CHAPMAN-ALEXANDER MISSION

Otago Witness, Issue 3029, 3 April 1912, Page 8

CHAPMAN-ALEXANDER MISSION

ADDRESS TO MINISTERS. Yesterday morning a meeting for ministers was held at 10.30 in the Burns Hall. The attendance was large, and the gathering enthusiastic. The proceedings opened with the singing of the hymn " I waited for the Lord my God," Mr Harkness presiding at the piano. After a brief prayer Mr Naftzger sang a solo, " God will take care of you." * The Rev. R. E. Davie* made a brief introductory speech, after which Dr Chapman asked for the chorus " Oh Lord, send us a revival," the words being first sung by Mr Alexander and afterwards taken up by the whole assemblage in such a hearty manner that Mr Alexander could not refrain from complimenting thorn upon it. In accordance with the request of the missioner, the audience gathered as far as possible to the front of the building, and he addressed them from the floor, leaving the stage for that purpose. The introductory remarks were of a nature so closely associated with the attitude of the minister to his congregation and with several difficulties with which, ho had to contend, that Dr Chapman turned to th»> press tables and requested that he should not be reported, at the same time saying he would give the word when his remarks might be taken up. This, however, he neglected to do, evidently becoming BO engrossed in his subject that he i>assed on to the message of the morning without further thought of any other concern. Ho spoke from no text; indeed, the scope of the address almost precluded one. His first point was the. known desire of every minister to excel. He enlarged greatly upon it, but said that the secret of power was to make preaching a passion and not a profession. He reminded his hearers of how they thrilled when they first started their ministry. If this feeling could be letained or rejuvenated in after years and to it were added the study and experience which had become theirs, they would bo possessed of preaching power. He spoke strongly in favour of an appeal to the hearts of men. Argument in the pulpit was worse than useless The greatest men in the world could be reached more easily through their hearts than through their heads. If he had found one class of people moreeasy to move than another it was the people in the city of New York, the preat politicians, business men, and rich people. He wanted the young ministers to realise this, that it did not matter what kind of people they had facing them, whether rich or poor, cultured and refined, or otherwise. One of the troubles besetting ministers today was that consciously or unconsciously some of them had departed from the Bible

as the authoritative Word of God. There was a lack of authority in their oreaching. They did not stand by the Book as they used to do They said the times were changed and they tried to adapt the truth to the times. He did not know a man to day in all the wide world who was preaching to the crowd and holding it who was not standing on God's Word as his authoritative message. Sometimes ministers lost grip because consciously or unconsciously they were affected by Bible criticism.

Pie knew that there was a reverent form of criticism. But whatever form of critiesiin tbey talked about, whether advanced, moderate, sharp, or kindly the pulpit was no plaoe for it. Men were too sin-sick, too burdened and too weak for a minister to stand up in the pulpit and in any way criticise the Word of God. Christ could save men now just as always he could. There was only one message to preach today as always, a crucified Saviour. Some of them had lost the evangelistic note, and some had rot sounded it out. He was working with them as a minister, and he knew that they were between God and men, facing men and women who might be in eternity to-morrow. If there was anything that might shake his faith and make him sceptical it was to see a man preaching without pa.ssi.on. The trouble with many of them was "that they did not preach with sufficient authority. People in the pews sometimes criticised preachers. It was a thing that, made him really angry. No man outside tbo pulpit understood the life of a minister, and the work he was called to do from mornintr to night, and from night to morning. The speaker proceeded to deal with the special aptitude and the divine call of a man to the work, and ended The disoomsc Lv an entreaty to his hearers to study the Bible for the sake of themee.'.ves and to remember the place occupied by prayer in their own lives, instancing many examples together with explicit anecdotes in support of the position. MIDDAY MEETINGS. At noon Mr R. C. Norton met again in First Church a large number desirous of hearing his series of addresses on the subject of ''Personal AVork." These meetings, he said, were more especially for instruction than for inspiration, and he began by briefly reviewing the address of the previous* day. He pointed out, with all due respect to the ministry, that the chief work of '.Jesus Christ was not- preaching, but in personal dlealing with people. God had only called a few to be preachers, Sunday school workers, or church olficials, but He had called every Christian to soul-winning. He urged them to this work because, in the first place, it was their own salvation. No one could have a large, abundant Christian life who was not seeking to win others. Then it wats the salvation of others. It was the great corrector of theological views. It drove away doubt and criticism and despair. It would solve every problem of the Church if the Church would go forth to this service in the spirit of the Mas-er. It was contagious, and multiplied tihe usefulness of their own lives in Hie lives if others. There were very many ways in which people might be won for Christ, but There was just one thing that God had p.I ways promised to use, and that was His own precious Word. To be equipped in the knowledge of that was to be in* line wir-h God's own chosen method'. Mr Norton sp nt tii'c remainder of his time in beginning a careful explanation of the scheme outline in the " Workers Testa- j ment," showing particularly how to impress from the Scripture the fact that all have sinned, and the consequences of sin. ,

He intimated 1 that lie would continue this explanation in the coming d&ys. The business men's meeting at a quarter to 1, in the Burns Hall, opened with the vigorous singing of the hymn, " Showers of blessing," followed by the chorus, "' I am included." After Dr Chapman had led in prayer, a couple of the psalms in the "Red Song Book—the 160th and the 121st were taken up. Mr Alexander then Started to teach thoroughly the chorus, '\l am included," whkh goes to the same tune as "The old-time religion." "The Lord' loves a new song," commented Mr Alexander, with all the envpihasis on the word '' new," as he urged ministers to get their people to learn this chorus, but at the same time, he added, there was no need to neglect the old familiar psalms and hymns. Dr Chapman said it was only possible in the 15 minutes left him to give an outline of a subject, but he thought sometimes that if they took those outlines and filled them in in practical everyd'ay living, they would do very well. He took his text from the ninth verse of the sixth chapter of Hebrews: "Things that accompany salvation " He said he supposed there was no epistle of which the authorship had been more questioned, or of which the genuineness had been more unquestioned than the epistle to the Hebrews, and indicated his strong belief in its Pauline authorship. In that epistle they found plainly presented to them the things that accompanied salvation. Dr A. T. Pierson had said that every single book in the Bible had a key- word, and to find it was like finding the key to the locked' door of a room full of treasure. The keyword of Matthew was " righteousness," of Mark 'service," of Luke "love," of John " life," and of the Epistle to Hebrews the keyword was " better "—better sacrifice, better covenant, better promises, and so on. He dwelt on the point that salvation was threefold —past, present, and future, as indicated in Corinthians I—10: " Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us." " We have been saved," said Dr Chapman,"by His death we are being saved by His indwelling, we shall be saved by His second corning." Among the " things that accompanied salvation " he mentioned first pardon and forgiveness. God's pardon was very different from human paidon. One man could not justify another who had done wrong, but after God's pardon they started out with a clean record. God not only pardoned, but He forgave; and when He forgave He remembered our sins no more. He cast them behind His back into the depths of the sea. There was offered to every man in the world full forgiveness and entire justification. Joy was another accompaniment of salvation. Joy meant more than happiness. Happiness wa s the world's word, and it oame when circumstances were bright, but joy did not depend on circumsatnees. and they might have it when, humanly speaking they were "of all men the most miserable. Again, power accompanied salvation. There was no excuse for a powerless life. If they were powerless the trouble was not with God; the trouble was to be found in their own lives. If they had yielded fully to God they had a right to claim the power He had offered. Another accompaniment of salvation was assurance. He knew he was a Christian not because of His emotions o*. His feelings, but because God had said it. Pardon, justification, forgiveness, joy, power, assurance—what a marvellous salvation! Let them go out to live it, and they would thus persuade others to live it. At 3 o'clock punctually there was commenced in First Church the meeting which had been announced as a " preaching service " on the subject of " The Evangelistic

