Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-07
TORREY GIVES
FINAL SERMONS
HUNDREDS UNABLE TO GAIN
ADMISSION
BIG OVERFLOW MEETING HELD
AT NAZARENE CHURCH
Number Who Have Protested Chris
tianity During Revival Campaign
Stated as Being More Than
Sixteen Hundred


began fiocking to the tabernacle early
in the afternoon for the womens meet
ing and a half hour before the hour
of the service every available place
was filled and the doors were closed.
An overflow meeting with 1900 people
was held at the Nazarene church and
despite this large gathering, crowds
stood outside of every door at the tab
ernacle, eagerly listening to the serv-
ices within. Fully 5000 women were
seated in the tabernacle and again last
night the men filled every available
place.
During the services of the past
month more than 1900 people have pro-
fessed Christianity, while hundreds in
excess of that humber have asked for
prayers. In addition to these num-
bers, several hundred church members
have signified their intention of de-
voting themselves more thoroughly to
the Christian work.
DR.. Torrey took for his topic To-day
and Tomorrow" using as his texts
two passages from the Bible-HebreWs
81: Wherefore as the Holy Ghost
sayeth today, if We will hear his
voice." and Proverbs 27:1: Boast not
thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest
not what a day may bring forth" He
said in part:
1.-THE Holy Ghost says today To-
day is the wise mans day. Tomorrow
is the fools day The wise woman is
she who does what ought 20 be done
today. The fool says Yes, out not yet
tomorrow
There is no greater success. both
in the life that now is and the life to
come, than when you do a thing that
ought to be done and do 1t iInn1e-
diately. There is no surer sign of
shipwreck than to say you will do 1t
tomorrow.
Every woman should accept Christ
today because the sooner you accept
the sooner will you enter into the joy
of Christ. There is joy of Christ not
to be found in toe world. 1t doesn't
make airy difference whether you be-
lieve the Bible or not You know that
those who accept Jesus Christ have
d joy that no one else has.
ANYONE who has tried the joys of
the world and then Jesus Christ has
found a joy not in the world. l tried
the world for all there was in it. From
infancy | had wealth, everything that
money could buy, education and travel,
and my testimony Is like the thousands
of others, that when / turned my back
upon the world and found Jesus Christ
1 found a joy that had never found
in the world.
Imagine a poor. hungry. shivering
man in street in an eastern city. out
in the snow. And just in front Of him
a beautiful home, warm and light,
with a dinner table set and the master
inviting him to be a guest. Suppose
the man should refuse and say per-
haps he would accept tomorrow. You
women who are IN che world are out
in the cold and hungry. The world
never satisfies human soul. No mat
ter how rich you may be, you are in
the cold and hunger. IN the kingdom
there is warmth AMI plenty, and the
a fnXTftnG in Ara mad
that you do not accept his invitation?
EVERY woman who has not publicly
confessed Jesus is in thu wretchedness
of the knowledge Of sin before holy
God. Every woman away from Jesus
Christ is a slave and IS afraid of death.
You have to think of death, for 1t
casts its shadow over our brightest
every woman outside of Christ is
wretched in the fear OF judgment.
There are those who think there Is no
judgment-no hell-yet all the time
they feel that, after all, suppose there
should be a judgment? In Christ you
get rid of the bondage of sin, dread
of death and future Judgment.
"The sooner you accept Christ the
sooner you can save others. The sal
walton that only concerns your own
soul isn't Christian salvation. / lost
six valuable years in my early man
Yale college That time elapsed from
the first time I seriously thought OF
becoming a Christian and the time L
accepted Christ. If I had only been
a Christian during those years at Yale,
how many a young fellow L mghC
have won for Christ.
81 was converted near the close OF
my senior year. AS L was about to
refurn for my second degree one OF
nv greatest chumS was suddenly
Killed. If | had have been Christian
n light have saved him Another ihs
at the bottom of the Pacific ocean--a
suicide. If l had have been Chris
tian he might be a useful man now.
I feel that 1 am to blame for tnat
suicide. 1 have had the Joy of leading
MANY others to Christ, but those SIX
years are Utterly lost TO me, with their
oppor L. Tres. Some of yol have op-
portunities that will never come again,
and Won viii have to look back, as
do. on souls gone out in darkness on
account of them.
@The sooner you accept Jesus the
srrer vcl will be. TIL -. is absolutely
but one moment that we are sure Or
the pres eat. If we say no to the
sr;rit of Coo whispering to us IT may
never come again. The Holy Ghost
says today"
At the close of the service, and after
many of the congregation had started
to leave the building, Mrs. Arthur Let's,
a convert during the campaign, pub
licly expressed her sorrow over lost
years, and urged her friends present to
espouse the Christian life.
AT the close of the after meeting
hundreds of the women went forward TO
shake hands with DR.. Torrey.
Last night DIR. Torrey took the after
noon texts for his sermon to men and
made an eloquent appeal-the last or
the campaign--for men to come into
the Christian life. A large number of
men went forward at the close of the
service.
DR.. Palmer, the musical director OF
the Torrey campaign, prominent den
fist of Toronto, Ont, who has de-
voted his time to directing the music
for DR.. Torrey's trip, spoke yesterday
morning at the Boyle Heights Presoy--
terrain church, and was instrumental
In converting forty of the congrega-
ton.
Dr. Jacoby, who has been in charge
of the personal workers of the cam
paign, spoke yesterday morning at the
First Presbyterian church, winning
fifty-six of the congregation. He will
leave with DIR. Torrey this morning to
continue in evangelistic work.
Dr. Torrey will leave this morning at
10 o'clock over the Santa Fe route for
the east.
The tabernacle erected for the cam
paign will be torn down Immediately
AS a finale to the campaign a series