How God Launched Global Mission
While Dr. R A Torrey was at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago,he announced a week of prayer. At the close of that prayer week someone asked “why not continue this prayer for a mighty revival throughout the world?” Dr Torrey wrote this about the incident, “I consulted the faculty and they all agreed. We prayed one night a week; at first three to four hundred people met to pray for a worldwide revival. This prayer continued in a small circle the entire night. God in a marvelous manner began to move. On one of the mornings following those night prayer meetings, Dr Torrey preached in the auditorium of the institute. Two gentlemen asked if he could go to Australia and conduct a Bible campaign. Dr Torrey answered yes. He wired Charles Alexander a famous gospel singer to meet him in Japan. There a remarkable outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Japanese people began. Some ten thousands were converted. When he arrived in Australia Dr Torrey discovered that his b...