Church and the Evangelis>'»io Pastor." Whale it is true that every meeting that has y«fc been held in connection jvith the mission has fyeen a remarkable one, that was true ot taiis meeting in a special degree. Though the weather was anything but pleasant, the church! must have held 700 or 000 people. On the splendid organ that First Church possesses Mr Harkness demonstrated » a fresh direction his wonderful powers as an accompanist, and Mr Alexander led the singing from the pulpit. The hymns chosen for the opening part of the service were a trio of beautiful old favourites —" All hail the power," " Jesus lover of my ecul," and " Lead, kindly light." Mr W. H. M'Loughlin, of Belfast, who was briefly introduced by Dr Chapman, said he counted it as a great privilege to tell them something of what Gcd had done through Dr Chapman and Mr Alexander in tho North of Ireland. It was wonderful, ho said, to see there baronets, Privy councillors, knights, men known to royalty, coming to the mission to honour God through His servants. He went on to give some indication of the wonderful results that had flowed from the Belfast mission. Dr Chapman said he was to speak on the subject of " The Evangelistic Church and the Evangelistic Pastor." He meant by an evangelistic church a church that was loyally fulfilling the commission of its Divine Master. The church was an evangelistic church when she felt a measure of responsibility for the unchurched people of the community and realised that there was a responsibility resting upon her to seek the lost until they were found. He did notbelieve they would find in the ministry & man more afraid of the sensational than he was. He had never yet found it necessary to be sensational, nor in studying the lives of the most successful ministers had he found thorn using strange or singular methods to win people to Christ. Dr Chapman's whole address was rich in illustration and incident drawn from his own ministerial experience. He told of the great change that had been wrought in one of his congregations, not by any change in methods, but by a change in the spirit of the congregatioii which attracted others in crowds, for they felt that in that church they were stopping into the atmosphere of heaven. He was pleading for the Spirit of Jesus in all that they paid and all that they did. An evangelistic church was not o£ necessity a church that held extra services. There were times of seed sowing and of harvest, and Mr Alexander end he never went into a community and reaped great harvests without knowing that they were reaping what others had sown. It was not fair to say a minister was not evangelistic because the accessions to the church membership were not numerous, As had been well said. "The man who added Moffat to the church added a continent to the Kingdom." An evangelistic pastor was not necessarily a man always preaching along evangelistic lines and making appeals. A man could say, " Come to Jesus" until the message lost its sweetness. He had never yet known an evangelistic minister who had not some conception at least of the thought that men without Christ were lost. The evangelistic preacher was essentially a man of prayer —he meant, a man who got alone with God, and realised that there was none other near, and then threw' wide open every door of his nature, lifted up his face and said—sometimes with a sob—" Oh God! The evangelistic church was the church that breathed the spirit of welcome to all who came. Some people thought their church needed a new minister. What the m? niste f needed was a new church, and he did not mean a new building. The evangelistao church was a church with a minister that was filled with the Spirit, and people in the pews that were filled with tho Spirit, all together seeking to win the lost.

EVENING ADDRESS. "THE WAGES OF SIN" In the evening at the Brydone Hall it» was early evident that the falling rain was rot going to have .'my appreciable effect on the attendance. It had been decided to start the song service at 7.15, but in view of the numbers present Mr Alexander got to work before that. One of the favourites in the early part of the meeting was No. 154 l" My Jesus, I love Thee "). Dr Chapman read a passage from the Gfth chapter of Romans, and the .singing was resumed with No. 49 ("Singing glory"). This was new to the people, and Mr Naftz T ger sang the chorus over once or twice to enable them to get a grip of the tune. " We want everybody to help," said Mr Alexander. " Don't look at the people on the platform. They are just like the.rest of us." A? he remarked, the chorus had plenty of "youth and movement" in it, and the bright words promptly dispelled the impression of gkom brought in from outside. " Everybody listen," Mr Alexander advised. *' You don't know whom I will call on to sing that through." Aftear the audience had got a hold of the chorus Mr Naftzger sang through the verses, white the people came in with the chorus very heartily. Mr Alexander appealed to any in. the audience who had got a special blessing from any of the hymns to name it, and they would, if possible, sing it Among those so chosen were " Memories of mother " and i-he choruses " It is wonderful " and '" Blessed be the Name " Dr Chapman again presented a large number of requests for prayer, amongst which was one sent from Melbourne. Mr Naftzger sang very sweetly by special request No. 79 ("Jesus is all the world to mo"). Then came the last hymn before the sermon, "All hail the novver," and it was taken up by all with enthusiasm. Dr Chapman took as his text the words "The wages of sin is death."- He reminded his audience of what ho had said at the men's meeting on Sunday afternoon: that sin always found the sinner out. It separated the dearest friends and broke the ties of the family life. Men often admitted that the minister was right, and said that one day they would turn from sin. If only he could bring home to them the sad stories that had been poured into his ears and the sights that had been burned into his eyes, there was not a. man or woman in the building that would hesitate about turning away from sin and laying hold of Jesus Christ. Kin always undermined character. It was impossible to do wrong without character being affected. Ho had seen a great many men yo dpwn under sin. He wished he had some place whoro he could meet men and have them pour out their secrets to him. He had_ never said such a thing before. He had always advised men to go to their own ministers Sin meant loss of place and loss of power. He related the story of a man who had lobbed his employer of 200 dollars. Years after he sought peace, and was told the only way was to

