The San Francisco call., 1905-03-06

Street Methodist Church John H. Ell
lott and Charles E. Rykert, singer,
conducted the evening meeting.
Long before the hour appointed for
the meeting at the First Presbyterian
Church tonight crowds were pouring
into the church. When the meeting
began every seat in the great audi
torium was filled and the ushers were
turning late coners into the overflow
meeting, which was conducted by the
Rev. H. II. Whittier in the chapel of
the church.
The Rev. Henry Ostrom conducted
the opening meeting, the subject of his
sermon being "Revivals' He told of
the revivals in every day life: the re-
vivals on the farm for seed time. re-
vivals in political times and revivals
in the schools at the time of gradua-
ton. After calling attention to these
unnoticed revivals the evangelist said:
is it then any wonder that call the
people of the churches to a revival OF religion! !!
cation. no fuss we want the tonic, the food
the power so that men shall have moral muscle
soTs sod put 1t to + for h the Gd or OF h m
to collect his bills and harder to start fami-
ly quarrel at the breakfast table we want
the sense of God.
You will notice that this great revival in
terest now sweeping over Wales and England
and America is revival Of Bible study. It
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have forgotten in these days the cost of this
great book of God. We forget that but yes
our tongue % o We o have mle s'Irrounded the BOOK
with assumed mystery 1t would help
greatly to understand some of the colmenta
more. Let us begin this revival tonight by
pledging right here that we will with to-nlor-
row commence to mcmorize one text OF Scrip
ture each day Get TO your Bible.
We must have a great revival of prayer.
People take TO the little oyster supper and
IT, -
meeting because they know more about oys-
ters and chickens than. about PRAYER. They
have sampled them. The great need Of the
hour then is not to oppose the oyster supper.
but to get the prayer revival. When busi-
actually know alone and with their
hot heads, heavy hearts. how to pray until
they know they have the strength and counsel
Of God they will take to PRAYER more readily
knows how to come forth from secret prayer
with the tangle OF family affairs all straight
ened out by the hand Of the Almighty Father
When the student struggling with the last
theory he read in some books comes forth from
pray prayer knowing that he h knows @ God then he
On the platform with the evangelist
were: The Rev. E. r. Ollie, the Rev.
E. E. Baker, the Rev. H. ]. Vosburgh.
the Rev. Miles B. Fisher. the Rev. A.
M. Shaw, the Rev. Frederick Johnson
and the Rev. j. P. Currin.
A LEADER OF MEN.
Dr. j. Wilbur Chapman, who leads
the corps of evangelists in this national
movement, is one of the foremost work
ers IN the Christian world. He volun-
tarily took up evangelical labors thir-
teen years ago when he resigned the
partorate of Bethany Church of Phil
adelphia, which had a membership OF
5000 and Sunday school enrolment
Of 5000. During his three years service
In that church 1000 persons were added
10 the membership roll, of whom ma
jority were men. With a peculiar gift
o@ reaching men DIR. Chapman sur
rendered his pastoral relations and de-
cided to go into the world as a preacher
of the Gospel. He has made remark
able record. Despite many calls that
have been made to him from leading
churches in America and in England
DR.. Chapman has continued in his
chosen field, believing that here he
could accomplish most for the cause
Of religion
Fred Butler, the soloist who accom-
panies Dr. Chapman, is not less a nota-
BILE character among the band OF men