The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
AFTERNOON SERVICE.

pr. Torrey preached yesterday af- anrnoon on what kfna- of people God made His promises to. and how to ! pray. The text was John xiv. I3-l4: name. that shall I do that ths Father
 may be glerinsd in the Son." Dr. Torrey said:
 '.This is one of the most familiar
 passageg in the Bible. and yet 1t is one \ bs the most remarkable. This prom ,tse is made so those who believe on
 Jesus. not to those who believe about Kim. Nobody has 50 orthodox an opinion aDut Jesus as the devil. He knows all about Jesus. but he does not
 believe on Him.
 "Those who believe on Jesus are
 those who are united to Him with a
 living faith, and nobody is united to also a loving obedience. To have both ., loving obedience and q living faith puts a man on praying ground :. ] would rather be on praying ground than have the biggest account In the biggest bank in the country and not be 4on praying ground"
 x To iiiustrate how person could t grow to love Jesus Dr. Torrey told < of a little gtrl who told a minister , rDnce tlfAt Aha -dfd not loweN Iesuss The , seninistsr told her to repeat all the wey 5 home the words ~Jssus loves me-" and " znext Sunday the little girl came to church and said "I love Jesus because cit is such q wonderful thing for Him y' to love me-" eg pr. Torrey said that that is the B, only way to come to love 1esus--t0 Hove Him because of His love for us. 7 He said that it is necessary to have 2 love in order to have faith, and neces- Aesary to have faith to have love. He -s likened faith without love to peach
 tree. which. although 1t has roots, does . mot bear fruit, and love without faith ssA to the same tree without roots. Tn ' either case the tree tR worthless. :~ In explaining how to pray, Dr. Tor s~ rey again referred to the text, and 6Rid, Pray in the name of Jesus." He
 said that praying in the name of Jesus
 means to use Jesus's name. as an en-
 dofsement upon the prayer, for, al-
 though Jesus has a claim upon God, no :. man has any claim upon Him. Ee
 1ikened praying in the name of Jesus
 to q man who draws money from c
 hank on . cheek endorsed by a man
 who has an account tn that bank. He
 1ilxened. in turn not praying in the
 name of Jesus to a man who attempts s@ to draw money from d bank when he r has no funds in that bank himeelf and
 nobody who will go snrety For him that hes any claim upon the bank, Dr. .sTorrey said that 1t was, hAa opinion that toe many protesting ChrteSiAnS
 prayed under the impression that God
 was under obligations to them for the
 Christian life that they have lead, but 2 lie asserted that no prayer will be 2 listened to by God unless it is 0ffeRed
 in the name of Christ who has a 1. claim upon the Father.
 In closing, pr. TUrrey said:
 some Christians are in the habit { of saying. oh. can't pray for that. = 1t Is too much to ask of God; it is too ! big The larger the things you ask N in the name of Christ, the more honof
 you are doing the name oS christs
 have prayed for some pretty big things,
 and have got them. I prayed God
 10 seud me around the world. and He
 did. Surely, that was big thing.
 There iA nothing too big to pray for- and nothing 90 big that God won't
 give yon=-lf you ask Him in the naule
 of Jesus Christ who has the only
 claim upon Him.
 with living faith, and loving 0be-
 dience, through Christ to Godl That
 is the only way to pray