go to him and tell what he had done and refund the money. He went to the office in New York, and told how he had been unable to balance his books, and, the difference being on his own side, had pocketed the balance. He refunded the money with compound h terest, and told his employer he was ready to go to prison or be dealt with in any way he might think fit. His employer, a strong Christian man, said: " Let U 3 get down on our knees and pray." When they had finished, he eaid: "Go back to your home, God's blessing go with you." Dr Chapman stated that he stood not 10 feet from the man when ho told the story to his Sunday school scholars, and admitted that it was this that stood in the way of his winning them for Christ. Sin was death to power. It would seal men's lips and bind them if they sinned. It was worse than either of these things—it was death. He related the story of a woman in high society in New York—a story that became the topic of the whole city. She broke with her husband and went off to live with another man. She stated at the time that she was ready to stand by the courage of her convictions. She stood, the said, by what she had done, whether right or wrong, as a woman who had longid lor what she did not have and liad found what she had always longed for Sotriety might brand her and the world might ecorn her, but she would go forth. Her husband tried all he could to induce her to return, and in the end was forced to divorce her. She marsied the man with whom fhe had been living in sin, just before she took her own life and her former eom.panion took his. "My friend," she .said, speaking to an old companion, * My friend, you and I laugh sometimes at the old things like the law and religion when they say " Thou shalt not." We may think that phrase was written for 'old fogeys, but, my friend, there comes to us somotimes the knowledge that the law and religion are right, and when they say we shall not do a thing we cannot do it without suffering. I have learned that." Then she added " And I have learned that the wages of sin is death." It was not only death, ' it was hell. He wished he could say the: word that would make them hate it as he ■ hated it. In these days it was commonly said that all that was needed was a new environment. "Then in God's name why did Adam sin?" Was it true? Judas Iscariot was so near to Jesus that he could touch Him? Why did ho slip away only to put a rope round his neok?" | There was only one way to overcome sin. ".Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like j crimson they shall be as wool." " God so ; loved the world." "I do not read the text, that way," said Dr Chapman, " I have got it written in my Testament at home like | this: "God so loved Wilbur Chapman that! He believing in Me shall not perish but have everlasting life." Dr Chapman ended his pddresß bv a powerful appeal, and called upon Mr Naftzger to sing the solo " Softly and ter.deily Jesus is calling," which has; the refrain "Come home." An opportunity was given to those who wished to leave the ! buildin?. an invitation to remain to an after j meeting being accepted by a large propertion of the meeting. At Dr Chapman's re- | quest and after an interval had been allowed , for wsonal work while the choir sang "CalVug to-day," between 30 and 4-0 came forward and were addressed by Dr Chapman. After prayer had been offered each made public individual profession of faith, j The gathering broke up about 9.30.

MISSION NOTES The mission party was strengthened yesterday by the arrival of distinguished visitors in the- persons of Sir Robert Aadcrson, Bart., and Lady Anderson, of Belfast. Mr and Mrs W. H. M'Laugh'lln, of the same city, and Mr Archibald H. Robertson, >f Glasgow, who reached Dune-din in the morning by the Moeraki. Sdr Robert Anderson has bee-n for the last two years Mayor of Belfast, and was created! a baronet at" the xeoent Coronation. Ho also occupies the position of chairman of ihe Belfast Council Tramway Committee, alderman of one of the wards, and sheriff of the County of Monoghan. Mr W. H. M'Laughdin is the city magistrate of Belfast, and, like Sdr Robert Anderson, has large interests in various important industries, such as cotton, etc., in the north of Ireland. Mr A. Hope Robertson is nephew of the lato Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerma«, I'rimc Minister. These visitors became so intensely interested in the recent revival in Belfast under Dr Chapmam and Mr Alexander that they decided to follow tho evangelists to tho other side of tho world, lending them all th. 3 assistance they could. In introducing Mr M'Laiughiin at yesterday afternoon's meeting, Dr Chapman said it was a very great pleasure and a very great compliment to evangelism in general that Sir Robert and Lady Anderson and Mr and Mrs M'Laughlin were with them that day to assist them. They had thought it worth their while to give up their business for six months in order to tell business men once in a while what they thought about evangelism. Yesterday morning Mrs Chapman and Mrs Alexander visited Braemar House to meet the girls of the Misses Miller's School, and at the midday meeting in Burns Hall Mrs Alexander briefly reported on their visit. She said that with Mrs Chapman she had had the great privilege of an invitation from Miss Miller to speak to the girls of her school. They could tell in a moment when they got there what a wonderful groundwork there was for them to start on. Those present were girls who had been already trained in the Scriptures and knew their Bibles. The Littlo girls were not present, but there were over 100 in the room, and at the close of tho meeting when the invitation was given it seemed to them that, one after another, practically every hand in the loom, at anyrato a rery large proportion of the hands of girls, were raised to show that they would there and then decide for the Lord jesuri Christ. When an opportunity was give<n they rose three and four at a time and in a simple statement confessed Christ as a personal Saviour. It was a great blessing to know, Mrs Alexander concluded, that they were under an influence where thev would bo helped to continue their Christian life. Dr Ch&pnKin is anxious during his stay here to meet specially with all theological students, and as his only free time is the luncheon hour he is arranging to meet them then. Yesterday he asked all divinity students who would do so to hand their names to the Rev. R. E. Davies in order that a time and place might be agreed upon.

The expenses of carrying on the mission here, particularly since the extension of

the time of its duration, have been very considerable, and it seems that the contributions received have hardty been as large a 3 might have been expected from the size of the crowds attending. Dr Chapman said at his midday meeting yesterday that he had learned 1 from the treasurer that people had an idea that because tho crowds were so large therefore they did not need to increase their contribution. As a matter cf fact, the contributions had rather decreased than otherwise since the time had been extended. He asked them to make theii offering as an act of worship, and to make it generous. In the cven:ng he said it was absolutely essential that they should double what was being received if the local committee was to meet its expenses. At last night's meeting 'n the iiiydone Hall Dr Chapman said he had an announcement that would, he knew, Le rot without interest, particularly to those who remembered the visit of Dr Torrey and Mr Alexander 10 years ago. Ho had just received word by mail that Dr Torrey was now in charge of the Bible Institute ,n the city of Los Angeles, in the State <>f C svhforma. and he would, therefore, be influencing a great number of people on the Pacifio coast. They would no doubt specially remember Dr Torrey in their prayers. Careful preparations are being mado for the special service for old people which is to be held in the Brydone Hall'on Friday afternoon. Reports from other places indicate, said the Rev. W. Hay at last night's meeting, that this would be one of the most beautiful and impressive services of the whole mission. Dr Cltapmam was expecting fully 1000 old people there, and they wished ali to co-operate in extending invitations to them and helping to bring them to the building. Those who knew the names and addresses of any who would be prevented by infirmity from attending unless specially conveyed were asked to communicate with Mr Hay.

