Anecdotes and Illustrations: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Anecdotes and Illustrations, credited to Reuben Archer Torrey, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Anecdotes and Illustrations by Reuben Archer Torrey. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Anecdotes and Illustrations
• Author credits: Reuben Archer Torrey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 112
• Listed recording duration: 5:32:14

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Christianity
• bible
• Jesus
• church
• preaching
• homiletics

Opening tracks: first 24 of 112

1. 000 - Publisher's Note — 1:52
2. 001 - A Deacon Who Went Fishing on Sunday — 3:36
3. 002 - An Infidel Converted beside a Coffin — 4:29
4. 003 - The Holy Spirit's Power to Convict of Sin — 2:05
5. 004 - Saved at Ninety-two — 1:36
6. 005 - Do You Believe That, Sir? — 3:01
7. 006 - A Deep Spiritual Concern for Your Soul — 2:59
8. 007 - How the Devil Got Us an Audience — 1:47
9. 008 - The Meanest Thief in Minneapolis — 3:22
10. 009 - Forgiven by Both Fathers — 6:07
11. 010 - No Greater Joy — 2:20
12. 011 - A Converted Jewess — 2:25
13. 012 - The Greatest Sin a Man Can Possibly Commit — 3:55
14. 013 - An Angry Father Converted — 1:47
15. 014 - The Other Half of the Gospel — 5:04
16. 015 - God Uses a Weak Instmment — 2:11
17. 016 - How the Sun Burst Through the Clouds — 1:49
18. 017 - Saved and Healed — 1:59
19. 018 - "All Things Working Together for Good" — 1:29
20. 019 - God is Love — 3:39
21. 020 - First Sober Christmas in Ten Years — 1:41
22. 021 - Three Silver Dollars — 4:12
23. 022 - Prayer Answered on the Other Side of the Globe — 3:21
24. 023 - A Prayer Fifteen Years Long — 5:56

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