The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-10

attendance at the meetings or in the
interest taken by speakers, hearers and
personal workers. Instead, they have
grown steadily. No such widespread
and general spiritual movement has
been witnessed In years. Business has,
for part of the day, been practically
suspended on account Of religious meet
ings.
This, the day of prayer in the middle
of the campaign, is expected to be but
the beginning point of a new interest
and new zeal in the work of saving
Minneapolis. Instead of regular SIN
gle noon meeting at the Metropolitan
opera house, services were held in all
the theaters today. The days work
began at $50 am lin, in the -; s dniabt
with single meeting at the Bilou the
alter, to begin after the regular eve-
ming performance.
notwithstanding the growing attend
ance at the night meetings, the limit
does not seem to have been reached.
Last night at Westminster church the
men were asked to go to the chapel for
an after-meeting, the women to remain
in the auditorium When the men, had
departed the church was evidently still
full. At an average church service this
compression Of an audience into small
space is impossible. With the great
interest in the message which is given
by the evangelists, all thought of per-
sonal discomfort and the Inconvenience
of standing during an extended service
seems forgotten.
Miracles the Subj ect.
"MiraclesN was the subject for dis
cussion by DR.. Chapman at Westmin-
ster church. The effect of the discourse
seemed marked, as at least one hun
bred men stood with request for pray
ers at the close. Men were conspicuous
in the audience, as the talk was adj
dressed especially to thinking men. The
text chosen by DR.. Chapman was: For
God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son that whosOever be-
bs sysh vs on hm hfa n3t Be Be Ret
said DR.: Chapman, "you must have re-
generation, be really born again from
above. Regeneration is not going to
church, nor is baptism, nor saying your
prayers, nor sorrow, nor remorse:, but
is a turning away from your sins and
giving your heart to God.' f. ~
- Afer ALL what miracle is SO great
as the miracle which God performed
when you were converted9 No one
can exactly explain what he feels when
he is converted, nor exactly what that
conversion means to him. And l say
that none of the miracles performed
by Jesus Christ were greater than my
conversion.
Gas long as you wait to accept
Christ until all your doubts and dis
beliefs are made clear, you will go TO
YOUR graves unsaved. First, you must
90 home and on your knees give your;
self entirely to Christ, and then al
your questions and doubts will fade
away and you need no answers or eX
plantations. Step out by faith: Come
with feeling or without, you business
men of Minneapolis, and you WILL never
regret it as long as you Hve:'
Because he believes either men o.
women feel less restraint when alone
DR.. Chapman occasionally divides hi
audiences, as he did last night. DR.
Chapman addressed the men in tn
chapel and DR.. G. T. Schaffer spoke t.
the women in the auditorium: Boil
meetings were impressive and effective
" handled, as shown by the numerou
professions of conversion.
Two Thousand at Plymouth.
The Ostrom meetings at Plymout
church have grown constantly since tn
first one. Last night at least 200
persons were in the church, altho tn
auditorium does not seat many owe
1000. Gallery stairs and other uncom
Portable places seemed to suffice TO
the eager listeners. At the after meet
ing DR.. Ostrom spoke to the men an
Rev. w. B. Riley of the First Baptls
church to the women.
In the first address of the evenln
DR.. Ostrom said that all education, witt
out moral emphasis. is detriment. t
mankind and an injury to the natlo1
He said:
IT am in favor Of improving our el
vironment. but we have overdone th
environment question. Instead of tall
ing of environment making the man, IL
us talk about man making his environ
ment. S." .. ~. ....: .,-, -. - ..
q have seen man I'M one night s
change his environment that within
week he would environ his wife with
now dress, his table with good food an
his hands with bucksaw.
Put q thorn tree on the mountains,
will still be the thorn tree; or put it
the church, it will be thorn tree. I'll
change of geography does not chans
the thorn tree. Put sinner under tt
best of environment and he will still
sinner.
whether the sinner is clad in broadclo
or overalls; elevating him from the mi
puddle to the palace does not change h
nature. You cannot take sin out
a man with geography.
"Let man be a low thief and he W
steal your dog; educate him and he W
steal your daughter.
"God s greatest miracle is making
bad man a good man regardless OF
environment, his Ignorance or his ed
cation.''
Dr. Walton's Meeting.
DR.. Walton IS theme at the First Pr,
byterian church was "The Man Wi
the Wedding Garments His tie
was ''Bind him with hand and foot a
take him away Or. Walton show
the futility Of attempts to find sal1
tion, unguided from without. The *sel
ices were made doubly effective by
singing Of Mr.. Pugh, DR.. Walton s cl
rus leader and soloist.
Fifty persons were led to becol
Christians at the First Congregation
church services. Old-fashioned revi1
truths were stated by DR.. Strouse in
talk on the uncertainty Of life and
certainty of death. The meeting W
marked with deep interest, showing
tie university section the same spiritl
effects of the evangelistic work of
last two weeks, as is manifest in
other sections of Minneapolis.
: p 4- At Fowler M. e. Church.