The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-09
And They Came Near Capturing
the Chapman Meeting.
Some of Them Cried and Others
COOed.
WAS LARGE.
When They All Sang Infants
Couldn't Be Heard.
Meeting the Largest Of the
Present Series.

There were three extraordinary fea-
lures at the evangelistic meeting at
the Auditorium on Sunday night: the
crowd, the singing, and-hushl it
ought not be said. but 1t is true
about two dozen crying, cooling, crow
ing. squirting, yelling. wiggling,
coughing, squealing, kicking babies.
The infants just about divided the
attention of the monster crowd With
Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. They let out
their intermittent bOmb-shells of lung
expansion on no order Of ceremony.
Ihey. cooed whenever they felt like it.
They sqUirmed, kicked and wiggled re-
gard1ess OF the fact that Fred Butler
was singing, DR.. Chapman preaching,
or one OF the assistant ministers pray
ing The only time that they were
actually wiped off the programme was
when the whole congregation lifted
common voice in some well known
hymn Then they were just literally
drowned out. But against any indi-
ViduaI competition from the platform,
4hsy made a good shoWing-sO good
that a whole lot of people in certain
Earts OF the hall, would be unable to-
diav if their lives were at stake, to
give anything like connected idea of
49r. Chapman's sermon. The infants
we're but a little shy of being the piece
de resistance of the evening. Aug
mented by about one dozen more, they
would have taken the fort
Then there was the crowd. Major
Tom Anderson often hooks his thumbs
into the arn1-holes of his vest, expands
his chest and rOars: Il hold the rec
ord for the biggest crowd in the Aud
itoFiurn Z 200 at the NOrdica concert
NO account was kept of the attendance
last night, naturally but a counting
Of noses might have made the major
hunt for cover.
Every seat in the monster Audi
forum was taken. The aisles were
crowded with chairs. All along the
walls, both on the main floor and in
the balcony, people were standing,
from four to ten deep
There is something peculiar about
this crowd, said DR.. Chapman, as he
closed the service. s'It is not often that
we meet such a large an assem- blage.
People have stood quietly throughout
the whole time. 1t is not the power of
any man that has so held you, but
the power of God. He has been very
near to you tonight"
The congregational singing OF The
Kings Business was almost enough
to bring into right paths the veriest
sinner. True the crowd surcharged
the han with tremendous melOdiOus
outbursts and a half dozen other
hymns but with none did they so
shake the rafters as with the stirring
composition of DR.. and Mrs. E. T
Cassel.
''I am a stranger here,
Within a foreign land,
Ny home is far away.
Upon a golden strand,
Am bassadOr to be
OF realms beyond the sea,
I'm here on business for my King.
This is the message that I bring,
A message angels fair would sing;
Oh be ye TecOnCileds
Thus saith my Lord and King,
Oh, be We recOnciled to God"
How that audience of 1000 people
did sing. Great VOluminOus volcanic,
rafter-ripping, foundation settling con-
cussions of melody burst in the four
walls Of the large building. 1t was not
a long-faced, melancholy, gloomy
draWI. such as every church gOer has
at some time in his life suffered from,
but it had the swing, dash, en-
thusiasm and FIRE of a Sousa march,
by SOusa's own band, when John
Philip handles the baton.
Fred Butler sang two beautiful solos,
where Shall Find Him" and The
Answer His singing brought applause.
just small ripples of it, from the au-
dience.
DR.. Chapman spoke on theme taken
from the twenty-seventh chapter of
Mathew. "Then what shall I do with
Jesus, which IS called Christ"
he spoke feelingly on the story of
following the cries OF the pOpulace.
From this he drew his theme in refer
enCe to the renewed crucihxiOn of the
Christ by present day continual un-
Tepentaut sinners.
About 200 people raised their hands
for prayer after DR.. Chapman con-
cluded.
The Afternoon Meeting.
Or. Henry Ostrom talked to 5000 men
I'm the afternoon. His subject was The
Every Day Man. and his sermon was
closely listened to.
'iThe every day man also has senti-
ment in his make up. He sees the beau
tiful things in life and enjoys them.
To him there is some sentiment in ev-
erything-in the cloth on his table his
hat and his shoes, as vel as in the flag
the flowers, the sun. moon and stars.
And the man who turns away from the
sentiment in the everyday things of life
and sees only the beautiful things that
are pointed out to him is little better
than mummy, and as useless.
Some men object to the church be-
cause Of its sentimentality and prefer
their business because of its practical
nature. But in this connection I might
say that the banks are esta blished on
credence and if credence were intro
dueed into the church it would result
in a wild fire revival such as has never
been known. 1t is said that tears are
an indication of a sentimental nature
and If the testimony of the attendants
of the hospitals for the insane is to be
taken as conclusive, they are also an