The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-29

brief and by a quarter after 9 o'clock
the benediction had been pronounced
and the people We're streaming
through the doors homeward bound.
Dr. Chapman pleaded for co-opera-
tion. He asked for the sympathy
which speaks in actions as we'll as
words. He believes that his visit in
Topeka and the mission upon which he
is BENT viii result in wonderful results.
He says that he feels this. 1t may be
, intuition though probably DR.. Chap
man would prefer to call it by some
other name.
AS the head and front of the re-
vivalist movement which has been in
augurated in Topeka, DR.. Chapman
scarcely fits into the frame which one
conceives as being suitable to a re-
vivalist or even for that matter min
lister. 1t is true that he affects a semi
clerical attire. a Prince Albert costume,
but aside from that there is nothing
in his outward appearance which
would distinguish him from a lawyer
politician who had met fortune on
favorable terms and was apparently
rather Wen pleased with his lot in the
world. There is even a suggestion of
an afffuent commercial traveller. if it is
proper to use affiuence in connection
with commercial traveller. There is
sort of appealing simpleness and
AldllhttcSS III TIE man WHICH IS aIIrac-
tive. He uses simple phrases and his
sentences abound in words of Anglo
Saxon origin. There are no fringes,
no elaborate embroidery bedecking his
talk 1t is simply, straight from the
shoulder Soeech. It is old religion,
too. that abounds as his subject matter
He believes that one must be saved
through the blood of Christ; though
there is a tendency to revolt against
sucn a teaching. Furthermore he has
faith in the efficacy of revivals. Real
revivals, the kind that characterized
the religious life of the middle states in
tAe forties or thereabouts.
Practices What He breaches.
IT maintain" said he. that 1 can
tell the people of Topeka exactly what
to do to shape their city towards
-nghteousness- tell you this. that I
practice everything that I preach.
practice everything that I tell you to
do. L ask no sacrifice from you which
/ do not make myself. There is no
place in the pulpit for coward and
least of all is there place for a cow
ard as an evangelist.
7 am not here because chose to be
here but because I couldn't stay away
am sure that God had me in preoara-
ton Tor tins meeting Cod is no re-
speeter of persons. Oh. the power of
the gospel. 1t can reach to the lowest
depths and touch the highest heights.
I know that we have come to the
time when it is said and claimed that
the blood of Christ has very little to
do with the saving of sinners. But [
know that there is nothing which
quiekens the heart of a sinner more
than the knowledge that Christ died to
save the sinners. There is no remission
of sins except through the shedding of
blood The Bible is a Red Book
1 snail not preach along denomina-
tlonal lines. 1 am a member of a de-
nomination myself but 1 do not care to
tell you what church I belong to. I am
not come here to win souls and to lead
them into any particular denomination.
l have simply come in to start things
in the right direction, to lead souls to
the light and to let the ministers steD
IN and take them along as they move
Alright. Denominational lines are wiped
out.
I believe in revivals. The one thing
that we need in this country more than
any other, is a genuine old-fashioned
revival L had man come to me who
said, They say that Moody sirnpIv
used hypnotism in those reviVals when
t<Ae Went up and down the country
If it is hypnotism, / thank God for
the prayers of that old pastor. hack
when 1 was a child at mothers knee
which led me to Christ No. reyivaIisro
IS not hypnotism, It is simply Cod.
I know that there are some, things
hat can do at these meetings. First
can snow where you are wrong I
an prlng back the old memories.