WELCOME TO THE MISSIONERS. A largo number of members of the Dunediu Presbytery assembled ill First Church Sunday School Hall yesterday morning to tender an official welcome to I>r Chapman and Mr Alexander. The Moderator, the Fvev. 11. E. Davies. presided. The proceedings commenced with the singing of the 23rd Psalm, and a prayer led by the chairman. The Moderator, in addressing the gathering, said they had gathered for the purpose of meeting Dr Chapman and Mr Alexander. This was merely a preliminary meeting, as the members of the Presbytery, the church assistants, and the visitors would' meet at luncheon later. Referring to the mission, the speaker said he had noticed, from one of the statements made by Dr Chapman, that ho considered a special minister like himself an emergency man. Dr Chapman also commended very strongly missions being held in the congregations of the churches. He (the speaker) felt that the ministers present would subscribe to that statement, because they realised that every ministcx of the Church should be, in a sense, a senior evangelist. There was a distinct advantage in the visit of one like Dr Chapman, and' also Mr Alexander, who hud come here from afar with a worldwide experience in evangelisation. There was a danger in a Church such, as theirs sufFeiing from provincialism, as they were not in olose touch with the outside Church world, and they always welcomed a visit from one of their brethren who had been in constant touch with the outside world. Dr Chapman was undoubtedly better able to bring them into touch with a wider sphere than mosc ministers could. He came there and 1 could give them, as it were, a bird's-eye view of Christendom. During the past few years, 'however, the Churches thioughout the civilised world had been brought into closer touch with each other than ever they had been before. They should be like, aimies in a battle, being able to know of the victories achieved by individual sections. Fresbytenans realised with a sense of pride the position that the Presbyterian Church had in the United States of America, where it exercised a hi«-h influence over the whole of the political and 1 social life of the States. They were nroud to be associated, if only for a little 'time, with those who had been in. touch with tho work of that great Church in the United States of America. They welcomed the mUsioners with all their hearts, and assured them that they were deeply interested in and supported the great and good work they were doing in this city. . The Rev. James Chisholm moved tho following resolution:—"That the Presbytery of Dunedin hail with groat and special satisfaction the presence in this city of Dr Chapman and Mr Alexander, and the other members of the mission band, whose fame is spread abroad in all the Churches. While recognising in Dr Chapman a foremost minister in our own order, we are delighted to know that his sympathies are so catholic and his services so well fitted to minister to the needs of all. The Presbytery desires with the utmost heartiness to assure Dr Chapman of the keen interest taken by the Presbytery of Dunedin in his work, and of its earnest and abounding prayer that the present mission may tend most signally to further the Kingdom of our Lord and' Saviour in these new lands. The movei concluded an address following on his motion by saying that in Dr Chapman they had one of the finest embodiments of New England theology and New England 1 piety. The Rev. A. Cameron seconded tho motion, stating that the one thing that surprised him was that Dr Chapman was able to continue his work night after night without becoming distressed or his health in any way being impaired. The motion was carried by acclamation. Dr Chapman, in responding to the welcome accorded the miesioners, said that the Presbyterian General Assembly of America was greatly interested in the evangelistic work he was carrying out. For 11 consecutive Assemblies he had had the privilege of submitting a report on his work done during the year. They came to Australasia because his Assembly wished them to come, and the very last thing that was said to him by the president of the Assembly was that he should he back for the second Assembly meeting, in 1913, with a report on his work. This would indicate to them the interest which was being taken in tho work out here. The Presbyterian Assemblies of Canada and Britain had ap. proved of sane and sensible evangelism. No evangelist could hope to live as long as he would if engaged in a businessMoody himself probably died 20 .years sooner than ho would have done if engaged in business pursuits—but ho (Dr Chapman) expected to live long enough to see the Presbyterian Church federated in a forward movement, a three years' aggres-

sivo evangelistical campaign. Ho believed from what he had experienced that the Church would riso to its rightful position, and would evolve the real solution for the settlement of all the big social questions and the strike problems It mattered not how much sociologists talked and worked, the.' means of regeneration, lay with the Church. Ho suggested' to the Presbytery that a. three months' mission should be conducted by the Church at the close of his mission, instead of going back to the good old solid Presbyterian way, than which there oould be. nothing more solid, nor stolid either. Ho concluded by thanking the ministers for the support they were giving the mission, stating that he would rather have the commendation of a minister than that of any other man, for the minister understood the work. Mr Alexander also briefly retuirned thanks.

MIDDAY MEETINGS. Mr R. C. Norton's midday meeting in First Church for instruction in personal work yesterday showed some falling-oil' in attendance, and. Mr Norton asked these present to make it known that these addrosses are open to all interested. He spoke of diflerent cLass.es of mand with which personal workers would have to deal. There were those who were prejudiced 1 without really knowing why they were prejudiced. Speaking of the real and the dishonest, sceptic, he said that the basis of 99 per cent, of scepticism was some known sin in the life. They would have to begin by lindiug out what tho man did believe — whether he believed in a future reward and a future doom, whether he believed in the Ward of God, and whether he believed in right and wrong. They had to bring indiilerent people to the fact that they were sinners and lest, and they had sometimes to find the reason for the indifference. There was just one class' of people for whom Jesus did not die: "He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." A man had to put himself in the classification of sinners before Christ could reach him. With all classes of people they required to eliminato until they got down to the real excuse for not becoming a Christian. Many exouses were set up to hide the real trouble in men's lives. Let them create a clear issue with the individual. Sometimes they beat all round the bush and never came to the real point. Let them make tho appeal along th« line of a man's qualifications, training, need; and, lastly, let them bring men to a decision. Once they saw that a man understood the position clearly they should force him to take a stand. Continuing his exposition of the scheme outlined in the " Workers' Testament," Mr Norton spoke of "The way of escape," making use of the passages, "I am the way," "Neither is there salvation in any other," and the re sponse of Peter, " Lord, to whom shall, we go? Thou hast the word's of eternal life."

