christ. My
| sanity mother, 42S miles away, was
praying that her boy might become a
Christian. I had gone over all the
other obstacles, but that last obstacle
held me back.
Another influence against hell is a
Sunday school teachers holy example
and Cody teaching. Moody began his
work with a Sunday school class.
Another obstacle is kindly words
and deeds on the part of Christians.
Los Angeles is full of men and women,
poor wretches, down and out, hope
less, you think, but there is not a man
or woman whose case is hopeless.
We have Savior who is the Savior of
hopeless cases. Some of our noblest
men and women were once complete
wrecks I wish we could have re-
vival in Los Angeles that would send
you rich, well-dressed Christians out
into the streets of Los Angeles to save
the lost with love and kindness.
Another and great obstacle in the
Holy Ghost is the Holy Spirit. The
Holy Ghost is at work in Los Angeles.
God is blockading the road to hell"
DIR. Torrey's subject yesterday after
noon was a continuation of the dis
course of the day before on 1.-THE Holy
Spirit" He said in part:
1.-THE Holy Spirit converts men from
sin. You and 1 cannot do IT,
people nowadays seem to want q
gospel with the hell left out of it. But
the Bible tells us about hell, and that
| is why 1 believe there is a HE'LL