THE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S where we had two meetings a day, after noon and evening for two straight months, I went around that opening morning to the Royal Albert Hall to look the building over, the meeting was to begin that night at half past seven o’clock, at 11 o’clock in the morning when I reached the place, the people had already begun to gather, and when the meeting was opened at night the place was packed to its utmost capacity and thousands turned away, and that went on for two straight months. One of the London papers commenting on the meetings said, “What a pity that Dr. Torrey wastes his magnificent abil ities in preaching this worn-out theol ogy of the past.” As to this I would say, that I do not take much stock in thè “magnificent abilities”, but I would like to ask, if I had preached anything but the Bible what kind of a crowd would I have had, and how long would it have held together? It was because I preached and taught the Bible and noth ing but the Bible that those crowds gathered through all those weeks and months. The men who are drawing and hold ing the crowds today, especially the crowds of men, are the men who are preaching and teaching the Bible. Be not deceived, the men who are firing off all kinds of pulpit pyrotechnics may get a great deal of notice in the papers, but you go to the places where they preach day after day and month after month, and you will find that the men who draw the crowds and hold the crowds continuously, are the men who believe and preach the Bible. ' i 2. But not only does the Bible teaching and preaching draw as no other preaching and teaching, far more important than that, nothing else blesses like Bible teaching and preach ing. The Bible is, as God says it is, “profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteous ness”. You may interest people With
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Shakespeare, and Tennyson and Brown ing and Tagore, and the rest, but with the Bible you will feed the starving, build up the young converts, reprove, correct, and instruct in righteousness all who need it, save the perishing, com fort the sorrowing, gladden the sad, cheer the despairing, hearten the sol diers who are growing weary in the fight, and “be completely furnished unto every good work.” IV. Live the Bible. There is one more thing we must do with the Bible if we are to be safe in these days of increasing darkness and peril, and if we are to be completely furnished in this time when so many are making shipwreck of their useful ness, We must live the Bible. O young man and woman, as you go out to the work to which God has called you, be a personal incarnation of the Word of God. Preach it by your life as much as, or more than, by your lips. “How can I
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