BUSINESS MEN'S MEETING. The meeting for business men, advertised to commence at 12.45, was largely attended, the lower part of the building being about three-parts full. A great number of ladies also appeared on the scene, and took their places in the gallery, occupying nearly all the seats. The song service "occupied some 15 .minutes, the singing throughout being of a hearty and enjoyable nature. Dr Chapman selected his text from the Book of Job, chapter xxxi, and the thirty-fifth verso. He said the words were not in the authorised version, but they really were in the text. Job was a great man. Some people said he was a mythical character, but how did they know that? The burden and proof was upon them if they said so. He liked to think he was a groat man. He was a rich man, certainly, and he was a tempted man. Any man worth while was tempted. Job was a tempted man, and a sorely tried one, but he was only tempted to a certain point. The devil hod a chance with him, but God said, " Omly so far." Gcd never lets him go beyond a limit. Job was a great illustration of this. Ho was a great man, a rich man, and a tempted man, but he was also a triumphant man. He was a great study. He had a number of comforters, and they were having a great argument with him, saying that it was because he hud done wrong that he was having such a 3ore time. Job was making his defence, the climax of which was contained in the text. He had always been kindly, charitable, and true. Then he felt as if even God himself might be against him. " But thouch mine enemy had written a book I would bind that book upon my forehead. Lo J here is my signature." Dr Chapman characterised the words as a great text What did a man's name stand for? John, William, Charles, that was not it. A man's name was his nature. Every man in the building had written his history. What, then, did their names stand for? There were three things ho wanted them to do. First get salvation. A lot was heard in these days of social service, and it was a great thing, but let men get down to the mainspring and take their start from Him who came into the world seeking not His own but to help others, who came not to be ministered unto but to minister. The statement was made that what was needed was applied Christianity. Then let them apply it. Let them put their names down to salvation, not selfish salvation, but salvation for others. At one time he used to spend his time keeping men out of hell, but now he was engaged in keeping hell out to men. He used to try to get men into heaven, but now what he tried to do was to get heaven into them. He offered them not a selfish salvation, but a real, genuine one —one that counted in business, making men more honest, making fathers and husbands more dear, and friends mora genuine. What was a Christian? In his home it was kindness, in business honesty, in society justness and fairness, in work thoroughness, in play genuineness; towards the fortunate, congratulation; towards the unfortunate, pity; towards the wicked, resistance; towards the weak, help; towards the struggling, assistance; towards the penitent, forgiveness; towards God, reverence and love. " Will you put your name down to that? asked the speaker—" if so you have a great life ahead of you." In the first place salvation, in the second place sacrifice. Jesus had said that the Son of Man had not where to lay His head. " Why want an easy time?" asked Dr Chapman. The business man or the barrister or doctor who had an easy time never did any good. The men who counted in the City of Duncdin were the men who had struggled, who had known privation, and who had borne the cross. " Sure I must fight if I would win. Inorcase my courage, Lord." A man was not worth very much who did not put all he had into life, and the man

[ was not worth much to Christ * *ho did not | | put all he had into his grip. The third ; thing needed was that they should put their ! i names to service—real, downright, faithful | ! service. God wanted the very best they j J 'had, and wanted it all the time. What was ; | wanted in these days was men and women i I in the Church who would do anything for • Jesus Christ at any cost. He did not thank ! the fear in these days waa that men were going to wear out, but that they were going to rust out. I>r Chapman concluded with an appeal for passionate service so that one day they could meet their Lord and say, " I did the best I could, just the best I could." Let them strive to make the world a better place, and Dunedin a purer city, make it harder for men to do wrong and easier to do right. ENTERTAINED BY THE PRESBYTERY. After the meeting an adjournment was mode .to the Stuart Hall, where the mission party was entertained to luncheon by the Dunedin Presbytery. The Rev. R. E. Davies presided, and after the good things had been done justice to, Mr Davies called upon Mr Alexander for a few j remarks, preferably of a humorous description. The request was responded to briefly | but right willingly, his hearers being pro- j voked to outbursts of laughter. I Mr M'Laughlin followed, remarking that probably they hoped to hear him say something of what he and his companions had seen in connection with the mission in Belfast. He related the story of his own conversion, whioh he said came at the hands of a little child of 11 years of age, who one morning said to him that he would be saved. He wondered what she meant, but she explained that she had made a petition on his behalf that he should be saved. Mr M'Laughlin said that a fortnight later it was so. He had come to believe more and more in simplicity and simple faith. One of the things that most struck him about the mission in Belfast ; was the way in which Dr Chapman spoke j to the people's hearts. The mighty work ! was carried on in the simple preaching of tho gospel. He believed God loved a simplo childlike faith, and that was what he had seen in Dr Chapman. Mr Robertson waa next called on. H» said his hearers might wonder what connection he had with the mission, and explained that he had received a direct invitation from both Mr Alexander and Dr | Chapman to accompany them after he had become interested in the work going on about Belfast. He had accepted tho invita- ; tion, esteeming it a great pleasure and a great honour to be allowed to accompany them and to be associated in any way with so great a work. j A' number of other speakers followed, each with a story of piquancy and point, one of the best being related by Dr Chapman of Sam Jones. Moit of his hearers, he said, knew only tho ridiculous side of Jones, but he was really a groat preacher. He went once to Boston, where he told the ministers they should put more into their sermons, and related this story: Ho was brought up on a farm where it was part of his duties to feed the hogs. He used to go up with the swill pails and rattle on the troughs, whereupon they all rushed up to him. Then one day he thought he would try a trick oh them. He went up and rattled the empty trough, .tie did the same thing again, and on several other occasions. " Brethren," said Jones, " you don't want to do that too many times." The party caught the point.

