The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-06

forth at the good cheer meeting held at
II am. today in the Metropolitan the,
alter. Scores of men and women had
good news to tell Of the wonderful work
Of the gospel revival meetings thruont
the city; Of the large numbers who were
being converted; Of the hundreds who
were joining the churches Of all denomi-
nations; and of how mighty and deep
seems to be the wave Of religious re-
form that has flooded the city.
The Metropolitan was filed. Fully
$500 must have been present. Inc hrsG
floor and balcony were crowded an, ana
more than half the seats in the high
gallery were occupied. And still the
stream of humanity poured In.
At the close, DR.. Chapman surren-
dered direction of the services to DIR.
Ostrom.
"How many Of you people down here
on the first floor are good Chr1stlans
and DESTROYS Of doing some good act'
inquired DR.. Ostrom. Half the people
arose in their seats.
"Then give up your seats to the tired
business men and women who are lust
coming into the noon SERVICE said Dr.
Ostrom, "and yourselves climb to the
gallery.'' And half the people who
had stood laughingly complied with the
request and surrendered the best seats
in the house to newcomers.
Reports from OlStr1crS.
The meeting opened with reports from
the various Chapman revival districts.
ave are having simply great, glorious
meetings in the fourth district, said
Rev. DR.. Fowler.
"People are literally coming forward
after the meetings by the hundred and
giving themselves to God.' said DR..
Guild Of the second district meetings in
Westminster church. 1--WE had lot
of saloon people there last nj ght and
I think they liked the service, too
E'Our meetings are packed. A hun
dred came forward for Christ last
night some one reported for the ninth
district.
This was good cheer in earnest, and
some one whose enthusiasm could re-
strain him no longer, started to sing
the vast audience was taking up the re-
frain in wonderful chorus Of good
cheer song.
Reports from other districts followed
in rapid succession, occasionally two
people speaking from different parts of
the audience, unable to wait their turn
to tell the glad tidings.
~ have attended evangelistic meet
tngs for forty years past,' said W. j.
Dean, president of the Y. M. G. A.,
"but verify believe that the meeting
at the Auditorium Sunday afternoon
was the most magnificent I was ever
present at. We should praise God for
Great Days in America.
''Let us do so by singing his praise, -
called DR.. Chapman. And the audience
Chapman then took the floor. He said:
"These are great days in America
The American revival is on. We have
a company of men in America I believe
as grand and true today as any nation
has ever seen. All over this country
there are men who are. standing fol
never more so than now, when its great
mayor has taken such a great move
for the right and closed all saloons on
Sunday. I take great pleasure in in
Producing Mayor Jones.''
Mayor Jones Speaks.
The mayor was greeted with vile
applause, cheers and waving of hand
kerchiefs.
II thank everybody said he. ct
doesn't often come to a man to appear
before such an audience. I am thank
full for the good cheer you bring to me
I rejoice that the people have almos
unanimously supported me in my re
cent order. 1t shows the temper Of tn,
ness.
IT should like to say few words O.
cheer this morning. It is certainly {
great thing of good cheer to have tn,
churches depart from their petty diff
ferences and unite in this one move
The great ethical uplift we are having
In this country is marvellous; and tn
glorious thing about it is that it ele
Yates all classes Of people. We hav
now reached a period when the time
ripe for better things in this communi
ty than ever before
ct have found the closing of saloon
yesterday to have resulted better tina
] expected. Yesterday the police pair:
wagon whose business it is to pick u
drunkards. wasn't out Of the stable q
day. (Cheers and applause.) "And
that were possible yesterday, 1t shout
be possible down thru the years. No
it is up to the people of Minneapolis I
make it permanent. (Applause.)
ought not to be left on the shoulders
one man. (Cries of "No,'' ''No.'
HNow about the meetings. T want I
say they are the kings business Tho
are for our uplift. I am thankful tn:
DR.. Chapman and his co-laborers a
here laboring with us. It means
Christian taking hold Of the individus
The community cannot rise without tt
individual first. The community
easy after that. Bring the individu