The Person and Work of The Holy SpiritTorrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer)
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The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer)
Holy Spirit
Young has been fishing to-day.” It turned out that I was right. The man
was the son of a woman who kept a sporting house in a Western city. I
think he had never been in a Protestant service before. Deacon Young had
got hold of him that day on the street and brought him to the meeting. As
I preached the man’s eyes were riveted upon me. When we went down-stairs
to the after meeting, Deacon Young took the man with him. I was late
dealing with the anxious that night. As I finished with the last one about
eleven o’clock, and almost everybody had gone home, Deacon Young came over
to me and said, “I have a man over here I wish you would come and speak
with.” It was this big sporting man. He was deeply agitated. “Oh,” he
groaned, “I don’t know what is the matter with me. I never felt this way
before in all my life,” and he sobbed and shook like a leaf. Then he told
me this story: “I started out this afternoon to go down to Cottage Grove
Avenue to meet some men and spend the afternoon gambling. As I passed by
the park over yonder, some of your young men were holding an open air
meeting and I stopped to listen. I saw one man testifying whom I had known
in a life of sin, and I waited to hear what he had to say. When he
finished I went on down the street. I had not gone far when some strange
power took hold of me and brought me back and I stayed through the
meeting. Then this gentleman spoke to me and brought me over to your
church, to your Yoke Fellows’ Meeting. I stayed to supper with them and he
brought me up to hear you preach, then he brought me down to this
meeting.” Here he stopped and sobbed, “Oh, I don’t know what is the matter
with me. I feel awful. I never felt this way before in all my life,” and
his great frame shook with emotion. “I know what is the matter with you,”
I said. “You are under conviction of sin; the Holy Spirit is dealing with
you,” and I pointed him to Christ, and he knelt down and cried to God for
mercy, to forgive his sins for Christ’s sake.
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