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Book One (of Three), comprising:
HOW TO WORK FOR CHRIST
A Compendium of Effective Methods
By R. A. Torrey

Etext, last modified June 15, 2001, edited by Clyde C. Price, Jr.
{[email protected]} for the Christian Digital Library Foundation
from a printed book (used by CCP as a textbook at the Atlanta School of
Biblical Studies) published by….

Fleming H. Revell Company {no date, but first published shortly after 1900}
Printed in the United States of America

BOOK ONE — PERSONAL WORK

01. The Importance and Advantages of
Personal Work 9

02. The Conditions of Success 14

03. Where to do Personal Work 22

04. How to Begin 28

05. How to Deal with those who Realize
their Need of a Savior and Really
Desire to be Saved 33

06. How to Deal with those who have
Little or no Concern about their
Souls 44

07. How to Deal with those who have
Difficulties 55

08. How to Deal with those who Entertain
False Hopes 90

09. How to Deal with those who Lack
Assurance 103

10. How to Deal with Backsliders 109

11. How to Deal with Professed Skeptics
and Infidels 114

12. How to Deal with those who Wish to
put off a Decision until Some
Other Time 133

13. How to Deal with the Deluded 138

14. How to Deal with Christians who Need
Counsel, Rebuke, Encouragement or
Comfort 150

15. Some Hints and Suggestions for
Personal Work 171

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BOOK II

METHODS OF CHRISTIAN WORK

CONTENTS:
BOOK TWO — METHODS OF CHRISTIAN WORK

CHAPTER PAGE
01. House to House Visitation 183

02. Cottage Meetings 192

03. Parlor Meetings 202

04. The Church Prayer Meeting 205

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05. The Use of Tracts 213

06. Open-Air Meetings 222

07. Tent Work 234

08. The Use of Autos, Trailers,
etc. 241

09. Colportage Work 244

10. Services in Theaters, Circuses,
etc. 248

11. Organizing and Conducting a Gospel
Mission 254

12. Meetings in Jails, Hospitals,
Poorhouses, etc. 268

13. Revival Meetings 273

14. The After Meeting 284

15. Children’s Meetings 295

16. Advertising the Meetings 305

17. Conduct of Funerals 314

BOOK THREE — PREACHING AND TEACHING THE
WORD OF GOD
Chapter Page
1. How to Prepare a Sermon 321
2. Preparation and Delivery of bible
Readings 332
3. Illustrations and Their Use 337
4. Teaching the Bible 344
5. Textual Sermons in Outline 356
6. Topical Sermons in Outline 454
7. Expository Sermons and Bible Readings
in Outline 486

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The value of an apt illustration can hardly be over-estimated. It is oftentimes the entering wedge or the clinching conclusion for the more serious argument. At times it is both. Mr. D. L. Moody used to say that a sermon without illustrations was like a house without windows. To one of his ablest associates, one second to none as a Bible expositor, he would frequently say, You dont put enough windows in your sermons. No one can do it better, but you get so interested in your subject you go on and on with argument and proof texts until the audience is weary. You want to wake them up: let them see out and in through a window use pointed illustrations.
One does not need to say the preacher referred to was not Dr. Torrey, for his use of apt stories largely drawn from his own wide and varied experience, add largely to the effective ministry of his powerful addresses.
–R.A. Torrey

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