Evangelists and Laymen
Join to
Drive Devil from Chicago
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Chicago.—A strenuous effort is un
der way to make this city too hot for
his Satanic majesty, the devil. If the
campaign inaugurated is successful
the forces of evil will retreat before
the- onward march of a victorious
army whose slogan is civic purity and
whose emblem is the banner of Christ.
Rev. Dr. R. A. Torrey, whose singu
larly successful career as an evangel
ist has encompassed practically every
nation and every country of the globe
within the past few years, is the gen
eral in command of the campaign. Be
hind him and the ministers who are
joined with him in the effort to drive
sin from Chicago is.what is known
as t-he Layman’s Evangelistic council,
a body made up of business men of
Chicago, many of them prominent in
financial, commercial and industrial
circles. It is a business men's move
ment, backed financially and morally
by substantial and successful laymen
who believe in the efficacy of Chris
tianity.
Being a business men's movement,
the campaign has thus far been car
ried on in a businesslike manner. The
opponents of Satan, who are seeking
to wrest Chicago from the grip of the
evil one, have provided a big Gospel
tent, heated by steam, radiators being
run into the building and connected
with a near-by plant. The tent is
guaranteed to seat 12,500 persons.
It is doubtful w'hether such a com
prehensive campaign against sin in all
its hideous aspects has been under
taken in Chicago since the days of
Dwight L. Moody. It is possible that
the present Gospel campaign may
reach proportions beyond anything of
the kind ever undertaken in this
city.
Rev. Dr. Torrey is an experienced
evangelist. He is practically fresh
from his experiences in an around-the
world trip which astounded everybody
in the amount of interest created, and
in the results which followed the brief
engagements of himself and his assist
ant, C. M. Alexander, who is now on
another trip around the world, neces
sitated by the illness of the great Gos
pel singer's wife, but made profitable
from a moral standpoint by evangel
istic work.
Dr. Torrey, before he started on his
evangelistic tour of the world, was
pastor of the Moody church in this
city, and superintendent of the Moody
Institute for a number of years. He
was closely associated wfith Mr. Moody
and managed the world's campaign of
that illustrious evangelist.
It was during the eight years in
which Dr. Torrey was pastor of the
Moody church that he acquired the
basis of his reputation as an evangel
ist. As he himself describes it, he
was always an “evangelist pastor.”
Each year of his pastorate was a con
tinuous revival campaign. Especially
was religious fervor induced during
the summer months. During the last
year of his pastorate over 2,000 per
sons embraced the faith of Christ
and joined his church. In addition to
these there were many more who
were converted to a better life, and who
united with other churches but of
whom no actual count was kept.
Dr. Torrey himself is a most inter
esting personality. He was born in
Hoboken, N. Y., January 3, 1856.
Early in life his father, who was a
prominent Democratic politician, lo
cated in Brooklyn, N. Y., and in that
city, adjacent to Mew York, with the
metropolis affording an excellent
schacl for the study of life conditions,
the present evangelist was reared.
^ The connections of his father, who
1 for years was collector of internal rev
enue in Brooklyn, and who was such a
power in the prevailing politics of that
city that he was tendered, but refused,
a nomination for the mayoralty, which
was tantamount to an election, gave
Dr. Torrey other ample means of
learning by personal contact of the
great realities of life.
Dr. Torrey was educated at Yale,
from which institution he holds two
degrees, the first being taken when
he graduated at the age of 19. He is
one of the two last men to graduate
from that famous institution at such
a youthful age, the limit being raised
to affect the graduating class of the
year following his degree. Later he
went to Berlin and Leipsic, where he
studied for four years. Returning to
America he entered the ministry, and
in 1894 came to join Moody in Chi
cago.
After the death of that beloved min
ister and evangelist Dr. Torrey re
mained in charge of the work until
1902, when he began his career as a
world evangelist. His first cosmopoli
tan campaign was held in Japan in
| that year, and in the month he was j
there 1,000 conversions of natives j
were recorded. About the same num
; ber embraced the teachings of Christ
I during the month he spent in China.
! In both of these countries, as well as
j in all others where a different lan
I guage than English is generally spok
en, Dr. Torrey addressed his audi- '
ences through an interpreter.
