Our 5tew ¿Dean. HE coming of Dr. R. A. Torrey to our Bible Institute marks a new era in the progress of our work. The hand of God has been upon us for good from the beginning. The leading
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of the Lord in connection with all our work has been so manifest and so definite that we cannot doubt His purpose in having for Himself a great Bible University in the City of Los Angeles. When we felt the
years of experi- ence as Dean of the Moody School, the greatest Bible School in the world which he was per- mitted to make great through his untiring e n e r g y and devotion, give him special quali- fications for this new field of labor. Dr. Torreyhas a world-wide repu- tation and acquain- tance and has by his loyalty to the truth ana integ- rity of character, gained the well merited confidence and esteem of the church universal. Dr. Torrey is a man of prayer, and if he had failed in this qualification, all of the others would have lacked the luster which this quality sheds
need and commenced to pray for a Dean we asked of the Lord the best man available for such an import- ant position, but we had not thought that the Lord would give us the biggest as well as the best. Our eyes were not upon men but upon God. When G o d m a k e s a m a n great we ought to re- joice. Dr. Torrey is peculiarly fitted for the important posi- tion for which God has called h i m . A thorough C h r i s t i a n who lives w h a t h e teaches, a ripe schol- ar, a Bible man in the truest sense. He be- lieves the whole Book is inspired of God and he knows the whole Book as few living m e n k n o w i t . He knows how to teach it w i t h u n c t i o n and p o w e r . His many
DR. R. A. TORREY upon t h em. The Institute has been in a peculiar sense a monument of God's faithfulness to men and women who have been incessant in believing prayer, and we are confident that Dr. Torrey's coming to us is in direct answer to our petitions to God to choose for us his own man. It has been my privilege and pleasure to know Dr. Torrey for many years. He is a man with like passions with the rest of us, but he is a true man of God with the seal of God's approval upon a long life of faithful service in which he has had to fight the good fight in his unswerving loyalty to the old Book, and I take great pleasure in felicitating the institute upon its good fortune, and the city and state upon this splendid acquisition to its religious forces. We welcome Dr. Torrey with alloui hearts to the fellowship of the Institute and assure him that at no period of his life has he been permitted to enjoy a fellowship sweeter and holier than that which awaits him in the Bible Insti- tute of Los Angeles. In faith we predict that if our Lord should tarry yet a little season our work of faith and labor of love shall by His grace produce an institution for Christ- ian workers, and a radiating center for all forms of Christian activity second to nonew
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