Show WILL SING HIS HI FAMOUS SONG S NG t Author of o f Throw Out the tha th Life lifa LifeLine LifeLine Line in the th City t TO HOLD REVIVAL RI VIVAl MEETINGS 4 BEV E S U FORD ON A TOUR TOURO OF O THE WORLD I Throw out the livo live lino across the dark There Thero IB Is I a brother whom hom someone should savo sava brother oh who then will m dare To throw out the life Ute line his peril fb to share Chorus Throw out the tha th life Ute line Throw out the tho life line flue Someone is drifting away Throw out tho the life line fine Someone is sinking today Throw out the line Una to danger fraught men Sinking In anguish where you have hae never been Winds of temptations and billows roll Will soon hurl them out where dark waters flow Chorus Soon will this season of or rescue be bo oer Soen wo we will drift to the fair Eden shore ohen in the dark hour of death may it be That Jesus Josu will throw out the life line to thee Chorus 11 of ot children Ch n In almost aIm alm ost MILLIONS 1 VI every country on n the face of at the have sung the song sons given above And Ana they haire Joined in inUs Its Us rendition by Countless thousands of adult Christians to whom it has a charm and a a meaning that endears to the heart every time jime It Is heard DwIght L Moody the great evangelist said it was his favorite hymn and con constantly constantly constantly sang Eang Jt it to ILl the vast audiences which he be addressed In his lifetime The thousands o of at young and old in Salt Lake who have sung suras those words In and out of Sunday school will have havethe the opportunity this evening In the East Side Baptist church of hearing the composer sing the song himself being his own accompanist upon a fold folding folding ing organ w ch he ho carries caries with him and which he will take with him on the tour of at the world which he has lias Just begun Rev E 33 S Ufford for it is he who wrote the song arrived In the city last evening He is staying at the Manitou hotel where he will remain until he starts for Sacramento Cal on the Fri Friday Friday Friday day afternoon train Sunday he will sing the same to the people of that Pacific coast city and so on by degrees to nationalities all the globe The song and speech service s which he will conduct this evening will be an illustrated one On the platform with him will be a miniature lifesaving ap apparatus apparatus apparatus an exact representation of the th paraphernalia used by the government life Ufe savers on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts along llong the shores of the Great Lakes and the Gulf Gult of Mexico Inspired to Write Song The accompanying cut shows the In Instruments instruments instruments which will be used this evening The lines which Mr Ufford Is seen holding in his hands bands actually saved twentythree lives The Th one In his left hand inspired him to write the song sixteen years ago which has since made him famous and which he says has brought countless souls to Christ Mr Ufford is a small rather pale man His voice Is ts low and musical He wears glasses and is smooth shaven He moves slowly with deliberation but butin butin butin in singing hd becomes enthusiastic The cap he wears is modeled after that of ot ofa ota ofa a It is a dark black It has a light blue ribbon band presented to him by the Boys club of Holyoke Mas upon which are the words In gold sold letters Around the World With the Life Line The ban banner banner banner ner which will be seen een on the organ this evening was presented to him by bythe bythe the Citizens Endeavor union of the same city I r got sot the Idea for my mr song from watching the life saving crew at work at Nanta ket below Boston sixteen years ago said Sald Mr Ufford last even evening evening evenIng ing at the Manitou although it was several days da s later before I received the inspiration for tor the words them themselves themselves themselves selves and the music After watching the life Ufe savers it occurred to me that It would be an excellent theme for a sermon a theme to which to devote my life Ufe I had a miniature set of off f life Ilfe savers apparatus made to il ii illustrate lustrate my sermon for the next Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day afternoon which I delivered upon the open green In Dedham Mass Aft After After After er the meeting was over oyer I went w nt home and sitting down wrote the words Took TUrn Him iteen Minutes They came cane to me so o readily that I had them all penned in fifteen min minutes minutes mm utes Then I sat flown clown to a piano and composed the thEm It all came to tome tome tome me so readily that it must have been Inspired Iwas I was pastor of a church In Ded Dedham Dedham a ham Mass and on Sunday I played end and nd sang the song to my young toung men It made a tremendous impression it aroused them to work ZA nothing had ever done before They sang the song about town It did a great deal of ot good The song spread to other towns townsand ana and along the tite coast It appealed to the simple people It echoed that which was In their hear It was in words that th t which h each felt Mr Moody heard it i It became his favorite and was sung at all of his meetings I 1 have heard of ot many touching ex examples examples examples amples of the good the song has done In Chicago only the other day a girl came to me and nd told me that her father was saved from a drunkards grave by hearing the song There are thousands of such Instances On a a Singing Tour I r left Holyoke Hot yoke Mass ilass on Oct 7 for fora a 0 tour around the world singing th the song I am doing it as a temperance and evangelistic movement and also because thousands of requests have come to me from all parts of the world to come to them and assist assI t In the work of saving savin souls from hell and drink I r cannot tell you how many lan Ian languages languages the song Is 13 written in The missionaries In Africa sing it as s do those in the Sandwich islands in Eu Europe Europe Europe rope and Asia A missionary from Africa whom I met some time ago hgo told tod me that in his country he has no water to explain the meaning of ot a alife life Ufe line lino as we Wc know It His avlan explanation sUon atlon Is that It Is a line dropped down from heaven xo W raise tie the sinner to God C CAfter After Atter leaving the Pacific coast Mr Ufford will cross the Pacific ocean making a tour of Honolulu Yoko Yoke Yokohama YOKohama hama Hong Kong Calcutta Bombay Cairo Jerusalem London Liverpool and some hundred of other places be before before before fore he returns to America He ex cx expects expects to reach Holyoke In August |