Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-23
TORREY FLAWS
MODERN VICES
TABERNACLE THR0NGED AT
SERVICE FOR WOMEN
GIRLS AS LIKELY TO BECOME
DRUNKARDs AS BOYS
Slavery to Sin Vigorously Denounced
as the Cause of All the
Worlds Misery and
Poverty

! "Some mothers think it is all right
| to have wine on their tables because
they have no sons. The girls are as
/ likely to become drunkards as are the
boys" said DR.. Torrey in an eloquent
sermon yesterday afternoon, pointing
out the modern day evils among
/ Womankind. In the evening he fayed
| the men for their share in the evils of
the day.
| Despite the rain yesterday afternoon
the gospel tabernacle was filled with
women at the service given especially
for them in the Torrey evangelistic
campaign. At the time of the opening
of the service, as a few seats were not
filed, men were admitted to occupy
them.
1t was the start of the third week
of the months campaign. and was by
far the most successful day to date.
In the morning DR. JacOby assistant
of DIR. Torrey, addressed the Sunday
school of the Emmanuel Presbyterian
church, and 100 children and young
people were converted. Later he
preached at the Salem Congregational
church and succeeded in leading a
dozen people to profession of the
Christian life.
Dr. Palmer. who is musical director,
spoke at the Baptist church at AL
hambra, and thirty were reported as
converted.
Those signifying the wish to become
Christians at the afternoon service in
cluded several young people, three
young boys coming up together. Mrs
Arthur Let's was among those begin
ming the Christian life.
DIR. Torrey yesterday afternoon dem
onstrated his ability as musical
director DIR. Palmer was a few min
utes late and DR.. Torrey opened the
1aa6incr the music He tOn
took for his text: Proverbs 14:9, Fools
make a mock at sin, but among the
righteous there is favor" He said in
part:
Sin is no joke; there is nothing to
laugh at in it. If you should see
man laugh at a funeral procession you
would say that man was an idiot to
laugh at death. but death is not as
awful as sin. Sin is the most appall-
ing thing in the universe.
Two Plaques Compared
I'm 1902 when visited Sydney, Aus
tralia, there was a bubonic plague
scare. Not 100 died of it, yet it was
the principal theme of talk. But there
was another plague, carrying off thou
sands. not only to grave but eternal
death, and nothing was thought of it.
There are two kinds of evil in the
universe: physical, which we suffer,
H'NNSNA
anything than to do wrong.
'Visit the public morgue and see
there on the cold slab the form of
young woman once beautiful. She died
of starvation You say, poor girl!
No Listen before you pity her, She
could have lived in luxury if she would
I have sinned, but she chose starvation
instead. You don't say poor girl!'
now, but noble girl Better die a
thousand deaths than live in sin.
what is sin? Rebellion against
God. Some of you have told a story
that was improper. | can hardly be-
lieve any woman could do such a
thing, but just during the week I was
asked to speak about stories with
double meaning. The young woman
said that in the large concern in which
she worked here in Los Angeles many
of the girls told such stories.
Men do that sort of thing some
times, God pity them, but to think of
a woman telling a story with an i'm
proper suggestion in it seems impossi--
BILE. God pity you if you were not
ashamed of it. When you told that
indicate story you committed an act
of rebellion against God.
Some of you have spoken unkindly
about another woman. If it was true
you should have kept it to yourself.
You wronged that woman and you did
WORSE. II was IGOtlllOll against GOus
Binding and Binding
"Sin so blinds that some people see
no beauty in the Bible, in God himself,
though he is the infinitely lovely one.
Sin not only blinds but it binds. Who
soeVer committeth sin is a slave of sim
Some women are enslaved by the
appetite for strong drink. Some people
think only men are slaves to that, but
have had too much experience with
womanhood to think that. How many
girls smoke? Just the other day l was
told of two women smoking cigarettes
in public near Los Angeles. Well, a
woman must be sunk pretty low when
she will do it in public.
"HoW many women are enslaVed by
drugs, morphine, opium or something
else?
Sin causes misery. All the misery
in the world is caused by sin. Sick
ness and pain are in the universe be-
cause of sin. All sickness comes from
sin. Women suffer today from the
violation of the law, from their frantic
efforts to escape the great responsible
ity for which they were created by
God. If you should take out of wo-
mans life all sickness and pain caused
by habits of dress, diet and in other
ways, how little pain there would be
left among Womanhood.
Insanity is caused from sin. There
is nothing so awful as an insane asy-
lum. Many a child is insane through
the sin of a drunken father and the
folly of a woman marrying drunkard
Misery Now and Hereafter
"Sin not only causes misery here, but
beyond the grave. Death does not end
all; there is another life to come, and
sin works out its fullness in awful
consequences. If you could put out
sin, hell would cease to be.
"Sin nailed Jesus Christ TO the cross
the only perfect man that ever
walked the earth. Let us hate and re-
nounce sin. Let us declare war on sin
and take Jesus Christ as our savior.
Last night 5000 men filled the taber-
nacle, no women or boys under 10 years
being admitted DR.. Torrey took the
same text as in the afternoon service
for women and delivered an eloquent
sermon. At the close of the service
about fifty men went forward to take
up the Christian life.
DIR. Torrey will speak to the ministers
of Los Angeles and vicinity this morn
ing at 1920 o'clock at the Bible in
stitute on the subject, How to Make
the Most Out of Ones Ministry"
Noon meetings will be held in the
Los Angeles theater each day except
| today and Thursday. Services will be
| held each afternoon at O'Clock and
| each evening at the tabernacle, Seventh
and Los Angeles streets. DIR. Jacoby
will conduct workers services at 63a
Los Angeles street each evening at 6: a
o'clock. excepting Thursday.