Arizona republican., 1918-03-06
DR. R. \. TORREY
 ASKS FAITH IN
 WORD IF GOD

A representative gathering of men of Phoenix assembled at the Y. M. (. A. yesterday to hear Dr. R. A. Torrey of the church of the Open Door of Los Angeles. The room was | filled, although the Kiwanis club was holding a meeting in the building at the same time. Dr. Torrey in a few introductory remarks said he would like to hear them sing America" but cautioned them that he had heard | it attempted three times in Phoenix since coming here and the result each time was d failure It was so this time and the singing was dis pensed with. He announced for his subject at the Baptist church yes 1 terday afternoon Baptism of the Holy Ghost and How to Get it." He promised an earnest and thorough discussion of this subject, saying it was of special importance at this time, so many were going off in emotional expressions and the speak ing of tongues that it was high time to give the deeper interpretation and real meaning of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
 Dr. Torrey here referred to an in- teresting incident while at Bendigo, Australia. He said he was making a visit to a noted mine and while waiting with a party of men, an Englishman asked him if he knew how to box. Dr. forrey said he could show better than he could tell him, and they put on the gloves. The Englishman went out of the door backwards at the first bout and did not care to renew the discussion.
 He told of another incident in England while doing evangelistic work. He was interrupted ,by two drunks who got into a fight. Dr. Torrey sprang over the footlight and dragged them apart, held one under each arm and went on with his dis course. Then taking for his theme ',Is the Bible sthe Word of God" as the most fundamental fact of all faith he launched into his discourse. If the bible is a revelation from God to man, his nature, his future destiny to God, it behooves us to accept it in all its entirety. If it is not true, all speculation of man in regard to his duty to God is vain.
 q will say frankly that I did not always believe the bible. There was a time when I was not a believer but an. agnostic. I thought 1 would find out for myself if Jesus Christ was the son of God, and when l found out the truth I would act ac- cordingly. l thought I would find out whether the bible were abso- lutely true or not, and when I found out l would act accordingly.
 T found out to an absolute cer- tainty that the bible is the faithful and unerring word of God to man and that Jesus Christ is the son o1 God and our Savior. 1 will give you some reasons for believing. Somt of them are so intimate and per sonal they cannot be given here.
 My first testimony is what Jesus Christ himself said. Our Lord an( Savior Jesus Christ declared him self to be the son of God. He alst declared the truth of the Old Testa- ment scripture. If you deny the Olt Testament scripture you deny wha Christ Himself said for he said Until Heaven and earth shall pas. away not one jot or little shall fai but that all should be fulfilled Whel I was in England, a man came t, me and said the bible was not tn word of God. I gave to him iron the sermon on the mount, that say ing. The next day he came to m saying he had accepted the LOT, Jesus as his personal Savior. Tn hardest conflict we have now witt the university men is over the frs five books. Here skeptics find mos of their material for attack. Tn Savior once for all disposed of tha when he said in Luke, the scripture cannot be broken
 Remember the Savior rebuke certain of the destructive critics c that day when he said, By your tra ditions you set aside the law Q Moses.
 You ask. did Jesus declare tn New Testament to be his word? H did. He said unto them, I woul tell you all these things but you can not bear them now. But ] will sen the comforter, and He shall tell ye Now they did not take stenographi reports in those days, but the orien tai mind was trained to memoriz' And they committed spoken thing more correctly and carefully tha people even dream in these days. is said by some that James too down what the Savior said in Arabi, and John hath said in Greek. W have his word that the Holy Ghos would not let us forget.