The Holy Spirit: Who He Is and What He Does

207 Pages·1927·3.218 MB·English

by  R.A. Torrey

THE HOLY SPIRIT

T h e H o l y Spirit.
Who He Is and What He Docs
and
How to Know Him in All the Fulness
of His Gracious and Glorious Ministry
By
R. A. TORREY, D.D.
Author of “SouLWinning Sermon: ; ” “The Person
and Work of the Holy Spirit,” etc.
NEW YORK
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PREFACE
HE chapters in this book are really addresses on
the Holy Spirit that I have given in the various
cities in which I have held meetings during the
last twenty-five years. Of course, the addresses have
grown and been modified as I have gone from city to city.
They have been greatly blessed of God in bringing multi-
tudes of believers into a larger Christian experience and
life, in stirring up and equipping many for intelligent
service and directly or indirectly, in the conversion, I
presume, of a very goodly company in Japan, China,
Australia, India, England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany,
and in various states of the Union. After Mr. Moody
had heard the addresses in the earlier form in which they
were given, he insisted that I should give them in every
place I visited, and the demand for their publication has
increased as the years have gone by.
Nearly two years ago, I brought out a volume entitled
Soul—Wz'nning Sermons, containing all the sermons that I
ordinarily preached in the night meetings wherever I con-
ducted a series of meetings covering four weeks. I in-
tended to bring out also a companion volume, containing
the morning or afternoon addresses that I give to Chris-
tlans in a four-weeks series, but these addresses are for
the most part devoted to two lines of teaching—teaching
concerning prayer and teaching concerning the Holy
Spirit and His Work. When this latter book was well
under way, it seemed wise to divide it into two volumes:
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one devoted entirely to the subject of Prayer, and the other
devoted entirely to the related subject of the Holy Spirit
and His Work. The volume on Prayer, entitled The Power
of Prayer and the Prayer of Power, came out almost
simultaneously with the volume, Soul-Winning Sermons.
Since then I have been so almost incessantly engaged, both
winter and summer, in conducting evangelistic meetings
and Bible conferences, and in writing other books for
which the publishers could not wait, that I have been un-
able to bring out the volume on the Holy Spirit until now.
The substance of these addresses may be found in
books of mine already published, and when people have
asked me if they could not get the addresses in printed
form I have replied: “You can find the substance of
them in my book, The Person and Work of the Holy
Spirit, or in my other book, What the Bible Teaches.”
But many who have secured those books have said: “ We
want the addresses in the form that you give them in your
meetings, with the illustrations that you use and the ap-
plications and personal appeals that you make.” So here
they are, and it is hoped that God may use them in the
printed form even as He has so wonderfully used them
when spoken from the platform.
In the present book there is no attempt to treat this
great subject in a thorough and comprehensive way and
in all its manifold bearings. If one desires to find such
treatment of the subject he is referred to my book, The
Person and Work of the Holy Spirit, in which it is at-
tempted to give an exhaustive treatment of this important
subject. The aim of this book is altogether practical;
viz., to produce immediate results of definite personal
blessing in the heart and life and service of every one
who reads it.
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Anyone who has this volume and the books, Soul-Win-
ning Sermons and The Power of Prayer and the Prayer
of Power, and my smaller book, Getting the Gold Out of
the Word of God, has practically all the sermons and ad-
dresses that I give in any evangelistic campaign of ordi-
nary length. However, not all the sermons that I preach
in my longer series of meetings—covering, for example,
three continuous months each (as in Liverpool and in
Philadelphia), or covering five continuous months (as in
London),——are in print, nor even in manuscript form.
R. A. ’1'.