Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1906 — TORREY PREACHES TO 15,000. [ARTICLE]

TORREY PREACHES TO 15,000.

Converts in Philadelphia Number 200 in One Day. Fiffe’erTTfimisand persons tried to gain admittance to Xhe . afternoon and-evening Torrey-Alexander revival meetings in the PfrHadelph'iil armory Tuesday'. More than 200 converts were recorded as the result of the day’s work. The meeting in the afternoon was for women only and that At night for mem only. They -were -declared to be the largest separate congregations of men and women that ever gathered for religious services in Philadelphia. In the rush to get into the armory one woman fell and fractured her nose. The whole city is in the throes of the revival movement. It is the chief topic of conversation in the street cars, in stores and at the dinner table. Even political issues are being lost sight of in the religious enthusiasm. Striking effects of the revival campaign are' being -felf- The policenieii of she three districts in the neighborhood of the armory declare that they have had little or nothing to do since the revival began. One day last week when the magistrates appeared for the hearings in these districts not a single prisoner was arraigned.