AFTERNOON SERVICE. "THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT." There was another largo attendance—about 800 —at the afternoon service in First Church, where Dr Chapman was announced to epeak on the subject of the Holy Spirit. Mr Alexander, conducting from the pulpit, opened the meeting with the hymn, "oh God, out help in agee past," after which Dr Chapman read the first four verses of the second chapter of Acts, and offered up prayer. Mr Alexander asked the audience to loarn No 142, " Thte love of the spirit," a hymn written by Dr Chapman, and sot to musio by Mr Darkness Mr Harkness first played and' sang over a verse, and then Mr Naftzger, the soloist of the party, wing the hymn through. By that time the people were ready to take it up correctly and confidently, and tboy did so in a way that pleased even M.r Alexand-ar. After other hymns appropriate to the subject. Dr Chapman commenced his address. The Holy' Spirit, he said, was just as much a personality as the Father or the Son. He was to speak to them on the love of the Spirit, and his text was found in Romans xv, 30, " The love of the Spirit." Ho was not quite clear in his own mind whether the Apostle Paul meant our love for tho Spirit or His love for us, but in the presentation of his thought that day it muitured very little. If the Holy Spirit did the work he was going to suggest to them, they ought U, love Him; and if Ho did the work he was going to emphasise it was plain that He loved them. In all his life he had heard only one person ?ay that he loved the Holy Spirit of God. Did they love Him? Had they ever thought above loving Him? They spoke frequently about tho love of the Father and of the Son, but was it not singular that so few of them preached or had ever listened to messages in which the love of the Holy Spirit of God was the special theme? When a hyrnn had a greaA deal of the Spirit in it it always moved them, and when a man had the power cf the Spirit he couild always direct tho attention of the people to Jesus. The measure of the Father's love was in what He gave; the measure of the Son's lovo was in what Ho endured; but tho measure of the Spirit's love was in what Ho had' done, what He was doing, and what He would continue to do until at last they should see Christ faoe to face. The love of the Father and the Son opened heaven for them, and tho love of the Spirit fitted them for heaven. The Spirit made Jesus Christ real to them, and he thought that was the secret of preaching. Ho went on to speak of the love of the Spirit in conversion. Without the work of Christ there was no foundation on which to build, but without the work of the Spirit there was no strength to build on the foundation. Christ was the Way back to the Father, but the Spirit was the'Guid'e to the Way. Then there was the lovo of the Spirit in justification (I Cor., vi, 11), and justification was vastly mere than pardon. Being justified, li& stood before God as if he never had sinned. No wonder he preached that day from the text, "The love of th 6 Spirit." There was also His love in adoration (Romano 8-14). He did not belicva that they half knew what it

■was to be children of Ox!. Other people osd not see much in them to love, but the Spirit did. His was like a mother's love multiplied to infinity. Again, there was His love in sanctifk -.tion. Justification was an act done instantly; sa notification was a work going on until at last they saw Him. There was last, and he hoped that this especially they would not forget. His love in resurrection (Romans, 8-11). When they received Jesus Christ they became temples of the Holy Ghost, and all through life He was their Guide. Teacher, and Helper; but when the end of the journey fame, while the spirit went to be_ with God who gave it, the body waited till His glorious appearing. He believed 1 that all the time the Spirit of God kept watch over the grave like a mother bird over her little ones. "Do you wonder," concluded Dr Chapman, " that I say this afternoon, ' Oh, the love of the Spirit.' Let Him into your life completely." AT THE TRAINING COLLEGE A unique service was yesterday wedged into a busy day of meetings. At 10 minutes to 4 over 100 students had gathered in one of tho class-rooms of the Union Street Training College. Punctually at 4o'clock Dr Chapman and Mr Alexander drove up, having just hurried away from tho meeting in First Church. In a few words the Principal (Professor White) introduced Dr Chapman and Mr Alexander He welcomed the missioners because ho thought the work of teachers was in ma-ny respects similar work to that of preachers. Ho welcomed them because they had a common aim in view, — that aim being to educate and develop the spiritual as well as the mental life of young people. The salvation of tho world should be the aim of teaching as well as of preaching. Because their work ran on parallel lines, they were glad to have tho missioners with them that afternoon. Tho rows of bright, intelligent young faces seemed to inspire Mr Alexander as he rose to begin a brief song service. " Teachers." he said, with a characteristic smile, " always seem to know whether they have got something good or not. Well, we have got something good for you today. It is this chorus: 'God will take care of you.' " Mr Alexander then sang the chorus through. Suddenly it seemed to strike him that there were not enough of the red hymn books sprinkled through the audience. He made the generous announcement that he would like to present each student with a copy of tho hymn book. An usher passed the books along the room until every young man and woman had a copy, and the room rang with the chorus: " God will take care of you." Without taking anv text. Dr Chapman addressed the students for 15 minutes. Nowhere in Dunedin has the missioner had a .more keenly appreciative audience. His crisp, clear stylo, his intense earnestness, and the importance of his message, captured tho students He spoke of the tremendous responsibility that rested on the shoulders of a teacher, and only the teacher whoso life was right with God, bo said, could exercise the right kind of influence. At tho close of the address, in response to an appeal to those who wished their lives to be right with God, several hands were shown. The meeting closed with the singing of the chorus " God will take caro of you."

EVENING MEETING. " A STARTLING WORD." In spite o£ the drenching rain an audience of some 3000 gathered in the Brydone Hall last night. Mr Alexander opened the song service at 7.15 with the- hymn " Abide with Me " He soon had everybody learning a bright new chorus: " Everybody should know I have a wonderful Saviour, that everybodv should know." Words and melody were both keenly appreciated, and the people sang as though they were enjoying themselves. Dr Chapman took as the Scripture lesson just one single verse—John iii, 16, —and the whole audience repeated it through with him twice. The audience acquitted itself very well in learning No. 53, "The banner of the cross." "T should say you do know that," said Mr Alexander. "'That's splendid." Then, by way of explanation, " I suppose just the best of you got out to-night." "Rescue the perishing" was started, and then Dr Chapman asked those prcse.it who knew of friends converted during the mission to let it be known. At his request 30 or 40 men, women, and children came up to the platform, and told who it was that they knew as changed in life. ''Four young men," said one. "My brother," said another. " A cousin and three friends were converted on Saturday night," said a tliird. One told of the conversion of a widow, her daughter, and two boys; another of the conversion of a dozen High School boys; and others of friends, neighbours, relatives, and members of Bible classes. " For myself, converted on Saturday evening," said a quiet, neatlydressed young lady. One statement of particular interest recorded the conversion of an elderly man, admittedly a criminal. " Blessed be the Name" and " There shall be showers of blessing" were hymns that appropriately followed these announcements. Another new chorus that was speedily mastered under Mr Alexander's skilful direction was No. 84, " I'll bo there." Mr Naftzger gave the solo "My sins are forgiven," and the sermon was immediately preceded by the united singing of " When I survev the wondrous Cross." Dr Chapman prefaced his address by remarking that his text was a startling announcement. There was not a single man who, if he thought at all about serious things, did not believe in at least a portion of the Scriptures. He might say he did not believe the Bible to be the Word of God, that he did not believe in Jesus Christ, but he did believe in the_ words of the text (Hebrews ix, 27): "It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment." It was, the speaker believed, the most startling word in all the Scriptures. He never read it without a sense of fear. Ho had no fear for himself —ho was a Christian. If a man was a Christian he need have no fear of the judgment. The great white throne was not for him. God had sent His only begotten Son into the world, and Ho had died for their sins, and the sacrifice had been accepted by God. But he was immeasurably concerned for tho man who was not saved. He could not understand how men could hear tho Word epoken without being convicted of sin. If he could prove to them that before to-morrow their earthly career would be settled and ended and they would be called to face the judgment not a man in the city would turn a train to his sin; not an unsaved man in the audience would go to his bed to sleep. If ho could prove to them that before tho year camo to a olose they would be called

before the judgment scat there was not one of them but would begin to seek a way of escape from sin. He had chosen the text for several reasons. It was personal in its application. Ho knew at least one person in the world who would die for him if that could help him. They knew the same thing, but there was not a friend in the world who could stand for a man at the judgment bar of God. He wanted to talk to men for a moment and say a thing that most people did not believe. The easiest person in the world to reach with the gospel was not a woman, nor a girl, nor scarcely, he believed, a boy. The easiest person to reach was a man. but there was a condition attaching to it. The man must be got to think. This was the reason he had chosen the subject for the evening. The thought of the judgment made a man think. Dr Chapman then proceeded to detail the various excuses advanced by men for not joining their lot with the churches. Some said they were not good enough, others that the Church sheltered hypocrites. There was but one reason, a word of three letters —sin. The judgment made men think. It was there they must face their record, but there was a way of escape. "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures." 'lhat was his hope of salvation. " Christ ever liveth to make intercession for us." The man who was farthest from God, who was deepest in sin and darkest in despair, might, on the authority of God's Word, be saved for time and eternity, if he would turn from his sin and lay hold upon Christ. In accordance with his frequent custom Dr Chapman left his message to be enforced in song, Mr Naftzger singing " You must do something for Jesus. The time was only 8.45, and Dr Chapman asked every man and boy in the building to pass in to the Victoria Hall that he might speak to them more particularly. About, 1000 people crowded into the hall, and Dr and Mr M'Laughlin each addressed them briefly. As a result of their appeal some 30, ranging from early youth to old age, gathered round Dr Chapman while he prayed with them and explained the essentials of tbo Christian life before they individually made public profession of faith in Christ. More than one touching scene was witnessed, and, as Dr Chapman said "Good night," with one accord all joined in singing the doxology. Meanwhile in the main hall Mr Norton and other members of the party conducted a meeting with the ladies remaining, and beforo its close some 30 had come forward a.nd signified, their intention to begin the Christian life.

PERSONAL WORK. Mr Norton continued his addresses on personal work in First Church yesterday at noon. The inconvenience of the hour was shown by the paucity of the attendance, but it would probably be difficult to select any more suitable time without clashing with some of the other meetings. Proceedings commenced with the singing of the hymn " More love to Thee," after which Mr Hughes led in prayer, being followed by Mr Norton. After the hymn " Work for the night is coming," Mr Norton related several anecdotes in connection with the effect of evangelistic work on the lines which he was advising them to follow. He impressed on his hearers the need of convincing the individual that he was a sinner. .Some people thought that they were not so bad after all. They were not guilty of murder or lust or drunkenness, nor were they open blasphemers. It was necessary to get people to see that the great sin was not any of these things but that it was the rejection of the Saviour. They had to get people to see.their personal responsibility in refusing or accepting Jesus Christ. To this end it might be necessary to lay hold of a passage of Scripture and repeat it again and again. Ho impressed upon them the importance of such repetition. They did not want to use slipshod methods in dealing with human souls. Mr. Moody used to say that if he could convince the world that God loved men he could save the world. The speaker quoted the text " For whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." He emphasised the " whosoever," and said that they must get the individual to see that God loved him, that he was the " whosoever," and that Christ had died for him. MIDDAY SERVICE. The midday service commenced punctually at 12.45 with the singing of the hymn "Pass me not, 0 gentle Saviour." There was again a large attendance, both of ladies and gentlemen, all parts of Burns Hall being well filled. Mr Alexander sang the first verse of " Fasten your eyes upon Jesus," calling on Mr Naftzger to take it up, and afterwards upon Mr Hughes. The ladies of the mission party also sang it, and then those congregated in the gallery, after which it was taken up by the whole assemblage. Dr Chapman read a Bible lesson and Mr M'Laughlin led in prayer. Mr Naftzger rendered a solo, " Some day, I know not when," and after Dr Chapman had made the necessary announcements regarding the work for the coming days the collection was taken, " The old hundredth " beinor sung heartily meanwhile. Dr Chapman took as the text of his address the passage in the Book of Jeremiah: "So Ho made it again." They knew, he said, that the prophet was greatly concerned because of the drifting of Israel away from God, and he was seeking in every conceivable manner to turn tho people back to Jehovah. He watched a potter take a lump of clay and put it on a wheel and fashion it into a vessel, but when finished it was full of imperfections, whereupon the potter placed it upon the wheel onco more to remove them. The speaker said he did not need to impress on his hearers the importance of the illustration. It had been used again and again. Isaiah had used it, and so also had St. Paul. He was sure that every business man would like to be truer. Drifting was an unconscious process, but there was always a reason for it. It came as the result of some imperfection, as the result of jwmo hidden sin, conscious or unconscious. God would put his finger on the imperfection or the weakness. It was a splendid figure of regeneration. Clay was an unsightly thing, Boiling the fingers when touched, but when the mind of the potter and the wheel of the potter and his plan were brought to bear upon it it grew into a thing of beauty. It was a wonderful thing to know that it was possible to take the vilest man in tho world and bring God's power to bear upon him and transform him. Regeneration was the coming in of God's life. It was tho potter stirring up into the clay hia thought, mind, heart, power, and plan. The clay was passive in the hands of the potter, and so must they bo. They must cease etrugg-

ling and trying of themselves and yield to God. The speaker appealed to his hearers to stick by the Bible. No literature could take its place. If they turned away from it they turned away from the thing that had kept men from drifting in all the ages since God had first placed it in the hands of humanity. When temptation came, here was the way of escape; when trouble came, here also was the way of escape ; and when death came, the thing again held true.

