FAMOUS REVIVALIST DEAD

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 91, 14 October 1920, Page 7

FAMOUS REVIVALIST DEAD

MR. C, M. ALEXANDER,

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIfIHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received October 14, 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON, 13th Ootober. Mr. Charles M. Alexander, the evangelist, is dead.

[The late Charles M'Callon Alexander is world-famous as an evangelist. He was born in Tennessee ■ in 1867, became a student of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and engaged for many years in evangelistic work, singing, and organising large choirs. In 1902-6, in company with the Rev. R. A. Torrey, he made a tour of the world, in the course of which the well-known "Glory Song" became everywhere famous. A second tour of the world with Mrs. Alexander (nee Helen Cadbury, of Manchester), followed. Mr. Alexander conducted the largest evangelistic choir ever organised (comprising 4000 members) daily for two months in the Royal Albert Hall, London. Since 1908 he was associated with Mr. J. W. Chapman in evangelical missions. He visited Australia, twice, and toured China, Japan, Korea, Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. He was prominent during the war in forwarding mission work in the American Army camps. He was the author of several volumes of revival songs and hymns.]