The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15

of heart full of love captivated the two large audiences who listened to the Rev J. Wilbur Chapman, the noted evan gelist, yesterday. Without any verbosty and In a conversational tone, the speaker talked and left with every sentence some great truth to contemplate
 1he second day of the evangellstic conference was replete with enjoyable ad- dresses and enduring lessons. There were some of the best known ministers in the southern states on the programme, and every talk carried its individual mes sage
 Speak at Both Services. Dr. Chapman, who was on the pro- gramme at both afternoon and night ser Vices said so much in so little time that his talks were the feature of the day. In the afternoon he began by telling of the beginning of the evangelistic move ment ir the northern church, with the appointment of a special committee six years ago. From that day to this he said, the tide of the church has been chang ing, until last year the northern church had experienced it's greatest spiritual 1 gain in all her history This was es- pecialy remarkable since 1t is not often that spiritual growth comes with com mercial prosperity.
 The speaker gave not all this glory to the committee, but said it was due to the fact that the church was carrying on her work along evangelistic lines. We have grown in the north to become exceedingly optimistic" he said. "I am often charged with being too optimistic, but l believe we are having the first droppings of a great spiritual shower.
 "It is remarkable that God has in- trusted this treasure to the Presbyterian church. In this latter day 1t has un- doubtedly come to be true that our church has the greatest evangelstlc spirit in the country. l say it not in pride, but bow my head to God and thank Him.
 Wales did not have her great revival until after years of conferences, and plan ming by the good old Presbyterians. and l can see that we, with our great plans and undercurrents are coming to just such an outbreak of the love of Jesus Christ.
 'The field is ripening, and l believe that New England is the rlpest field. After that, the second best field is your own southland. For this you have to thank all your faithful ministers. who have been faithfully planting the seed your beautiful home life, the like of which cannot be found anywhere else in America.
 God works through the denomination that first i4y "a In my country when the evangestic idea was suggested it met with almost uni versal opposition, but now the rank and file of the ministry are heart and soul in the movement. With persistence you can put out of existence all prejudice.
 Might it not be possible to lay our church on Gods altar? Let us let Him use us in saving the souls of His people from their sins"
 Like EVangeIistic Meetings.
 Continuing the speaker told of the diff ference between the spirit of the pres byterles and the assemblies before the evangelstic movement was begun in the north. Now, he said. they were more like great evangeistic meetings, and sometime the commissioners would break down and cry, so deep was their hunger for souls.
 He alluded very touchingly to the min- istry of Dr. Walton, who is new the secretary of the Association of Evangells- tic Missions, under which the conference Is being held. He told how earnestly Dr. Walton had labored while connected with him in the north, and believed that if he could get the cooperation of the southern mInistery he would do much toward en- larging the Kingdom of Christ.
 Three Kinds of Evangelism.
 The remainder of the address was di- yided into descriptions of three different kinds of evangelism. The first he men, toned with q bit of shudder, ''profes- sional evangelism"
 T am no more of a professional than when q pastor of the church I have not changed my methods, and the same sermons are just as powerful in saving souls. I find that the same sermon will have just as good an effect when preached to a laborer as to capitalist. You must preach the truth as God tells 1t to you
 There are three places where the evangelist Is needed, on the frontier, in the rural district and in a church like this. There Is nothing against pastor who has an evangelist to assist him, for they all get men to the line and need someone to help pull them across. The evangelist supplements. but does not sup plant"
 The second kind was personal evangel- ism. He said that very few men lead others to Christ. and in illustration told of session in his church of which seven elders admitted they had never reclaimed a soul.
 Summon the people to God! Every man after his own nelghbori There Is one truth which we must all know, and that is that people are lost If you don't re- alize this you break the nerve of evange- hstic effort. How foolish 1t would be of ing if there were fifty other ways to go to Christ There is but one way"
 In illustrating the necessity of being perfectly natural when engaged in per sonal work he told of an incident on a sti eel car when D. l.. Moody brought a srr CT to Christ.
 Shame on us who have such Savior, and none of our friends knows anything about him!
 "The third and greatest hope of the church Is pastoral evangelism. I will touch upon this tonight, but there are a fs.--