EVENING MEETING. A FREE PARDON. The evening meeting commenced almost punctually with the hymn " Pass me not." While the audience remained standing Dr Chapman read a few verses from the fifth chapter of the First Epistle to St. John, beginning at the tenth verse, the reading being immediately followed by prayer. Mr Alexander then announced No. 146, ''Have Thine Own way, Lord," saying that it was u new one, and he hoped they would soon learn it. Mr Naftzger sang the first two verses, after which the hymn was taken up by the choir, and then by the whole audience, which alrcadv must have numbered qifite 3000 people. "No. 149, "Tell me the story of Jesus," followed by special request, Mr Naftzger again commencing it as a solo. • The chorus " Travelling home " followed, and after it had been gone through once by Mr Alexander the whole audience took it up with commendable heartiness. The choir then sang it several times alone., after which Mr Alexander called upon all the men in the hall to stand and sing it, explaining that it was one of the numbers for the men's meeting on Sunday afternoon. After they had sung it through several times tho ladies were also bidden to rise, and the whole audience sang it again and again, all standing. Dr Chapman announced that he had a great number of requests for prayer, but before reading them he produced a letter which had been put into his hands the previous evening, but too late for him to respond to. He read part of the letter, which stated that the writer hud committed a great sin in tho past, which ho had thought was buried and done with, but he had found that it had still to be reckoned with. He asked whether it would be sufficient if he made right what he had done wrong or must he make confession, adding that he would be in the meeting, and asking if Dr Chapman would help him. Dr Chapman said he had only one thing to say. If the man or woman who had written the letter was in the building ho had sinned and had confessed it to God. If he had honestly and sincerely repented of it, the speaker was sure, on the authority of God's Word, that the writer was forgiven. He thought that if the writer had injured another person he would have to make the wrong right, and he was perfectly willing to say to him that he thought it would bo entirely right to do so on the terms suggested. He would not have the thing on his own conscience, but if ho were the man he would confess it to God and with His help make it right. The requests, which were very many in number, included one from a family whose parents were the victims of the drug habit, another for a mother fallen through drink, and another for a brother far away who was living without hope. There was also a request from the Y.M.C.A. on behalf of one of its members who was dangerously ill, and numerous others, chiefly for brothers and sons who were cither away from home or the victims of evil influence in their present surroundings. The petitions were mado by Mr W. H. M'Laughlin (of Belfast), and then Mr Naftzger sang " There are glories untold," which was immediately followed by the " Glory song," in which the whole audience joined with great heartiness.

Dr Chapman said that evening he had chosen what was to him almost the most interesting subject in the Old Testament, if i;ot in the whole of Scripture. It was a subject in which there were both lights and shades, and somehow one forgot the shades in tho light which was everywhere apparent as they studied tho story in its connection. His text was II Samuel xii, 13: ''And David said unto Nathan, ' I have sinned against the Lord,' And Nathan said, ' The Lord also hath put away thy sin.' " Dr Chapman pointed out that this was one of tho sad stories of tho Old Testament, yet it was a story that had a wonderful ending. It was a sad thing to bo disappointed in a man, to find him on the one side capable of writing tho Twenty-third Psalm, and on the other sido blackening tho pages of the Old Testament with the awful record of his sin. Singularly enough, this was tho very man, the man of the text, of whom God spoke when He said that ho was a man after His own heart—not because ho had sinned, for God had no pleasure in sin, but because he hod confessed and forsaken his sin. And there was not in all the Dominion of New Zealand a man or a woman held in the clutches of a passionate eirt but that, if they were to turn away from sin. the same thing might bo said of them —that they were after God's own heart. Dr Chapman outlined the story of David's fall, and traced his defeat to his idleness on tho housetop and to his dallying with temptation. Tho secret of victory over temptation was to resist tine devil and ho would flee from thorn. If David had not confessed his sin, if there had been a church in those days and he had hidden, behind his church membership, h© believed that God's tenderness would have changed to wrath and David's sin would have been visited with sin's penalty. " The Lord hath put away thy sin." He wondered if tho man or woman who wrote him that letter would take that message that night. There wero three great things in that text. There was a great sin, because had sinned! against his light. He knew better. And it was a great sin because David had sinned p gainst all his people. If ho (the speaker) could sin and hurt himself it would be bad enough, but when he sinned he hurt his children, ho hurt his wife, he hurt every minister in the world, he hurt every Christian in tho world, and ho hurt God. Every man's sin was against his position. There was another great thing in tho text—a great repentance. If wanted to know about David's repentance he suggested that they should read the 51st Psalm. What was repentance? Was it sorrow for sin? Certainly it was not Nor was it remorse for ein. Repentanoe was being so sorry for sin that with God's help you would give it up. It was a. right-about-face, away from sin and unto God. Then there was a great forgiveness. He had forgiven a man who had injured him deeply in the United States, but as long as he lived he would' remember the injury and know that this man liad done it. God said, " I will remember against you your transgressions no more for ever." That was God's forgiveness. As an illustration he told the story

of a brilliant American preacher. As a young man he had gone very far wrong, and his sin had brought grey hairs to his mother's head, ploughed furrows in her brow, sent flushes of shame to her cheek, and all but broken her heart. One day she listened as be told to a deeplymcved audience the story of his own past evil life, and at tho close she went to him with tears, saying, " Jimmy,why did jou tell it? For you never were bad. Not in all the world were you bad." He had all but killed her, but her mother's lovq had cast all that into the sea of forgetfulness, and she saw him only in the power and beauty of his renewed manhood. "That," said Dr Chapman, "is God. .No wonder I love to preach. No wonder I feel that God has given me the highest honour among men." -He would like to move among them and stop beside every man who had been troubled, to meet the people who bad been writing him letters, and those who were hopeless and helpless, the young men who had committed a sin that brought a flush of shame to their cheek, and to say to them, " A pardon! A pardon ! Full and free without money and without price. They might have it that evening. Mr-Nnftzger continued the appeal of the sermon in the solo " Oh, to have no Christ." and then at Dr Chapman's request many hundreds of young men and women passed into the adjoining hall to meet him. A most successful after meeting was held there, and many decisions to commence the Christian life were recorded. In the main building Mr Alexander conducted a service with the large number who remained. Mr and Mrs Harkness, Mr Robertson, and Lady Anderson each had a practical and pointed word to eay, while Mr Alexander pressed home the point that all Christian people ought to have assurance of salvation.