From China Dr. Torrey and his
companion. Mr. Alexander, went to
Australia, where they preached and
sang the Gospel in nearly every city
of prominence. They were one month
in Melbourne, and in that time 50
meetings were held and 8,642 pro
fessed Christianity and had their
names enrolled as among those saved
from reckless and unthinking living
through the power of God, shown
through Dr. Torrey and Mr. Alexander.
Similar results were produced in Syd
ney and the three leading cities of
New Zealand, and Tasmania was
awakened as well.
The next step in the world cam
paign undertaken by Torrey and Al
exander was England, where all the
principal cities were visited, and serv
ices conducted in halls seating not
less than 5,000 persons. Three months
spent in Liverpool resulted in the con
version of 12,500 persons. In London,
at Royal Albert hall, which was se
cured for the meetings, the evangelists
remained two months. The hall seat
ed 10,000 and accommodated 2,000
more, standing. This hall was filled
every afternoon and evening, special
meetings for men and women being
held, so that those who flocked to
hear the evangelists might be better
accommodated. But, as it was, as
many were turned away from every
service as gained admission.
In Birmingham where there was a
seating capacity of 8,000 with room
for 2,000 more standing, thousands
were turned away from every service
and the campaign attracted so many
people that the services of the mounted
police were necessary to keep the
crowds in check. In one month 7,700
people were converted.
In one day during the Liverpool
campaign, which was the greatest
single day of the crusade in England,
220 women professed conversion at
the afternoon meeting, and 440 men
at the evening service. In the world's
campaign of Torrey and Alexander
j 102,000 persons whose names and ad
' dresses were recorded professed Chris
I tlanity. They occupied positions in
life all the way from earls to "bums.”
In London, especially, royalty became
interested in the movement and at
tended the meetings at Royal Albert
hall, and many a coroneted head
bowed at the altar in complete surren
der to the Master whom Dr. Torrey
feels he is serving in his most useful
capacity.
The campaign in Berlin was inter
esting in that Count Wiebohn and
Count Bernsdorf, two of the best
known and most respected members
of the German nobility, acted as in
terpreters for Dr. Torrey. Dr. Torrey
himself is a fluent German speaker,
and often addressed his meetings in
Berlin in the tongue of the fatherland,
but usually one of the two counts
was present to give the proper inter
pretation of the words of the evangel
ist in a manner that would be tho
most effective with the audience.
Dr. Torrey has spent much of the
time since his return from the world
tour in evangelistic work in this coun
try. In some respects he believes
that Sunday, March 17, of the present
year was one of the most remarkable
days he ever witnessed. He was hold
ing evangelistic services in Buffalo.
There were three meetings, one for
women, one for men and boys, and the
third for men only. At the meeting
for young men and boys 702, ranging
in ageTrom 15 to 35 years, came for
ward and professed Christianity.
Bishop Berry, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, who was present at
this service, said to Dr. Torrey: "I
never saw such a sight before. This
is Pentecost.”
In all there were 1,002 conversions
in Buffalo that day.
Such, in brief, is the evangelistic
history of the man who has been se
cured to head the laymen's movement
to “drive the devil from Chicago.”
With the record of accomplishment
which Dr. Torrey has, and with the
interest that already has developed in
these remarkable evangelistic meet
ings, there is every reason to believe
that what the laymen’s council ex
pects will come true, and that, before
the end of next month Chicago will
have had a religious awakening such
as it never has experienced.
An idea of the businesslike meth
ods with which this remarkable cam
paign is being pursued is manifested
in the posters which advertise the
meetings. They are printed on yel
low cardboard in black and red ink.
The word "Sin” appears in large red
letters at the top of the poster. The
top two lines read:
“What Sin Costs Chicago.”
Beneath, in black type, with a red
ruled border, appear these state
ments:
“Thousands of lives every year.
“Millions of dollars to suppress
crime.
“Hundreds of widows and orphans
caused by drink and crime.
“Thousands of girls led astray.
“Thousands of boys arrested for
crime.
“Hundreds of insane and suicides.
“Dozens of women assaulted.”
In a circle with a red background
near the bottom of the poster appears
the slogan:
“To Win Men to Christ.”
At the bottom of the poster, in large
black type, is the war cry:
“Help Drive Sin Prom Chicago."
“Are you not aggravated at times
by these men who profess an interest
in your meetings for the sole purpose
of getting money for their present
needs?” was asked Dr. Torrey.
