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DENVER REVIVAL

1905

WILL GOD AGAIN BRING REVIVAL

TO DENVER?

COMPILER PHIL LARGENT, D.MIN.

Note From Compiler – This research was first begun at the urging of Dr. Claude V. King, co-author of Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God. In a personal encounter between us, Claude encouraged me to make known to Denver pastors and churches this historical work of God. Together, we believe God will use this account to stir us to seek God with all our heart – making a burdened request to Him to please bring a revival to the hearts of pastors and churches as well as an ingathering of thousands of souls into the kingdom of God. It is my hope that you can get a clear account (at least as far as published in newspapers) of the work of God in Denver in January 1905. It is not my hope that this leads you to desire a repeat of the recorded encounter, but that you would join hundreds of Christ-followers in trusting God to manifest Himself again in Denver in whatever ways He chooses for His glory. The following pages contain transcripts of the newspaper articles chronicling the Denver Revival of 1905. There are at this time typographical errors in the transcription. Most errors are those made by the newspapers in publication of the account. What you read herein is an determined duplication of the article as the newspaper published it. On occasion, the newspaper errors have been corrected for the readability of the material. It should further be noted that grammar used in 1905 may be archaic today. This can add to some limited difficulty in reading small portions of the account. Sometimes the microfilm of the original newspaper was less than readable when copied. This led to some blank spaces in the text which are signified by “….” The publication of this account of God’s work in Denver is for His glory. Phil Largent, D.Min. 11178 Huron Street, Suite 6 Denver, CO 80234-3343 [email protected] With hope in God through Jesus Christ for God to DO IT AGAIN IN DENVER.

Phil Largent

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Denver Revival 1905, first complied in November 1994, renewed January 1/20/2012 Page 1

DENVER REPUBLICAN Monday, January 02, 1905

MINISTERS SURPRISED

AT BIG AUDIENCES

NEW YEAR’S SERVICES ATTRACT UNUSUAL CROWDS TO ALL THE

CHURCHES OF DENVER

The ministers of Denver spent the morning yesterday trying to discover why so many people went to church on New Year’s day, for they were much surprised at the large audiences which thronged all the churches of the city. At the ministerial alliance yesterday morning most of them thought that the church attendance was unusual and that it was due to the great revival that is to open tomorrow evening, which they firmly believe, will shake Denver like an earthquake. The Rev. B. B. Tyler, who presided in the absence of the Rev. Dr. Houghton, explained that the ministers were greatly gratified by the attendance Sunday. He stated that in spite of a snowstorm, which ordinarily would have kept all Denver in doors, everyone and his neighbor attended church.

The Rev. Dr. R. F. Coyle, who preached on “Revivals” said that his church was thronged. The Rev. David Fouse said that his church opened the new year by receiving several new members. The Rev. Frank Bayley said that the attendance at his church was most unusual. All of the ministers agreed that Denver was beginning to take an unusual interest in Christianity. Most of them thought that it was due to the revival, but a few believed that it was merely one of the new year resolutions to “go to church every Sunday.” The ministers agreed to meet for conference every Monday morning during the revival.


GREAT EVANGELISTIC MEETING WILL OPEN WEDNESDAY NIGHT

The great evangelistic meetings for which so much preparation has been made during the last month will open Wednesday night. The districts, places of meeting, evangelists and singers, are as follows:

No. 1 Northern District - Asbury church, Rev. C. B. Strause. No. 2 Eastern District - Christ M. E. church, Rev. Samuel Callen; Lloyd, singer. No. 3 Down-town District - First Baptist, Rev. W. E. Biederwolf; H. L. Maxwell, singer.


No. 4 Western District - Judson Baptist church, Rev. W. H. Stough; Mr. Allen, singer. No. 5 Southern District - South Broadway Christian church, Rev. John H. Elliott; Charles E. Rykert, singer. No. 6 Up-town District - Plymouth Congregational church, Rev. Henry Ostrom; J. P. Hillis, singer. No. 7 Central District - Central Presbyterian church, Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman; Fred Butler, singer. No. 8 Northeastern District - Hyde Park Presbyterian church, Rev. A. C. Peck; Rev E. C. Lane, singer. No. 9 South Denver District - Cameron Memorial, Rev. C. B. Allen; William Burnage, singer. No. 10 Northwestern District - Boulevard Congregational church, Daniel S. Toy; Frank Dickson, singer. No. 11 Colored People’s Section - Meeting place announced later, Rev. C. T. Walker. No. 12 Children’s Section - Meeting place announced later, Rev. C. T. Schaeffer.

No. 13 Noon Meetings - probably in Tabor Opera House. The five churches constituting the up-town district held a union meeting last night at the Capitol Hill Methodist church, with the pastor of Plymouth church as preacher. The churches of the Central district held union prayer meeting at the United Presbyterian church last Wednesday evening. A systematic canvass of this district has just been completed. One hundred and fifty additional singers are wanted for the chorus of the Central district. There will be a rehearsal at the Central Presbyterian church Tuesday night, and all who can assist in the music are urged to be present at this meeting. Meetings were held last Thursday night for the organization of the “Personal Workers Corps” of the Central and down-town districts.

DENVER REPUBLICAN Thursday, January 05, 1905

CHAPMAN REVIVAL CAMPAIGN BEGINS

BIG MEETING HELD AT CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

MEETINGS ALSO HELD IN TEN OTHER PLACES IN THE CITY

WILL CONTINUE THE TWENTY-SECOND

GREAT AWAKENING OF RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASM ANTICIPATED

As a stronghold for sin Denver is a regular Port Arthur, but she must capitulate, Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman and Associates who move in a corps, began the campaign last evening. The

bombardment will be kept up until the 22nd instant.


The principal meeting last night was held at the Central Presbyterian church and there were also meetings at ten different places in the city at the same hour. Meetings are to be held every evening this week at 7:45. Next week meetings will also be held at 3:30 in the afternoon. Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman is a revivalist who has been stirring the people in many cities of the country for several years, his success more nearly equaling that achieved by Moody and Sankey a quarter of a century ago than any revivalist has known since. He comes to Denver at the invitation of the ministers of the city, and it is confidently predicted that there will be a great awakening of religious enthusiasm in the short time that he will remain here. The great auditorium of Central Presbyterian church was well filled last evening, and it will not be large enough for the audiences in the next few days. On each side of the platform tiers of seats have been built upon which the chorus of nearly 200 voices sits. On the platforms last night were prominent Denver ministers, including Dean Hart, Revs. J. D. Rankin, Bayard Craig, R. F. Coyle, J. Monroe Markley, C. F. Relsner, William Potts George, and R. A. Carnine. Religious campaigning as exemplified by Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, is as up to date as a 40-horse power automobile. Excepting in the spirit that he arouses there is very little of the old time itinerant revivalist about Mr. Chapman. He arrives in town with his corps of workers, which includes a private secretary, a choir master, a soloist and a director of work in general. The campaign is all marked out and is worked as systematically as a great business concern.

NOTHING CLERICAL ABOUT APPEARANCE OF EVANGELIST

There is nothing clerical in the appearance of Rev. Mr. Chapman. He is a man of 45 at least, of good height and a roundness of abdomen that indicates plenty of the proverbial chicken on which the old mothers have been wont to feed the minister for all these many years. His hair, what there is left of it, is like his name, parted in the middle. He does not even affect the ministerial white tie. But Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman can talk, and talk as only few men have ever talked to an audience in the city of Denver. His voice is not full but is pleasant and carries well. He does not affect the poses of an orator and yet his is true oratory. Without hesitation and in simple but excellent English, he talks, and his arguments are clear. With the simple force of conviction he drives home the truths that he would impress. There is no posing, no straining for effects. Suddenly he poises and in a dramatic way illustrates his point with a story that has a pathetic touch. He is more nearly like Moody in this than in any other way. In this he is the master and his touch is as true and sure as that of the artist with his brush and pigments. Each little story leaves behind it a trail of moistened handkerchiefs. Last night he took as his theme the 29th verse of the 10th Chapter of Acts “For what intent have ye sent for me?” That was the theme that he dwelt upon; an inquiry as to why he had been sent for to make this visit. He believes it is in answer to prayer. If he is to do any good in the city it is because the people are ready for him. He declared that he is but a man and can hinder his own work; however there is work for those who have called him and he will tell them plainly their duty.


“I am a sensationalist of the sensationalist,” he declared “because the story of Christ and what he does for men is the most sensational story in all the world.” “They tell you that the blood has been taken out of the Bible. When they take the blood out of the Bible they take it out of my heart” he declared. Mr. Chapman said that he has a passion for Christ and he proposes while here to preach the old doctrines. He will preach Christ on the cross to save mankind; he will preach the resurrection; he will teach Christ sitting on the right hand of God on the day of resurrection and sitting in judgment; he will preach damnation. Some of the things that he will not do is to preach denominationalism. He can’t lead the people into the churches, the pastors must do that. What he can do is to lead people to a vision of their old faith. He can lead them to Christ. “I can lead you to one who will make you see,” he declared. Accompanying the revivalist is Fred Butler, soloist. He is a tall young man with ruddy complexion and a fine bass of rare quality, which he uses most effectively. It is one of those voices that reaches down and clutches the heart strings. When it sobs away one is tempted to forget the solemn place and demand an encore.

MOST INTERESTING DISCOURSE IS PROMISED FOR THIS EVENING

Mr. Chapman and Mr. Butler are going to stir this town in the next few weeks. At the Central church tonight the singer will sing “The Holy

City.” It will be worth while. The minister promised the best discourse that he will give, at the least the one that he would rather have all the people hear. In an address to the business men of Denver at the real estate exchange yesterday, Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman outlined the objects of the great campaign which he and his staff have planned in Denver. He was accorded a very friendly greeting. He stated that he believed his campaign would result favorably to the city in every way. Dr. Chapman was promised the support of the organization in making his campaign the greatest possible success. A meeting of local ministers interested in the work was held yesterday immediately after lunch in the Y.M.C.A. rooms. Diverse details in connection with the work were discussed and passed upon and upon adjournment plans were practically completed as to the conduct of the campaign. There were some little differences of opinion expressed among the ministers on questions of finances and advertising and a clash resulted between the general advertising committee and a special committee on advertising appointed by the ministers of the Central district. Through the timely intervention of Dr. Chapman and Dr. Robert F. Coyle, the chairman of the meeting, matters were adjusted and there was no further hitch in the proceedings. Rev. William Bayard Craig asked to be set right in regard to the matter of finances. He said there were certain matters of current church expenses which should be provided for before the meetings were commenced. He asked to hear from the


chair and from Dr. Chapman. He also wanted to know if there were to be nightly collections. He advised this. Both the chairman and Dr. Chapman stated that every means would be taken to provide against a financial deficit and that if any church found itself in debt at the end of the campaign, special provisions would be made to liquidate the indebtedness.

MINISTERS HAVE VARIOUS OPINIONS ABOUT COLLECTIONS

There was some difference of opinion among the ministers regarding a collection at every meeting. Rev. William P. George said he wanted to be heard on the matter of finances. Having been through Moody meetings in Kansas City and Talmage meetings in New York, he said his experience might be valuable. He recommended a collection at each meeting. “I have always regarded giving as a means of grace,” he said, “and I find that revival crowds expect and desire to give.” Many others agreed with Dr. George and the question was so decided. Dean Peck, the treasurer, was asked for a statement of the amount pledged to the campaign, and said he had been promised $3,020. The question of advertising was then taken up. Dr. Craig held that different forms of advertising were required in different districts and said that this had been the reason for appointing a special committee in the Central district. Some were opposed to bill board and street banner advertising. Some were opposed to other

forms of advertising. It was suggested by Dr. Chapman and Dr. Coyle that recommendations be made by the various districts to the general committee on advertising and that any reasonable request of any district be granted. This settled this point. It was decided to hold noonday meetings in the Tabor Grand Opera House beginning next Wednesday. The assignments of the corps of evangelists in the different districts was made as follows: Northern District - Asbury church, Rev. C. B. Strause. Eastern District - Christ M. E. church, Rev. Samuel Callen; Lloyd, singer. Downtown District - First Baptist church, Rev. W. E. Biederwolf; H. L. Maxwell, singer. Western District - Judson Baptist church, Rev. W. H. Stough; Mr. Allen, singer. Southern District - South Broadway Christian church, Rev. John H. Elliott; Charles E. Rykert, singer. Uptown District - Plymouth Congregational church, Rev. Henry Ostrom; J. P. Hillis, singer. Central District - Central Presbyterian church, Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman; Fred Butler, singer. Northeastern District - Hyde Park Presbyterian church, Rev. A. C. Peck; Rev. E. C. Lane, singer. South Denver District - Cameron Memorial, Rev. C. B. Allen; William Burnage, singer. Northwestern District - Boulevard Congregational church, Daniel S. Toy; Frank Dickson, singer.

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DENVER REPUBLICAN Friday, January 06, 1905

BIG ATTENDANCE AT REVIVAL MEETINGS

SECOND DAY OF EVANGELISTIC

MOVEMENT BRINGS RESULTS

ENTHUSIASM SHOWN IN ALL MEETINGS

IN THE TEN DISTRICTS

DR. CHAPMAN SPEAKS AT CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

DR. BIEDERWOLF AT FIRST BAPTIST The second day of the union evangelistic movement against sin in Denver saw perhaps the most perfect organization of any religious movement ever launched in Denver. The meetings in the ten different districts went off more smoothly last night; the attendance was larger at each than on the previous night, and the number who evinced a desire to identify themselves with the church was double than on the first night. This is particularly pleasing to the Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, the working head as well as one of the leading speakers in the campaign, and to his associates. “Let the people come and we will make it so clear to them that if they are not already allied on the side of Christ that they should be,” said the Rev. Chapman last night; “let everyone come and hear and see, and we won’t need to bother about getting the converts; they will come from the people. We have such a good case, that they can’t help but see that the Christ life is the only life to lead; that it is the life for the newspaper man, the lawyer, the doctor, the machinist, the molder, the switchman, the engineer, the

brakeman, the clerk, the bookkeeper, the waiter, the day laborer, for all, no matter what vocation they follow.” The business sense and organization which religious workers are so often criticized for not possessing, is not lacking in the present movement. The Rev. Dr. Chapman, in the first step he took, organized the city much after the plan adopted by Tammany in New York City, and organization has been the secret of Tammany success. The division of the city into ten districts, with a central church for each district easy of access to all residents of the district, is responsible for the excellent attendance at each of the ten churches.

FOURTH OR WESTERN DISTRICT IS TO BE DIVIDED

So successful were the meetings yesterday and Tuesday (Newspaper has Tuesday. This is incorrect. The article should refer to yesterday, being Thursday, and Wednesday, not Tuesday.) in the fourth or western district, that the decision was reached last night to split the district in two, taking one half for a new district to be known as


No. 11. The services for the new district will be held in the Third Congregational church, in charge of the Rev. Willis Thompson and his wife, well known Ohio evangelists who are on a return trip from a successful tour of California and coast states. Special services will be held both afternoon and evening, the same as in the other districts. Judicious advertising promises to play a prominent part in the success of the different meetings. One

of the advertisements put out by the Central Presbyterian church advertising committee is a

card an inch wide and two inches long, on which is printed:

GEEP, THIS UNTIL IT

GROWS INTO ATTENDANCE AT THE

UNION EVANGELISTIC MEETING CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

CHAPMAN-BUTLER-SMYTHE NOW

While the leader of the movement is Dr. Wilbur Chapman who preaches nightly at the Central Presbyterian church, other evangelists of national reputation and of equally great ability are laboring in other centers. In the First Baptist church last evening Dr. Biederwolf of Indiana opened what promises to be a tremendous meeting, both from its position in the downtown district and the enthusiastic workers engaged. On the platform with Dr. Biederwolf were Dr. Vosburgh, the pastor of the First Baptist church; Dr. Ramsey, Dr. Uzzell and Dr. W. P. George of Trinity church, who took part in the preliminary exercises.

It was Dr. Biederwolf’s opening sermon. His text was Ps. 142; “No man careth for my soul.” In the most earnest, solemn, yet tender manner, the preacher presented the claims of man’s spiritual nature. “We are,” he said “so occupied with the things of this world that at times we forget that our fellow men and women have or rather are souls for which they desire us to care. They expect that especially during these meetings when the eternal weal or woe of hundreds will be decided that Christian people who profess to believe in the Bible should manifest some interest in their eternal welfare. With touching pathos which moved many in the audience to tears the preacher told the story of Deacon R-, who had for 60 years neglected to speak with his neighbor or his family on things spiritual, or invite them to a place of worship, although thrice a week he drove past his neighbor’s house on his way to church. When the neighbor met with a sudden fatal accident he refused the proffered services of the deacon, who had neglected him for 60 years, and died, leaving him the legacy of a curse for neglected duty. After this and other moving incidents were related the pledged workers renewed their consecration vowels under an earnest prayer by Dr. Vosburgh. A feature of this meeting was the singing of Prof. Maxfield, who has a rich tenor voice. He sings clearly and eloquently.

DR. BIEDERWOLF TO SPEAK ON “WHITE LIFE” SUNDAY

Dr. Biederwolf will speak at 2 o’clock Sunday to men only on “The White Life.” Prof. Maxwell will sing “The Holy City.” The meeting will be held in the First Baptist church.


With the afternoon meeting at Plymouth church yesterday Dr. Ostrom began a series of addresses on New Testament prayer. The address was scholarly and devout. The attendance at the service last evening was only fair, but the evangelist was in his best mood and preached with enthusiasm and power. The seats set apart for the choir were all filled and the audience enjoyed the new songs. Mr. Hillis is an excellent leader and his solo was very effective.

The subject of the sermon was “The Distance of Characters.” The speaker held that God is really near to all men and distant only because men are so unlike Him in character. God approaches men through nature and the Bible and the blood of Christ. Dr. Ostrom is original in his presentation of truth and holds the attention of his hearers easily. The meeting this afternoon will be at 3:30 and this evening at 7:45.

DENVER POST Saturday, January 7, 1905 (page 7) When Dr. Wilbur Chapman stepped from his Pullman car Wednesday morning and for the first time placed his foot on Denver soil, did the Denver people realize what was going to happen? Possibly they did, but it is more probable that they did not. And yet, the fact that he is great and wonderful is not especially interesting. It is, what is it that makes him interesting? There is nothing the least bit unusual, striking or perplexing about this man who has come thousands of miles to bring penitent humble sinners to their knees, and who is doing it. He possesses none of the powers of hypnotism nor magnetism of the proverbial evangelist or if he has he has failed so far to show any of them; threats of suffering, a horrible death and eternal damnation never pass his lips and his speech is soft, gentle and persuading. Yet somehow when he has finished talking you feel a little aching pang of something -- perhaps remorse, guilt or a little gnawing pain of regret. He does not tell you that you are a miserable worm that should grovel about upon the earth seeking retribution. He tells you in a quiet businesslike way that you are being cheated out of something you deserve,

and you go away feeling that you have, and that he is going to show you how to get it back. He has been asked by the Denver ministers to come here and awaken the people to a more earnest religious enthusiasm and in his own quiet, unassuming way he is doing it. The first night Dr. Chapman spoke at the Central Presbyterian church, people came out of an eager curiosity, expecting to be entertained and amused; the next night found those very same people there, but with the feeling of curiosity changed to one of longing to better know the man of the night before, and now they are coming because they want to; because they have decided to let this great stalwart keen-eyed man find for them those things which they have lost. In only two days he found 120 of them -- 120 souls that have been longing for something they could not seem to get until Dr. Chapman showed them how. Once he went to Colorado Springs and found 1,000 in only a few days; in Binghampton, Illinois, 1,200, and when he left Atlanta, Georgia, several years ago he found that 6,000 men and women had signed the little white cards which read: “I have an earnest desire to lead a Christian life.” He is


called wonderful -- is this man, and is it any wonder? Could a man who has shown the way to happiness to 8,320 people and who is laboring earnestly and untiringly for more, be anything else? Reports from the other meetings show a remarkable increase in attendance. Dr. C. B. Strouse, at the Asbury Methodist church, spoke to an audience of 1,200 persons last night. At the same church yesterday afternoon Rev. C. T. Schaeffer spoke to 800 children.

