Anecdotes and Illustrations
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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)
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| Publisher's Note | 1:52 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson | |
| A Deacon Who Went Fishing on Sunday | 3:36 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson | |
| An Infidel Converted beside a Coffin | 4:29 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson | |
| The Holy Spirit's Power to Convict of Sin | 2:05 | Gelesen von downeaster | |
| Saved at Ninety-two | 1:36 | Gelesen von downeaster | |
| Do You Believe That, Sir? | 3:01 | Gelesen von downeaster | |
| A Deep Spiritual Concern for Your Soul | 2:59 | Gelesen von downeaster | |
| How the Devil Got Us an Audience | 1:47 | Gelesen von downeaster | |
| The Meanest Thief in Minneapolis | 3:22 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Forgiven by Both Fathers | 6:07 | Gelesen von Julie Anne Thompson | |
| No Greater Joy | 2:20 | Gelesen von Julie Anne Thompson | |
| A Converted Jewess | 2:25 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| The Greatest Sin a Man Can Possibly Commit | 3:55 | Gelesen von Julie Anne Thompson | |
| An Angry Father Converted | 1:47 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| The Other Half of the Gospel | 5:04 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| God Uses a Weak Instmment | 2:11 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| How the Sun Burst Through the Clouds | 1:49 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Saved and Healed | 1:59 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "All Things Working Together for Good" | 1:29 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| God is Love | 3:39 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson | |
| First Sober Christmas in Ten Years | 1:41 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson | |
| Three Silver Dollars | 4:12 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson | |
| Prayer Answered on the Other Side of the Globe | 3:21 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| A Prayer Fifteen Years Long | 5:56 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| An Opportunity Lost Forever | 3:58 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| A Child's Prayer Answered | 2:22 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| The President of a Racing Association Converted | 1:47 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| A Little Child Shall Lead Them | 1:28 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Saved Five Minutes | 1:28 | Gelesen von Scott Cheatham | |
| Never be Discouraged | 1:14 | Gelesen von Scott Cheatham | |
| Converted by President Wolsey's Singing | 1:18 | Gelesen von Scott Cheatham | |
| "If Any Man be in Christ Jesus, He is a New Creature" | 1:59 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| "Give Me Back My Tears " | 2:45 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Conquered by Compassion | 3:05 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| The Curse Coming Home | 1:59 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Big Interest | 2:19 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| I Have Seen One of Those Before | 1:42 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Rescued | 4:16 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| ''I Will Feel for a Man'' | 1:58 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| "I Have Committed a Sin for Which There is No Forgiveness" | 2:59 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Isaiah Fifty-three Six | 2:45 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "I Lied to You, Sir'' | 2:32 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| A Letter from Stillwater Prison | 1:41 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| How to Reach a Son in a Distant Land | 1:56 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| A Music Hall Singer Converted | 1:37 | Gelesen von Belinda McReynolds | |
| A Would-be Suicide Saved by Prayer | 1:57 | Gelesen von Belinda McReynolds | |
| Last Opportunity Thrown Away | 1:17 | Gelesen von Belinda McReynolds | |
| God Save My Papa | 4:01 | Gelesen von Belinda McReynolds | |
| Saved in a Theatre | 3:37 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Despondency Changed into Abounding Joy | 2:35 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Show Me Myself | 3:32 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Fighting Whiskey | 2:28 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Infidelity and Licentiousness | 0:59 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| A Theological Professor Doing the Devil's Work | 1:06 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Persistence Pays | 2:08 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Won by a Smile | 1:19 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Could Not Get over Her Father's Life | 2:14 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Converted at Nine Years of Age | 3:21 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Are You a Murderer? | 4:40 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Insulting God | 2:18 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Waiting for an Opportunity | 4:39 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Lost through Delay | 3:49 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| Jolly, but Wretched | 2:45 | Gelesen von ShrimpPhish | |
| A Bartender's Jest | 1:36 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "I Want to Wait a Little Longer" | 1:39 | Gelesen von Patty H | |
| Sold Her Soul for One Dance | 2:01 | Gelesen von Patty H | |
| I Am an Infidel | 1:43 | Gelesen von Patty H | |
| The Champion Heavy Weight Pugilist Converted | 2:25 | Gelesen von Patty H | |
| The Spirit Illumined the Face of Jesus | 1:18 | Gelesen von Patty H | |
| Satisfied | 2:03 | Gelesen von InTheDesert | |
| I Don't Know Him | 2:02 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Won by Love | 2:32 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Two Lawyers Convinced | 3:09 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Lost by Neglect | 4:53 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| The Holy Ghost Fell upon Us | 2:39 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| An Untutored Savage Silences a Man of Science | 2:14 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Worth More Than a Bank Account | 4:32 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Whom the Lord Loveth He Chasteneth | 1:38 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "I Am a Scoundrel'' | 2:34 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "Earth has no Sorrow That Jesus Cannot Heal" | 3:28 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Hunted to Death by Her Own Conscience | 2:57 | Gelesen von JenNoel | |
| Only Two Boys | 5:14 | Gelesen von JenNoel | |
| A Lost Diamond | 4:05 | Gelesen von JenNoel | |
| ''We Shall Be Like Him'' | 6:07 | Gelesen von JenNoel | |
| Killed by Shame | 3:33 | Gelesen von JenNoel | |
| A Well-Known Entertainer Becomes a Soul Winner | 3:43 | Gelesen von JenNoel | |
| Guilty of High Treason | 3:26 | Gelesen von JenNoel | |
| How D. L. Moody Became a World-Wide Evangelist | 4:46 | Gelesen von JenNoel | |
| Of Course There's a Hell | 3:00 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "I Have Heard the Biggest Joke" | 4:29 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "The Fire is in the Fifth Story, I'm in the Sixth'' | 5:43 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Love Conquered | 4:38 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| God Silences a Scoffer | 8:58 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "Is Not God's Word as Good as Mine?" | 3:55 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "God Use This Stammering Tongue" | 1:39 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Give Me a Love for Souls | 1:37 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Pray Through | 2:36 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| Which are You Like? | 7:04 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "If I Could Only Have Saved Just One More" | 6:36 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| God Does Give the Holy Spirit in Answer to Prayer | 5:22 | Gelesen von Al Kimball | |
| "I Can Hardly Wait'' | 4:03 | Gelesen von Beeswaxcandle | |
| How Men Become Infidels | 1:48 | Gelesen von Beeswaxcandle | |
| "I Wish I Were a Christian" | 3:01 | Gelesen von Beeswaxcandle | |
| "I Cannot Believe the Bible Because I am a Scientist'' | 2:25 | Gelesen von Beeswaxcandle | |
| There is but a Step Between Me and Death | 1:44 | Gelesen von Beeswaxcandle | |
| "I Thought of My Mother" | 2:18 | Gelesen von Beeswaxcandle | |
| God Won't Take Me Away Without Giving Me Another Chance | 1:34 | Gelesen von Beeswaxcandle | |
| "There Will be no Dance To-Night" | 2:00 | Gelesen von Beeswaxcandle | |
| An Infidel Professor Converted | 1:29 | Gelesen von Beeswaxcandle | |
| Common Stones Turned into Diamonds | 2:24 | Gelesen von Beeswaxcandle | |
| No Pilot Ready | 1:41 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson | |
| "The Harvest is Past, the Summer is Ended, and I am not Saved'' | 6:43 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |