The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
Rev. DR.. Chapman Expresses
Satisfaction Over Re-
Spouse to Appeal
NOT FAR FROM 200
DECISIONS MADE
Very Impressive Service Last Even
ing-''No Man Cared for My Soul
Audience Dismissed Without Per-
sonal Work.

sonal Work.
The personal workers were not asked
to work following Rev. DIR. Chapman S
sermon in the tabernacle last evening
and no decisions were asked for, but
at the close of an exceptionally inn
pressive service DR.. Chapman dismissed
the congregation without closing
hymn and with a request that those
present 90 out quietly without talking
and that before closing THEN eyes in
sleep they write to some tiicud and
make request that that frien | make
decision for Christ and acknowledge
Him. 1t was an unexpected and I'M
usual way of bringing meeting TO an
end, but it left fresh in the minds of
all DR.. Chapman s. notable development
of the text of the evening, Psalms
1924: ~ No man cared for my soul,
in which he showed that the reason
why many persons do not accept Jesus
as their saviour is that they feel that
no one ever asks them.
DIR. Chapman prefaced his sermon
/
! to his appeals since the services in
Brattleboro began had been especially
encouraging, considering the size of the
town, not far from 200 decisions having
been made in two weeks. II have a
| conviction he asserted, "that hun
| dreds of others in this city would come
| to Christ If they were asked.
During the supper hour light sup
per was served to over 1875 business
women of the town in the Centre Con
gregational chapel, and at 6.45 DR..
| Chapman addressed them and others
who had brought the number up TO
about It's, on John 10:10: ~ am come
that they might have life, and that they
might have it more abundantly. = Then
the company went to the tabernacle.
Mr.. Alexander conducted a song ser
vice, starting with a new hymn, Christ
Our Captain. Answer Yes was sung
again, also two hymns requested by
DIR. Chapman, We Journey to q City
which seems to be a favOrite with him
as it is with many others, and Jesus
Passed Through Jericho Mr. Brown
sang He Is Mine, the choir assisting
and as a solo He Is Caring for Me, {
pleasing number which had not beer
sung here before.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Waite
Curtis of Westminster West. TIL,
chairman, Rev. Mr.. Tomkinson, stated
that DIR. Chapman wished TO meet al
: Bible school officers and teachers ant
the general committee at the close o
the Friday night meeting, also tina
Monday night would be observed il
the tabernacle as home night. Dr.
Chapman announced delegations pres
ent from the White River chair fac
tory Bellows Falls and Westmoreland
n. H., besides the business women, an
he extended them a cordial welcome.
After the congregation had repeate
the text DR.. Chapman said that the-cr
of David, HNo Imam cared for m
soul, = was the cry of many a man an
many a woman in Brattleboro. Cor
tinuing, he said: "But some of yo
may say, We have the churches an
the doors are wide open, and we hav
ministers and their messages are true
Yet the average man who sits in churc
and listens to the preacher does no
count the appeal as personally to hin
He somehow thinks our appeal is pro
: fessional, and he sits in the pew an
u says, THAT is not for me-.
: - man came into my church
Philadelphia to worship through tn
I summer while his family were in tn
I mountains He was one of the creates
? newspaper editors in America. One da
I / called at his private office, and as
took him by the hand | said, Il hav
come to ask you to be a Christian. II
looked at me in amazement, so l SAL