Catholic circles are at present greatly interested in the changes which have been made during the last few days.... (a list of ministerial assignments for the catholic priests are all that follows in this article). There is however a listing of churches and their services for Sunday; listed by church, including songs to be sung, preachers to preach (and even their topics on some), times of the services and the location of the churches.

DENVER REPUBLICAN Saturday, January 07, 1905

EVANGELISTS TO HAVE REST TO-DAY

WILL RESUME CAMPAIGN AGAINST SIN IN DENVER

TO-MORROW

BIG MEETINGS AGAIN HELD THROUGHOUT THE CITY

YESTERDAY

DR. CHAPMAN STYLED HUMAN DYNAMO CONVERTS MANY AT TRINITY CHURCH

To-day is the evangelists’ Sunday. No meetings neither night nor afternoon, will be held in any of

the churches. The meetings will be renewed to-morrow afternoon and night with renewed vigor.

A human dynamo! Just a single letter, a word with two short syllables, another word with three short syllables. Thus a layman styled last night J. Wilbur Chapman, the great evangelist but of the East who

is leading the great religious campaign now in progress against sin in Denver. A human dynamo! As the man - for he is a man first of all and a minister after - with a wave of a single finger -


the forefinger of the right hand or the forefinger of the left hand, as the subconscious brain dictated (there being no machine nor premeditated movements during his talks) rocked the immense audience of 1,500 men, women and children to and fro in their seats in the Central Baptist church last night, a well dressed and prosperous appearing man, a banker, a professional man - the layman - laid his hand, on which sparkled a perfect blue-white solitaire on the arm of the man next to him, and said: “Man! A human dynamo!” Evangelists have come to Denver, and then gone away. They have said: “Denver is a Paris, Denver people do not want religion.” In a short three-quarters of an hour last night 1,500 Denver people listened to J. Wilbur Chapman, and when Chapman said, in conclusion: “Those in the Audience who have never belonged to church, and those who have once upon a time belonged to church but who for one reason or another dropped out, you hold up your hands, if down deep in you hearts you want me, want these brave ministers on the platform here, want the Christians in this house to pray for you.” Hands went up so quickly, in all parts of the two floors, that even the quick seeing eyes of the score or so whose special duty it is to count hands could not make the count. “There are some in this house tonight who want the prayers of Christian people for some loved ones,” said the speaker, in an ordinary conversational tone, as he quietly stopped in the center of the platform and looked every single person of the vast assemblage squarely in the face. And one after another in rapid succession there arose men, women, old and young, and said the two words: “My father,” “My brother,” “A friend,” “A sister,” as the case happened to be.

There was no skyrocket oratory. No high-sounding many-syllable words. No platform tones. No studied gestures. No platform climaxes. Everything was natural. Perfectly natural. Wherein lies the success of J. Wilbur Chapman. “Personal responsibility is my subject, “No man cared for my soul” my text,” said the Rev. Mr. Chapman, picking up the Bible, and in short terse sentences, well told incidents of his own experience, the audience was told his story. Mr. Chapman - he says he is just a man and that the good old American title of mister is really good enough for him - related an incident of his college days. He told of his roommate during three years while he was preparing for the ministry. The young man was goodhearted, but wild and apparently not religiously inclined. When it came time for the two to bid good-bye, the young man held out his hand and said: “Chapman, you are studying for the ministry, studying to save souls. Why have you never asked me about my soul?” Chapman, the student, had never thought. Chapman, the evangelist, told with what bitter feelings of the missed chance Chapman the student carried to the end of his school days and which Chapman the evangelist is now carrying simply because “he had never thought.” “It remained for a friend of mine to speak to this young man and bring him to Christ,” said Chapman the evangelist, “and a year later the young man died, died a Christian, but his star is not in my crown. Because I had not thought.” The meetings presided over by the Rev. Dr. Biederwolf is the First Baptist church, which is one of the largest churches in Denver, are


increasing rapidly in attendance. The Albany Hotel is across the street a half block away, and there were many traveling men in the church last night. Evangelist Biederwolf is a man who believes in leaving off “the trimmings.” His talks are always direct to the point. In his address last night he took for his text, “To him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, it is sin,” from James iv. 17. The church member who never does anything was forcibly reminded of his neglect. The Christian

who thinks after he becomes saved himself that all he has to do is to rest on his oars and let the thousands and millions of helpless ones go down in the vast ocean of sin, is not a Christian and is not saved,” said Dr. Biederwolf. Reports from the other meetings showed a remarkable increase in attendance. Dr. C. B. Strouse, at the Asbury Methodist church, spoke to an audience of 1,200 persons last night. At the same church yesterday afternoon Rev. C. T. Schaeffer spoke to 800 children.

DENVER REPUBLICAN Sunday, January 8, 1905

TWO THOUSAND WERE CONVERTED

GOOD RECORD MADE IN CHAPMAN

REVIVALS IN DENVER

MEETINGS ARE TO BE HELD AT VARIOUS HOURS IN THE

CHURCHES TO-DAY

ACTIVE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN BEGUN TO CALL ATTENTION TO

THE REVIVALS This Week’s Program To-day - Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, to women only, 3 p.m.; Trinity Methodist church. Central Presbyterian church at night. To-day - Rev. W. E. Biederwolf, to men only, 3 p.m.; First Baptist church. Same church at night.

To-day - Rev. Mr. Schaeffer, to children only, 3 p.m.; Asbury Methodist church. Rev. Clarence B. Strouse at night. Monday - Good cheer meeting, 11 a.m.; First Congregational church. Monday Night - Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman on “The Unpardonable Sin,” Central Presbyterian church

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Special meetings at Central Presbyterian church Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, led by Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman. Special meetings at Trinity church Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, led by Mrs. Whitemore, celebrated Eastern evangelist. Only two days of actual work of the invading army of famous evangelists have gone by, yet as a conservative estimate it is said that fully 2,000 persons have expressed a desire to lead a Christian life. The report had preceded J. Wilbur Chapman, leader of the movement, to Denver that a similar campaign inaugurated by him in Pittsburg in February of last year netted 5,000 bona fide additions to the churches of the Smokey City within two weeks after the meetings closed, but the Denver ministers were skeptical. They smiled and said that Denver was not Pittsburg, nor Pittsburg Denver. However, bolstered up by Mr. Chapman and his force of workers, W. E. Biderwolf, Henry Ostrom, Clarence B. Strouse and others being among the leading evangelists of America, the local ministers went to work with might and will. The movement is now thoroughly organized and from to-day on to the end even greater success is anticipated. Christian F. Reisner of the Grace Methodist church, who is known as “the advertising minister,” has entered into the spirit of advertising the meetings with a vim. Unaided,

he has put out over the city 60 billboards containing eight sheet posters on which is given the hour and places of all the meetings, with the names of the different evangelists presiding. Unless he is stopped by the committee he will place display advertisements of the meetings in the newspapers at regular space rates and in the street cars. Mr. Reisner is a staunch believer in advertising. The managers of the movement have been complimented upon their musical arrangements. Special music with well known singers from out of the city have been secured for all of the churches. The singing of Fred Butler at Central Presbyterian church has added very materially in the attendance and success there. W. Henry Collison, a high tenor singer, who is well known in the East, arrived in Denver yesterday, and will sing at Central Presbyterian church to-night. Rev. R. A. Walton, who came from Philadelphia with Rev. Mr. Chapman, has gone to Los Angeles, where he will lead a movement with a band of Eastern evangelists similar to the one in progress here. Several evangelists who have been with Mr. Chapman in other cities will have charge of a movement to begin in Kansas City next week, in which 16 evangelists will be engaged. This plan, which was originated by Mr. Chapman, is fast spreading to all parts of the world, and is meeting with greater success than the old-time revival meetings where a single evangelist or two attempted to conduct a series of meetings with local assistance.


DENVER POST Monday, January 9, 1905 (last page)

C. B. STROUSE, THE “SOCIETY EVANGELIST” The only son of a millionaire tobacco dealer, owner of the finest racing stables in the Old Dominion, a courted society favorite and leader of the cotillions and Germans in the most exclusive circles of Salem, Virginia; a heavy gambler on the turf, a devotee of stage beauties and champagne suppers -- and now a zealous evangelist. This is the life history of Dr. Clarence B. Strouse, youngest member of the band of evangelists now calling Denver to repentance. Asbury church is the scene of Dr. Strouse’s labors here. Because of his familiarity with gilded circles and his success among the world-weary society folk, Dr. Strouse enjoys the title of “The Society Evangelist.” He looks the part to perfection. Attired in the most correct of street suits, with a natty Ascot tie, his blonde head surmounted by a Derby, this youthful evangelist looks like he had just come from taking tea with some of the 400. But the likeness ends there. When he begins to speak the society man has vanished and it is the honest, earnest Christian who talks to you.

Dr. Strouse is 35 years old. He has been an evangelist ten years. One Monday night in April, 1895, he chanced to stray into a church of his native town, where an evangelist was holding services. He went in a spirit of mockery, but he came out a convert to active practical Christianity. His first convert was his father, D. B. Strouse, who gave up his large business because he would no longer manufacture cigars and cigarettes, and became an evangelist, as his son had done. From that time on, Dr. C. B. Strouse’s career has been a brilliant and successful one. Hundreds of his friends of the old champagne suppers and racing days he has won from the world, the flesh and the devil. The most notable of his recent converts is Mrs. Beckman, wife of Governor C. W. Beckman of Kentucky, who stirred by Dr. Strouse’s eloquent words, became a convert, and refused to attend her husband’s inaugural ball on December 10. Her action created a furor in Kentucky society circles.

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THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN LISTEN TO

EXHORTATIONS TO LEAD BETTER LIVES MUSIC A FEATURE OF SESSIONS

Yesterday, the first Sunday that the invading army of evangelists has spent in Denver, was the occasion of excessive religious enthusiasm. Thousands of men, women and children were exhorted by the evangelists to lead true and Christian lives. Thousands of men and women left the churches with tear stained faces, the first times in their history, determined to lead better lives in the future. Fully 3,000 women in Trinity Methodist Episcopal church and as many men in the First Baptist church listened, spell-bound to the eloquence of the fervent exhorters. There were large audiences at all of the churches where revivals were held. Rev. Henry Ostrom one of the leaders of the revivalist army, preached to a large audience last night at the Plymouth Congregational church. Dr. Ostrom’s text was “Jesus Christ, the Due Savior for the Race.” He said in part: “Look at the miracle, Jesus Christ was never known to marshal an army. There is not a military incident in his program during his stay on earth. He did not, even like the Chinese Gordon, carry a cane as he led his followers into battle. Bare-handed, he gathered the companies together with the charm of his teaching and his love, and when Peter drew forth a sharp instrument and severed the ear of Malchus, he quickly healed the ear and said, “They that take

with the sword shall perish with the sword, and if my kingdom were of this world then would my followers fight, but now is my kingdom not from hence.” The speaker quoted Napoleon’s statement of Christ: “Caesar is dead and forgotten. Romulus is dead and forgotten, Alexander is dead and forgotten, but this man, Jesus Christ, the longer he is dead the more the people will run after him. I know man, but Jesus Christ is more than man. He will outlive the soldier and the author, for as he was swordless, so was he penniless,” said the speaker. “Christ could not have been an impostor, for if he had been he would have sought either the favor of the Romans or of the Jewish church, but he sought neither.” Dr. Ostrom is the speaker of the Sixth district and has made very favorable progression in his work of conversion. The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman delivered a strong and impressive sermon to the large audience of women only in Trinity church yesterday. The large church was crowded to the doors, every seat was taken and there were many standing in the aisles. Never before have Denver women gathered in so great a number and in so earnest a manner


to listen to the word of God. The service began impressively with a general prayer, and Dr. Chapman began the sermon which was to move his great audience to tears before he finished. He took for his text, “O! Woman, great is thy faith. It is done even as thou wilt.” Dr. Chapman spoke of letting others know that you are leading a Christian life. Unless other people know of it, that you are a Christian; it does only good to you alone, and is not of benefit as an illustration to others. He explained his text after telling the story of the woman who went to Jesus and asked for the healing of her daughter, for she feared she was possessed with a devil. Jesus answered not a word, which was the one time in all his life on earth that He refused comfort to the needy. The story and text are alike. “The woman had come to Him in sorrow,” Dr. Chapman said, “and Jesus turned away without a word. This shows Him as a silent Jesus. But so great was the woman’s faith that she staid, and even as she staid her daughter was healed in the night. “O, woman! great is thy faith. It is even as thou wilt.” Dr. Chapman said that a woman’s influence was everything in this world of sinners. “Few men have ever been saved whose mothers have lived depraved lives.”

WORDS OF THE SPEAKER MOVED MANY TO TEARS

Dr. Chapman’s words moved many of his listeners to tears, and sobs ere heard all over the church. His earnest manner affected them all and they hung on his speech spellbound, or so it seemed. he closed his address with a few words of comfort and advice.

After Dr. Chapman had finished, several other short addresses were made one by Dr. George, pastor of the church. The services closed with a song by Fred Butler, the noted evangelical bass, and the benediction. An after-meeting was held and query cards were distributed all over the audience. Dr. Chapman spoke to many of his listeners, personally, after the meeting, and in many cases offered advice in cases explained to him. In the First Baptist church on Stout Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets the Rev. W. E. Biederwolf addressed nearly 3,000 men. Old men, young men and men of all ages gathered to hear the famous lecture. “The White Life,” many, in sheer curiosity, it is true, but the majority were earnest in their desire to take the advice of the evangelist. “I am not going to insult you gentlemen by pouring a lot of stuff in your ear that I could not say in the presence of women. But I am going to be plain with you. Hit straight to the point, telling of the sins of men called the “White Life.” This Dr. Biederwolf said in opening his address, hoping to convince the curious that they should have come for a better reason. He took several verses from the Bible story of David and Absalom, his son. He said in part:

EVIL ASSOCIATIONS WILL ALWAYS LEAVE THEIR MARK

“O, Absalom, my son, my son! Would God I had died for thee, my son, my son!” The wall of a grief stricken father who had done nothing to prevent his son’s downfall. David and Absalom were engaged in deadly battle for the throne. Their father was king and his only son was


seeking his father’s throne. The son was killed in battle and David was heartbroken. “No young man who ever started out in life had a better chance to do good than young Absalom. He was rich and had unlimited prospects before him but he went to the bad. He was what would be called now a fast young man. Ever idle, and associating with bad companions, had made a mark on him just as it will on any young man who has lots of money and is not looked after. Money is all right. Get all you can, but for Heaven’s sake don’t ......... all you get. A fast life is a macadamized road to hell. “In this life we have no room for the dude who has more collar than culture, a man who would be a woman if he could, but since he can’t he is doing all that he can to show other people he would be one if he could. He thinks that he is as near perfect as possible and has no thought of another life. God help the man, say I, who thinks he is clean.” Dr. Biederwolf spoke feelingly on the evils of a man’s life and begged all to think on repentance. Everything he said he supplemented with a good hard fact. His vituperation of the gamblers was vindictive to an extreme. He said: “A man who takes another man’s money at the point of a pistol is called a robber, but a man who takes another’s money across a table is called a gambler. But there is no difference in the two, save that in the former case there was one robber and in the latter there were two. A man who does this, with the mere explanation that he is entitled to it, for he risked losing his own money, is the worst, God-forsaken creature that breathes the air of God. I even do not approve of the drawings in church fairs in the least.

Wherever there is a risk in that way, the winning I regard as blood money.” This statement was greeted with great applause, both by the ministers on the platform and the audience.

SPEAKER DECLARES AGAINST THE USE OF PROFANITY

Dr. Biederwolf spoke of the general use of profanity, being used more and more every day so that a little child can not go out on the street without having its innocent ears shocked by hearing the brutal words. “If any of you men wish to take a vow to lead the White Life, start in now by having white lips. Scorch not your lips with the name of God or Christ.” Dr. Biederwolf ended his address with a denunciation of the prevalency of impurity and vice. His remarks were bitter but his manner greatly impressed his hearers. “He that is not pure is not a man, and in consideration of the lower animals we call ........ him a brute.” This one sentence expresses the full horror and contempt with which Dr. Biederwolf spoke, “I utterly loathe the thought of fixing the blame wholly on a woman for it is hard to say which has fallen the lowest, but the woman is cast aside while the man steps into his rank in society without a protest from anyone. This I consider rank injustice to the woman who has become a prey to man’s lust.” Dr. Biederwolf closed his address with a hope that his hearers had benefited by his plain speaking and that they would henceforth lead better lives, for he said the man who strives has some hope, but he who lives content in sin will find the hottest corner in hell ready for him at his death. A feature of the services in the First Baptist church was the “Holy City” sang by Prof. harry


Maxwell the high tenor of the evangelical army. Prof. Maxwell’s voice was ........ and far reaching. Just before the address a quartette led by Prof. Maxwell as tenor sang “Thou Art Drifting to Eternal Peace.” The audiences, one wholly of men and the other entirely of women, who listened to the eloquent pleas were all of the better class people who are not regular churchgoers but who were brought forth by their interest in Denver’s greatest revival. Brought out by their desire to see what manner of men were these who devoted their lives to saving others, they went away well repaid. The seed sown by the evangelists has fallen on fertile ground and they are happy. After only two days of battling with Satan they have achieved wonders, more even than they had hoped to do in so short a time. Before the sermons yesterday fully 2,000 people are estimated to have expressed their desire to lead better lives, and yesterday almost that number more showed appreciation of what these men are trying to do, many signing the query cards and promising better things in the future.

DENVER MINISTERS AMAZED AT THE WORK BEING DONE

The Denver ministers were at first skeptical, but now many of them are amazed at the work of the little army and have joined in willingly. Yesterday afternoon many of the most prominent ministers in the city were on the platforms of the churches and endorsing what the speakers said. This gives the revivalists hope of doing even greater things.

This morning at 11 o’clock a Good Cheer meeting will be held in the First Congregational church. The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman will speak on the “Unpardonable Sin” to-night at the Central Presbyterian church and a number of special meetings will be held during the week. The one great point in which this revival differs from the former old styled ones is that the revivalists do not seek to command, but they are willing to reason why one should lead a better life. The little army is composed of 10 men and the city was divided into 10 districts, but even after two days an eleventh district has been added and also a district for the negroes. The leaders of this army hope to accomplish great things during the week and their watchword is: “Let us make this next week one of great victory to God.” A service especially for children was held yesterday afternoon at the Asbury Methodist church as another feature of the revival. The Rev. Mr. Schaeffer conducted the services and gave a short address upon how the children could improve their lives. He warned them against the many pitfalls that life contains and in order that his address might not tire the little ones he told a number of biblical stories in illustration of the points he wished to convey. The church was crowded with children and very few older people were present. The services was a great success and shows that the evangelists are going at the bottom of things in their crusade. They are beginning with the children as well as the elders and they intend to cleanse the city of its unbelief.


DENVER REPUBLICAN Tuesday, January 10, 1905

NOON MEETINGS TO BE HELD IN THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH “Fifty minute meetings will be held in the First Baptist church on Stout street Wednesday, Thursday and Friday noons. The speakers will be Rev. Drs. Ostrom, Biederwolf and Chapman, in the order named. Good music will be provided. After the adjournment of the National Live Stock convention the Tabor Grand opera house will be secured for noonday meetings until the end of the Chapman campaign.” “Tears silently, majestically followed one after the other down the furrowed cheeks of strong men, women buried their faces in handkerchiefs and little children grasped their hands tightly and wondered while Clarence B. Strouse, one of the Chapman evangelists, in his crowded meeting in the Asbury Methodist church in North Denver last night gave as graphic portrayal of the departure of the soul from the body and made a touching appeal for those in the audience still unsaved to take a decisive step before too late. Barely out of his twenties, with only a few years separating him from paddock and church, and still looking like a husky young college football player in everyday clothes, with his six-foot one of bone and muscle, the young evangelist took his audience gently but firmly, leading it step by step down life’s pathway to the last farewell to earthly friends, where the goats passed on the one side and the sheep passed on the other; ‘where, said the young man, ‘the mother passes on the right and in anguish sees her husband passing down the path on the left; where the sister, passing joyfully in the flock of sheep, suddenly spies a brother mingling with the goats.

