The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03
BUSINESS IN
 REVIVALISM Modern Methods Are Put
 Into Effect. KEYSTONE IS PREPARATION How Dr. Chapman Does His
 Work. Men Who Lead in Modern Church Work Undertake No Big Campaign Without Adequate Backing. How Modern RevivaIs are
 Conducted.

New York, May 2-The fourth great
 evangelistic campaign of the combined churches of New York has been star ted
 on A basis that insures its success as business enterprise, no matter what other result 1t may have. In fact.
 1t will go to emphasize further the
 fact that revivalism nowadays is a
 business, and can only be conducted
 successfully along business lines. Phil
 adelphia gave evidence of this. and
 New York intends to prove 1t.
 Norfolk. Syracuse and Springfield
 will be other cities to test tho plan
 known now as ''The Kings Business"
 and all are busy with the preliminary
 work for the real labor that IS to coms
 later when the evangelists themselves
 take the field. It was not so many
 years ago that revivai was consld-
 cred as q purely local affair. some thing sectional in city. one church
 awakening interest amVng those close
 to 1t and claiming as many converts as possible from among its immediate ne.ghborhood. This type of religious campaign passed with the coming or those who had made a study or pres
 day conditions and recognized thai business methods must be injected into the church ns we'll as into mercantile life to secure the greatest results in given tim"
 Neither Dr. Chapman nor Dr. Tor rey undertake work now where therc has not been much preparatory effort The first meeting in this direction in New York was held ih the MetropoIi tan Opera House to give the greatest possible number an opportunity |" learning the small details before the
 battle gets fairly under way. Eight denominations have been enlisted this year. men of affairs attending to the aF e be laid to every part Of the Ereaf nitv
 Greater stress is to be placed this year on work for children and among business and workingmen. The com
 mittee of one hundred has arranged Tor intelligent cooperation Of the city
 missions of the several denominations
 more tcnts have been secured and
 many more opcn-air meetings have been scheduled. At the head of the
 evangelistic force will be Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Smith, who has worked with
 Moody, Mills and Chapman. is careful and conservative, and as speaker forceful and sympathetic. From time to time he will have the aid of pr. | Chapman, though for the present the latter will be working elsewhere. ss It is more than likely, however that | pr. Chapman will be the real force back of the movement. for he has l shown much earnestness in discussing l tho things he hopes to do this sum 1 mer.
 "I have become convinced" he says.
 that if the reign of anarchy is to be stopped and events like the bomb
 throwing in Union Square prevented 1 thA church must grasp its opportun- ity and go after these hundreds Of thousands of unchurched. There are fl this city more than 100000 non church protestants ana a1vast number of people who were aetlve church members in other towns and cities but have never touched, foot within | church door in New York; The So- cialists and all others with destruct-
 i've propaganda find thsnf a fertile field" s
 The work here will not be done
 with such huge army ofgworkcrs as pr. Chapman had enlisted yunder him in Philadelphia. There with be a per | sonal side to the work. bat probably not the house. to house canvass that i distinsuisned the work iIl the quaker ! City, Never in this country has there been such a campaign as pr. Chapman
 made in Philadelphlh. lie says SC himself and the 15,000 converts toll
 th rest of the story There the work started weeks in advance of the church
 meetings. over 1000 persons visited the houses in the twenty-one districts into which the city was divided and
 extended q personal invitation to all [" attend as many as possible of tho nu-
 merous meetings provided morning. at
 ternoon and evening. The mails were
 psed to reach hundreds of thousands. Sunday School children were employed as messengers on the Kings Business and they delivered 10000 letters. The cost was over $3o.O00. but the harvest
 was regarded as worthy of the pricc.
 The real work will start early this
 month. when the Tent Evangel will
 be opened. But in the meantime
 there will be another revival in pro
 gross. in this case at Baltimore dur.
 ing the General Conference of the Methodist Church Preachers from all
 over the world will be there. pr. C.
 M. Boswell. known as the master
 evangelist" will be but one of the not
 able figures lay workers will gO
 out into the factory districts during
 the noon hour and hold services ev- ery day The men and women will