The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-28
WAR AGAINST SIN
TO OPEN MONDAY
PREPARATIONS FOR MONSTER RE-
LIGIoUs CAMPAIGN COMPLETED.
J. Wilbur Chapman's Corps of Speakers
and Singers Will Begin Onslaught
in Twelve Sections of the City Great
Mems Meeting at Auditorium To-
morrow Will Be Forerunner.

Preparations for the great religious
campaign in Minneapolis are complete.
Religious forces are now girding them
selves for actual work which begins
Monday. Thru the agency of twelve or
more evangelists, under direction Of j.
Wilbur Chapman, great awakening OF
the people is ardently and prayerfully
expected. Music will play great part
in the campaign and singers who are
accompanying the evangelists will be as
sisted bv great choruses formed for the
special work.
The campaign has been thoroly organ
lied by men eminent in the religious and
business circles of Minneapolis and the
the different denominations are to be
placed in touch with those who have
expressed UNCONVENTIONAL preferences.
The campaign is to be conducted along
different lines from the conventional
revival. Instead Of great central mass
meetings the plan of district meetings
has been evolved. In this way the
whole city will have every opportunity
| to attend some religious meeting each
night, except Saturday. The message is
to be brought to the people, instead OF
waiting for the people to come: Even
the slums and the saloons have been re-
membered, Mr.. and Mrs. William Ashley
will make it their special work to con
! The Episcopalians will have CO.
ordinate work in their churches under
the leadership Of Rev. Percy c. Web
| Der. Twenty minute meetings will DC
held daily in at 1910 pm in st. Mark &
cathedral on Sixth street.
Twelve districts have been selected
as centers for evangelistic meetings
i which will be held in the following
1 churches: Plymouth Congregational
caI Rrss0ysGpia F Fows'
byterian, Oliver Presbyterian, Swedish
Tabernacle, First Congregational, Swe
dish Covenant Mission, Fourth Bap
fist, Swedish Evangelical Bethany
! Trinity Evangelical Lutheran, Elm
Swedish and Como Avenue Congrega
tional.
Preliminarily to the campaign thu
! Y. M. C. A. will have another mer''
! meeting in the Auditorium, beginning
at 8 pm Doors will be open at 2:3(
with reserved seats admission by tick
ct until 2:45. R. G. Norton, the reli
giouss secretary, will be chairman. TIL
speaker will be Rev. Henry Ostrom
4 gelist band as an orator. His subjec
4 will be "The Everyday Man, JOIN
P. Hills will conduct the singing, as
sisted by chorus, Kenny's orchestr,
1 and the great organ. 49,,
Rev. A. B. Marshall is chairman O
the campaigns. Rev. W. B. Riley is sec
rotary, and headquarters are in the Y
M. G. A. building. -
Chairmen Of the general committee
are as follows: Finance, W. 8. Harries
advertising, A. L. Helliwell; canvass
ing, T. .H.Colwell; music, H. s. barrow
ushers,. c.. M. Stocking, R. C. Norton.
Il Conweners are as follows. First di.
trict, Rev. DR.. F. l.. Thompson; SECOND
: Rev. Dr.. J. E. Bushnell; third, Rev
!. Henry Holmes; fourth, Rev. G. E. Blu,
ton; fifth. Rev. DR.. G. s. Rollins; sixth
Rev. G.. P. Magill; seventh, Rev.
Howe; eighth, Reg: " H Jordan
. A. Hilton; eleventh, Rev. B. J. Thoren
-. twelfth. Rev. W. G.. Carlson. ~.