‘When death, which is so sure, does come to me and say, ‘Come,’ then I shall go; then, perchance, I shall come out of this temporary tabernacle of flesh you see before you, and, seeing this forehead gently place upon it one last farewell kiss. Then, perchance, will I tarry just a moment and wipe from this cold cheek the dew of death with the floss of my happy soul; and then shall I, perchance, giving one backward look at what has been my earthly home for so long, joyfully go marching on with the flock of sheep. Then you will go joyfully marching on with the flock of sheep. May not one of us here tonight be with the sheep and see our father, our brother, our mother, our sister, our friend marching with the goats.’” Mr. Strouse dramatically told of a younger brother who had followed him into the ball room and then onto the race course and how when at last, he was converted, he worked and prayed for the boy, until he, too, became converted just a few months before his death. Then while the choir softly sang “Just As I Am,” the earnest young fisher of men urged those of this audience who were not already sure to come forward and grasp him by the hand. Fully a tenth of the thousand persons streamed to the altar, where each was given a hearty handshake and then passed on with the young minister’s blessing and prayer. A feature of the great meetings at the Asbury church is the excellent music by a large chorus

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THE DAY OF PRAYER ,lN 1> N ER. • • + lt is utimated that no ltM than 25,000 people particip..ted in the u- + + erdses held today in Dennr uD4er _ the IUihuce of t he COTJII of ~ialtinc + + evangelists. In the sixty churches wbtre morning prayer ":~u offned . futl_y - + + '17,000 people gathered and at aoon. •be the buainua houae-s dolled~--~- + . .. -+ most 10,000 more joined in the Mnicea. At the. thrPe downtotrff audito- + + -t'iums wh~re pr_ayer at noon • • • offered about 8,000 peo~iathtrtd and + . + overflow. mtetin~s-were neceuary in many instancy'6ilowinl it the pro· + •--~ram_w...hlch_w.a.S_c..arrled o ut · , . <' ~ •

+ 10:001. n1.-Pra-y-t>-r meetin& in. si.xty churcht.( + • 11:30 a. m.-Ciosing of 5oo busine1111 ~. and officet. • + · Closing of every cjt.y'l~d · county ofli c~. ·• + + 12:00 m,-Ail public sc~oot!"ot Den..-er clos~. + + 12:15 p. m.-M.us meetiiig at Tabor Grand, led by ·E,·anxeliat ChapmAn. + • M~~ting at Coliseum hall, lf-4 by E,·.an~elist Biederwolf . + • ~ . r + ~ ... ............... ~-~ .. ~~ . ~- ··-~·~ ~"'·hy thf'y ""nc a •nn.-. llnt1 tt mu"'t . unn" In the l"'~p·r .. r t h .. - ,-t,.ttin ~r f' V t~~n· hnv e bee-n & n l!w on.,. Jn Hf'hre wll, l:tt ., :.:•1, ~relll'll' thfl\ the .,. ,.., r~ ,.·hit· h t it• ' >'· hll\' P tH' •

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oilit.,:_ 1wd ho ~1:.c.s..-t.hCU-Jfl'.lll....b.! ' M(tly "'· ~~rtn.- ATHI l" r~:lnlf t_!t .. ~ll_~ l-~t:. _ !<ln«lnl' th,.r And . I AXJ>4"<-t ·to Join In lt. \TISYI ~hfl:nT~Il~m;;::rm;" ('iT lTi~\'.:'h ;q>mnn I want to hl'l\r Dsvl~ ptl\y hill hll.rp And .4!\'RnKell !<tll . · PAUl and Pctf'T Jllln)f, llnd I lhl\11 W"flttt r ......... "' rarkPd. - ... , . to «lv~f out a hymn my11t~lr. I think l At . ! It t> ll:'l m,. hnu r · aJ mt)~'t 4 .tff'o') P"<'fll lt "hill! MY ll't Ill' llln~r No. 74tl, "My fk-t1, rM"'l'l~ In t o CI)IJ~um h n ll t n h eRr v r, My Father, Wi tlln 1 Str·a.)·," but ll<'!mfl 0118 · \V • . Fl. BIMN'w(llf lui'\ In prn~· r•r . I t WAI Will s11r. "Yo.u """ In Hf>f\vt!!n find you "'" lntf'f'f'lltln~r pl••tur... K n,.,.tt n~r on · lll~ C'l\n't "frny." Th,.n :I wtll - •• ,. !l:'ol, l&mllt noor Wtlnrtw>n thn htrndrr-«1~ o f "Thonl!fh \\'11.\'4"11 Ant1 Jlllt<'rtn!ll Go o·~r My merry~"'"~"' ...,.,h,.·r alm<>fl t f'v~ r~· n ll'ht H~Rt1, " hilt An nn~t~>l mtaht 1111.)", ' ' You In th~ )'~flr, the Clllthfu l pra yi'J , t l!nt the 11.r~ In Jlf'a'•tn 1U1d tt!f'rf. n.ra no etorml'l r.l~ ml«ht he awltk('nNJ \.n a N':\ll:r.atlnn h('f~ . " Ant1 In r!t'1'f)f'rdtlon I •oultt he f'C th& Jln'AVIlY or ItA! m or l\ 1 r l' t ro.-r" " '"lon : c'l etvrn to llllk , "Th~n "'hll.t llht.lt '111'11 alnc ; • Thf're t l:H·Y prll,)1f' t1 that t h"' dlln("" hAll Rn1t t h ., ""lf"l r-h nlr wnult1 nn11wl'r, ' ' " ' • an•l tho ttlllnon m!aht bt' llhotl11h,.d or mu"t 111n~r tt1 .. ni'W' !_tinrc.'' • " ··1 that It• dnoteM woult1 ,-ro w 1 !1. • _""

Jht~Jf' fer All. , lf'ft and th"t th,. 't' olr~ nt r~l«1on m")~tht • .. . ....., hram abcn'l' thllt dtn flr lh .. d i !O{"or !1Ant 'liT. ~ ho can atn.: It? It Ia II'Aid t"hll.t mu11tc or 11uc h .hou"'""· A tnne r•arndort•

<>n.-- (!11.y A me1't _,.,... 4.)rlnc · ~t.ftd tM min- - "('1rl tMt ~~ ~~~.- bu't-trY!" tttat J"f'1'"' l~t.-r came to ta.Ilc wltil hJm, tor be wa• hAro- It ca·mo nf'Rrer to t.outthld1r Utfl d:rtn~ 1'1tbout hof)e. 'l"be rnJnlatf!t' aaid. . h~ ot · the p4"0Pte. Dr. BI*'..WOir

. 'What M your future'!"" ~an<t li6- •&M . ... 1-:- -IIJI'Olt._wlth..JDueh--teellna'.. _Be~fotC'Ot. Jitm· think I !llhll.ll ~ to hel'l~f"fl.' • Ant1 Wh-llt IH'tf -fft hla ... at t('l mu. the J)llltle tf'• wtll you do when you Wt-t tbl're!' '111h&ll 80und _wltb the p~r. ot alnelc.k-.Ow•. do"what ev~ryho<ty el11e dOt's.' '.Ani! ..,h&t. lind ·In h!A ~rrort hfl •uee4!~e4 admirably.

· do th~T do?' sAl~ the mlnlwt~. · 'Well. I Wht!D that U'Jronl' Mpb to ' I aTtt . th• know· for one thin« that· th~y lrfnlrt' he . Cotteemn an bour Ja.t.er tbere wu .. ro. t<'Pllf"d, And thl'n the · man of (J()(t opeM(S IT • dry f!Te Amon I' thoM wbo hacS JtaJt~ t o th<\t chaptl'r or n .. ,.ellltl~n wbi!re we ,.ne4· to U!' word. of Dl". BlftodfiTW'Olf~ and r <'R t1 that no nne cll.n 11ln« thllt .-on.r. It WN 'With et"'ncth to tue vp antn fJ!• - ._, _ ._ • · o), ,. e.nncr nf the. ,...dffm~; ltfi.Y e work of the c:t&y that the crowd J:t

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choir under the leadership of W. H. Collison, a young Philadelphia high tenor, who arrived in Denver Saturday. Mr. Collison will sing Dudley Buck’s famous “Fear Ye Not, Oh, Israel” Sunday evening. J. Wilbur Chapman, under whose direction the union meetings are being conducted, spoke last night at the Central Presbyterian church on “The Unpardonable Sin.” As at the previous meetings, the 1,500 seats in the great structure were all taken and scores of persons evinced a desire to take up the Christian life. Dr. J. H. Elliott, at the Broadway Christian church, also spoke on the same topic, taking his text from Matthew xii.31-32: “Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the next world.”

Dr. Elliott explained that the unpardonable sin was to continue to say “No” to offers of mercy until one is a sinner let alone and given up by the Holy Spirit. Dr. Henry W. Staugh, at the Judson Baptist church, urged the importance of discipline and religious instructions as the duty of the parent to the child, and said that the blowing up of mines and depot platforms was the work of children grown into men out of poor home conditions. Society begins in the home, which is the foundation of society, said the speaker. Beginning today, Dr. Staugh will hold special meetings at the Denver & Rio Grande railroad shops each noon until his departure from the city. Dr. Henry Ostrom conducted an unusually successful meeting in the Plymouth Congregational church. His chorus choir of 40 voices is a drawing card that is helping nightly to fill the church. Mr. Hillis, as leader of the choir, has earned much praise.

DENVER TIMES Wednesday, January 11, 1905

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH PACKED

AND EXTRAORDINARY ENTHUSIASM MANIFESTED AT NOONDAY REVIVAL MEETING

The first of the monster noonday meetings planned to be held during the remainder of the revival conducted by visiting evangelists was held at the First Baptist church at noon today. The Tabor Grand Opera house could not be secured on account of the stock convention, but the capacity of the Stout street church was taxed to its utmost and scores were turned away. The evangelists expect this to be a salient feature of their work here and especial stress is being laid upon the

noonday meetings. Today Dr. Ostrom, who is in charge of the work at Plymouth Congregational church, spoke to the large crowd which gathered and led them in prayer. Next week the Tabor will be used and from then until the close of the revival. Splendid results are looked for from working among the persons whose employment keeps them downtown during the day


and who are too tired to go to service in the evening. The service opened with several hymns led by the different evangelistic singers. Next came the introduction of the principal speaker, Henry Ostrom, by W. E. Sweet, president of the Young Men’s Christian association of Denver. Mr. Ostrom requested Chancellor Buchtel of Denver university to lead the meeting in prayer. After prayer he began his sermon. Mr. Ostrom chose his text from Second Corinthians, 2:11: “Many among you are weak, many are sick, and many sleep.” It was a stirring sermon. The kind calculated to reach the hearts of the business men who came in for the noon service. It was full of advice to be “strong” under temptation and not to yield to the lowering influences which always assail the business man.

THE GOOD BEING DONE.

A well-known lady of this city writes her impressions of the people at one of the evangelistic meetings as follow: “An impressive sight was that ‘women’s meeting’ at Trinity Methodist church Monday afternoon. Not often do such a number of women leave their homes to meet together in such an assemblage, and as I sat near the door and watched them coming, I became so interested noting the infinite varieties of types and studying the multitude of faces I well-nigh forgot the purpose that had brought them all thither. “Some there were who had to bring the little ones along, but many more who had left the little ones at home with husband or caretakers, for this hour in which they hoped to gain inspiration for the multitudinous demands that life brings a woman.

One could seem to tell which were the mothers there - a look of patience, of sympathy, sometimes the careworn look stamped the faces of these. They came in side by side with the fresh, girlish faces that showed life to be an untried field ahead and with the older women whose faces showed a passage through the storm and stress of middle life and an entrance into the more quiet waters of old age. I began to look with interest into these older faces. I wanted to see if could find many there who had lived the gospel of Christ long enough to reflect the peace He promises - passing understanding’ and I did find many a face bright with a brightness the world cannot take away. These faces shone out as beacon lights in that vast audience, so many others were full of unrest and discontent, or simply expressed weariness or apathy to the joys of living. “O, woman, great is thy faith, so be it unto thee, even as thou wilt.” This was the text. Woman’s faith! What has it not accomplished all down through the centuries! And yet in the midst of our life’s struggle and stress it is hard to grasp its infinite possibilities and sometimes the woman’s life becomes just the round of homely duties that make one day so like another and the wider vision of life is lost altogether. “I wondered as the crowd passed out again, how many were carrying back to their homes an inspiration that could be translated right into life on the morrow. For myself, I found I had gained my best thought in the sermon the faces of my sister women had spoken to me and the desire strongest within me was to attain unto that peace which shines out of the faces of some women, making them the joy and resting-place of husband and children and all others who come near the influence of their lives.”



NOONDAY REVIVAL ONE OF BEST OF CHAPMAN MEETINGS

DR. HENRY OSTROM URGES PEOPLE NOT TO BACKSLIDE - DR.

BIEDERWOLF SPEAKS TODAY. The first of the noonday meetings at the First Baptist church yesterday, which was addressed by Dr. Henry Ostrom, was one of the best of the Chapman meetings held to this date. The great auditorium of the church as filled with men and women most of whom came from business. Today’s meeting will be addressed by Rev. Dr. Biederwolf, one of the most successful of the Chapman evangelists. The Rev. Dr. Ostrom, who is in charge of the meetings at the Plymouth Congregational church in the Capitol Hill district, made a plea to the business men and women, in plain, simple, concise sentences sharpened and pointed. Dr. Ostrom is a man of aphorisms. His tones are low and far carrying, even, yet convincing. In this and in his actions, he carries to the theater-goer a strong thought of William Gillette in the play of Sherlock Holmes; As Conan Doyles’s great creations, and of the late Sal (?spelling) Smith Russell. A character study of the man who has had such success in other cities and who is duplicating that success in Denver, is interesting. His eyes that are set back under overhanging brows apparently single out each individual of his audience. It is even easy to imagine the man as Doyle’s hero. In fact, as he carelessly places his hand on the back of a chair and calmly puts a pointed question to his audience, it is very easy for the theater-goer to transport him to the Baker street

lodgings and there see him calmly waiting the arrival of Moriarity, or discussing with Dr. Watson the latest sensational crime. Originality plays a great part in the makeup of Dr. Ostrom. “You don’t want any surface surgery,” says Ostrom the evangelist. “What you want is surgery that digs deep and scrapes the bone and scrapes it clean. When the wound is healed, there is no trouble from a rotten bone. Let us have the same kind of moral surgery. “If you get shaved,” says Ostrom the evangelist, “the barber presses his razor close to the skin and shaves you clean and smooth, right to the cutting point. The farther away from that point he gets, the poorer the shave. If he goes deeper, he cuts you and it is a poor shave. So it is with religion, you have got to go to the cutting point and there stop. “In Washington one morning I waited for a car, horses were hauling the electric cars. A little way down the street I saw the reason in a pile of burned and twisted steel - the power house that once was. What a back sliding from the fast moving electric cars to the slow horse cars. Don’t you men, you women, you children, back slide from electricity to horse cars. “In the mint at Washington, Uncle Sam’s employes take the torn and frayed paper money that is sent


to the treasury for redemption, put it in a machine and grind it until it comes forth almost as fine as sausage. Then this ground stuff, stuff that is ground from a hundred thousand dollars to a wad that is sold to some toy maker for a few cents, and it all goes into the make-up of a 10 cent toy horse. “The trouble with some of you people is that you are afraid to take religion; it is like going to get a tooth pulled, if you could do it easy-like it would be all right. Well, don’t you feel a great deal better after the tooth is out? Yes. And you would feel a great deal better after the devil is out. “Once a man said to me: ‘I am afraid I have gone back on religion; it nearly gave me nervous prostration.’ I said: ‘Brother, let us pray.’ He said: ‘You first.’ ‘No,’ I said, ‘you first.’ He insisted that if he prayed first, he knew just what he would say and that it would take him just 30 seconds. He started, At the end of three minutes

he had only begun. At the close of seven minutes he had prayed God to forgive him for wrongs done business associates and other sins. That was where the nervous prostration came in; he couldn’t get rest because of these sins. Give me the Christian with nervous prostration and I will fix him.” Dr. Elliott in his sermon on “Life” at the Broadway Christian church last night used the text Mark viii. 37: “What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” He said, “Jesus did not say ‘soul,’ but life, according to the revised version of the Bible, and so he spoke of ‘life’ not as ending with the grave, but life as one here and hereafter, the life that now is and that which is to come all one. “Man has but one existence, but that is endless, everlasting. The present life takes on a new dignity when viewed in this light and the soul a new value.”

DENVER TIMES Thursday, January 12, 1905

EVANGELIST BIEFERWOLF DOING REMARKABLE WORK FOR REVIVAL

SOME CHARACTERISTIC ATTITUDES OF DR. CHAPMAN, WHO IS LEADING THE GREAT RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN DENVER.

The evangelistic meetings being conducted by the Rev. W. E. Biederwolf at the First Baptist church are remarkably successful. Dr. Biederwolf has steadily grown in favor from the start and has preached to steadily increasing congregations. Professor Harry Maxwell is a most inspiring gospel singer and has his large chorus choir in splendid working order. Last night the main floor

at the First Baptist church was well filled. This floor seats 900 and the gallery 400. The latter was not opened. The after-meeting which continued to almost 10 o’clock, was deeply spiritual and rich in results. At the close of the services in the main auditorium those who desired to remain were invited to go down stairs into the vestry and


hundreds, without solicitation, quickly filled the room. Dr. Biederwolf is (cannot read the newspaper word here) at his best in a meeting of this kind. People arose in all parts of the room to confess Christ. Some most remarkable conversions have taken place in these meetings and last night the converts spoke out and bore their testimony for Christ. As they told how they had given up a life of sin and taken Christ to be their savior tears of joy filled many eyes, to be quickly followed by spontaneous and enthusiastic outbursts of the old gospel songs. Dr. Vosburgh, who is engaged in the work with all the enthusiasm of his nature, said to a Times reporter; “I have seen nothing like the present revival movement during the eight years I have been in Denver. It is a deep and genuine work of grace. Sinners are being converted. Dr. Biederwolf is a delightful Christian gentleman and an ideal evangelist.” The business men’s meetings at the church are also well attended.

IN THE TENDERLOIN Evangelism will be carried into the tenderloin tomorrow night. At 10 o’clock the corps of ten

evangelists under Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman assigned to this work will meet at the First Baptist church. From there they will visit saloons and houses or ill-repute, stopping at all that will admit them. At 12 o’clock Dr. Chapman will conduct a midnight preaching service at the Curtis theater. It is reported that conversions are fewer in number in the Capitol Hill district than in some of the others. Dr. Henry Ostrom, who has charge of this district, claims, however, that the work is deep and lasting, and the people accept religion only after most earnest and intelligent consideration. The meeting at Christ Methodist church, conducted by Rev. Mr. Callen last night, is said to have been attended by an audience that was composed of Christians, with the exception of two men, and after the sermon, “The Confession of Christ,” these two announced that they had decided to become Christians. Rev. Henry W. Stough, evangelist, and Charles F. Allen, singer, of the Western district conducted a noonday meeting at the Burnham shops yesterday, about 150 of the employes attending. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman spoke last night at the Central Presbyterian church, a large number of persons signing cards indicating an interest in the matter of religion.


