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VOLUME ONE.
NO. SIXTEEN.
A 'Rebielv of the Torrey-Alexander hxebibal in Atlanta
By GEORGE T. B. DAVIS y
OR four weeks Torrey and Alexander
have conducted a revival campaign in
Atlanta which has stirred the city to
its centre. Many hundreds of converts
have been recorded, and thousands of
Christians have been fired with passion
for soul-winning that they never knew
before. Revival fires burn so brightly
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that men and women have been convert
ed, not only at the revival meetings in the large
Skating Rink in the heart
of the city, accommodat
ing 4,400 people, bnt they
have been converted on
the street corners, and in
the stores and office build
ings.
The meetings were held
under the auspices of the
Business Men’s Gospel
Union, an organization
composed of the most
prominent business men
of the city, and headed
by Ex-Governor W. J.
Northen, one of the most
distinguished statesmen in
the South.
Special Features of the
Revival.
Some of the most dis
tinguishing features of the
revival were the conver
sion of leading men; the
complete transformation
of many drunkards; the
payment of old debts and
return of stolen money by
the converts and by pro
fessing Christians; and
the giving up by large
numbers of church mem
bers of such worldly
amusements as card-play
ing, dancing and theatre
going. Hundreds were
led to make a full surrender of their lives to God,
and to ask for a definite baptism with the Holy
Spirit. Before the campaign ended the city was
honeycombed with personal workers and cottage
prayer circles.
Dr. Torrey’s Conversion.
No one can estimate the effect of these actions
on the part of Christians, for Dr. Torrey told one
afternoon how his own life had been completely
transformed by making a full surrender, saying:
“Years ago, after a great conflict, I was led to
the place where I surrendered my will absolutely to
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Scene During an Afternoon Serbice
ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 7, 11
God—to go wherever He told me to go, and to be
what he told me to be. And since I did,
He has led me literally right straight around the
earth, and I have followed. And I am ready to
keep on following right around if He wants me
to. I am willing to never have a place whereon to
lay my head till I die, if He wants to just keep me
going. And ever since the hour I did fully surren
der my will to God, my heart has been full of joy
without cessation night and day. I wake up in my
sleep almost shouting. I have had sorrows, verj
bitter ones; I have lost some of the dearest on earth.
But, nevertheless, there has always been song in
my heart. That is the secret of power in prayer—-
to be united to Christ by a living faith and an obe
dient love. Are you?”
The Agony of Sin.
A deep conviction has been a noticeably marked
characteristic of the revival. One day a young man
who was so convicted of sin that he was in agony
of mind and body, went to Drr. Torrey to find re
lief. The evangelist told the incident in a recent
sermon, saying:
“Last night, when I got back to the Majestic
Hotel after the meeting a young fellow was sitting
out on the portico. He sprang up as I went in and
said, ‘Are you Dr. Torrey?’ I said, ‘I am.’ ‘I
want to see you in your room.’ We went up into
my room. He belonged to one of your best families.
He was in awful distress. He said, ‘Excuse me,’
and took off his coat and cuffs. He said, ‘My sis
ters have been praying for me, trying to get me to
gelists have been, person
al work has been one of the distinguishing features
of the campaign.
As a single example of the soul-winning work
over the city, Mr. Alexander told last night of how
a dentist was led to Christ on his knees in his own
parlor. lie said:
“I went to have my teeth fixed a little this af
ternoon, and as soon as I got through I put mv
arms around the dentist, and I said, “You’re a good
dentist; won’t you come to Christ?” He said, 1 1
have been wanting somebody to come here and
speak to me ever since these meetings began.’
They are hungry all over town. A friend and T
TWO DOLL AES A YEAK.
FIVE CENTS A COPY.
the meetings, but I would
not go. Then they got me
to come and take them
home from the meetings,
and finally, on Sunday
night, they got me to go
to the Men’s Meeting.
Your sermon burned into
my soul. L was there
Monday night, last night,
and again tonight, and
heard your sermons on
Hell, ami they have filled
me with wretchedness.
Oh!’ he said, ‘is there any
salvation for me?’ and he
told me the story of his
bondage and ruin. ‘Come
down to the telephone,’ he
said, ‘and telephone my
mother to pray for me;
tell her that I am here
with you.’ I want you to
pray for that young
mai>',” concluded Dr.
Torrey.
When the invitation
was given at the close of
the sermon, among those
who stood up and came to
the front was the young
man of whom Dr. Torrey
had spoken earlier in the
evening.
Here in Atlanta, as ev
erywhere else the evan-
