Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-27
TORREYITES TO
INVADE SALOONS
THREE PROFESSIONS WILL
MARCH FOR CONQUEST
FOURTH WEEK OF CAMPAIGN TO
START sTRENUoUsLY
Chief Assistant viii Tell How He
Was Induced to Quit the
Life of Professional
Gambler

This evening the third week of
| the Torrey campaign will be closed
with the usual evening services. Sat
urday evening a midnight service Will
he held. AT IL o'clock three professions
will start from the tabernacle to visit
the saloon districts and invite the peo-
ble to go to the service At the mid
night service DR.. Jacoby, assistant to
Dr. Torrey, will tell of his conversion
from the life of a professional gambler.
"A Christian has no business to be
glum or somber," said DR.. Torrey at
the union Thanksgiving service yester-
day morning "a great deal that is
called Christianity is the worst kind of
Caricature. Some people think it is
religion to be glum. These everlasting
kickers l have no use for. That isn't
Christianity. Christianity is sunshine
and gladness. The Bible is the most
jubilant book ever written. A joyous
Christian is the best advertisement that
Christ and the Bible can have"
Rev. A. G. Smither, pastor of the
First Christian church and in point of
service the oldest pastor in the city,
presided at the service. Rev. Jesse p
! Mcknight, pastor of the Magnolia Ave-
nue. Christian church, offered prayer.
Rev. H. J. Weaver, pastor of the Eng
| lish Lutheran church, read President
Roosevelt's proclamation, and Rev. G.
E. Locke, pastor Of the First Methodist
church, read the one hundred and for
| ty-seventh Psalm. A selection was
rendered by the quartet of Emmanuel
| Presbyterian church.
1.-The Radiant Life was the subject
which DR.. Torrey had chosen for his
| Thanksgiving sermon. He took two
texts, Psalms 34:5 and Philippians 4:4,
and said in part:
1--WE have all known radiant people
who are like electric batteries charged
with joy. God is the real sun-this sun
| that is Just coming out from the clouds
is only q symbol of the real sun. If
we look into the face of God we will be
radiant.
81 think if I were asked what was
the most important text L should say:
Rejoice in the Lord always
Some people are never happy-they
are always crying whining and grum-
bling, and looking on the dark side.
Most of our troubles never come true.
Some people are only happy when they
are miserable. l don't like that kind.
"Then there are others who are on
the mountain tops one day and in the
valley the next day. I like these when
they are on the mountain tops, but
not when they are in the valley. Other
people are happy whether it rains,
| Shines is hot or cold, or whether they
are in Los Angeles or Seattle.
"Take my own case. I was born with
disposition toward melancholia-to
have the blues-but when Christ came
in at one window the blues went out
of the other and I haven't known a
blue minute for a quarter of century.
Jesus Christ drives out the blues.
"Open confession of Jesus as Lord
and Master is necessary. The more you
nail your colors to the mast, without
ostentation, of course, the more joy
you will have.
eff you are one of those little, sneak
ing Christians that never tell it you
will never have the true joy of the
Lord.
"There is more sweetness in the Bible
than IN any turkey ever cooked. OF
all the literature of all the nations of
all the ages the most joyful book is
the Bible.
81 was brought up in church where
never heard amen except in the
proper place in the sermon, and l was
an ordained minister before I heard
it otherwise. One day man hollered
amen and I was so startled that l
lost one-third of my discourse" Cat
this iuncture a man in the audience
shouted "amen," to which DR.. Torrey
smilingly replied that he could not be
frightened by that now.)
IF you are to lead the radiant life, "
said Dr. Torrey, "you must be a soul
winner. The sweetest joy this side Of
heaven is leading another to Christ.
"Some people think only of saving
their own souls. If you think that you
are pretty sort of chap.
ITO lead the radiant life you must
be a radiant giver. The sunshine of
God comes in at the door where your
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