DENVER POST Friday, January 13, 1905 (page 5)

DENVER MINISTERS TO PREACH AT COLLEGE

Colorado Springs, Colo., January 13 The following have been appointed college preachers at Colorado college for the present year: Rev. R. F. Coyle, D.D., pastor of the Central Presbyterian church of Denver; Rev. Frank T. Bayley, D.D. pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church of Denver; Very Rev. Henry Martyn Hart, D.D., of St. John’s cathedral Denver; Rev. George B. Vosburgh, pastor of the First Baptist church of Denver; Dr. William C. Sturgis of Colorado college and Bishop Henry W. Warren of the Methodist Episcopal church. DENVER POST Friday, January 13, 1905 (page 10)

LIGHT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WHERE RED LIGHTS GLARE

EVANGELISTS WILL BEAR MESSAGE OF HOPE TO DWELLERS OF SLUMS, BELIEVING THEY CAN RESCUE SOME OF THE FALLEN When the ten evangelists, with their soloists and the ministers of the city as guides, march singing and praying into the red light district two hours before midnight tonight, they will be doing something that braver men than they have given up as useless. They are going to tell the people of the half world, these men and women who have long since lost sight of all that is right, what it means to live a good and pure life, and they feel, every one of them, that they are going to succeed. Dr. Chapman addressed a large meeting last night on “A Solemn Subject,” taking for his text Hebrews vi., 4-6: “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the word of God, and the powers of the world to come; if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance;

seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame.” “How far one may go toward hope and yet fall away, I doubt not but that all of my hearers have in mind those who have been on the very eve of the acceptance of Christ and yet never received Him.” If there are any two of these evangelists who are anything alike it is Dr. Chapman and Rev. W. E. Biederwolf, who has been conducting meetings in many of the larger churches of the city. Yesterday he was the speaker at the noonday services which are being held at the First Baptist church and his similarity to his leader was perhaps most marked it has ever been. As is the case with Dr. Chapman, he believes not in gestures, loud talking or big words -- he talks simply and distinctly, his choice of the simple but


expressive words is marked, and he tells his audiences, just as an attorney would tell his client, that they have been losing something; that somebody has been getting ahead of them, and if

he does not convince them at once, they go away wondering what it is and how they are going to get it back.


EVANGELIST BIEDERWOLF ONCE DEFEATED ARTHUR ZIMMERMAN

J. Wilbur Chapman, leader of the union religious meetings, will conduct a midnight meeting at the New Curtis theater tonight. The meeting will open at 11 o’clock. Mr. Chapman will also address the noonday meeting at the First Baptist church today. The noonday meetings of the Chapman movement have been a most popular feature. Over a thousand heard the Rev. Dr. Biederwolf yesterday. Mrs. E. M. Whitemore, the great Eastern woman evangelist, who arrived in Denver yesterday from Philadelphia, will speak at Trinity Methodist church at 3 o’clock this afternoon. Perhaps but one man in the audience at the Chapman noonday meeting in the First Baptist church yesterday knew that the Rev. Dr. Biederwolf was the same Biederwolf that once defeated Arthur Zimmerman, who 10 years ago was the champion bicycle rider in the world, and who today is looked upon as the fastest day-in-and-day-out man that ever sat astride a wheel. This man turned to his neighbor and said, “If Biederwolf could ride like he can preach it is no wonder that he showed Zimmerman a clean pair of heels. He certainly can preach.”

And Biederwolf did preach from the time he stood after the first song and cautiously adjusted a white square of court plaster on the back of his neck to the time he stopped to call for hands of those who wished to lead a better life. He did nothing but preach. It is doubtful if J. Wilbur Chapman, the eminent leader of the movement, could have secured 10 more earnest evangelists and 10 men so different from the other, if he had scoured the country from one side to the other and taken five years for the scouring. Certain it is that he could hardly have secured a man who is more vigorous in “going after” the people than Biederwolf. Mr. Biederwolf is a graduate of Princeton. He helped drag the college banner to victory more than once on the baseball and football fields. Yet there is not “college” in his talks. with everyday language, using plain and simple arguments, he handles the gospel like he would handle anything else - in straight business style. He reaches down in his audience and brings each hearer to him; if the hearer is not convinced, he is at least set to thinking. Mr. Biederwolf is not much for gestures. He is still less for oratory as commonly taught. He is absolutely nothing for big words. He is a great deal for little human interest stories to illustrate


his points. He tells a story well. Better perhaps, than the average minister. In his pathos he works in no soft music; he depends upon no misunderstanding. He told a story of a locomotive engineer of Philadelphia whose little girl watched for the father as he came from his run. The little would catch sight of him as he rounded this and that corner. “One day,” he said; “Daughter, I will knock a palling off of the fence so that you can put out your head and then I can see you as I come around the corner just at the same time you see me.” While the father was on one of his trips the little girl suddenly sickened and died. The father knew there must be something wrong when he rounded the corner and there was no little face looking anxiously out from between two fence palings. He was met at the door by the heartbroken mother, and this is the message she had from the little girl, her last words; ‘Tell papa, when he comes home, that when I get to heaven I will have Jesus knock off a paling in the fence around heaven, so that I can watch for him.” From that day, the father was a Christian. The great auditorium of the church was crowded with business men and women, professional men, merchants, clerks, the largest day meeting in the Chapman movement in Denver. Scores held up their hands to signify that they wished to lead better lives, and many more went forward to the altar at the close and asked Dr. Biederwolf to pray with them. If there is as great an increase in today’s attendance when the leader of the movement, the Rev. Dr. Chapman, will speak, as

there was yesterday over the attendance Wednesday, people will be turned away from the meeting for lack of room. Dr. Clarence Strouse continues to draw great crowds at Asbury M. E. church. After number of selections by the large chorus, M. A. Collinson sang very beautifully, “Jesus Is Calling Me Home.” When Dr. Strouse arose all gave close attention. He spoke from Romans viii.14: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God.” He first argued that there were only two powers in the world. One the spirit of God, the other the spirit of evil, and that man was responsible for his relation to the one power or the other; that there was no neutral ground and man finds himself surrendered to the one power or the other. As a result his life was righteous if surrendered to the spirit of God or sinful if surrendered to Satan. Dr. Strouse gave an impressive description of the awful conflict between these two great spirits for the mastery of man. His description of a great painting showing the desperate conflict between French and German armies in battle was beautiful and eloquent. At the close 32 accepted Christ as their Savior. The northern district seems to draw big crowds and results. J. Wilbur Chapman, at his meeting at Central Presbyterian church last night, was even more successful than on previous nights securing converts.


DENVER TIMES Friday, January 13, 1905

SIN ATTACKED DOWNTOWN

EVANGELISTS WILL VISIT TENDERLOIN AND HOLD MIDNIGHT SERVICES.

Noonday meetings and midnight meetings - these are the features of the waning days of the greatest religious revival Denver has ever experienced. Today at the First Baptist church Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman drew the largest congregation of the week and tonight at 11 o’clock the midnight service will begin in the Curtis theater. Just before the midnight service is begun the evangelists will make a tour of the lower parts of the city visiting saloons and houses of ill-repute, wherever they will be admitted, preaching the gospel of repentance and the teachings of a merciful God. The band of ten will meet after the evening exercises and go together on the crusade against sin. Then they will go straight to the Curtis theater, where they will be followed,

doubtless, by hundreds who will be attracted to them by their work in the slums. Every evangelist in the city in widely different fields is working energetically and the fruits of the revival are not slow in making themselves manifest. Dr. Chapman’s work is particularly interesting. Dr. Biederwolf, at the First Baptist church, is preaching to immense crowds. He seems to be able to touch the hearts of men, especially as he was once among them. An athlete at Princeton and a real good fellow throughout his college course, he has mastered knowledge of the impulses of the young man and of the older man and his talks prove very interesting.

DENVER POST Saturday, January 14, 1905 (page 7)

CHURCH SERVICES FOR SUNDAY Sunday, 3 P.M. -- Men’s mass meeting at Trinity M. E. church; Sermon by Dr. Chapman on “Some Things About Dissipation, Infidelity and Morality.” Music by Fred Butler, men’s chorus, male quartet and Adam’s hotel orchestra. Mrs. Whitemore of New York at First Avenue Presbyterian. Young People’s mass meeting at Central Presbyterian.

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7:30 P.M. -- Meeting for men at South Broadway Christian church. Sermon by Dr. Elliott on “The Hiding Places of Men.” Mass meeting for men and women at First Baptist church, in charge of W. E. Biederwolf. Dr. Callen at Twenty-third Avenue Presbyterian on “The Marriage Altar and After.” Mass meeting for men and women at Central Presbyterian, in charge of Dr. Chapman. Ten days ago the evangelists came to Denver. In eight more days they will go. How much have they accomplished -- what will they have left undone? It was nearly a year ago that the ministers of the city gathered in a little room at the Y.M.C.A. for the purpose of talking over the conditions existing in the city. “We have worked and prayed long and earnestly, “ said one, “and our efforts have been useless.” “With such the case, why not let someone better able to cope with these affairs than we seem to be, take charge of the city and see what he can do?” suggested another, and thus occurred the first plans for the present evangelistic campaign. When, a few meetings later, the little gathering of struggling ministers decided to call Dr. Wilbur Chapman and his corps of workers, did they fully realize what it was going to mean in the end? It is hard to tell: They only know that now they are satisfied -- more than they ever expected they could be, and in eight days they are going to once more take up their mission of good, but with renewed spirits, new interests. “Almost persuaded now to believe: Almost persuaded Christ to receive.”

Loudly singing this old-fashioned hymn that evangelists many years ago found so effective, this little band of ten workers, led by the ministers of the city as guides, last night marched down into the red light districts of the city, and it was then that they showed that they had taken up this work in earnest -- that they were not afraid to undertake what dozens of others had given over as useless. Block after block they marched, singing and preaching, stopping sometimes to speak to some forlorn character on the street corner, other times to ask admittance to places where shouting, singing and the clink of many glasses could be heard. They had gone down there in that low, forgotten portion of the city to tell to those men and women who had long ago lost sight of all that was good and pure, what it means to lead a stainless life -- what they have been losing all these years. In some places they were given cheerful admittance. In others they were ordered away, but for two hours they marched on, and at midnight they arrived at the Curtis theater, where, in the midst of glaring sign boards and gaudy scenes, they told strange things to these people, who, out of a sense of curiosity, perhaps something even more deep, had come to hear them. It was one of the most wonderful things the city has ever seen and something it will not soon forget. The tenderloin district of the city had been reached -- and touched. Perhaps so. Great interest is now manifest among the Episcopalians of the city in regard being near the center of the sixth missionary district of the Episcopal church will hold in Omaha, January 18 - 22. (Other information about this particular conference coming is detailed in the rest of this article and the subsequent listing of church services all over the city with the details


mentioned in the previous Church Service column in this article.) DENVER REPUBLICAN Saturday, January 14, 1905

SLUMS INVADED BY EVANGELISTS

DR. J. WILBUR CHAPMAN AND ASSOCIATES VISIT RED LIGHT DISTRICT

TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE PARADE DISTRICT MARKED BY SIN AND VICE.

MIDNIGHT MEETING AT CURTIS THEATER ATTRACTS CROWD WHICH PACKS THE BUILDING “If Christ should come to Denver.” His ministrations would probably begin among the lowly and fallen. It was among that class that He worked and taught much of the time when on earth, and among those people it is that Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman and his corps of evangelists hope to carry the message of hope and life. The campaign was started last night. No more remarkable or impressive scenes have ever been witnessed in the city of Denver, where the unusual seems to happen so frequently that it becomes commonplace, than that of last night, when 2,000 men and women left the warm of churches and marched through the highways and byways that are usually given over to sin and vice. It was followed by a midnight meeting at the Curtis theater, where the building was packed and jammed until long after the new day had turned. Down on Market street there was unusual quiet during the early hours of the night. It was bitterly cold and only a stray pedestrian here and there paced the frozen sidewalks. The glare was there, as the lights flashed out from “Paradise” and “The Palace.” The cracked pianos tinkled here and there, mingled with the wild scraping of

a violin. Occasionally the tin shutters that make for bars to the female victims in the French row were rattled and a foreign voice cried “Coomeen.” There were no signs of a religious invasion. At Con Keleher’s Place, as the dance died away, the inquiry was put if anything had been seen of the army, and the barkeep announced: “We have not saw them yet.” “Are you going to open your door if they ask to come in?” was put to one girl behind her screen.

WOMAN SAYS SHE HAS GREAT RESPECT FOR RELIGION

“You bet I am,” was the reply, “I shall treat them right. I may be a fallen woman, but I respect religion and feel just like scratching anybody’s eyes out when I hear them making fun of religion.” It was interesting for the nighthawks, as they were running in all directions, and from behind the curtains faces peeped that may not have been know in Market street before - perhaps afraid to join the revivalists and yet, wanting to see what would happen.


At 10:30 the sound of a bass drum broke on the crisp night air and then came the tramp of many feet. Under the mighty tread the frost cracked and sounded strangely. An army of at least two thousand persons had gathered at the First Baptist church on Stout street and marched through the tenderloin. They took their way down Seventeenth street to Larimer, then out to Twenty-first, down to Market, back to Twentieth and to the Curtis theater.

REVIVALISTS SHOUTED THE OLD FAMILIAR SONGS

The marchers went four abreast. At their head was a bass drum and a transparency. Then came marching four Salvation army lassies. In fact, the army was quite in evidence - it was their kind of a religious movement. The long string extended over two blocks and it was very impressive. The revivalist shouted and sang, as they came, the old familiar songs. “Jesus Paid It All,” “Open Wide The Window,” “Shall We Gather At The River” were voiced with many others in scenes that have heard the sacred names shouted in blasphemy more frequently than in praise. The march never stopped for a minute. It was never the intention to do that, only to give the poor sinners an invitation, to let them know that they were not forgotten. The people shouted as they marched along and one might have imagined that the entire religious population had turned “jumpers,” but whether they were jumping to keep the blood circulating or in religious zeal may be questioned, probably both. The scenes along the route were equally interesting. Most of the houses remained quiet.

Occasionally a shade would shoot up and heads would crowd the window. WOMEN CAME OUT AND SCREAMED WITH GLEE

At some places women came out half-clad and screamed in wild glee. It was a new sensation of the street, and what is life on the street without sensation? Hoarse voices shouted either in welcome or derision. It is certain that after the parade, the street woke up, the drinking was deeper and the dancing wilder. Conscience demonstrates itself in its own way - perhaps that was one way by which conscience showed that the half world cares. One painted creature sat sobbing in a dance room. “What’s the matter, Mable?” she was asked. “None of your business.” “Now, what’s the matter?” “I wish those _______ _______ people hadn’t came down here. I am just as good as they are.” She isn’t and that was what hurt. That was what Dr. Chapman was aiming at, to show them that religious people do care.

CROWD PRESSED INTO THE HOME OF MELODRAMA

Into the Curtis theater the great crowd pressed, into the home of melodrama. Why, then have sermons in the gaudily decorated auditorium of the Curtis every night - the villain suffers, the virtuous are rewarded. Under flapping banners that read, “The Fatal Scar,” acted by Frank James; “Why Women Sin” and “The Fatal Wedding,” the people streamed in singing. They sang for half an hour under the


skilled leadership of a man who knows art; now slow, now fast, now the men, now the women, until the people were aroused. Dr. Chapman lead the meeting, only briefly, saying that the presence of the vast throng and the presence of most of the leading pastors of the city showed that the church does care. It has not lost sight of the fallen. The meeting would show those people that the religious people do think of them. It showed that they have the sympathy of good people. Rev. Dr. Coyle offered prayer, and then Rev. Henry Ostrom took charge. He gave a striking and forceful address, showing many incidents of remarkable conversions. He was very strong in denouncing a modern city that will allow such places as the audience had passed through to exist. He advised all seeking Christ to go to him themselves in prayer. Rev. W. E. Biederwolf had charge of the closing exercises. It was long past midnight when the people began leaving the theater, having participated in a religious demonstration that will not soon be forgotten in Denver, a city where life moves so rapidly that people readily forget. ATTENDANCE BETTER IN CAPITOL HILL DISTRICT Last night the audience in the Capitol hill district was largely increased. There was an eagerness and expectancy, too, that was most marked. The chorus was in fine form and responded finely to the leading of Mr. Hillis, whose singing and directing is daily growing in favor. Dr. Ostrom took the story of the two thieves on the cross as

a basis of his evening sermon, studying especially the repentant thief. Twenty-five responded to the request to confess Christ and the meeting closed with a richer fervor than have any of the previous ones. Great results are anticipated in this section next week.

EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS FOR SUNDAY ARRANGED

A mass meeting for men has been arranged for Sunday in Trinity M. E. church at 3 p.m. Dr. Chapman will speak on “Some Things About Dissipation, Infidelity and Morality.” Mr. Butler will sing “The Voice Of God’s Creation.” Mr. Smythe will direct the men’s chorus. A male quartet and Adam’s hotel orchestra will furnish the music. A meeting for boys will be held at the Baptist church at 4 p.m. Mr. Scheaffer will speak on “Putting Out To Sea.” Judge Lindsey will be present. Music by Beal’s juvenile orchestra. Boys from 12 to 18 invited. A mass meeting for men and women will be held at the First Baptist church at 7:30, addressed by Dr. Biederwolf. Mrs. Whitemore will speak at the First Avenue Presbyterian church at 3 p.m. At 7 p.m Dr. Elliott will speak to women at the First Avenue Presbyterian church on “The Hiding Places of Men.” Dr. Callen will speak at the Twenty-third Avenue Presbyterian church at 7:30 on “The Marriage Altar and After,” answering the question, “Is marriage a failure?” A young people’s mass meeting will be held at Central Presbyterian church at 3 p.m. Special


music. A mass meeting for men and women will be held at the Central Presbyterian church at 7:30,

Dr. Chapman will speak.

DENVER TIMES Saturday, January 14, 1905

EVANGELISTS END A MOST (Cannot read the remaining newspaper headline.)

Not content with preaching to the congregations which nightly assemble in the churches in ten districts of the city to hear the Word of God interpreted by the invading corps of evangelists under the direction of Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, the men who have undertaken to rescue Denver from sin and vice last night went down into the lower part of the city where sins runs rampant and where vice is supreme and made an heroic effort to make themselves heard above the din of the creaky music of the dancehall. In all justice to the denizens of the half world religion was not then made an object of redicule, for many came to the sidewalk and listened to the hymns floating softly on the midnight air. Whenever the opportunity afforded itself, some of the preachers would go down into the open saloons and houses and would talk kindly to those within. It is a matter of record, that not in a single instance were slurring remarks flung at the men who are here on a mission of religion, and in

no case were the Salvation Army lassies who accompanied insulted. It was a sight Denver has never before witnessed when the evangelistic band, 2,000 strong, left the First Baptist church last night at a little after 10 o’clock on their march toward the slums. Down Seventeenth street they went to Larimer and then turned to Twentieth. From there down into the heat of the wickedest portion of the city went the crusaders singing and praying and headed by a band. Across Market street they went to Twenty-first and from there up again to the Curtis theater, where the midnight service was held. The playhouse was well filled when the evangelists began to speak, and half a hundred sin-stricken souls made known their desire to begin anew and asked the prayers of the congregation. Dr. Chapman presided, but the preaching was done by Rev. Henry Ostrom and Rev. W. E. Biederwolf. Last night’s work is a triumph for the visiting evangelists and is a salient feature of the revival.


DENVER POST Sunday, January 15, 1905 (page 11)

PLENTY OF EXPLAINING FROM A NONWORKER

PEN PICTURE OF EVANGELIST CHAPMAN, WHO SAYS INACTIVE CHRISTIANS WILL BE OUT OF IT -- DENVER NOT WICKED

(Caption above evangelist’s picture) “I was told before I came to this beautiful city in the mountains that Denver was the ‘most wicked, WICKED city in America.’ Denver is NOT a wicked city. I would not have missed this visit to this most beautiful city for a day’s output of your mint.” J. Wilbur Chapman. article by Edwin L. McCulloch I found Wilbur Chapman in what some people would call “undress uniform” when I called upon him at the Adams hotel. I would say that Chapman, the evangelist, was in “undress uniform” all the time. Certainly, as he lolled back comfortably in the large easy chair in the Adams corridors, he looked no different tome than he did leading a great religious meeting and making converts by the hundred. J. Wilbur Chapman is first a man. Newspaper men are generally pretty good readers of human nature, and I would have sized Chapman, the evangelist, as a prosperous and energetic banker or professional man. Neither in word nor action does he proclaim to the ordinary observer that he is a minister of the gospel -- that is, as minister of the gospel usually do. There is no visible halo floating just above his head, as some pastors would have us believe are following them. In its stead there is the air of success and “good will and peace on earth to all men.”