“Indeed, no,” he answered. “Some
of the most steadfast of the converts
I have made in my evangelistic cam
paigns have been the filthiest, appar
ently the most hopeless, specimens of
humanity upon whom your eyes ever
rested.
“There was one man. a particular
case. He hung around the Moody In
stitute for three years. He was a
drunkard and one of the kind who ap
parently had lost every atom of man
hood and responsibility. He once
nearly killed his wife while on a
drunken spree. He used to come
here and work every possible pretext
for getting money with which to buy
drink.
“We kept him going, among us, for
almost three years. We knew he was
'working' us, but we thought we would
be able to change him into another
man. Finally the case appeared al
most hopeless. I was in despair, and
after an especially flagrant breach of
good faith on his part I told God that
if He ever gave me another soul I
wanted that man. Soon after he be
gan to change. To-day he is honest,
respected, occupies a high place in the
business world, and is one of the most
earnest and capable Christian workers
in the entire city of Chicago.”
“Is the devil more at home in Chi
cago than in any other city with
which you are familiar?” Dr. Torrey
was asked.
Without hesitation he answered:
“No.”
“What do you consider the most
wicked city in the world?”
“San Francisco was,” he replied
without reservation. “It may be im
proved now. But there was so much
room for improvement. The cities of
the orient, where cosmopolitan crowds
mingle with the natives, are ordi
narily the worst. Some of the cities
of Japan and India, where Americans,
Englishmen and others of the Anglo
Saxon races are located in colonies,
are without question the wickedest
places of which 1 have knowledge.”
Dr. Torrey and the ministers and
laymen associated with him in the
present crusade do not expect to exile
his Satanic majesty entirely from
Chicago: not yet. They have hopes
for the future. But just at present
they expect to make Chicago so warm
for sin of every description that the
devil will be content to go home for a
vacation.
PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY
From stereograph, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.
New photograph of President and Mrs. Roosevelt and their family taken
at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, this summer. Reading from left to right, they
are: Kermit, Archie, the president, Ethel, Mrs. Roosevelt, Quentin, youngest
son and Theodore, Jr.
Woman Builds a House.
ERECTS NINE-ROOM STRUCTURE
IN KANSAS CITY UNAIDED.
Plans Also of Her Own Making—Hired
a Four-Dollar-a-Day Carpenter, But
Found That He Botched
Things.
Kansas City, Mo.—Miss Lillie M.
Johnson has completed and moved
into a nine-room house at No. 2848
North Eighth street, and she says with
pride: "I built it all myself, except
a little bit of botched work done by a
four-dollar-a-day carpenter.”
Miss Johnson began work on her
house in the fall following the flood
in the Kaw valley in 1906. She was a
Salvation Army worker in Armourdale
at the time of the flood. She lost
everything except seven dollars. She
went to a real estate firm and arrang
ed to buy on payments the 100 feet of
ground on which her house stands.
The first payment was $20, but she
was allowed to take the ground on the
promise that she would pay the
amount in 30 days. She kept her
promise.
After the ground was secured she
started canvassing for a medicated
soap firm and soon made enough to
fence the ground. The cold weather
forced her to seek indoor work. Then
she began wrapping candles in a fac
tory.
In May, 1904, Miss Johnson built a
two-room box-house, doing all the
work herself and getting the lumber
on easy payments. After moving into
her new home she received two wom
en as boarders. She was able, by the
first of July, to buy a cow. She sold
the milk, and with her earnings bought
an incubator.
Then she reared 50 chickens, hop
ing to make a payment on the ground.
She penned up the “springs” to fatten
them, but a thief stole them. Then
Miss Johnson found herself facing a
payment without the necessary money.
However, her resources were not ex
hausted. She began taking in wash
ing. Through these various means
she paid for the lot.
But Miss Johnson was not. satisfied.
She must enlarge her house. She
graded her lot with a spade and
wheelbarrow, laid the foundation, put
up the frames, roofed, boxed and
weather-boarded the addition.
But she was forced to hire a car
penter to make her window frames.
She has finished the entire interior of
the house, laying the floors, lathing,
plastering and papering the walls.
