Anecdotes and Illustrations
Reuben Archer Torrey
112 chapters · 5 h 32 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, downeaster, ShrimpPhish, Julie Anne Thompson, Al Kimball, Scott Cheatham and others
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R.A. Torrey was an influential preacher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who worked with D.L. Moody and founded what is now Biola University in southern California. His preaching was extensive and evangelistic. He also authored over 40 books. This is a collection of over a hundred of his favorite brief stories an illustrations that made his sermons so powerful in connecting with his audiences. (Summary by Larry Wilson)
Chapters
1 Publisher's Note 2 min 2 A Deacon Who Went Fishing on Sunday 4 min 3 An Infidel Converted beside a Coffin 4 min 4 The Holy Spirit's Power to Convict of Sin 2 min 5 Saved at Ninety-two 2 min 6 Do You Believe That, Sir? 3 min 7 A Deep Spiritual Concern for Your Soul 3 min 8 How the Devil Got Us an Audience 2 min 9 The Meanest Thief in Minneapolis 3 min 10 Forgiven by Both Fathers 6 min 11 No Greater Joy 2 min 12 A Converted Jewess 2 min 13 The Greatest Sin a Man Can Possibly Commit 4 min 14 An Angry Father Converted 2 min 15 The Other Half of the Gospel 5 min 16 God Uses a Weak Instmment 2 min 17 How the Sun Burst Through the Clouds 2 min 18 Saved and Healed 2 min 19 All Things Working Together for Good 1 min 20 God is Love 4 min 21 First Sober Christmas in Ten Years 2 min 22 Three Silver Dollars 4 min 23 Prayer Answered on the Other Side of the Globe 3 min 24 A Prayer Fifteen Years Long 6 min 25 An Opportunity Lost Forever 4 min 26 A Child's Prayer Answered 2 min 27 The President of a Racing Association Converted 2 min 28 A Little Child Shall Lead Them 1 min 29 Saved Five Minutes 1 min 30 Never be Discouraged 1 min 31 Converted by President Wolsey's Singing 1 min 32 If Any Man be in Christ Jesus, He is a New Creature 2 min 33 Give Me Back My Tears 3 min 34 Conquered by Compassion 3 min 35 The Curse Coming Home 2 min 36 Big Interest 2 min 37 I Have Seen One of Those Before 2 min 38 Rescued 4 min 39 ''I Will Feel for a Man'' 2 min 40 I Have Committed a Sin for Which There is No Forgiveness 3 min 41 Isaiah Fifty-three Six 3 min 42 "I Lied to You, Sir'' 3 min 43 A Letter from Stillwater Prison 2 min 44 How to Reach a Son in a Distant Land 2 min 45 A Music Hall Singer Converted 2 min 46 A Would-be Suicide Saved by Prayer 2 min 47 Last Opportunity Thrown Away 1 min 48 God Save My Papa 4 min 49 Saved in a Theatre 4 min 50 Despondency Changed into Abounding Joy 3 min 51 Show Me Myself 4 min 52 Fighting Whiskey 2 min 53 Infidelity and Licentiousness 1 min 54 A Theological Professor Doing the Devil's Work 1 min 55 Persistence Pays 2 min 56 Won by a Smile 1 min 57 Could Not Get over Her Father's Life 2 min 58 Converted at Nine Years of Age 3 min 59 Are You a Murderer? 5 min 60 Insulting God 2 min 61 Waiting for an Opportunity 5 min 62 Lost through Delay 4 min 63 Jolly, but Wretched 3 min 64 A Bartender's Jest 2 min 65 I Want to Wait a Little Longer 2 min 66 Sold Her Soul for One Dance 2 min 67 I Am an Infidel 2 min 68 The Champion Heavy Weight Pugilist Converted 2 min 69 The Spirit Illumined the Face of Jesus 1 min 70 Satisfied 2 min 71 I Don't Know Him 2 min 72 Won by Love 3 min 73 Two Lawyers Convinced 3 min 74 Lost by Neglect 5 min 75 The Holy Ghost Fell upon Us 3 min 76 An Untutored Savage Silences a Man of Science 2 min 77 Worth More Than a Bank Account 5 min 78 Whom the Lord Loveth He Chasteneth 2 min 79 "I Am a Scoundrel'' 3 min 80 Earth has no Sorrow That Jesus Cannot Heal 3 min 81 Hunted to Death by Her Own Conscience 3 min 82 Only Two Boys 5 min 83 A Lost Diamond 4 min 84 ''We Shall Be Like Him'' 6 min 85 Killed by Shame 4 min 86 A Well-Known Entertainer Becomes a Soul Winner 4 min 87 Guilty of High Treason 3 min 88 How D. L. Moody Became a World-Wide Evangelist 5 min 89 Of Course There's a Hell 3 min 90 I Have Heard the Biggest Joke 4 min 91 "The Fire is in the Fifth Story, I'm in the Sixth'' 6 min 92 Love Conquered 5 min 93 God Silences a Scoffer 9 min 94 Is Not God's Word as Good as Mine? 4 min 95 God Use This Stammering Tongue 2 min 96 Give Me a Love for Souls 2 min 97 Pray Through 3 min 98 Which are You Like? 7 min 99 If I Could Only Have Saved Just One More 7 min 100 God Does Give the Holy Spirit in Answer to Prayer 5 min 101 "I Can Hardly Wait'' 4 min 102 How Men Become Infidels 2 min 103 I Wish I Were a Christian 3 min 104 "I Cannot Believe the Bible Because I am a Scientist'' 2 min 105 There is but a Step Between Me and Death 2 min 106 I Thought of My Mother 2 min 107 God Won't Take Me Away Without Giving Me Another Chance 2 min 108 There Will be no Dance To-Night 2 min 109 An Infidel Professor Converted 1 min 110 Common Stones Turned into Diamonds 2 min 111 No Pilot Ready 2 min 112 "The Harvest is Past, the Summer is Ended, and I am not Saved'' 7 min