“I am very glad to meet you, Mr. McCulloch,” he said, with a handshake that was bubbling over with heartiness. “Why, certainly, I shall be happy to grant you an interview.” I saw in his manner that Mr. Chapman perceived the value of being courteous to newspaper men. Not exactly because of the power of printer’s ink behind the reporter, because the greeting seemed perfectly natural and such as he would give to any man. “Won’t you draw your chair up nigh?” he continued, a wholesome smile passing swiftly over the large, handsome, pleasing face. I nearly tripped at the word “nigh,” but quickly gathered myself together and did as he bade. The nearly six feet of 170 pounds enclosed in a neat-fitting tailor-made suit of black coat, white vest and striped trousers, settled itself a little more comfortably in the huge cushioned chair. Then a voice that was something more then pleasing to the ear, said: “If you will lead the way, Mr. McCulloch, I shall be only too glad to follow.” “Would he talk of his work, of Denver, of his success in Denver and in other cities?” He would. But Mr. McCulloch must ask the questions. “Do you consider your work as successful in Denver?: I asked.


DENVER AS SEEN BY OTHERS

“I most certainly do,” came the answer in tones firm and clear. A twinkle that was just perceptible flitted forth from the clear blue eyes that are more beautiful than it is usually the lot of man to possess, as he continued: “You see, I was told before I came to this beautiful city in the mountains, that Denver was the “most wicked, wicked city in America.” Particular emphasis was placed upon the last “wicked.” “Yes, I was told that I might as well pass on through; that it really would not pay -- but, Mr. McCulloch, are you a Christian? I know you will not mind me speaking to you on such an important subject; I make it a point to never converse with any man ten minutes without asking him about his soul.” The question was so impersonal, and was asked in such a man-to-man way, that no one could have refused an answer. There was nothing prying, nothing in fact out of the way in the question as put by Mr. Chapman. My answer that I was “a trying,” received a thankful look. The look was the same as a hearty slap on the back. I could not have resented even such familiarity, for it would not have been familiarity with Chapman the evangelist, with only an acquaintance of only five minutes. “But I did not pass on through” -- picking up the thread of conversation -- “I did not pass on through, because I did not believe that, I do not believe that, there is a city in all this world, no matter how wicked, that will not accept the

gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, if it is present in a manly, straight-forward way.” The face before me became afire with earnestness; it was alive with some great feeling, some feeling that I did not understand. I might have had other thoughts concerning Denver accepting religion before the last statement of Chapman, the evangelist, but now I was confident that Denver would be only too glad to accept the religion represented by the man that was a man before me. “Denver is not a wicked city.” The figure before me was filled with strong emotion. “It is no more wicked than a hundred and one other cities of the same size. There are thousands of good people in this city -- among the best people in all the world, that I have met, and I would not have missed this visit to this most beautiful city for a day’s output of your mint.” I moved, just a little comfortably, I thought, because I could not help but regret what words I might have said at one time or other against Denver. I was heartily ashamed for even entertaining a thought against the city.

SUCCESSFUL IN THIS CITY “In Pittsburgh,” continued Mr. Chapman, “where there were over 5,000 additions to the churches within two weeks after our meetings closed, the meetings were no more enthusiastic, no more demonstrative, no more successful than they have been right here in Denver. All the people need here, and all the people need anywhere, is a WAKING up. Everybody needs it. I need it. You need it. Your friend and my friend need it. And then when we get it we are all right for a certain length of time. If we don’t watch ourselves, we


relapse again into a state of ...(These missing words are unintelligible in the old newspaper.) we have to have an awakening. “I tell you, the great trouble with people of all classes, business, religious, is that we are too apt to become drowsy.” The speaker was becoming more earnest. He changed his position and held out a warning finger. I felt as if he was taking me to task for my acknowledged drowsiness. “Did you ever stop to consider that if every professing Christian in this town would speak one word each day for God, what an endless chain it would be? Why, this city, any other city, would -- why it couldn’t help but be converted in less time almost than it takes to talk about it. And -- there the clock says 4. I am sorry that I shall have to leave you. I have an engagement at ten after, and I always make it a point to be on time. “I am mighty glad to have met you, Mr. McCulloch. If I don’t get another chance to see you, I wish you would always keep uppermost in your mind this: That in Christianity, the same as in anything else, if a man would be as perfect as possible, he must keep in practice. A non-working Christian will have to do some tall explaining when he comes to enter the pearly gates.” “Remember that you are a Christian and each day remind someone else of that fact; put in a good word for Christ with everyone you meet. When Christians realize this, and live up to it, there will be little need for evangelists of my kind. For all men, all women, all children, will be evangelists, just as God intended. Good-by, and come to hear me talk some night, if convenient.” I sat in the great cushioned chair several minutes before I realized that Chapman, the evangelist,

was gone. His words kept rolling over and over in my thoughts. The presence, the handshake, were still with me. Then the thought came to me that I had forgotten all about the interview I had set out to get. A little bell boy, whom I had noticed at the opening of the conversation as being an interested auditor, broke the spell. “He’s a hell of a fine fellow, that fellow, Chapman; he treats all of us boys like we were men, “ he said. I unconsciously muttered; “Them’s my sentiments.”

FROM OPERA TO PULPIT It is not generally known that Fred Butler, the great singing evangelist with J. Wilbur Chapman at the Central Presbyterian church, is the same Fred Butler, a favorite of the Denver theater-going public. Mr. Butler’s last appearance in Denver was three years ago, with the Alice Nielson Opera company, at which time he scored a decided hit. He appeared in Denver several times before, with other opera companies. Mr. Butler has been with the Rev. Dr. Chapman only a year, yet in that time he has gained for himself the name of being the greatest singing evangelist now in the work, and is much sought after by evangelists and for Chautauqua meetings. He was with Eugene Cowles, in London, when he received a letter from Dr. Chapman, urging him to go into the religious work. He was drawing a salary with Cowles of $150 a week. Chapman offered less than $50 a week. He decided to accept Chapman’s offer. Cowles offered him $200 a week. It was a pretty big jump in salary to drop from $200 a week to less than $50 a week, but Butler did it. He says that he has never regretted the step, and that he will never again appear in opera. He is a singing evangelist, because he


likes he work and thinks he is called upon by God to do it. Butler makes a striking figure. He stands six foot, three and three-quarter inches in his stocking feet, which composes 187 pounds of bone and muscle. His shoulders are broader than Jeffries’ shoulders. He is on the sunny side of ...(age is blurred, but maybe 50) and carries a face as frank and boyish as that of a youth of 20. He is an all-around athlete. The world’s records for amateurs for the standing high jump, the running high jump, putting of the sixteen pound shot and of the twelve pound shot belong to him. He won them at National Y.M.C.A. meets in

Boston. The world’s amateur boxing record could also belong to him, his friends say, if he was so intended to go after it. Butler’s favorite songs in the Chapman meetings are: “The Voice of God’s Creation,” “Hozanna” and “Almost Persuaded.” Denver ministers are a unit in saying that Chapman and Butler are the greatest team of evangelists in America at this time. Wherever they have been, hundreds and even thousands have been converted. Demands are constantly pouring in on them to hold meetings in all parts of the United States and Canada, and numerous requests have come from European countries.


CHURCH CENSORS DRAMAS

DENVER MINISTERS SEPARATE GOOD FROM BAD POST THEIR CONGREGATIONS

The modern society play, the French drama, and the “ah, ah, villain, at last thou art caught” variety of tragedy are to be tabooed by Denver ministers. A committee of several of the most prominent ministers of New York has notified the ministers of this city that they will visit all of the plays which start from that city and will visit Denver during the season, and send regular reports of their investigation. Bulletins containing the names of the approved ones will then be forwarded to every church member in the city, urging them to attend and will also be placed in the Episcopal and other churches in the city. This new step in regard to the stage is the result of the work of the Actors’ Church Alliance, which

was organized in New York city in 1889, by Rev. Walter E. Bentley, who had at one time been one of the foremost actors on the stage. Although he chose an entirely different profession he did not lose his interest in the dramatic calling or in those that followed it, and decided that the prejudices of many thousands of people against theaters could be dispelled and the church and stage brought into more sympathetic relations, and with the assistance of several of the prominent Episcopalian ministers, organized the Actors’ Church alliance. Bishop Potter became the president and ministers of various religions bodies, writers, prominent citizens and actors and actresses became members.


HONORABLE CALLING The attitude of this alliance toward the members of the dramatic calling is straightforward and consistent. It regards the calling itself as not only legitimate, but honorable, and thinks that men and women may fill it with credit to themselves and with usefulness to society. It sees no need of apologizing for the calling itself, and recognizes the great body of those who fill this calling today as comparing well with the same number of people in ordinary callings. It meets actors and actresses frankly, and urges them to be their best and to do their best, that society may be helped by their lives and by their work. It always stands in most sympathetic relations to members of this calling, and proffers friendliness to them as they come to any town or city where a chapter of the alliance has been formed. the alliance is already established in nearly 400 cities in the United States and Canada and has about 1,800 members, 200 of these being lay members and the rest chaplains and members of the dramatic profession. DENVER CHAPLAIN Nearly every city in the country now has chaplains to the alliance, those of Denver being Rev. John H. Houghton of St. Mark’s Episcopalian

church, Rabbi Friedman of Temple Emmanuel and Rev. F. F. Kramer of All Saints’ Episcopal church. “Our plan of working is simple but effective,” said Rev. J. H. Houghton yesterday. “The alliance is pledged to the promotion of the highest aims of dramatic literature and histrionic art by union of all its members on and off the stage, and we mean to do great things within the next year or two. When one of the members of the alliance intends to come to Denver with his or her company, we receive a postal telling us about it two weeks before hand and are ready to welcome him or her, and see that they are cared for, and that they are under the best influences while here. That is one of the purposes of the alliance. The other is to see that only the good, the moral and the pure plays are brought here and to blackball all the others, no matter how great and famous may be the characters in it. We believe that men and women get their highest concepts of a great and good life from a play on the stage, and by this system of having the chaplains of the alliance in New York, where all the plays start, send us lists of the good ones, we expect to be able to get only this kind here. We will advertise in every way the good ones, urge our church members to attend them, and give them such a cordial welcome that others will not dare to venture here, and syndicate will be afraid to send them.”


DENVER REPUBLICAN Sunday, January 15,1905

EVANGELISTS MAKE MANY CONVERTS

RESULTS OF TEN DAYS’ LABORS ARE HIGHLY SATISFACTORY.

CITY HAS BEEN RE-DISTRICTED BY VARIOUS CHAPMAN WORKERS.

LOCAL PASTORS AND CHURCHMEN DELIGHTED WITH RELIGIOUS AWAKENING Special Meetings This Afternoon. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman will speak to men only at Trinity Methodist church on “Some Things About Dissipation, Infidelity and Immorality.” Fred Butler will sing “The Voice of God’s Creation.” Mr. Smythe (The newspaper had Mrs. Smythe. Viewing all other accounts, this must have been a mistake.) will direct a great chorus. Dr. Henry Ostrom will talk at the Plymouth Congregational church to women only. Both meetings begin at 3 o’clock. A review of the work of the Chapman evangelists in Denver during the last 10 days shows that never before has such success attended religious meetings in this city as has accompanied the present campaign. Local pastors and church workers are delighted with the religious awakening in which Denver now finds itself, and are prophesying greater things for the city before the meetings end. New workers from out of the city and in the city are constantly being added to the already great corps of first organizers. The speakers have been reassigned to the following districts. Clarence B. Strouse, Bert and West Thirtieth avenue. Mr. Collison, singer.

Samuel Callen, Christ Methodist church, Twenty-second avenue and Ogden street. C. H. Coultas, singer. W. E. Biederwolf, First Baptist church, Stout street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. Henry L. Maxwell, singer. Henry W. Stough, Judson Baptist church, South Tenth street and West Tenth avenue. Charles Allen, singer. John W. Elliott, Broadway Christian church. Ellsworth and Broadway. Charles E. Rykert, singer. Henry Ostrom, Plymouth Congregational church, Fourteenth avenue and Lafayette street. J. P. Hillis, singer. J. Wilbur Chapman, Central Presbyterian church, Seventeenth and Sherman avenues. Fred Butler, singer. A. C. Peck, Hyde Park Presbyterian church, Thirty-second avenue and Humbolt street. E. E. C. Lane, singer. C. B. Allen, Cameron Memorial church, Iowa and South Washington streets. W. N. Bunnager, singer. Daniel S. Toy, Boulevard Congregational church, Boulevard F and Highland avenue. Frank Dickson, singer. C.T. Schaeffer, the young people’s evangelist, will hold a number of afternoon meetings for young people during the week. C. T. Walker will hold special meetings for colored people.


The evening meetings begin at 7:30 o’clock and the afternoon meetings at 3 o’clock. DENVER REPUBLICAN Monday, January 16, 1905

IS A CAPTAIN OF RELIGION

J. WILBUR CHAPMAN INVENTOR OF SYSTEM OF UNION REVIVALS.

MUCH BUSINESS SENSE REQUIRED IN THE CONDUCT OF THESE EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS.

Similar Campaign Being Planned For All The Important Countries Of Europe. Few people realize the business sense that has been evidenced in the conduct of the Chapman union revival meetings, now in progress in Denver. Those who attend the sessions usually look upon them as upon other religious meetings, just meetings; that is all. A few minutes thought, however, with a little inside information at hand, would convince even the most skeptical that J. Wilbur Chapman, who is at the head of the movement, is a veritable “captain of religion.” There are captains of industry; why not captains of religion? From the first inception of the movement to the present time, when the success of the meetings are more than assured, the campaign against sin in Denver has been conducted on a business basis and along business and scientific lines. IS NOW PREPARING FOR MEETINGS IN LOS ANGLES All of the preliminary work was done under the direction of Mr. Chapman while he was holding meetings in other cities. The advance advertising and other work of the committees, up to the time of the arrival of Mr. Chapman and his band of assistants was conducted along lines suggested by

the eminent evangelist. He will go to Los Angeles from here and while here he must pave the way for success there by mail, as he did for the present meetings. Upon his arrival in Denver a few days before the opening of the meetings, Mr. Chapman went over the entire city, visiting every church, investigating the conditions in each district; in fact learning the situations as thoroughly as he would investigate a mine or some other business in which he expected to invest a million of dollars. Then he mapped the city off into 10 districts, and selected the churches for the meetings, the best situated and most conveniently located in the different districts to attract the greatest number of people. Then he turned his personal attention to each church. After numerous talks with the pastor and his most efficient workers, he decided upon the appointment of special committees, reception ushers, and other workers. A chief was selected for each little band. There was a chief usher appointed, who was to be help responsible for a sufficient number of assistants to handle the crowds. Then there was a chief worker, who, with his little band, would be held responsible for


getting a word, either during or after the meeting, with every person who in any way evinced a desire to lead a better life. Not a man, woman or child to hold up a hand in meeting must be permitted to leave the church without a pleasant word and a hearty handshake. Mr. Chapman lays special stress upon cordiality. He does not belong to the old school of long faces and “churchified” countenances. He believes in meeting every man, every woman, every child, no

matter the age or station in life, with a sort of a man-to-man handshake, accompanied by a pleasant word. Every detail, no matter how small, is looked after by a competent man and committee. The entire movement is a series of wheels in one great wheel, and that great wheel is J. Wilbur Chapman. Not a turn, nor half turn, nor a quarter turn, is made by one of the lesser wheels but that the great wheel knows the cause for the move.

DENVER TIMES Monday, January 16, 1905

ASSAULT ON SIN BY THE EVANGELISTS IS

MAKING PROGRESS The most notable evangelistic effort that has ever stirred Denver will hold public attention this week. Dr. Chapman and his corps of revivalists will be heard in a score of pulpits and their audiences will number tens of thousands. There have been great revivals in Denver before, but nothing to compare with the present series of meetings. The great evangelistic movement in the churches will culminate next Friday in a day of prayer and from the hour of 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. business men generally have agreed to close their stores to allow their employes and the public in general to attend the mass meeting which will be held in the churches and the one which we be held in the Tabor opera house at noon. The agreement and the firms which have already signed it are as follows:

“We will agree to close our place of business on Friday, January 20, from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. on account of a day of prayer in Denver.” “Daniels & Fisher Stores company, Denver Dry Goods company, Joslin Dry Goods company, A. T. Lewis & Son, Bolinger & Robinson, John Carson & Bro., R. J. Miller, Charles D. Griffith Shoe company, Gus A Lundbien, John W. Vieira, Streator Bros., C. A. Treff, George W. Crowder, Wanamaker & Brown, J. W. Savage, E. E. Hill, W. W. Torrence, John H. Schifchney, J. M. Alexander, George L. Kimball, William Morrison, Walter Spencer, H. G. Lang, A. T. Gears, O. C. Huffman, E. N. Stiles, Frisbee Honey company, J. G. Crosskill, Twentieth Century Realty company, C. G. Carlson, J. H. Jennings, H. T. Graig, Charles Ecker, E. T. Alling, J. W. Zepp, A. E. Pierce, Kilpatrick Furniture company, H. M. Miller, Centennial School Supply company, G. W. Huntington, Edwin E. Chase, George W. Bailey, Thomas R. Allen, James R. Donaldson, T. H. Hood,

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John C. Kennedy, Fraternal Life Insurance company, W. R. Walker, Equitable Finance and Development company, A. B. Kenyon, E. A. Stevens, Dayton Gilbert, J. Wiley Bontraser, William Brower, O. O. McReynolds, W. H. Milburn, J. E. Salarson, E. P. Work, George A Hunt, Albert Sechrist, R. L. Pearson, W. T. Child, A. R. Comstock, James E. Stephens, E. O. Olsen, T. T. Mark, J. R. Jackson, John A. Rymer, L. A. Arnold, Central Business college, W. T. Parker, F. W. Wasem, Moneyweight Scales, C. I. Ossen, Hobbs & Tangeman, Edward Labman, the Owens Printing company, R. R. Bollinger, the Standard Sewing Machine company, Dr. C. N. Guyer, George H. Tarrant, W. Brockenhoff, I. J. Krator, E. C. Carroll, Dr. F. E. Trigg, W. L. Porter, A. C. May, W. N. Johnson, Isham R. Howse, Kellogg & Stokes Stove company, Illinois Central Railroad company Nelson Forbes, Charles R. Breck, George W. Fraser, C. R. Maddox, Cochran & Hokias, C. W. Enos, Big Four Railroad office, Kingsley A. Pence, G. Malcom, N. B. McCrary, Onderdonk Engineering company, count court, H. V. Johnson, G. G. Gilchrist, Henry J. Arnold, E. A. Colburn, T. S. Alford, R. Hardesty Manufacturing company, F. Goodnow, Frank S. Sneil, E. Dillard. This will be the last week of the meetings, the closing services being next Monday night. A Bible conference will be held the latter part of the week, the sessions beginning Wednesday, Secretary W. M. Danner of the Y. M. C. A. is making plans for it. Meetings will be held every afternoon and evening this week except Saturday in all districts.

GEMS FROM PULPITS

The principal meeting yesterday was for men at the Trinity Methodist church. More than 2,500 men crowded the main auditorium and an overflow meeting was held in the basement. Hundreds were turned away, unable to gain admission to either service. At the close 125 men signified their intention of leading a religious life. The meeting was in charge Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, who took his subject, “Some Things About Dissipation, Infidelity and Morality.” He said; “Do you tell me that you don’t believe in my God, my Jesus Christ? Let me tell you, I can honor the honest man who says he does not believe in my God. But the man who scoffs at my God, at my religion; ugh! I despise that man.” Evangelist John Elliott at Grant Avenue Methodist church - People are like sheep in that they must first be fed before they can rest. A sick sheep must first be cured or restored before it can or will follow the shepherd. The shepherd leads; it is the business of the sheep to follow. So with the Christian. Christ, the Good Shepherd, leads - they are to follow, and it is safe to follow His leading. He will carry you through.

ALL MAY BE SAVED Evangelist Daniel S. Toy at Boulevard Congregational church - the enormity of one’s guilt can be no hindrance to his salvation. ‘Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.” No matter how far away from God you may be, there is pardon for you if you will have it. Evangelist A. C. Peck at Hyde Park Presbyterian church - the final death of Samson, and in it, the death of his foes, is a type of the death of Jesus Christ, who died at the hands of His enemies, but


accomplished with His death the destruction of all that opposes good. Evangelist Henry Ostrom at Plymouth Congregational church - Christ is crowded out of the home. The home should be as sacred a place, as definitely consecrated to God as the church; but where no blessing is asked at the table, where no family altar is reared, where the name of Jesus is not frequently mentioned, where things are allowed that are not honoring to the Lord, Christ is crowded out.

