The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-15
MORNING CROWD
PACKS ORPHEUM
"IINE' BEGAN FORMING TWO
HOURS BEFORE SERVICE.
Informal Singing and Speaking at Final
Morning Meeting Puts Crowd in Fine
Spirit-Praise for DR.. Chapman-Dr.
ostrom Cr1ticizes Morning Papers
Lack Of Spirit.

by o:OU Cu1S ptUplS UoSdH w
to gain admittance for the 10 am Chap
man meeting. It was the last morning
meeting, and hundreds Of people, fear.
ing an early closing Of the doors, re-
solved to be on hand as soon as they
opened ,....,........ -, > .
The song service began at 10 O'Clock
and at that hour every seat was occu-
pied, over 1900 people being in the
audience, and the doors had to be closed
on a great late throng which desired
admittance.
The meeting was very informal and
took the character of a "good cheer'
Evangelist Pratt was the first to ad-
dress the meeting.
| There never was such an opportu.
nifty for good work as at present, ~
said DR.. Pratt. elm the name of God,
gather in the harvest now, for this
is the time to follow up the work Of
the revival.
~ was going on the car the other
a man was whistling The Kings Busi7
ness In an elevator tho other day I
heard the elevator boy singing The
Kings Business The religious spirit
seems to be stirring in every part Of
the city. Let the good work 20 on.'
| DR.. Chapman Speaks.
DR.. Chapman had a word to say,
"You. all will be interested, I am
sure,' he said, in knowing that the
young people Of your city are now
organized in an energetic band for
! Christ. They are going to hold meet
m6ntb ings every week. and a rally every
Rev. A. B. Marshall, chairman of the
local committee of ministers, who ar
ranged the revival campaign, then Of
fered the following tribute:
i "a no more cultured, Christian set
of workers, a no more consecrated banC
Of men is to be found than these evan
!, gelists. (Applause.) And want to say
earnest, masterful leader to be founC
: than we have had in Mr.. Chapman
| (Applause.
, "Now, they have shown us how t,
! do the work, let us keep it up. I hope
from now on fifty to one hundred meet
MEnneapos % 3; not for tts W6le bn
= for years, that continually the grace O.
r God may be with us and bless the goo'
work in this city, H. =
No Denominational Strife.
DR.. James Smith of the Fifth Avenu
Congregational church, arose from hi
Q seat in lower box. Heretofore,
s he said, "you have listened mainly t
Ehapman 0 Is mszmber Of the PresbS
l. terian general assembly, Of course the
e have all had to say good things, Blu
It as one who is not a Presbyterian,
y want to say these services have bee
# the greatest revivals I have eve
!. KNOWN ss. ID. @.5
d - Revival Will Live.
- - Rev. Henry Ostrom, one Of the leat
% ing evangelists, had the following t
IL ''Time is great essential to SUI
cess in everything. We have come
great time, a. crisi? isis in this d;a city c
This campaign did not originate in mai
All great movements originate in or
j. man and then spread to thousand
ye This revival was made possible month
to ago in the Minister'S Alliance, and a.
IF vanced by the generous donations {
at at ~ also believe that Moses was 1
ne more divinely appointed to deliver
es rael, than was j. Wilbur Chapman
as come and deliver from sin this, city
ee Minneapolis. But if the work is
ty God the revival does not leave tow
IL The spirit does not take the train
u leave town. God is the real source
IV Cl0 revival. OO1u6 OIL Gu6 speakers w.
" be gone tomorrow, but God, the rev
: valist, will stay in Minneapolis.
Morning Paper Criticized.
DIR. Ostrom then criticized the la
of spirit with which Minneapo
Sc morning paper has handled the evang
~ istic campaign. dealing specifically wi
OF an article published this morning, whi
n, purported to give facts Of the amour
~-R - +I~a y1S,S< 1Sc%c
X Paul. He said i'll part:
to I want to complain about that al
all Gle published this morning. thi
Il they ought to have quoted me high
in St. Paul DIR. Chapman's little b
! had a birthday, while we were in
ne Paul, some one gave him present.
ny ny think the paper somehow left this o
oI Let 3 not have this campaign close w
ler s a story Of gold and jingle. I havel
on seen that paper mention $4,000 diviC
ro- between two football teams here at
recent date; nor of another enterta
ment during our stay here VIII
brought in over $5, 900 Why bring
- these things of money into this reyiv
rid The work is too great, the goal is
m precious for such minor subject cont
M versy.o
ate bs --- -
Wn ..Of Immense Benefit y