The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-19
AFTERNOON GERVIOE.

{. take that the church is making today Is It's attitude toward children. pr. Tor rey talked on The Conversion of Cilil- dren, yesterday afternoon Tn order to convert q child than an adult, pr. Torrey gave i've reasons.
 First he showed that 1t is much easier tQ convert a child than an adult; tians1 if all Of the Christians who were converted before the age of 20 were taken away from the churches. Dr. Torrey said that the churches would Furthermore, to be converted in child, hood assures broaders more benuti- fuI and more helpful Christian life.
 In the third instance, the younger more years he has left to work for Christ. IL is q fine thing to convert sn old man, but to convert . young rs FouftS 1S e GTn6chnf 6hrsans srS wo o Ghris pe s verted as children make the best work CTS. They go to work right off and there are many instRnces where ceeded In persuadins its parents to embrace Christianity.
 The last point was that the great majority of psrscns who are not con y vsrted as children yiIl never De con In this connection pr. Torrey said:
 ''Tt's a -deiusipn of thel devil. if there was ever Q delnsion of the devil. that children shouidn't be preJudlced to there is | God and there is cbriat. and the finest thing that we can do is to bring our children up so that they will realize the truth all their. lives. Some children are natural Chrisfiafls but there needs must be supernaturni Christians fn nrder to successfully re- sist the pitfalls and temptations that will come to them in iifesS And tust be brought into the church with no
 NIGHT SERVICE.
 ,nS SHsll; sa What c,E,. Kind Of St 2 Place It Is. TI6tect T16S of d,s.,o pr, Torrey's sermon last
 After going over the ground covered last night, and saying that he consid- an aFansi naG mqFs y. seoH to on bet game of cards with the deck stacked, than he had to take a~chance on the uncertainty. of hell: and repeating that fering as well as place of memory and remOrse, Dp. Torrey began his sermon by saying that in the third place hell is place of unsuitable and
 He said that the people will carry with them to the next world the dee SireS that are built up here, ana that In the next world there will be no power for gratifying these terrible desires. He said that the man Is wretched indeed who cnltivatea into ruling powers in this world. passions and desires for which there is no grat- ifcation in the world to which we are
 Tn the fourth place he said that hell Is place of shame where everybody ia dishonored. To illustrate this feel. ing he told Q story about a ltttle girl whose father, a cashier in e bank, had been imprisoned for stealing tho girl the daughter of thief. She was taken sick and never recovered from inc shame of tt.
 Fifth he said that hell is a place of vile companions; and that no mat ter how brilliant the men and wo- men may be when they first Ro there. their surroundings will soon level them to the lowest depths of depravi- ty. To show how quickly people Ro down whe nthey once got started he told of several instances that had come to his personal notice.
 "One thing more" concluded Dr. Torrey, Hell 1 sa world without hope, a world that will endure into the ages of the aEes'--and not ray of hope, have hunted the B1bie through for one ray of hope for men that die. i'm. penitent. How I have wanted to find just one. But have failed. The New Testament does not hold out one ray