HEED THE APPEAL Evangelist Henry Stough at Judson Baptist church - It is the mystery of the ages how the all-

powerful God, whose attributes are immeasurable, could stand in His incarnate Son pleading with men for a share of their lives, for their recognition of Him as their Friend and Helper. And the saddest thing of the ages is that men have turned a deaf ear and a stubborn will to His loving and importunate appeal. Evangelist W. E. Biederwolf at First Baptist church - Oh, man, woman will you let your nobler nature control tonight? Will you take God’s pardon and be a better man and a better woman tonight, and, child, if you’ve once known God and gone away from Him, will you come back tonight? Rev. Clarence B. Strouse addressed a meeting for young people yesterday afternoon.

DENVER POST Tuesday, January 17, 1905 (page 9)

DAY OF PRAYER EXCITES INTEREST ALL OVER CITY The day of prayer, the last chapter in the religious campaign which will take place on Friday, is now occupying the attention of the revivalists, and many wonderful things are expected to happen as a result of it. From 10 until 11 o’clock each pastor will hold services in his church with his own people, and at 12:15 o’clock will occur the services for which nearly every business man in the city has closed his house for two hours and a half. They will be conducted in the center of the city by Revs. W. E. Biederwolf, Henry Ostrom and J. Wilbur Chapman. In the afternoon at 3 o’clock W. E. Biederwolf will preach at Trinity church, while Rev. Ostrom will conduct a meeting at the First Baptist church at the same time. An overflow meeting will be held in the First Congregational church if necessary

and services will be conducted in all of the districts in the evening. On Wednesday and Thursday of this week will take place what has been called the Denver Bible conference, which will begin at 9:30 each morning and last all day. On Wednesday morning at 9:30 Rev. Robert F. Coyle of the Central Presbyterian church will conduct a prayer service at the First Baptist church, and at 10 o’clock Rev. Henry Ostrom will give an address at the same place. Rev. Biederwolf will speak at 11 o’clock and at noon Dr. Chapman will conduct his regular meeting for business men and women in the Tabor opera house. Wednesday (The newspaper here makes a mistake. This should read Thursday instead of Wednesday.)


the meetings will be held at the same hours, Rev. B. B. Tyler of the South Broadway Christian church having charge of the prayer service, Dr. Chapman preaching at 10 o’clock on “The Lost Vision;” Rev. Ostrom at 11 o’clock on “The Evangelistic Pastor,” while Rev. Biederwolf will conduct the noon meeting. All meetings on this day will be held in the First Baptist church and

afternoon and evening services will be held in all of the districts on both days. Although many hundred men and women have been converted and thousands benefited by the present revival, the conductors of the movement are not satisfied and expect to accomplish many things during this last week of the campaign, which will close Monday night.

DENVER POST Tuesday, January 17, 1905

SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION MEETING The twenty-fifth annual convention of the Jefferson County Sunday School association will be held at the new Jefferson Avenue M. E. church, on Clear Creek, beginning Thursday, Feb. 9, 1905, at 10 o’clock a.m., and ending Friday evening. It is proposed to make this the best convention yet held in the county, and with this end in view no pains will be spared in preparing program. DENVER REPUBLICAN Tuesday, January 17, 1905 See the Large Front Page cartoon on this day entitled ON THE RUN! DENVER REPUBLICAN Tuesday, January 17, 1905

MORE BUSINESS MEN AGREE TO CLOSE THEIR STORES FRIDAY

GREAT INTEREST IN NOONDAY MEETINGS BEING CONDUCTED

BY THE EVANGELISTS. J. Wilbur Chapman led the noonday meeting in the First Baptist church yesterday. The largest and most productive of results since the noonday meetings were inaugurated. Mr. Ostrom will lead the meeting today.

Many more business men have signed the cards agreeing to close their places of business between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Friday, in order to give their employees opportunity to attend the noonday


mass meetings that are being planned for that day. The local minister who arose in the testimonial meeting of good cheer in the First Baptist church at 11 o’clock yesterday forenoon and, after speaking of the naming by Denver newspaper of J. Wilbur Champan “the human dynamo,” and there and then named Samuel Callen as “the Philadelphia Irishman who is a human radiator,” coined a title that is in every way appropriate to Mr. Callen. Mr. Callen, during the Chapman meetings, has been “radiating” in what is known as district No. 2, with headquarters in Christ Methodist church, Twenty-second avenue and Ogden street; office hours every afternoon and night, except Saturdays. Mr. Callen is apparently not satisfied with “radiating” religion; he “radiates” good and wholesome good nature and original Irish wit as well. This, perhaps, may in a measure explain the large attendance at his meetings, and the many conversions credited to him so far in the Chapman campaign. Mr. Callen spoke last night to a crowd that filled the main floor and gallery of the church, on the practical side of Christianity, telling how, while the business man did not is so many words demand that an employee be a Christian, an employee must obey many of the teachings of the Christian faith, inasmuch that he must take good physical care of himself, must avoid liquors, the race track, the gambling hall, and questionable resorts, else his employer soon marked him off the list of employed. “The Philadelphia Irishman” injected into his discourse some well-told stories in which the moral could not help but be seen, and also logical

comparisons between the life of a Christian and the life of a non-believer. The native Irish humor shone from his Irish blue eyes and kept his skin ablaze. He radiated. And caused his audience to radiate with him, his radiation being of the contagious kind. MR. CALLEN IS CALLED “THE SAGE OF WATERLOO” Mr. Callen comes to Denver with the title of “The Sage of Waterloo.” His Waterloo has no connection with Napoleon’s Waterloo. His Waterloo is the name of a small city of 17,000 in habitants in Iowa, a hundred or so miles from Chicago. There Mr. Callen is the pastor of the First Presbyterian church, which of the Institutional kind, patterned after the New York Institutional churches which add gymnastics, singing, oratory, club work and many other things good for youth to religious teachings. “The human radiator” has several paid assistants and a score or more enthusiastic volunteer assistants, and besides his regular church work, conducts a city mission, a dozen railroad shop noonday meetings and a hospital with a capacity of 50, which was erected during the last year at a cost of $43,000. He is here at the special request of Mr. Chapman and at the close of the Denver meetings will return to his work in Waterloo. Mr. Biederwolf spoke last night, in part, as follows: “God gave you, my young brother, some fair, sweet girl to be your wife, and behold after a few years or maybe months of happiness that seemed to bring heaven down to earth, death came and struck the bloom from her cheek and the light from her eyes and said: ‘You shall have her no more.’ Or one day there came to you from


heaven’s hand the gracious life of a pure, sweet child, and as it entwined its beautiful nature about your hearts you said to each other: ‘Now is our happiness complete,’ but it seemed as though heaven only meant to lend it to you for a while, for one day, like the delicate flower of the garden, it began to wither; and don’t you remember how you cared for it? How, as you stood by the bedside of the little sufferer, you thought it dearer to you than your own hopes of immortality, and you said: ‘I cannot leave it go?’ But all the while the fingers of an invisible enemy were strangling the life breath out of the little throat, and at last you knew the worst for the baby had gone. “It may be at the grave of some brother or sister, or some faithful mother, you have stood, and as you stood there and saw the earth and ashes and dust go down, you said: ‘This cannot be the end. These dear ones have not gone down like the dumb, driven animals, and you want to know if we shall meet them again. THINKS ALL WILL SEE THEIR LOVED ONES AGAIN “They have left an aching void which nothing but they themselves can fill. Shall we see them again? Shall we know them again? Shall we love them again? I am going to answer these questions in the affirmative. I do not see how heaven could be heaven if there could be no communication between the saints who are there, and heaven, it seems to me, would lose most of its charm if such communion did not include a recognition of those we have loved long since and lost awhile. What is it that makes home so attractive? It is not the beautiful carpet nor the costly furniture; it is not the beautiful paintings on the wall nor anything else of this kind. It is

the loved ones who are there. Be it ever so humble, if love is there, there is no place like home.” Mr. Ostrom, at the Plymouth Congregational church last night, spoke as follows: “Jesus is the Savior. But He is more. He is the representation of what it is to live a really successful life. He is the ideal gentleman. Human life will never succeed until we adopt the flavor of the character of Jesus as the essence of what it means to spend the passing hours as they should be spent. And that is the meaning of life in eternity. There is not philosophy of real success for this or any other world which does not find its full meaning in Jesus. Does not even an imperfect vision of him at the end of 2,000 years lend emphasis to this? Thank God we have a faultless model. Be Jesus-like. If you would be successful. Jesus is true. There is no real success without truth. Jesus is sacrificial. Success even in the family can not be with out that. He is benevolent. And that is an essential of success. He is the expression of the will of the Highest. And the will of the Highest can not be failure.” Mr. Elliott, at the Broadway Christian church last night, said: One of the 12 disciples was a traitor. It seems incredible in view of Christ’s teaching, example, society and familiar intercourse. But alas! In the end, this man Judas came to betray and crucify Christ, for it was not the Roman soldiers or even the Jews that took him. Judas was the first real agent until the end. Think of his advantage. Think of yours. What led him to the deed? Inordinate love of money, disappointed ambition, and refusal to profit by opportunity.”


DENVER TIMES Tuesday, January 17, 1905

ANOTHER BIG DAY IN THE CITY CHURCHES

FOR EVANGELISTS Announcements. Noon meeting today, conducted by Henry Ostrom, John P. Hillis sings. Each Evangelist will conduct afternoon meeting in his respective district at 3 o’clock. Regular evening services, led by the evangelists, at 7:30, each district. Tomorrow’s noon service will be conducted by J. Wilbur Chapman at the Tabor Grand. Fred Butler will sing. Harper G. Smythe leads the music. Rev. Henry Ostrom spoke on “Which Religion?” at the noon evangelistic services at the First Baptist church today. John P. Hillis opened the services with singing “Come Unto Me.” The preacher took his text from three passages in Job. “Religion is not a thing of the pulpit and the prayer book,” said Rev. Mr. Ostrom. “It is a real thing - as real as the blood in your veins and the breath in your body. It must not be considered a ceremony which takes place in some home. It is not. You can’t walk a step in the streets without meeting religion. It is a living thing. It’s in everybody. It’s in the factory and the schoolhouse and everywhere. Because a man wears a black coat and stands behind a desk it is not any more reason that he is religious. You are religious, all of you. You can’t help being so. The man who swears against the church is religious. Every one in this church has prayed once upon a time. The chord of sympathy between men is strong everywhere. Even in hell men have regard for their fellows.

“That is the religion we need and have with us all the time. God is our religion. Our religion must be alive.”

CONTINUED ON ANOTHER PAGE UNDER THIS HEADLINE

EVANGELISTS’ WORK IS VERY SUCCESSFUL

A number of additional signatures of business firms have been bade to the agreement to close business houses Friday from 11:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. and it is expected there will be a general cessation of business during those hours while the churches and the Tabor Opera house will be crowded. Even the saloons are to close. One man who controls several saloons said he would gladly join in with the general spirit of the day and every one of his places would be closed. In the meeting at the First Baptist church yesterday one of the speakers said that if Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman was the human dynamo, as had been claimed in the papers, Rev. Samuel Callen of Waterloo, Ia. was the human radiator, because he radiated good cheer and practical religion. Rev. Mr. Callen is in charge of the meetings at the Christ Methodist church. He is witty in his sermons and lively and forceful. He is pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Waterloo. It is an institutional church and has gymnastics, club work, oratory and other attractions, besides the


regular church work. Rev. Mr. Callen also conducts a city mission, railroad shop noonday meetings and has erected a hospital with a capacity of fifty at a cost of $43,000 during the past year. In his sermon last night Evangelist Biederwolf mentioned the death of relatives and said: “They have left an aching void which nothing but they themselves can fill. Shall we see them again? Shall we know them again? Shall we love them again? I am going to answer these questions in the affirmative. I do not see how heaven could be heaven if these could be no communication between the saints who are there, and heaven, it seems to me, would lose most of its charm if such communion did not include a recognition of these we have loved long since and lost awhile. What is it that makes home so attractive? It is not the beautiful carpet nor the costly furniture; it is not the beautiful paintings on the wall nor anything else of this kind. It is the loved ones who are there. ‘Be it ever so humble, if love is there, there is no place like home.’” Evangelist Ostrom preached last night at the Plymouth Congregational church. He said: “Jesus is the Savior. But He is more. He is the representation of what it is to live a really successful life. He is the ideal gentleman. Human life will never succeed until we adopt the flavor

of the character of Jesus as the essence of what it means to spend the passing hours as they should be spent. And that is the meaning of life in eternity. There is no philosophy of real success for this or nay other world which does not find its full meaning in Jesus. Does not even an imperfect vision of him at the end of 2,000 years lend emphasis to this? Thank God we have a faultless model.” Evangelist Elliott, at the South Broadway Christian church, said: “One of the twelve disciples was a traitor. It seems incredible in view of Christ’s teaching, example, society and familiar intercourse. But alas! In the end, this man Judas came to betray and crucify Christ, for it was not the Roman soldiers or even the Jews that took him. Judas was the first real agent. Do you think Judas was always bad? Don’t forget, Judas was a free agent until the end. Think of his advantage. Think of yours. What led him to the deed? Inordinate love of money, disappointed ambition, and refusal to profit by opportunity.” Evangelistic services began at the South Broadway Presbyterian church last night under the direction of Evangelist Weaver of Pueblo and Rev. Dr. Davis, pastor of the church. There was a large attendance and much interest was manifested.


DENVER POST Wednesday, January 18, 1905 (page 2)

“BEST PEOPLE MADLY REACHING FOR THE GOSPEL”

W. P. Miller, Secretary Water Co.

EFFECT OF PRESENT REVIVAL VIVIDLY PORTRAYED BY A CORPORATION MAN -- FIFTY THOUSAND ARE INTERESTED

“The Christianity of the early Christians is coming into vogue again. Religious fads and fancies are disappearing like frost before a summer sun. The best people and the deepest thinkers of the world are casting aside the veil of doubt modern scientists have dropped about the world and are madly reaching for the light of the gospel of Christ. It has been handed down for centuries. The greatest revival the world has ever known is at hand. The plain, old-fashioned Christianity of the brave and early Christianity is what the world hungers for now.” W. P. Miller, secretary of the Denver Union Water company, was the speaker. He was discussing the union evangelistic movement now being carried on in Denver and he went carefully into many details with his caller. GREAT INTEREST SHOWN “You may be surprised to know,” Mr. Miller continued, “that over 50,000 people in Denver today are vitally interested in the meetings that are being held here daily by Chapman, Biederwolf, Ostrom and their associates. It would open the eyes of the unthinking to see scores and scores of the foremost business and professional men of Denver flocking to the meetings, and when they are over marching up to confess their sins, tears flowing down the cheeks of the penitents.

“Denver has never known anything like it and local papers seem to have overlooked the spirit of the thing entirely. Really, the results of these meetings are most sensational from the viewpoint of a mere looker-on. The time is ripe to improve the religious thought of the whole world and a Moody now could work miracles. “People have had a surfeit of false religions and are groping for the real light. Everybody on earth has something religious in him and he wants to worship a supreme being. Even in European colleges noted for the promulgation of ‘advanced thought’ and the ideas on ‘the higher life’ are casting their scientific theories on man and the creation of the world aside and today you will find in these temples, formerly devoted to scoffers, that the theological students predominate. “So it is the world over. Old-fashioned Christianity rules supreme today.” SUPPER AND SALVATION The corner “loafer,” the free lunch seeker and the frequenter of the lower resorts, are to become the latest care of the evangelists. Today and tomorrow Rev. Thomas Uzzell of the People’s tabernacle, Twentieth and Lawrence streets, in company with many of the evangelists and ministers of many of the city, will visit all of


the resorts and saloons in the lower end of town, and give away 1,500 tickets to a free supper, to be given in the basement of the tabernacle Saturday night from 7 until 8 o’clock. Every man will be given as much coffee, sandwiches and relishes as he desires, and then they will be taken up into the auditorium of the church, where their souls will be looked after by all of the evangelists and ministers in the city. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman will lead the meeting, and every means to get at the hundreds of homeless, fallen men will be used. The tabernacle orchestra, the men’s choir and all of the soloists will furnish the music and an effort will be made to make the evening as entertaining as possible. Last week the evangelists and ministers visited the “red light” district of the town and held a meeting in the Curtis theater, but the meeting for Saturday night, which is for men only, is expected to be one of the strongest features of the campaign. CLOSING FEATURES Three days of prayer and meditation, the feature of the campaign which the evangelists expect to be the most effective of the entire campaign, opened at 9:30 o’clock this morning which Rev. Robert F. Coyle, pastor of the Central Presbyterian church, lead a half hour prayer service at the First Baptist church. At 10 o’clock Rev. Henry Ostrom gave an address and was followed by W. E. Biederwolf, who spoke on the Evangelistic church. At noon occurred the event which drew together vast crowds of business men and women from all parts of the city -- the noon-day meeting at the Tabor opera house. Some of the most prominent

business men in the city acted as ushers and the meeting was said to be one of the largest and most successful the great New York evangelist has ever conducted. Tomorrow the same program will be carried through at the First Baptist church, with a change in speakers, Rev. B. B. Tyler of the South Broadway Christian church, conducting the prayer service, Rev. Chapman giving the address at 10 o’clock on the “Lost Vision,” Rev. Henry Ostrom, an hour later, on the “Evangelistic Pastor,” and Rev. Biederwolf conducting the noon meeting. Services will be held both afternoon and evening in the various districts. Although today and tomorrow are expected to be great factors in the campaign which has been occupying the attention of thousands of Denver people for two weeks, it is on Friday that the evangelists are counting on to be the red letter day in the entire campaign, and in honor of which nearly every business man in the city has consented to close his house for two and one-half hours. From 10 until 11 o’clock each pastor will conduct services in his church with his own people, and at 12:15 services will be conducted in the center of the city by the three great evangelists of the country -- Dr. Wilbur Chapman, in the Tabor opera house; Rev. Henry Ostrom, in the Curtis theater, and W. E. Biederwolf, at Coliseum hall. In the afternoon, at 3 o’clock, W. E. Biederwolf will conduct a special service in Trinity Methodist church, and Rev. Ostrom at the same hour in the First Baptist. The overflow meeting will be held at the First Congregational church, and special services will be conducted in all of the districts in the evening.


DENVER REPUBLICAN Wednesday, January 18, 1905

CHAPMAN TO SPEAK IN THE TABOR GRAND

NOONDAY REVIVAL SERVICE TO BE HELD IN THEATER TODAY -

THREE DAYS OF PRAYER START TODAY J. Wilbur Chapman, the Philadelphia evangelist, will conduct a great noon day mass meeting in Tabor Grand opera house today. Fred Butler, the basso soloist, will sing two solos. There will be 200 voices in the chorus choir, under the direction of Mr. Smythe. Robert F. Coyle conducts prayer service at 9:30 o’clock at First Baptist church; Henry Ostrom 10 o’clock service and W. E. Biederwolf 11 o’clock service. The great three days of prayer to be indulged in by Christian inclined people of Denver, under the direction of Mr. Chapman and his corps of evangelists, and ministers of Denver, to which Denver church workers have for so long looked forward to, will begin with prayer service at 9:30 o’clock this morning in the First Baptist church. Members of all denominations as well as non-believers are invited. Elaborate religious programmes have been prepared for both today and tomorrow, but “the day,” which Mr. Chapman and the local ministers expect to mark the greatest religious awakening that ever came to Denver, is to be Friday, when hundreds of business men will close their places of business between 11 and 2:30 o’clock so that they as well as their employes may participate in the great

season of prayer that is to close the three days’ almost continued service. The Rev. B. B. Tyler will lead the prayer service in the First Baptist church at the regular hour tomorrow morning. Mr. Chapman will talk on, “The Lost Vision” at 10 o’clock. Mr. Biederwolf will lead the noonday meeting. Friday a general prayer service will be held in the First Baptist church. From 10 to 11 o’clock each pastor will meet with his own people, with as many others who care to attend, in his own church. Then what is expected to be the greatest meeting in point of results as well as numbers will be the noonday meeting in Tabor Grand opera house. Mr. Chapman will conduct this service. Two other great mass meetings will be held at the same hour, one in the Coliseum, led by Mr. Biederwolf, and the other in the Curtis theater led by Mr. Ostrom. Mr. Biederwolf will lead a 3 o’clock meeting in Trinity Methodist church; Mr. Ostrom will lead a meeting at the same hour in First Baptist church. Arrangements have been completed for an overflow meeting, if necessary, in the First Congregational church.


