The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-09
Torrey Would Make
 Chrisfians Right

act proportion to the amount of time and heart spent In prayer. Just as much grace Is at your disposal and mine as in the disposal of the most ad- vanced Christian you ever knew. But some people get more grace simply be- cause they spend more time and put more heart into their prayers for.it
 secured by Askiag.
 "Every blessing that God had pro- vided has been secured Howl Simply by asking"
 Dr. Torrey then described a true Christian. He likened him to a boy who reflects the rays of the sun with n mirror, so that the biindIng radiance of the sunlight dazzle the eyes, Just so, a Christian reflects the inefBabie glory of God. not in his face, perhaps but In hts character. so that 1t goes out to all the world and dazzles men with its heavenly purity and beauty.
 AS an example Of this. pr. Torrey told how John Welsh. the great Scotch reformer. son-in-law of John Knox, was wont to spend seven or eight hours of every day In secret commun- ion with God; how when he died, ,a Scotchman said: rHe was a type of Christi" Though the grammar was in- correct, the man spoke a living truth.
 Ihe reason" exclaimed pr. Torrey, ~-set " WS 8@U AtN tNVfE AkAt O4Et3t kVr day. Is because we are not more with Christ. It takes time to be holy You can't be holy in a minute" Another thing that prayer win do: 1t win bring power into our work Do you want power in your work. You can have 1t. Ask for itt
 When man comes to me, complain Ing, and says, T can't serve God in my peor. weak way would reply. don't L.. L. ~.@.~s Tn mighty, triumphant, glorious way. You can do 1t. All you have to do is ask Him. pray to Him. 2 Begin Worn at Hone.
 The place for Christian work to be- gin Is in your own home. It is a fath- CTS and mothers privilege to have their children saved. But there yis too much of this we take 1t for granted spirit among the parents nowadays. We take 1t for granted that~our ciifi- dren will come out ali right.-sofne- hew or other. some way or other. some time or other They have such good parents they can't go wrongi Well, they won't come out aii right that way.
 q remember in my first passionate there was woman who had . s-year- old son. He. was the worst behaved youngster 1 ever saw, and was at the head of school for nswsboys aud bootbiaciEs and street arabs once, so I know bad boys. They were bad. but he was worse.
 "one day this woman came to me and said, DO you know my sonT
 Everybody knew him: I replied
 ;" He is not very good. am afraid.'' she said. what shall dor
 'T asked her if she had never asked God to regenerate the bey, and expect cd Him to do 1t. She had not, so I told her to go home and try 1t. She did, and from that day the boy was a changed being. His regeneration dated from the hour that his mother went down on her knees and prayed for Gods heip@-and expected it.
 Dr. Torrey told how. when he took his first Sunday School class, as he had not been to Sunday School since he was 13 years old, he had forgotten most of what he had heard. But he refnem- bered one thing. He failed to remem- Der whether it was 2 man or q wo- man. but he remembered that vis- had said that she prayed for her class until one membet after another was
 ''so,aT said pr. TOrrey, T considered that the orthodox thing to do. and I did 1t. and had the reward of seeing every one of those boys ct that most troublesome and important age when they were verging from hoyhood into manhood, one after another, convert- ed"
 The sermon closed with the story of little woman who held an audi ence of $500 people in Fremont Tenn pie In Boston speilbound. who, such was her eioQuence and her power, swayed the vast audjence-Boston rep- resenfative audience--at will. When she concluded. men--hankers, lawyers. doctors, scholars s--everybody, was cry- ing
 "And she told me how she did it." said pr. Torrey. '.She was frightened at Che very thought of addressing such a great number of people. She had never spoken before in public. So she spent the whole night on her knees, praying to God for His help"
 If you want power in your work ask for it." he concluded.
 Dr. Torrey announced that he would take llr fhe aaif1e aabf0ct today.