Reuben Archer Torrey

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21.) How To Pray 10 - WHEN TO PRAY
      If we would know the fulness of blessing that there is in the prayer life, it is important not only that we pray in the right way, but also that we pray at the right time. Christ's own example is full of suggestiveness as to the right time for prayer. 1. In the 1st chapter of Mark, the 35th verse, we read, "And IN THE MORNING, rising up A GREAT ...read more

22.) How To Pray 11 - The Need of Prayer Before and During Revivals
      If we are to pray aright in such a time as this, much of our prayer should be for a general revival. If there was ever a time in which there was need to cry unto God in the words of the Psalmist, "Wilt Thou not revive us again, that Thy people may rejoice in Thee?" (Ps. 85:6) it is this day in which we live. It is surely time for the Lord to ...read more

23.) How To Pray 12 - THE PLACE OF PRAYER BEFORE AND DURING REVIVALS
      No treatment of the subject How to Pray would be at all complete if it did not consider the place of prayer in revivals. The first great revival of Christian history had its origin on the human side in a ten-days' prayer-meeting. We read of that handful of disciples, "These all with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer." (Acts 1:14, R.V.) ...read more

24.) How to Pray So As to Get What You Ask
      "The church was earnestly praying to God for him." Acts 12:5 Our Subject is, "How to Pray So As to Get What You Ask." I can think of nothing more important that I could tell you. Suppose it had been announced that I was to tell the business men of this city how they could go to any bank here and get all the financial accommodation they desired a ...read more

25.) Keep Praying Until God Answers
      There are two passages in the Gospel of Luke which throw a flood of light upon the question, "What sort of praying is it that prevails with God and obtains what it seeks from Him?" and also upon the question, "Why is it that many prayers of God's own children come short of obtaining that which we seek of God?" The first of these two passages you ...read more

26.) Looking to Jesus
      If we are to run with patience the race that is set before us, we must always keep looking to Jesus (Hebrews 12:1-3). One of the simplest and yet one of the mightiest secrets of abiding joy and victory is to never lose sight of Jesus. 1. First of all, we must keep looking at Jesus as the ground of our acceptance before God. Over and over again, ...read more

27.) Not by Bread Alone
      There is nothing more important for the development of a Christian's spiritual life than regular, systematic Bible study. It is as true in the spiritual life as in the physical life, that health depends on what we eat and how much we eat. "Man shall not live by bread alone" (Matt. 4:4). The soul's proper food is found in one book, the Bible. Of ...read more

28.) One Of The Saddest Utterances That Ever Fell From The Lips Of The Son Of God
      "Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life." 1 John v. 40. That is one of the saddest utterances that our Saviour ever spoke. I wish I could reproduce His tender tones and His loving look when He uttered the words. I believe it would break your heart. He came down from Heaven with its glory to earth with its shame, to bring life to men. He ...read more

29.) Open-Air Meetings
      OPEN-AIR MEETINGS 1. Their importance and advantages. 1. They are Scriptural. Jesus said, "Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind." Every great preacher of the Bible was an open-air preacher. Peter was an open-air preacher, Paul was an open-air preacher, ...read more

30.) Principles of Biblical Interpretation
      from Dr. R. A. Torrey's The Importance and Value of Proper Bible Study (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1921), pp. 55-90. 1. Get absolutely right with God yourself by the absolute surrender of your will to Him. 2. Be determined to find out just what God intended to teach and not what you wish Him to teach. 3. Get the most accurate text. ...read more

31.) Profitable Bible Study
      There are many profitable methods of Bible Study. There is something, however, in Bible study more important than the best methods, that is, the fundamental conditions of profitable study. He who meets these conditions will get more out of the Bible, while pursuing the poorest method, than will he who does not meet them, while pursuing the best met ...read more

32.) Question That Should Startle Every Man Who Is Not A Christian
      "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?" Hebrews ii. 3. I have a text to-night which I believe God has given me for this hour, a text that ought to startle every man and woman in this building who has not accepted the Gospel of Christ. You will find it in Hebrews ii. 3: "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" I wi ...read more

33.) Refuges Of Lies
      "The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies"- Isaiah xxviii. 17. We have seen in a former address that every man needs a refuge from four things-from the accusations of his own conscience, from the power of sin within, from the power of Satan, and from the wrath to come. Almost every man has a refuge, that is, he has something in which he has ...read more

34.) Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God
      I was brought up to believe that the Bible was the Word of God. In early life I accepted it as such upon the authority of my parents, and never gave the question any serious thought. But later in life my faith in the Bible was utterly shattered through the influence of the writings of a very celebrated, scholarly and brilliant sceptic. I found myse ...read more

35.) The Christian Conception of God
      God is light. 1 John 1:5 God is love. 1 John 4:8, 16 With God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26 His understanding has no limit. Psalm 147:5 We are to consider again today the Christian conception of God. We have seen that God is spirit, that God is a Person and that God has a personal interest and an active hand in the affairs ...read more

36.) The Day of Golden Opportunity
      "The Holy Spirit says, Today" - Hebrews 3:7 THE DAY OF GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY is today. Golden opportunities, opportunities of priceless worth, are open to every one of us today. But "tomorrow" has no sure promise for any one of us. "The Holy Spirit says, Today," and Conscience also cries, "Today," and the voice of Reason and the voice of History an ...read more

37.) The Deity of Jesus Christ
      "While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he?..." Matthew 22:41,42 The question that our Lord Jesus puts here to the Pharisees is the most fundamental question concerning Christian thought and faith that can be put to anybody in any age. Jesus Christ Himself is the center of C ...read more

38.) The Drama Of Life In Three Acts
      "A certain man had two sons." Luke xv. 11. My subject to-night is the Drama of Life in Three Acts. The Lord Jesus Christ is the author of the Drama, and it surpasses anything that was ever put on the stage in conciseness, in point, in height and depth, and full-ness; and beauty of meaning, in pathos and in power. The Dramatic Personas of the dra ...read more

39.) The Great Attraction: The Uplifted Christ
      IN A RECENT ADVERTISEMENT OF A Sunday evening service in one of. our American cities it was stated that there would be three attractions: a high-class movie show, a popular gospel pianist and his wife, rendered by a well-known prima donna. It is somewhat startling when an unusually gifted and popular preacher, or his advertising committee, thinks o ...read more