All of the meetings yesterday afternoon and last night were well attended despite the inclement weather.

DENVER TIMES Wednesday, January 18, 1905

BUSINESS MEN AT REVIVALS

Dr. Chapman’s sermon at the Tabor was in part as follows” “And he twist not that the Lord was departed from him. “This is a striking sentence, and is a part of a sad story. Samson had lost his power without realizing it, and this is true of very many Christians at the present time. A composite picture is one in which the features of numerous men are taken, and the strong point of each is displayed, all together making one face. The Bible presents such a picture. Cain represents unbridled passion, Abraham faith, Jacob a transformed life, Moses leadership, and Samson stands for strength. And yet what a frail thing strength is, and how easy it is for the devil to overthrow it.

A GREAT MAN “In spite of his weakness Samson was a great man. It would seem as if God could do no more for him. He had the best of parents. Concerning his father, Josephus says, ‘He was possessed of rare virtue,’ and his mother was not only beautiful, but had real strength of character. Samson teaches us that good parentage, though a blessing, is not enough for the true building of character. He was a man of great strength. It seemed as if he were all body. He was a giant. But the more possession of strength is a dangerous thing. The more we have of it the

worse we are off, unless it is controlled. He was a great judge. Usually we see but one thing in a man. Moses presents to us the thought of meekness, Jeremiah power of emotion and Samson great strength. We rarely think of Samson that we do not remember his typing the foxes’ tails together and setting them with firebrands in the corn of his enemy. But in Judges, xvi.31, we read that he judged Israel for twenty years. It is the way of the world to remember a man’s weakness and be blind to his strength.

OUTWARD STRENGTH PERISHES “The story of Samson’s fall is interesting in the extreme. When Delilah asked him for the secret, he told her to bind him with green withes and with a new cord that had not been used, then to weave the locks of his hair in the cord, and to bind him to a beam and a pin, but when his enemy came, he snapped the withes, broke the cord and walked off with the beam. But finally he told her that his strength lay in the fact that he had taken the Nazarite vow and his long hair was the sign of it. If he should lose that he should lose his power. Then she soothes him to sleep and shaves his head and the change comes. Some may say: ‘I do not need Christ because of my intellect,’ but is will fall; or because of my will power, but it will break down; or because of


my friends, but they will die. There is no hope except in Christ. “Samson’s strength is gone because he has lost his touch with God and the power of God. All the outer man is there, but it is a temple without God. We see him stand before us. Physically he appears to be the same, in muscle, in sinew, in bone, in nerve, and in the beating of his heart, but something has gone from him, and all that because of a broken vow. A railroad man touched a tarantula and was bitten in one finger. He paid no attention to it. In a short time his arm was swollen to three times its size. He submitted to twenty-nine operations. His hand was gone, and part of his arm. Some men are bitten by the serpent of drink; other, dishonesty; others, impurity; still others, pride of selfishness, and because of this they lose their power.

DO NOT TRIFLE

“Samson trifled with his enemy, and whenever one stands upon that ground he is in danger. He ignored that strength of his enemy. Many a person has done this with Satan. A young lady in Morristown, N. J., touched a guy wire of an electric pole. Instantly her hand contracted under the powerful current. she shrieked in agony. Her mother took hold of her and was thrown back with a shock. Finally a man with an ax cut the wire. Many people trifle with sin just in this way. Temptation came upon Samson gradually. Delilah wore him out. We do not rush to destruction, but just go inch by inch. Samson is an illustration that when power is gone we are useless.”

DENVER TIMES Wednesday, January 18,1905

GREAT CROWD HEARS DR. CHAPMAN

BUSINESS MEN ATTEND THE NOONDAY MEETING AND THERE IS MUCH

ENTHUSIASM The noonday meeting held at the Tabor Grand Opera house today was one of the greatest in point of size and enthusiasm that has been held since the great evangelistic revival started in Denver. Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman of Philadelphia, who has been in full charge of the revival, preached the sermon and the enthusiasm which he awakened in the men of the business world was something that has rarely been witnessed.

Prominent business men of the city were present and business men acted as ushers. Backsliders repented and unbelievers became converts. Today began the first of three days of prayer and the great noonday meeting at the Tabor was calculated to be the greatest of the services. In every way it far outreached the expectations of Dr. Chapman and his associates. Fred Butler, the stirring bass soloist, sang two solos and the choir


of 100 voices under the direction of Mr. Smythe rendered a number of devotional selections. At the same time with the noonday meeting at the Tabor Mr. Biederwolf held a mass meeting and Henry Ostrom spoke at the Coliseum. Other services held this morning were: Robert F. Coyle, prayer service at 9:30 o’clock at First Baptist

church; Henry Ostrom, 10 o’clock service, and W. E. Biederwolf, 11 o’clock service.

GENERAL PRAYER SERVICE Friday there will be a general prayer service at the First Baptist church, and from 10 to 11 of the same day each pastor will meet in his church with his own people and as many others as may care to attend.

DENVER POST Thursday, January 19, 1905 (page 2)

MISS DENVER TINGLES WITH RELIGIOUS FERVOR

ASK ANY PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN AND HE WILL TELL OF THE REVIVALISTS’ GOOD

Big Meeting Tomorrow. Business places to be closed 500 Clerks released 6,000 Secret of it all Religious Interest Hasn’t Denver proven herself just a little bit better place to live in than she did two weeks ago? Isn’t she showing herself not entirely oblivious to all that is good and right? If you do not think she is, and is not, ask the business men. They will tell you. This affair that has so strongly taken hold of the people, is the day of prayer which has been set for tomorrow. For fifteen days these ten earnest workers that came to Denver to help her out of the rut she had fallen in, have been working day

and night. What have they accomplished? Perhaps no one knows or ever will know beyond the fact that they have been more than the little word success can ever mean. And still, they are not satisfied and for this reason they have set aside tomorrow as the day of prayer.

THREE OF THE BIG ONES From 10 until 11 o’clock in the morning each pastor will be in his church with his people, and at 12:15 will take place the three greatest meetings of the campaign, when Dr. Chapman will conduct a service at the Tabor Opera house, Rev. Henry Ostrom at the Curtis theater, and W. E. Biederwolf at Coliseum hall, and in the afternoon the two latter evangelists will conduct meetings,


Rev. Biederwolf at Trinity Methodist church and Rev. Ostrom at the First Baptist church. The overflow meeting will be held in the First Congregational church, and special services will be held in all of the districts in the evening. Today was the second of the Denver Bible conference, and in a steady, untiring stream men and women poured to all of the services, eager to hear and grasp every word these men are telling them. At 9:30 o’clock Dr. B. B. Tyler of the South Broadway Christian church conducted a prayer service at the First Baptist church, and at 10 o’clock Dr. Chapman spoke on “The Lost Vision.” At 11 o’clock Rev. Henry Ostrom spoke on “The Evangelistic Pastor,” and Dr. W. E. Biederwolf conducted the noonday meeting for business men and women. “Sin is death to the mind, to the conscience, to the affections and to the soul. But the gift of God is life everlasting,” said Dr. Toy, who is holding successful meetings at the Boulevard Congregational church. These are some of the things these ten men are saying every day and every night, but do they make any impression? John F. Vallery, general

agent of the Burlington road, says he knows of two instances, one of them being that of H. D. Ingersoll of Yuma, Colo. He called upon Mr. Vallery a few days ago and told of how he had beaten the road out of a fare twenty years ago, and of how it had haunted him since he had been going to the evangelistic meetings. He said that while shipping his household goods from Chicago a stranger came to him and to him and told him such a hard luck story that he smuggled him across the country with the goods, but that he could not rest any more until he had made it up, and handed over $20, which chanced to be the fare at that time at the homeseekers’ rate. The second case was a man who had stolen a ride which amounted to $1.85 several years ago. He said that he did not have the money then, but would return with it in a few days, and Mr. Vallery expects him. Judge Booth M. Malone this morning announced that there would be no court in division four of the district court tomorrow afternoon, because of the observance of prayer. Other officers at the court house announce that if any of their employees desire to attend the services they will be allowed to do so.

DENVER TIMES Thursday, January 19, 1905 (FRONT PAGE)

DENVER JOINS IN DAY OF PRAYER

There is hardly a public building or office in the city of Denver which will remain open tomorrow between the hours of 11:30 and 2 o’clock out of deference to the wishes of visiting evangelists who have proclaimed tomorrow as a day of

prayer. All of the stores and business places, some 500 in number, have announced their intention of suspending business for two and a half hours tomorrow to give their employees an opportunity to attend the special services, and this

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There ia har4Iy a pubUe buU4iJlc or office bt tlJ~ dty of· Dernr -w1Jic1i .m rem a in . CJP" tomorrow between. the houn of 11 :30 a1l4 2 o'doek oat of ' c1eftmtce to the wiabes of Tiaiti~eliats· wh<J hue proclaimed tomorrow as a 4ay.of'~prayer. All of the stores and buail.Ha placea, 110me 500 ill !lumber, !lave &DilOUDeecl their intention of auspencUD1 t.nssiDHa for two u4 a half houn tomorrow to civf'· thelr employH an opporttmity to attend the IJ*ial.eniea, uc1 thia momiul Dr. J. WD· bur Chapman, bud of the evangeHatic monment, a!Hl Rn-: Chrlatian F. Reiner, pastor of the Grace Methodilt church, called 11po11 :Mayor Robert VT. Speer . aa4 asked ptat he mnoun~ a boliaay {oi a portioll of tomorrow 011. aecouDt of the 4ay

tuL ·. Jt'.,.,., c!~y thou~ baTe tbron~ 'the 4owntown amu.ement houae full of ·.nthum.u;. f&t ·the . work of M!VIT"al. T O• d&J' one of tJt• laJ'I'Mt ·meetln.ril of· ttl~ week wu held &J;ic! J!!va"'rell•t BIMt>rwol f d~Jlv~ftd on• ot the •tronee.t·' ~rmon11 he ·hu atven •tnee he hu two~ ln .thf' clty. Dr. 8led4"rwolt'• work lw a.lon.r ll n~s

all hlw own. lila •ermona are the F""•ult of a dMp nll«ioul! fef'llnlf rather ~ any amount of lrtmfr. anli · whll,. th"Y aT'fl ctven with cttff!, th~re lw a cf' rtaJn cha.r m about the Jmp"s•lon thAt he Is ·,Pf'&l<

. of prayer. :Mayer Speer readily aeeecled to the requelt.

As & rtAult of the lntervlflw the follow_.!._ng proela.matfon wu framed:

"Th"' u nion eva.n.-ell1tle commltt~. repr~!'~nttn~ ell of the churches In Denv,.r, hR\'Imr ~t apArt F'TldllY. Januar,· 2">. Jn.l;J. :u• ll day of JH"IIy~>r , ttll of th~ otn~11

_ oL.t he_clty_and_count · or....Denv.,-..:_ are h .. r t-b,· o!'l"'f'~<l el.,..,.., h<!ltw~n thfl MUM! f) r lt :~ "· rr. 1\n<l 2 p , m. on Frldl\y, J~t.n-1111 ry ~). l !IQU. out or regard for the day nf pm r f'r AT"d In ord~r to prrmlt all emp in}' .. !! O ( t he c ity &n, t'OUnly, who w1!!h to do ""· t o lltfl•nd th" ll,..r.,1ef'll In oonn~etlon .tht>r~wlth .

, ' 'ROBJI:RT W . APEF.R. ltln.yor ... With the elOI'IhlA' of the city a.nd county

otl'l~ll bustneel 'in tbe elty w1ll be prae- tn.r from hi• on exf)4'!rl,n('(l. Today hl 111 tleany IJUspended. tople . ,...... " Ch.rtlft ·crowd~ Ou L" H e

The Jeailllatu're wtn be aak..S thle aft- 111pob · ot the lar.k of. Tf"lll(lon which -now e1'noon · to df!<'!Jare a ret'f'lllll oOT4!rln~ .tbe ~haraet,ri&H the av4"ralf" home a nti nr Uvo and a. hlllf houn tomorrow. and It II th._. tlte&dy tend ncy te l'rowd Ch rl~<t and Jtk,.ly th~ wm c!l)oltO. HI• · tf'..a.chlnp out "of .. , . .,.ryt hlnlf 11nd ev· mr•

-•v~lstl!LMm~_ha~~- eryw?f,.~. He dw:elt on the a~nrt' of bll · · 1 h f '- ":::-~:---t-Mn'hrtffilirT. 'PYl~:mnh...-tft' ~el'TI~1t1l'Jr .. am1· n.;

~nvM" · All ,nothtnc · n t • wa:r 0 a re- deptOf'ed thtt .-xi!Jtln .. •d:te of Aft't\ln. Dr. 11~01.1" mo"'ement ha• "~ ~one befo~. Bledt-twolf •td thAt att,.n<'•n~ ron P~rle of all dMomlnatlona have been etantJy at chureh .. ,. wu not wha t eon· " " touehf"d. and while to IIOme the work hu . •tltuted ret~l ~ll.rton, . but tht!! df'~lr41 to M l brm:lcht 11!1~• conf!Oladon, to oth..,.. t.&Jte Chrtat. Into f'very walk of llfll anc1 t o n Jt hu meant an &wall:e$1f to the atern fa.ct. of an unrettl .llfe. a lt!e of •ln. Tht~ have him coru~tantJ:r befoNJ the flY'-1, even 11t · noond'a.y ~lnp heM In '""' Tabor In the mlc!•t ot wot"Juu'lay runulte. Jh pt: Opera boUIIe han betm npoeeta.n,. fruit- .. aTe · atau.tJea whleh he . bu compll4"(! 11.,

wtn~ betnl' In DellVf'r u to the liquor dl1 bastDellll bere anti tlu.l proportion of 44- to

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Cllr" "''"' l11.ld llW&y. 'Rutln'"11s wu forl'Ott .. n . Only the volcfll .or r"ll«lon ~ould h- hral'<1. t.oday ~tn<i from the · church wh-O!!~ i'athered th., f11-lthtul- for eArlY m.,rntn~ prayer 'to the 'factory where. ~_tun-

ot -Jif!Vf!ra.l '(l()'UDtY onf!r '" tllti<l to h&V"t Into It with eye11 and ea.n open at Mveral prea.rran«fld lnt,.rvlewl. f

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dr .. d• or butY men ani! Worhfm. !.~4 down thPir .work for a. few hour~~, "e..,......bete thf! •Pirlt nt nlhtlon ~netratf!l!. If oth;'!' fru1t11 of the evan1fe11Atlo ram~II'Tl m•Y prOYfll f't'hf'meral, It Ia aaf&- ,, ••1' th•t the memory of the ''tb'/ Qf prayer•• wlll lln1f"!r loniJ' to notr ... h and · ~rtnm1rth"'" the turmoU and monotony of the workad.a.)' atratr• of Ute. · . • : · .... ·

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morning Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, head of the evangelistic movement, and Rev. Christian F. Reisner, pastor of the Grace Methodist church, called upon Mayor Robert W. Speer and asked that he announce a holiday for a portion of tomorrow on account of the day of prayer. Mayor Speer readily acceded to the request. As a result of the interview the following proclamation was framed: “The union evangelistic committee, representing all of the churches in Denver, having set apart Friday, January 20, 1905, as a day of prayer all of the offices of the city and county of Denver are hereby ordered closed between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Friday, January 20, 1905, out of regard for the day of prayer and in order to permit all employees of the city and county, who wish to do so, to attend the services in connection therewith.” “Robert W. Speer, Mayor.” With the closing of city and county offices business in the city will be practically suspended. The legislature will be asked this afternoon to declare a recess covering the two and a half hours tomorrow and it is likely they will do so. The evangelistic services have stirred Denver as nothing in the way of a religious movement has ever done before. People of all denominations have been touched, and while to some the work has brought religious consolation, to others it has meant an awakening to the stern facts of an

unreal life, a life of sin. The noonday meetings held in the Tabor Opera house have been especially fruitful. Every day thousands have thronged the downtown amusement house full of enthusiasm for the work of revival. Today one of the largest meetings of the week was held and Evangelist Biederwolf delivered one of the strongest sermons he has given since he has been in the city. Dr. Biederwolf’s work is along lines all his own. His sermons are the result of a deep religious feeling rather than any amount of study, and while they are given with care, there is a certain charm about the impression that he is speaking from his own experience. Today his topic was, “Christ Crowded Out.” He spoke of the lack of religion which now characterizes the average home and of the steady tendency to crowd Christ and His teachings out of everything and everywhere. He dwelt on the absence of Christlike examples in modern politics and deplored the existing state of affairs. Dr. Biederwolf said that attendance constantly at churches was not what constituted real religion, but the desire to take Christ into every walk of life and to have him constantly before the eye, even in the midst of workaday pursuits. He gave statistics which he has compiled since being in Denver as to the liquor business here and the proportion of devotees of church and the saloon. Not the least striking feature of the meeting this noon was the singing of Harry Maxwell, the silvery tenor whose music has attracted more than usual attention to the meetings in the First Baptist church.


DENVER TIMES Thursday, January 19, 1905

BUSINESS METHODS IN RELIGION Many persons have wondered why the evangelistic campaign now being carried on in this city has been more successful than any campaign of a similar character that has been attempted here. In The Times Magazine which will appear tomorrow Dr. Chapman says the secret of this success is due to the fact that “It’s the

business method put into religion.” The contribution to The Times Magazine from the pen of H. E. Dupuy, secretary, illustrated by photographs of all the ministers and singers engaged in the work, will prove of especial interest at this time....


CHAPMAN’S DAILY MAIL IS HEAVY

EVANGELIST PROVIDED WITH

SPECIAL CARRIER BY UNCLE SAM.

RECEIVES HUNDREDS OF LETTERS,

MANY WITH REQUESTS FOR AUTOGRAPHS.

DICTATES LETTERS TO STENOGRAPHERS

AND INTO PHONOGRAPH - WRITES MANY SONGS.

It would surprise some people to know that Uncle Sam has such a high opinion of J. Wilbur Chapman, the Philadelphia evangelist, at present leading a campaign against sin in Denver, that he gives the evangelist a special mail carrier. Yet such is the case. A modification of the statement might be made, that the special carrier is detailed by the local post office to look after Mr. Chapman’s mail, because the supply of letters

and papers that goes to the Adams hotel addressed to J. Wilbur Chapman, is too large for the regular carrier to attempt to take care of. It is doubtful if there is a business firm in Denver that day in and day out averages as much mail as does this evangelist who has stirred Denver to the depths. His incoming mail in letters alone runs up into the hundreds and some days into the thousands. Then there are hundreds of


periodicals, catalogs, sample hymn books and other literature, that swell the incoming mail to immense portions. The cost of the stamps alone on the incoming Chapman mail for a day has been known to run as high as (cannot read the amount clearly, $50 or $60) since he has been in Denver. Rather startling figures, it is true, and figures that it is hard for a layman to grasp, but true, nevertheless, and this is not all, there is the cost of the stamps that must be placed on the outgoing mail. When a newspaper says, ‘There will be no meetings held Saturday by Mr. Chapman; Saturday is his Sunday. It does not mean that the evangelist is to have a rest day. By no means. the old saying that there is not rest for the wicked, is just as applicable to evangelists of the Chapman eminence. Saturday is when, closeted in his own room in the hotel, alone with his private secretary and two stenographers, he catches up in answering his vast correspondence. It is impossible, of course, for him to personally dictate the answer to each letter, Mr. Du Puy, his private secretary, does this for some; but Mr. Chapman hears each letter read to him by Mr. Du Puy, and if he doesn’t dictate an answer, he personally oversees that they are answered according to his way of thinking. Two stenographers are employed, because stenographers, unlike Mr. Chapman, are not made of iron (for the evangelist apparently is made of some such stern metal), so as fast as one is worn out the other takes up the thread of the work, ‘spelling each other’ a part of the time. Among his other paraphernalia, Mr. Chapman carries a phonograph of the latest Edison pattern

a machine that was given him by Mr. Edison himself. In the wee sma hours of the night, when most honest people have gone to bed and the hotel is dark and quiet, Mr. Chapman sits up and burns the candle at both ends, or, rather, burns the 16 candle-power incandescent light all around and at the ends too. This is when he gets ahead of his stenographers. Cylinder after cylinder of wax he fills with “talk,” and when the stenographers “show up” in the morning they simply place the cylinders on the machines, turn on the electricity, and “take off” the letters that have been dictated while they were in dreamland. Mr. Chapman has an iron-clad rule that he should and is going to think enough of every person who thinks enough of him to write to him, to dictate an answer within a week after the receipt of the letter. No matter how unimportant the writer or contents of the letter, it deserves, in his estimation, an answer, and gets an answer, even though it costs him into the thousands of dollars each year for stamps to answer letters, send pamphlets, hymn books and other literature to persons who in fact have no right to tax him thus. The great evangelist gets hundreds of requests for photographs and his autograph each week. He did start out, when he first went into the evangelistic work several years ago to fill the demands on him for photographs, but soon fell so far behind that he gave it up as a hopeless task, but to date he is managing to keep up with the demand for his autograph. The phonographs presented to him by Mr. Edison comes in very handy for other work. Perhaps four-fifths of the songs Mr. Chapman is


responsible for sending into the world went first to the phonograph. The evangelist is rather modest for a man who is before the public much, and very few know that he is the author of several hundred or more hymns. Most of them

appear under a non de plume that he keeps from the world also. A few, a very few, appear under his name, and others appear under the name of himself and Mrs. Chapman.

