Pittsburg, I was assisting a minister in a revival, he learned
incidentally of my experience with infidelity; and as there were a
number of skeptics in the community, he urged me to preach on the
subject. The message seemed to do much good to the large audience
that heard it. Since then it has been repeated a number of times, and
the largest auditoriums have not been able to hold the people who
were eager to hear it. This demonstrates that the message supplies a
great need, and has encouraged me to prepare this book for the
public. The Christian Temple in Baltimore was packed with people, and
on account of the jam the doors were ordered closed by the policeman
in charge half an hour before time for the service. At Portsmouth,
Va., twenty-five hundred were crowded into a skating-rink, and many
failed to get admittance. At Halifax, Can., hundreds were turned
away. But this has been the experience wherever the sermon has been
thoroughly advertised. To illustrate this, I quote from the
Harrisonburg (Va.) papers of Jan. 9, 1911, where the sermon was
delivered the night before in Assembly Hall, the largest auditorium
in the city. About sixteen hundred people were jammed in the hall and
many crowded out. It was the largest audience that ever assembled in
that city for a religious service.

"Evangelist Lutz says that on every occasion on which he has
delivered his address on 'My Conversion from Infidelity,' no matter
how large the hall may have been, people have turned away for lack of
room. Last night's attendance at Assembly Hall maintained the record.
Presumably the hall has never been more closely packed. Seats, stage,
box, aisles, windows, doorways, were filled, and many found place in
the flies of the theater. A number couldn't find places anywhere and
went away. Mr. Lutz is a fine example of evangelist. He has a
magnetic personality and a strong, oratorical way of talking, fluent