"WILBUR-CHAPMAN MISSION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 13411, 1 May 1909, Page 13

"WILBUR-CHAPMAN MISSION.

OPENING OP MELBOURNE CAMPAIGN.

Dr. "Wilbur Chapman, D.D., MrChas. '- M. Alexander, and party of thirteen, "and other missioners, who commenced " a simultaneous mission in Melbourne nnd suburbs last Sunday, arrived at ; "Melbourne by the Sydney express on Tuesday, April 20fh, and wero met at Spencer street station by over 100 «e_y_eii'and laymen of the various churches. The missioners arrived in Sjrdjiey in the steamer Makura, via "Vancouver. At a reception Dr. Chapman said ho felt it a great privilege to be in the oty of Melbourne for tho first time, v and felt more than pleased at the splendid welcome accorded him. They had done good work in other cities, and he felt that God was going to do Seat things for Australia. They "had d«markablesuccess in Boston, where Cawtiaa Science, Unitarianism, and •reiy other "ism" that drifted people airay from the true religion of Christ was paramount. The Boston revival < "{"*_ n6 °* *"k° Sreatest of revivals, and "tney could succeed in that'part of ttei wnrld they wero sure of success in , Australia. (Applause.) ' a* Ataumder also briefly addressed »• Catherine. ' nP 1 * ,eader of tho party, I)r. Wilbur . .«wpman, D.D., beforo "becoming an evangelist, was a successful oastor in «c» York and Philadelphia.* He was ' . ? m , B,ch nx<md, Indiana, in 1859, «M graduated from the Lake Forrest ' T&-! ty ,""? 1879 - aiMl from Lane ineotogwal Seminary three years later. ; f__2_* rears he ba « conducted similar "WS" in otw fifty American cities. " ■ Harkness, tlie musician of ■ E*-? 1 /»„ v an Australian, be inc. a Z£!? f Bendigo, where his father has ' 3 1 *• PMition of Mayor on three 2*"» V whi c hU brother at tlie present time holds that honour. Mr •JS 8 *<** to America with Mr Anstrallr When tho latter visited Australia seven years ago.