The plans of the house were made by
her and many original ideas have en
tered into it. She has a large cup
board in the dining-room, which ex
tends along one whole side of the
room. This cupboard has compart
ments for all the cooking necessities,
flour, coffee, tea and spices and a
large shelf for displaying dishes.
In her living room Miss Johnson has
a bay window fitted up as a conserva
tory. In this she has many beautiful
plants.
The grounds about the house are
well kept. A large grape arbor, fruit
trees and flower beds with the blue
grass lawn make the place attractive.
‘‘How did I learn to do carpenter
work? Why, I just found I could do it,
when I built my little two-room box
house, and I determined to try my
hand on something better,” Miss
Johnson said.
“I had only three tools when I
started out—a hammer, hatchet and
saw. As I made more money I was
able to buy more tools, till now I have
a complete set.
“I hope to finish painting the house
this fall, and when I get the porch
columns in place in the spring the
ranch will be finished. And I’ll bet no
passer-by would know that a woman
built it.”
COLLECTS BUTTONS 40 YEARS.
Aged Man Who Has Gathered 80,000
Specimens Dies.
Reading Cal.—John C. Hepler, super
intendent of Charles Evans’ cemetery,
died here, aged 78 years. While a well
known and highly respected citizen,
his chief claim to fame rested on the
fact that he was one of the best known
button collectors in the world. Hep
ler’s collection numbers 80,000 but
tons, and there are no duplicates. He
began this peculiar fad over 40 years
ago.
The collection starts with the cheap,
humble shirt button, next the trousers
button and so on to the expensive but
tons on women's dresses, and finally,
through a long list, to the military but
tons of all the nations of the world.
Mr. Hepler knew the history of
many of the gems in his collection.
Some were secured through friends
visiting or living abroad, and among
his collection are buttons once worn
by royalty.
The 80,000 buttons are all classified
and systematically arranged. In de
sign or color they are all different, and
Mr. Hepler loved to tell how the dif
ferent ones he prized came into his
possession.
Candidates Are So Polite.
Each Wears the Campaign Button of
His Opponent.
Hackensack, N. J.—Brotherly love
and the Golden Rule are the principal
planks in the platforms of both par
ties in Cliffside, where the contest
for mayor is being waged with a
politeness that has assumed Chester
fieldian proportions.
Maj. S. Wood McClave, the Repub
lican candidate, and Warren E. Sam
mis, his Democratic opponent, are as
well known in New York as they are
in Bergen county. Mr. McClave, a
son of the late Police Commissioner
McClave, has an extensive lumber
business. With his ten children, two
of them famous football players at
Princeton, he occupies a fine old man
sion at Edgewater Heights, N. J. Mr.
Sammis is a lawyer, with a fine old
home across the road from his op
ponent. He is still nine behind Mr.
McClave in the family line.
Lawyer Sammis appeared at a
smoker the other evening wearing a
McClave button. Lumberman Mc
Clave at the present moment has a
Sammis smile stowed away on his
coat lapel. Close friends of both de
clare that each will vote for the other.
Lithographs of each adorn the tele
graph poles and dead walls, hanging
side by side in perfect contentment.1
When a Sammis and a McClave man
meet they extend both hands wide
open.
"McClave would make a splendid
mayor,” say the Sammis men earn'
estly.
"Sammis is good enough for us,”
reply the McClave men gallantly.
Catch of Seals Low.
Victoria, B. C.—The sealing catch of
this season is the lowest on record and
is about one-third that of last year.
Last year 17 schooners took 9,645
skins. This year 15 schooners will take
about 3,500, to which are to be added
38 sea otter skins, as compared with
13 taken the previous year.
The average Behring sea catch Is
250, as compared with 504 last season.
The schooner Victoria, which re
turned from Behring sea with 443
skins, reported the other eight schoon
ers still absent.
A Big Difference.
Diogenes—What is the difference be
tween a plain, downwright burglar and
these financiers who wreck big insti
tutions?
Cynicus—A great difference, my
friend. The burglar blows up good,
useful safes, and just takes the money.
The financial wrecker merely unlocks
the safe, takes the money, and puts
the loot on the books as assets.
best ever Witten
PRESCRIPTION WHICH ANYONE
CAN EASILY MIX,
Said to Promptly Overcome Kidnev
and Bladder Afflictions—Shake
Simple Ingredients Well
in Bottle.
