The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

Dr. Torrey Tells of His
 Early Work in Ministry
 and His Present Methods

coats. had not something moments happened;
 One day, after one of these painful efforts he said "the truth got nJS of me, that it wasn't necessary fol me to do the preaching-that one wa always with me whose messa ge it wss and that all l had to do was to stani back. and let Him speak through ps
 Since that day I have never bess afraid he affirmed, with dignifiel simplicity ~and I had rather preart sow that do anything else in tb world"
 Since that day, indeed, Dr. Torre. has proclaimed the truth fearlesslg forcefully, and in all humility { multitudes in every state of4the unior to the people of England, Scotland, Ire land. France Switzerland and Gen many In New Zealand he has con ducted wonderful revivals; and u Japan and China he has carried. thu hope of life everlasting. Whether il the presence of royalty, or in com pany with the humblest laborers. thu message that is not his, but that hal ever burned in his heart for others, ha frightened the path of all alike witt the light of truth as revealed in tn word of God.
 THE START
 But to begin at the beginning. whici I should have done, as Dr. Torrey dN graciously when l asked him U tell me about his life:
 q was born in 1856 But long befor that" he said. my fathe ''s peopu came over to this country, in 1e4o. from Somersetshire, England. and my moth CTS people in 1880 from Ireland.
 My father was banker in New York who in the panic of 1857 lost all that ht had. Afterward he made a fortune il manufacturing in Brooklyn, where iN was prominent in democratic political circles.
 STIRRING TIMES
 T was reared ina hotbed of poiiti1 of the old-fashioned order. where car cuses were run with revolvers until wal 15 years of age Dr. Torrey continued "It was al this time that I went to Yals where 1 graduated at 10. At % I gradu ated in the Yale Theological Seminary and shortly afterward entered the minis try"
 After his first pastorate of four years pr. Torrey went to Germany. where hs was a student at Leipsie University Be cause of the prize he had received for eH fciency in Hebrew, most of his friends thought he was there to prepare for pro fessorship of Hebrew at Vale But not so. During all the years Dr. Torrex wal preparing perhaps unconsciously for tho that afterward took him firS to Minnea polls for six years From ther he went to Chicago. where. at Mr Moody's request, he became the first SUI. perintendent of the great Moody Bibt school so we'll known throughout thu world. He also organized the Moody Bt ble School church with ninety-four mem bers, which after eight years pastorati showed increase of more than 20N new members. With the least annual in. crease of 25n
 WORLD TRIP
 It was in 1907 that the great evangelist started around the world on the fanou, evangelistic tour that called him througi Europe and the Orient During these four years abroad 102.oo9 people nadt public confession of acceptance of Chris un6er pr Torrey's ministry wondaI indeed how many from every part of tn, earth will grasp this good mans hani and call him friend at the great be. yondi
 It was In June. 1912, that Dr. TorreJ accepted the dictatorship of the Bihu Institute at Los Angeles, California. Since this red letter day. two hotels haW been built with 6e7 rooms in connection with the school and also an auditoriun valued at s2,0Go 900 that will seat 4,o0 people.
 Dr. Torrey organized a church in sI4os Angeles with sixty-three members tha now carries on it's register 99s names One member of this wealthy congrega ton gives ss40,O00 annually to foreign mis sions
 NON-SECTARIAN
 Though Dr. Torrey is member of thu presbytery. he cares less than a fig fo4 sectarianisn He thinks more of beins a Christian than of being a churehmai and for this reason his church is interde nominational
 A world renowned evangelist. a famoui Bible scholar and teacher. an author o note. Dr. Torrey is entirely unspoled hJ the praise or criticism of the multituda His beautiful spirit of humility with re. gard to himself, of love for his fellow men and of faith in God bear witness tS the words of Jesus,gwho answered them and said:
 My teaching is no' mine but His that sent me. If any man willeth to do Hi will, he shall know, of the teaching wheth. CT l speak from myself He that speak eth from himself seeseth his own glory1 but Nhe that speaketh the glory of Hin that sent me, the same is true and nd unrighteousness is in him.
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