The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-01
HELIKES THE MEN.
Or. Chapman Says He Prefers to
Address Them.
Problem Is in Getting Men to
Think.
--~y
lis WE'LL SATISFIED.
Thinks Work in Topeka VIII
Bring Results.
How Evangelist SchaefTer Inn
presses the Children.
WE'LL SATISFIED.

saturday evening. Il understand men
and for that reason prefer to address
them. I have had a lot to do with
men, and now comes the secular part
e4 il, had q church back in Philadel-
phla in which the majority of mem
bers were men.
When you can get a grasp on the
men BY making them think you have
them. The trouble is though to get
them to think. They are so deeply i'm
11srsed in business and other things
that they don't let themselves think Of
religion. They don't want to stop, but
get them once and you have them. AS
rule the women in an audience are
Christians, most Of them are. they have
been taught religion by their mothers
sven sirve they have been small chill
an
Kau have to appeal to a man by
him think. There is no other
sew IKE the way men respond when
sou s. after them.
u daest resort to trickery. 1 am
open in every hins I do. do the same
now as when was minister and had
s charge. ] had no tricks then and I
have none now. deal plain and
ight1orWard with the people.
state in advance what ] expect to ar
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believe in appealing to the emotional
with the idea simply Of WORKING them
through that end. 7 realize the import
ance that the emotions play. Some rpeo-
Die you can make think BY making
them cry or laugh But I DO not ap-
prove OF starting out with intention OF
working them to the emotional stage for
that phase. believe that some OF this
work is permanent when we get people
TO think through their emotions. L be-
lieVe that It is as permanent in it's af-
Gect as il they were appealed solely to
their Intellectual SIDE. People vary and
some men would be appealed to in that
-Way where others wouldn't
u am well satisfied with the work
IN Topeka so far. 1t is rather early
and the audiences have scarcely got
warmed up. It takes usually q week
before an audience gets thoroughly
responsive, but I believe that it will
not take that long in Topeka. The
audiences are beginnings to show their
! interest right now and that audience
of Friday evening was up and right
5along with me all Of the time. I be-
feVe that our work I'm Topeka will re-
guit in the saving of GOOD many
sotls. / simply try TO aid the minis
terssin securing the results which they
are DESTROYS Of obtaining. do not at
tempt to prOselyte. though L am
member Of the Presbyterian church
myself. ] think that reVivals conduct
ed on erdenominationa1 lines are
4EA4EE SUCCESSFUL IMAM LliQ5E conducted
On simply UNCONVENTIONAL lines. As a
rule when g. man becomes converted
a1g g not concerned as to what church
Ae S. going 70 5oins he starts out with
ae dissemination to turn over a new
4eaf and he is mostly interested in
that. Later he begins to think of what
church he viii join. 1 think it is con-
Hicerably better to take out the denOm-
national factor in revivals. You
wouldn't be able to have the success in
this revival if it was being conducted
simply on UNCONVENTIONAL lines.
All People VIII Listen.
II dnd this too In my addresses, that
you can talk the same to one class of
DSopla as you can to another. The same
sermon Il it is straight, sincere and
hts the needs, Will take equally as well
with an audience composed of poor
people as il viii one that is made up
of the rich. Just so you have mes
sage. If you have a message and give
1t as il r oeeded people viii listen to
you. follf9a s1at out when I was a
pastor of John " anamaker's church in
philadelphia and 7gasfs later 1 went up
to New York as pastor O. q church in
the upper West End of New York, just
off from Fifth avenue. In tfza first
church I had most Of the poorer class
g my aualenee. In TIE New York
church the audience was composed en-
ffrely Of the rich and well-to-do.
found cut, however, that the people in
the one church were as much interest
cd i'm the message which / delivered
TO the other as if / had delivered it to
them in the first place The same kind
of sermon took with both classes. 1t
0tEed their needs.
II think some of the greatest mis-
takes are made by the ministers when
they try to draw a difference between
the two classes by preaching different
sermons TO them. The rich do not care
to come to church to hear some deep
thinking done FOR them, they are
ready ana willing to listen to what
Sou have 50 say and dc the thinking
themselves They feel that they are
1nlly able to do their own thinking. The
same message TOR poor and rich alike.
sFeople at first come to these meet
ings. The peoDle chat come to these
meetings at first are those who belong
90 church and are Christians. When
the public begins to grasp what is be
ing doue and what the Intentions of
the revivalists really are they begin to
take an interest and come out.
"This Is a great work to be in. If It
was a case Of simply a choice OF the
Dleasanter I should OF course prefer
chat Of pastor. 1 could then be at
home. But duty called me to this
work.
81 don't know whether we shall ask
the business men to close up during
some Of these meetings or not. That
win have to be determined upon. We
don't ask or do this at every place"
"a mass meeting for men will be
held Gin the Auditorium this afternoon
at o'clock. DR.. Chapman win speak
on some Things About Dissipation,
Tnhdetity. Morality" Tn the afternoon
at the same time DIR. Frank C4ranstaff
viii address mass. meeting for
women at the First Presbyterian
church.
a large mass meeting win be held at
the Auditorium in the evening Tho
usual services which have character
lied the previous meetings will oe
held. The mass meetings in the other
districts win be held on the same lines
as those Of the past several days.
He Handles Children.
one Of the interesting members Of
The Chapman corps is G. 7. Schaener,
le juvenile evangelist who has at