The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-12
THE new EVANGELIST.
Rev. Mr.. Chapman Joins
MI. Mills in His Evan
ge1iCal Work.
HIS FIRST MEETING YESTERDAY,
He breaches to a Great Throng in
the Afternoon, and lIr. Mills to
Another in the Evening.

"
Another immense crowd interested in
the Mills revival services now going on
in this city, assembled in the Second
Presbyterian Church. on Third street,
yesterday afternoon, to listen to Mr..
Chapman, of Albany, VINO is to assist Mr..
Mills in conducting the series already
mapped out.
Mr.. Chapman is destined to become as
popular with our church people as Mr.
Mills himself. He is an agreeable, earnest
taIker, and gifted to a rare degree with
that persuasive eloquence SO essentially
necessary to the work of soul saving. He
is a mar of medium statue and of
pleasing and winning address. His
features are almost classically handsome
His hair IS dark and straight and slopes
smoothly down upon one side of his fore
head. He poses gracefully in the pulpit,
and is often found with his right hand
thrust between the buttons of his Prince
Albert and his left resting upon the pull
pit desk.
Seated upon the rostrum at yesterday
afternoons services were the Rev. DR..
McKelvey, the Rev. DR.. Mitchell, the Rev.
DR.. Van Cleef. and Pastors Halleron,
Snodgrass, Nicholson, Zabriskie. Blight,
and Presiding Elder Lowery. Behind
these were seated a lumber of ladies of
the choir. Mr.. Mills sat by the side of
Mr.. Chapman.
Mr.. Chapman selected his text from 2
Kings, iv. 80. rs it well with thee?''
He graphically described the restoration
TO life by the Prophet Elisha of the
woman's son in the ancient village of
Shuman. He followed this up by telling
a number of anecdotes from which he
drew practical lessons to illustrate his
theme: He told his congregation
that there was but thing be-
tween them and God and eternity,
and that was the Ihrob of their
hearts. There will come a time"
he said, "when you will live but three
days longer, then two days, then one
day; there will come a time when you
will have but three minutes in which to
live, then two, then one; there will come
a time when you will have but three
seconds in which TO live, then two, then
one. Is it well with thee? Life is ex-
ceedingly uncertain"
Among the incidents which Mr.. Chap
man related was that of the conversion
of an intidel who allowed his little
daughter to go to Sunday School. "Once
the little girl," said he, "calne home and
her father said to her, We'll, little one,
what have you learned today?' Crawling
up into her fathers lap n nesting her
head in his bosom, with her little arms
entwined about his neck, she poured
fourth h matchless story OF the Masters
love, of His death On the cross, and with
her heart thrilling with the sweetness of
the story, she said, looking up into the
fathers eyes, why don't you love him?'o
Another incident was that of q visit he
made to the home of a business man in
Chicago. He was Ieftin the library for
- - ~ xxxrx., - /. - H. l.
saw evidence of a child having been
there, but he heard nc childish prattle.
No such sound was heard throughout the
house.
Have you ehildren9 I asked said
Mr.. Chapman, as the man entered. His
face fell as he answered, My little girl
is in h~eayen.n He showed me q daguer-
reotype of a sweet, sunny, laughing
blue-eyed little elf of seven years. 'Iwor-
shipped,ner,' said her father. I have been
told that / was neglectingeve my religion
for her. One day,I came home and my
vile told me u little darling was i'll.
She died shortly after. ] think / cursed
God. l could not sleep for three nights.
Nh fourth night / dreamed that ! had
been necessarily wandering through a
deserted region till ] came to the banks
of q river. On the other side was gath
cred a great throng of children, and
among them / caught sight of the face of
my own little girl gazing across the
waters to where l stood on the opposite
shore. How was | to reach her? / was
about to make a mad plunge when l
heaed the little ones voice ringing so
sweetly in my ears, Papa, if you will
give yourself to Christ he'll bring you
over i know if she hadn't gone to
heaven said that father, i should never
nave reached there.'o
Mr.. Chapman told a story of a father
who was summoned to the side of his dy-
ing son. who had met with an accident
on.the Mississippi river. PRAY for me-
said the boy. Said the father, II can't
pray" The father did not know how.
Was it well with him?
BY way of contrast, the speaker alluded
to the death of another boy who, while
dying, was taken up in his fathers arms.
He was to break the news to his boy that
the doctor had said he would die before
tomorrow. "He did it, said Mr.. Chap
man, land the boy responded, Well,
papa, don't cry. When / see Jesus I'll
tell Him how you taught me to live for
Him. / would rather have that said of
me thar have q monument of gold.''
An after service was held in the church
p~arlors, at which the majority present re-
manned. 1t was fully as successful as
those heretofore recorded.