Reuben Archer Torrey

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41.) The Importance of Personal Soul Winning
      "He first findeth his own brother Simon . And he brought him to Jesus." - John 1:41,42. The one who brought his brother to Jesus was Andrew. We are not told that Andrew ever preached a sermon. If he did, the Holy Spirit did not think it worth putting on record. But this brother whom he brought to Jesus preached a sermon that led three thousand p ...read more

42.) The Judgment Day
      "God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent; because He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised him from the dead. Acts xvii. 30, 31. There are two events in the future which are absolutely certain. Fir ...read more

43.) The Most Important Question
      "What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?" Matthew 27:22 If I should put to this audience tonight the question, What is the most important question of the day, I presume I would get a great variety of answers. Some of you would say that the disarmament question or the Four Power Treaty question was the most important question of t ...read more

44.) The Most Important Question That Any Man Ever Asked Or Answered
      "What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?"- Matthew xxvii. 22. You will remember that it was the Roman governor Pilate who asked this question, and he answered it wrongly, and brought eternal ruin and infamy down upon his own head. I trust that many in this great audience will answer it right to-night, and bring to themselves eter ...read more

45.) The Personality of the Holy Spirit
      From The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person. It is of t ...read more

46.) The Pointed Personal Worker
      He sought to win to Christ the young lady whom he had been taking to dances the first time he saw her after his conversion. He says, "The first time I saw her after my conversion, I commenced to reason with her out of the Scriptures. It took two hours of talking to her, but she accepted Christ."[1] This experience seemed prophetic of the way Torrey ...read more

47.) The Power Of Prayer
      I BRING YOU A MESSAGE FROM GOD contained in seven short words. Six of the seven words are monosyllables, and the remaining word has but two syllables and is one of the most familiar and most easily understood words in the English language. Yet there is so much in these seven short, simple words that they have transformed many a life and brought man ...read more

48.) The Prayer of Faith
      "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of him." 1 John 5:14, 15 Please notice carefully exactly what God tells us in this passage. Here we are told that there is a way in which certain peop ...read more

49.) The Secret of Abiding Peace
      "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." Genesis 5:24. Our subject is "The Secret of Abiding Peace. Abounding joy, and Abundant Victory in War Times and at All Times." You will find the text in Genesis 5:24, "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." In the description of Enoc ...read more

50.) The Way Of Salvation Made As Plain As Day
      "Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. and thy house."-ACTS xvi. 29-31. The Philippian goaler, by a train of circumstances, which I have read in t ...read more

51.) Three Fires
      "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire."-MATTHEW iii. 11. One night, years ago, I was sitting at my desk in my study late at night, and the work of the day was done. There was a great deal of confusion about my study table, for I had just moved that day, and had not had time to rearrange my papers. The work of the day being don ...read more

52.) True Christian Union
      My subject this morning is TRUE CHRISTIAN UNION AND THE DEVIL'S COUNTERFEIT. I have seven texts: The first is Ephesians 4:1-3, "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep t ...read more

53.) Use Of Tracts
      Taken from How to Work for Christ, published 1901 Comparatively few Christians realize the importance of tract work. I had been a Christian a good many years, and a minister of the Gospel several years, before it ever entered my head that tracts were of much value in Christian work. 1 had somehow grown up with the notion that tracts were all rub ...read more

54.) What Are You Waiting For?
      "And now why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptized, washing away thy sin, calling on the name of the Lord" (especially the first part of the verse, "Why tarriest thou?").-Acts xxii. 16. It was God who asked the question, through His servant Ananias, of Saul of Tarsus; and I believe that God is asking that same question to-night through me of ever ...read more

55.) What It Costs Not To Be A Christian
      "I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies.-Psalms cxix. 59. A good many years ago I was talking to a young society lady in the city of New Haven in America, and suddenly she stopped me and said, "Don't talk that way; it makes me think, and I hate to think." The world is full of people who hate to think, and because they hate ...read more