Mix the following by shaking well
In a bottle, and take in teaspoon^
doses after meals and at bedtime
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla three
ounces. A prominent physician is the
authority that these simple, harmless
ingredients can be obtained at. nom
Inal cost from any druggist even in
the smaller towns. n
The mixture is said to cleanse and
strengthen the clogged and inactive
Kidneys, overcoming Backache, niad
der weakness and Urinary trouble of
all kinds, if taken before the stage of
Bright's disease. 1
Those who have tried this sayitpog.
Itively overcomes pain in the back
clears the urine of sediment and regm
lates urination, especially at night,
curing even the worst forms of blad
der weakness.
Every man or woman here who feels
that the kidneys are not strong or act
ing in a healthy manner should mix
this prescription at home and give it
a trial, as it is said to do wonders for
many persons.
The Scranton (Pa.) Times was first
to print this remarkable prescription,
in October, of 1906, since when all the
leading newspapers of New York, Bos
ton, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other
cities have made many announcements
of it to their readers.
Grieg as a Schoolboy.
Grieg was not a pattern schoolboy.
In a description of his days at school
he wrote: "Knowing that by arriving
late I would not be allowed to enter
the class until the end of the first
lesson, I used, on wet mornings, to
stand under a dripping roof, until I was
soaked to the skin. The master then
sent me home to change my clothes,
but the distance being long this was
equivalent to giving me a dispensa
tion! You may guess that I played
this prank pretty often, but when at
last I carried it so far as to come one
day wet through, though it had hardly
rained at all, they became suspicious,
and kept a lookout. One fine day I
was caught, and made an intimate ac
quaintance with the birch!”
Liquor She Floated In.
On their arrival in New Zealand,
according to London Tit-Bits, a party
of English people drank the health of
the vessel which had brought them
safely to their destination. One of the
gentlemen who was asked to join in
this ceremony replied: ‘No. I am ?.
teetotaller; but I’ll willingly drink suc
cess to the ship in the liquor she
floats in.” A friend disappeared and
returned with a glass of water. After
a complimentary apostrophe to the
ship, the recipient tossed the water
off at once, but immediately splut
tered: "Ugh—ah—oh—this is—oh—
what on earth is this?” "That?" said
his friend. “Why, you’ve drunk success
to our noble ship in the identical
liquor she floats in.”
Terms That Seem Strange.
There are many puzzling differences
between Scottish and English law
terms. For instance, bankruptcy is
in Scotland “an act of sequestration,"
a solicitor is either a “writer" or a
“law agent,” the argument in a case
is the "debate,” and assizes is the
jury, a wrongdoer is a “delinquent,1 an
idiot—in Scottish law—is a fatuous
person,” and a burglary is (with true
Scottish caution), “housebreaking
with an aggravation.” Finally, an au
thor is, in Scotland, not a person who
writes, but the vender or seller of real
property, from whom the title to it
is derived.
Mutilate Art Treasures.
Authorities who have in charge
some of England's ancient treasures
try to discourage the habit of canrmg
initials on these relics. A fine of B
was recently imposed on a man w
had chipped his name in letters six
inches high on one of the stones in t
“Druids’ Circle” near Keswick, u
to the giant stone globe at Swanag
a special slab is provided for
harmless reception of the names o
■who are addicted to this self-.id'• r
ment. On popular Alpine summits
names are left on cards in emi
wine bottles.
Will Not Supply Pigs
Bacon curers are usually amon
most prosperous firms in l>o laa '
they have had to warn the la met.
throughout the north not to ,
more pigs until the strikes a‘e » ’
for it is impossible to handle
casses. Business has thus been '
ed to other Irish bacon-curing ce t
although the majority of.faim d are
simply respited their pigs ^
making no attempt to supp . ^
ket. Danish bacon factories
profit.—London Standard.
But He Wasn’t Hired. #
Senator Frank B. Brandage ^ #
story of a man who wanted ^
trolley car conductor. it,*Pjiigent,
looked hearty, polite^ and / barn8
and the manager of the • ^ a
seemed to think well of 11 •' ,‘uanager
number of questions - ^ire?’
said: ‘Well, what pay do o ^ ^
The applicant gave a lo«d >nd
he dug the manager pay,
said: ‘Oh. never mind about ^
boss, just give me th .
have a ear of my own in a we
two.’”—Kansas City Stai.
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