English· 05:32:14· 112 chapters
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)
LibriVox recordings are public domain in the United States; copyright status may differ elsewhere.
Chapters
- Chapter 1
Publisher's Note
01:52 - Chapter 2
A Deacon Who Went Fishing on Sunday
03:36 - Chapter 3
An Infidel Converted beside a Coffin
04:29 - Chapter 4
The Holy Spirit's Power to Convict of Sin
02:05 - Chapter 5
Saved at Ninety-two
01:36 - Chapter 6
Do You Believe That, Sir?
03:01 - Chapter 7
A Deep Spiritual Concern for Your Soul
02:59 - Chapter 8
How the Devil Got Us an Audience
01:47 - Chapter 9
The Meanest Thief in Minneapolis
03:22 - Chapter 10
Forgiven by Both Fathers
06:07 - Chapter 11
No Greater Joy
02:20 - Chapter 12
A Converted Jewess
02:25 - Chapter 13
The Greatest Sin a Man Can Possibly Commit
03:55 - Chapter 14
An Angry Father Converted
01:47 - Chapter 15
The Other Half of the Gospel
05:04 - Chapter 16
God Uses a Weak Instmment
02:11 - Chapter 17
How the Sun Burst Through the Clouds
01:49 - Chapter 18
Saved and Healed
01:59 - Chapter 19
"All Things Working Together for Good"
01:29 - Chapter 20
God is Love
03:39 - Chapter 21
First Sober Christmas in Ten Years
01:41 - Chapter 22
Three Silver Dollars
04:12 - Chapter 23
Prayer Answered on the Other Side of the Globe
03:21 - Chapter 24
A Prayer Fifteen Years Long
05:56 - Chapter 25
An Opportunity Lost Forever
03:58 - Chapter 26
A Child's Prayer Answered
02:23 - Chapter 27
The President of a Racing Association Converted
01:47 - Chapter 28
A Little Child Shall Lead Them
01:28 - Chapter 29
Saved Five Minutes
01:29 - Chapter 30
Never be Discouraged
01:14 - Chapter 31
Converted by President Wolsey's Singing
01:18 - Chapter 32
"If Any Man be in Christ Jesus, He is a New Creature"
01:59 - Chapter 33
"Give Me Back My Tears "
02:45 - Chapter 34
Conquered by Compassion
03:06 - Chapter 35
The Curse Coming Home
01:59 - Chapter 36
Big Interest
02:20 - Chapter 37
I Have Seen One of Those Before
01:42 - Chapter 38
Rescued
04:17 - Chapter 39
''I Will Feel for a Man''
01:58 - Chapter 40
"I Have Committed a Sin for Which There is No Forgiveness"
02:59 - Chapter 41
Isaiah Fifty-three Six
02:45 - Chapter 42
"I Lied to You, Sir''
02:33 - Chapter 43
A Letter from Stillwater Prison
01:41 - Chapter 44
How to Reach a Son in a Distant Land
01:57 - Chapter 45
A Music Hall Singer Converted
01:37 - Chapter 46
A Would-be Suicide Saved by Prayer
01:57 - Chapter 47
Last Opportunity Thrown Away
01:18 - Chapter 48
God Save My Papa
04:01 - Chapter 49
Saved in a Theatre
03:37 - Chapter 50
Despondency Changed into Abounding Joy
02:35 - Chapter 51
Show Me Myself
03:33 - Chapter 52
Fighting Whiskey
02:29 - Chapter 53
Infidelity and Licentiousness
01:00 - Chapter 54
A Theological Professor Doing the Devil's Work
01:06 - Chapter 55
Persistence Pays
02:08 - Chapter 56
Won by a Smile
01:19 - Chapter 57
Could Not Get over Her Father's Life
02:15 - Chapter 58
Converted at Nine Years of Age
03:21 - Chapter 59
Are You a Murderer?
04:40 - Chapter 60
Insulting God
02:19 - Chapter 61
Waiting for an Opportunity
04:39 - Chapter 62
Lost through Delay
03:49 - Chapter 63
Jolly, but Wretched
02:46 - Chapter 64
A Bartender's Jest
01:36 - Chapter 65
"I Want to Wait a Little Longer"
01:39 - Chapter 66
Sold Her Soul for One Dance
02:02 - Chapter 67
I Am an Infidel
01:43 - Chapter 68
The Champion Heavy Weight Pugilist Converted
02:25 - Chapter 69
The Spirit Illumined the Face of Jesus
01:19 - Chapter 70
Satisfied
02:04 - Chapter 71
I Don't Know Him
02:02 - Chapter 72
Won by Love
02:33 - Chapter 73
Two Lawyers Convinced
03:10 - Chapter 74
Lost by Neglect
04:53 - Chapter 75
The Holy Ghost Fell upon Us
02:39 - Chapter 76
An Untutored Savage Silences a Man of Science
02:15 - Chapter 77
Worth More Than a Bank Account
04:33 - Chapter 78
Whom the Lord Loveth He Chasteneth
01:39 - Chapter 79
"I Am a Scoundrel''
02:34 - Chapter 80
"Earth has no Sorrow That Jesus Cannot Heal"
03:29 - Chapter 81
Hunted to Death by Her Own Conscience
02:58 - Chapter 82
Only Two Boys
05:14 - Chapter 83
A Lost Diamond
04:05 - Chapter 84
''We Shall Be Like Him''
06:08 - Chapter 85
Killed by Shame
03:33 - Chapter 86
A Well-Known Entertainer Becomes a Soul Winner
03:44 - Chapter 87
Guilty of High Treason
03:27 - Chapter 88
How D. L. Moody Became a World-Wide Evangelist
04:46 - Chapter 89
Of Course There's a Hell
03:01 - Chapter 90
"I Have Heard the Biggest Joke"
04:30 - Chapter 91
"The Fire is in the Fifth Story, I'm in the Sixth''
05:43 - Chapter 92
Love Conquered
04:39 - Chapter 93
God Silences a Scoffer
08:58 - Chapter 94
"Is Not God's Word as Good as Mine?"
03:55 - Chapter 95
"God Use This Stammering Tongue"
01:39 - Chapter 96
Give Me a Love for Souls
01:38 - Chapter 97
Pray Through
02:37 - Chapter 98
Which are You Like?
07:05 - Chapter 99
"If I Could Only Have Saved Just One More"
06:36 - Chapter 100
God Does Give the Holy Spirit in Answer to Prayer
05:23 - Chapter 101
"I Can Hardly Wait''
04:03 - Chapter 102
How Men Become Infidels
01:49 - Chapter 103
"I Wish I Were a Christian"
03:01 - Chapter 104
"I Cannot Believe the Bible Because I am a Scientist''
02:25 - Chapter 105
There is but a Step Between Me and Death
01:44 - Chapter 106
"I Thought of My Mother"
02:18 - Chapter 107
God Won't Take Me Away Without Giving Me Another Chance
01:34 - Chapter 108
"There Will be no Dance To-Night"
02:00 - Chapter 109
An Infidel Professor Converted
01:29 - Chapter 110
Common Stones Turned into Diamonds
02:24 - Chapter 111
No Pilot Ready
01:41 - Chapter 112
"The Harvest is Past, the Summer is Ended, and I am not Saved''
06:43