DENVER POST Friday, January 20, 1905 (Front page and page 3)

ENTIRE CITY PAUSES FOR PRAYER EVEN AT THE HIGH TIDE OF

BUSINESS AS THE SOUL RISES ABOVE SORDID THOUGHTS

REMARKABLE OUTBURST OF GOSPEL SENTIMENT PROVOKED BY REVIVAL

EVANGELIST CHAPMAN AND HIS ASSOCIATES CAUSE A HUSH TO SPREAD OVER THE POPULACE, WHILE THE NOONDAY MEETINGS DRAW CONGREGATIONS UNPRECEDENTED IN NUMBERS.

For two hours at midday all Denver was held in a spell, under the influence of “the power, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness.” The marts of trade were deserted between noon and 2 o’clock this afternoon, and all worldly affairs were forgotten, and the entire city was given over to meditation on higher things. The spirit of the Almighty pervaded every nook. Going to and coming from the great meetings, the thousands of men and women radiated this spirit, which filled them, and the clear Colorado sunshine from happy faces. Seldom has such a remarkable sight been witnessed -- an entire great city, in the middle of a busy week day, bowing before the throne of Heaven and asking and receiving the blessing of the King of the Universe. All business was practically suspended in response to the request of the men whose powerful, majestic personalities have so wonderfully grasped the hearts of Denver people.

At 10 o’clock this morning the doors of every church in the city were opened and for one hour the minister knelt with his congregation, praying that everything good and right might be manifested after the convent bell had chimed noon, began the meetings that will perhaps make Denver a different city from what she was seventeen days ago. Who knows? It was exactly 11:30 o’clock when thousands of men and women, clerks and busy merchants, thronged out upon the streets, and with one accord turned toward the Tabor and Curtis theaters and Coliseum hall, where the three great meetings of the whole campaign were to be held. In eager expectant throngs they surged through the streets, and for half an hour it seemed as if it were carnival day, and then a strange quiet prevailed. The streets became almost deserted. The people who had thronged them just half an hour before had disappeared behind the doors that were standing wide open to welcome them. Were


they going to come out the same men and women an hour later? It was just one minute of 12:15 o’clock that the doors of the Tabor Opera house were closed and Fred Butler, who has given up $150 per night with a grand opera company to become an evangelistic singer, stood on the stage and sang some of those old-fashioned hymns that could not have failed to soften the very hardest of hearts. One after another he sang, and then J. Wilbur Chapman, the man who has had Denver at his feet in reverence and gratitude day and night for nearly three weeks, started to talk.

SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL What did he say? It was just all so simple and straightforward, so quiet and earnest that it does not matter much the words he used. In his own way, the way that no one else in all the country has, this man told those thousands of people gathered before him that they were missing something -- that they were being cheated out of something that they were entitled to. He told them that this something that had slipped out of their lives or that had perhaps never come into them, meant more to them then all their fortunes, and that although they might not miss it right now, there would come a time when nothing else would satisfy. And then he told some beautiful little stories, the kind that make us better men and women for having heard them, and then he asked how many there were who wanted to get that something -- who believed they were ready to receive it and guard it with the very best that was in them, and hundreds of those men and women, trembling with emotion they could not explain, arose.

THE PLEDGE

“You will have men and women pressing their way into the kingdom by the hundreds. “I can show you every one where you are wrong and bring back the old visions of your faith. “I can lead to Christ; to One that can see.” “It was just seventeen days ago that J. Wilbur Chapman, covered with the dust of many days of travel, stepped from a Pullman car at the union depot and made these three little pledges to the Denver people. It was just sixteen days ago that he began to fulfill those pledges, and now, what has been the result? This is what he said: “If the people of the churches in this city, in the heat and cold, the snow and sunshine, and night after night will sincerely give us their sympathy and presence, I solemnly make to you this pledge -- you will have men and women pressing their way into the kingdom by the hundreds. I can show you where you are wrong. I can impress you with your responsibilities to others and I can lead you to Christ. These are some of the things I know I can do, still I speak without egotism, but with faith.” In a steady, ceaseless stream men and women flocked to the meetings on the second day of the Bible conference and perhaps never before have the churches of the city held such immense audiences. Dr. Chapman was, of course, the greatest drawing card, and when he opened his meeting last night at the Central Presbyterian church, the Sunday School room and even the choir loft were filled. He spoke on “The Holy Spirit.”


“Personally, I believe that when the spirit of God found me a sinner, convicted me of sin, convinced me of my need of Christ and worked upon my will until I surrendered to Christ, at that point I was regenerated and was baptized into one body, which body is Christ. It is doubtless true that for a good part of my Christian experience and part of my ministry I did not appreciate my treasure nor appropriate my Savior to His fullness. I know there came a time when I did yield absolutely to Him so far as I could tell, but I considered that my baptism by the spirit was a regeneration and my surrender was just an appropriation of what I had already had.” Afternoon meetings were held yesterday in all of the districts, Rev. Clarence Strouse speaking to an overcrowded house at Asbury Methodist church and Rev. Ostrom at Plymouth Congregational church, and the meetings in the evening were the largest that have been held so far.

GOVERNOR AND MAYOR Gathered on the Tabor opera house stage, surrounded by 300 people, many of the evangelists and nearly every minister in the city, were Gov. Adams and Mayor Speer, and just before Dr. Chapman began his talk, the people rose and gave them and Bishop Warren of the Methodist church and Dean Hart of the Episcopal church the Chautauqua salute. For nearly a minute nearly 4,000 handkerchiefs, perhaps more, for no one can ever tell just how many people there were, waved in the air and then Harper G. Smythe, one of the soloists, gave the signal and “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” at first faintly and then in one burst of gladness, filled the great theater. Bishop Warren

delivered the invocation and then “I Love Jesus,” one of the oldest hymns in the country, followed. Rev. Robert F. Coyle then told of the effect these meetings were having on the Denver people; of the discouragements the ministers had had during the past five years and ended in saying that the effect of the work would be felt for many years to come. Then Dr. Chapman spoke. “It is only right,” he said, “that I should tell you here at the greatest meeting the people of Denver have doubtless ever seen, that in all my ten years of experience I have never found so many conditions of people who seemed to enter with such earnestness and fervor into my work as the Denver people are doing. I have never been in a city where so many representative men have given their presence and attention to the work and it seems to be an amazing thing that they do it not merely for one day, but for nearly three weeks.” Two other meetings were held at the Curtis theater and Coliseum hall, which were presided over by W. E. Biederwolf and Henry Ostrom, and so full were they a short time after the doors were opened, that an overflow meeting was conducted in the Novelty theater. In spite of all the crowds very few accidents happened. Mrs. R. F. Hunter, who attended the meeting at the Tabor opera house, fainted and was taken home and several other such cases were reported, but none was serious. Among the saloons that closed was that of William Sexton, on Curtis street, a thing heretofore unknown.


DENVER TIMES Friday, January 20, 1905

DENVER SENDS UP A PRAYER TO GOD

Denver’s day of prayer goes down in religious annals as the most thoroughly successful event of the revival which has now been in progress for over two weeks. Care was laid away. Business was forgotten. Only the voice of religion could be heard today and from the church where gathered the faithful for early morning prayer to the factory where hundreds of busy men and women laid down their work for a few hours, everywhere the spirit of religion penetrated. If other fruits of the evangelistic campaign may prove ephemeral, it is safe to say that the memory of the “day of prayer” will linger long to refresh and strengthen the turmoil and monotony of the workaday affairs of life. It is a remarkable fact that since the evangelists have invaded Denver their teaching has not been that of the wrath of God toward the sinner, but rather that mercy is waiting for all men and to him who shall seek it it shall be extended. The beauty of this doctrine has been in a great measure responsible for the success of the revival. Sinners have found comfort in hearing that there is hope for them even though the clouds of sin envelop them, and this encouragement has led more than one to openly profess their faith in a merciful Christ. That was why the day of prayer aroused the interest of so many hundreds outside the pale of any one denomination. The gatherings in the Denver churches this morning included persons who perhaps never

before entered a church, and again those who long ago found the brilliantly lighted dancehall of more attraction than the quiet calm of the church. The pastors this morning met their people in the respective churches at 10 o’clock and there led them in prayer. The evangelists with the exception of Dr. Stough rested in preparation for the other services of the day, but he took Dr. Vosburgh’s place in the pulpit of the First Baptist church and talked heart to heart to the people. The congregation was a large one. It was made up principally of women who are unemployed, but there were fifty men at least in the church, and from every one of these came a few words of gratitude for what the revival has done for them. Similar services were held in Trinity Methodist church under the direction of Dr. George, at Central Presbyterian and at all of the churches where the congregations have participated in the revival. It was, however, at the noonday meetings that the city of Denver lifted its head in prayer and forgot business of all sorts in the sweetness of religion. Promptly at 11:30 o’clock the business houses closed their doors against customers, while employes of those houses were given time to participate in the general meetings. A few minutes later the principal streets were thronged with people hurrying hither and thither, many going direct to one of the three meetings, fearing to be crowded out by waiting until the last minute. As a result at least ten minutes before 12 saw the three downtown auditoriums crowded to the doors.


It was a splendid sight to see the thousands winding their way with bowed heads to the scenes of the noonday prayer meetings. There was no idle chatter. There was no loud talking of any sort. Every one seemed bent on the spirit of the occasion. Promptly at 12:15 o’clock Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman in the Tabor Opera house raised his voice in prayer, followed closely by no less than 2,000 persons. So crowded did the auditorium of the theater become that is was necessary to admit people to the platform, where sat many of the local preachers and several of the evangelists. Present were Governor Alva Adams and Mayor Robert W. Speer. Dr. Chapman’s discourse was one of the strongest he has delivered since the revival was inaugurated. In part he said: Dr. Chapman selected as his text from Revelation 11.9: “And they sung a new song.” He said: “There is probably no book in the Bible so little understood, so little read, and so little appreciated as the book of the Revelation, and yet this is the one book in the Bible in which a blessing is pronounced upon the reader. Revelation 1.3, ‘Blessed is he that heareth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written herein., for the time is at hand.’ It is not necessary that we should understand the prophecy or be able to explain it, but simply to read it if we would be blessed. “I. The theme is redemption, which literally means to buy back. This Jesus did, and the price of the purchase was His own blood. “First - He is the inspiration of the song, Revelation v.6. ‘And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb as it had been

slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which the seven spirits of God sent forth in all the earth.’ And beyond all the gates of pearl and the streets of gold will be the vision Son of God. In the city yonder He who never has sung a note in this world will burst into a song at the sight of His face. He is represented also as a lamb that had been slain.

REDEEMED BY BLOOD. “Second - We are redeemed by His blood, Revelation v.9. This blood flowed from His head, furnishing atonement for the sin of the thoughts; it flowed from His side, making provision for the sins of our affections. No wonder why they sang a song, and it must have been a new one. In Hebrews ix.26, ‘For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world; but now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of His self.’ We read, and that expression ‘put away sin’ is most significant. It literally means that when He died He dropped sin, as it were into a bottomless abyss. He annihilated it. He made it as if it never had existed, and if we but accept Him this becomes true of our own sins. “II. But it was a new song. There was an eccentric Wesleyan preacher in England named MacKenzie. He used to go about gathering audiences for other people and when the preacher would arrive he would leave. He gathered such a crowd one day and then left, but no preacher appeared. Going off to be alone that he might pray he was suddenly called upon by three men. He had his Bible open at the time, and when he read of Peter’s call to go to Cornelius, he said: ‘This must mean for me to preach,’ and he began at that time a ministry of wonderful blessing. He was once preaching from this text, ‘And they sung


a new song,’ and he said, ‘Yes, there will be singing there and I expect to join in it. I want to hear David play his harp and Paul and Peter sing, and I shall want to give out a hymn myself. I think I shall say let us sing No. 749, ‘My God, My Father, While I Stray,’ but some one will say, ‘You are in heaven and you can’t stray.’ Then I will say, 651, ‘Though Waves and Storms Go O’er My Head,’ but an angel might say, ‘You are in heaven and there are no storms here,’ and in desperation I would be driven to ask, ‘Then what shall we sing?’ and the angel choir would answer, ‘We must sing the new song.’”

HOPE FOR ALL III. Who can sing it? It is said that one day a man was dying and the minister came to talk with him, for he was dying without hope. The minister said, ‘What of your future?’ and he said, ‘I think I shall go to heaven.’ ‘And what will you do when you get there?’ ‘I shall do what everybody else does.’ ‘And what do they do?’ said the minister. ‘Well, I know for one thing that they sing,’ he replied. And then the man of God opened to the chapter of Revelation where we read that no one can sing that song, which is the song of the redeemed, save the 144,000. But the minister did not have it right. It does not say that no one can sing it, but one could not even learn it except he belong to the company of the redeemed. Revelation xiv.3. There is a great contrast between heaven and hell in the light of this text. The brightness of the one place, the darkness of the other. The weeping and wailing of the one place of darkness, the new song in the other place of light: and there is the greatest contrast between the death of the sinner and the death of the saint. “When our soldiers waited during the late war at Chickamauga one of my friends going about

through the hospitals to help the sick was told that in hospital across the way there was a man who very much wanted help. He waited to conclude his service with the soldiers to whom he was talking, and ended conversation with the song, ‘Jesus Savior, Pilot Me.’ When he passed over to the other hospital the nurse met him to say, ‘The soldier has just died and he died as you were singing the last verse of the hymn and he died singing it his self.’

“‘When at last I near the shore, and the fearful breakers roar, May I hear Thee say to me, Fear not, I will pilot thee.’

“With this song of earth upon his lips he went up into the presence of God to sing the new song.” Never before in the history of the city has Denver been so touched as it was today. To the lowest walks of life, to the saloon and gambling hall, the spirit of Christ and His merciful gospel penetrated to bring consolation and happiness. From early this morning until way past noon crowds of the faithful gathered in the churches in all parts of the city to unite in the prayer of the visiting evangelists that the work which they have accomplished in this city will live after them and that pastors of the respective churches may be strengthened to carry on the work for which the seeds have been sown. There was something exhilarating in the crisp air of the early morning. Full of enthusiasm for the cause of religion. The regular congregations filed their way to their favorite house of worship and here and there as the throng passed, someone, perhaps a hardened sinner, and again possibly merely one whose fervor had grown lukewarm, joined the crowd and prepared to unite in the prayers.


SIXTY CHURCHES OPEN

At 10 o’clock sixty churches in the city of Denver threw open their doors to the throng, strangers and regular communicants. Christlike, the plan was to bring in as many hardened sinners as possible to show them that there is still mercy for their faults and hope of redemption. As a result, the burden was lifted from more than one sinsick soul and more than one who long ago shut out the light of faith from their heart found themselves softly weeping and craving absolution which is the doctrine of the Chapman evangelists.

COLISEUM PACKED (Phil’s note: there is a picture of this meeting in the paper.) At the same hour almost 4,000 people crowded into Coliseum hall to hear Dr. W. E. Biederwolf lead in prayer. It was an interesting picture. Kneeling on the same floor whereon the hundreds of merry dancers gather almost every night in the

year, the faithful prayed that the city might be awakened to a realization of the gravity of its moral retrogression. There they prayed that the dance hall and the saloon might be abolished or that its devotees would grow less and less and that the voice of religion might be heard above the din of the discordant music of such houses. A trifle paradoxical that meeting was, but for that perhaps it came nearer to touching the hearts of the people. Dr. Biederwolf spoke with much feeling. He forgot himself in his zeal to make the place resound with the prayers of sinsick souls, and in his effort he succeeded admirably. When that throng began to leave the Coliseum an hour later there was scarcely a dry eye among those who had listened to the words of Dr. Biederwolf, and it was with strength to take up again the work of the day that the crowd passed down onto the business streets. No less than 1,700 people gathered at the Curtis street hall at the same hour to join with Dr. Ostrom in prayer.

THE DAY OF PRAYER IN DENVER It is estimated that no less than 25,000 people participated in the exercises held today in Denver under the guidance of the corps of visiting evangelists. In the sixty churches where morning prayer was offered fully 17,000 people gathered and at noon, when the business houses closed, almost 10,000 more joined in the services. At the three downtown auditoriums where prayer at noon was offered about 8,000 people gathered and overflow meetings were necessary in many instances. Following is the program which was carried out: 10:00 a.m. - Prayer meeting in sixty churches. 11:30 a.m. - Closing of 500 business houses and offices. - Closing of every city and county office. 12:00 - All public schools of Denver closed. 12:15 p.m. - Mass meeting at Tabor Grand, led by Evangelist Chapman. - Mass Meeting at Coliseum hall, led by Evangelist Biederwolf.



CITY TO OBSERVE DAY OF PRAYER

ALL BUSINESS HOUSES TO BE CLOSED FOR NOON MEETINGS.

CITY AND COUNTY OFFICES WILL CLOSE FROM 11:30 TO 2 O’CLOCK.

MEETING TO BE HELD IN TABOR, COLISEUM HALL AND CURTIS THEATER THIS NOON.

Today will be, church and other people say, the greatest day of prayer ever held in Denver. Mr. Chapman will conduct a noonday mass meeting at the Tabor Grand opera house. Fred Butler, the basso, will sing. A mammoth chorus choir of 300 voices, under the direction of Mr. Smythe, will lead in the music. Dr. Biederwolf will conduct a noonday mass meeting in the Coliseum. Harry Maxwell will sing. There will be a chorus choir of 300 voices. Mr. Biederwolf Speaks in Trinity church at 3. Mr. Ostrom will conduct a noonday mass meeting in the Curtis theater. J. P. Hillis will sing. There will be a chorus choir of 200 voices. Mr. Ostrom speaks in First Baptist church at 3. Mayor Speer yesterday issued an order that, out of deference to J. Wilbur Chapman, his assistants and the church people of Denver, all city and county offices should be closed today between 11:30 and 2 o’clock.

With possibly very few exceptions, every business house on Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets will be closed for the same reason; besides, many other stores, many of the doctors, lawyers and other offices will be closed during the same period. Hundreds were turned away from the noonday meeting at the Tabor Grand opera house yesterday, a meeting in which Mr. Biederwolf accepted the opportunity to “roast” Mayor Speer and the local politicians, “the men responsible for hundreds of ‘hell-holes’ in the shape of saloons, gambling and other resorts.” He took for his subject “How Much Room For Jesus In Politics?” and pointed out to the 3,000 auditors who filled every seat in the main floor and several galleries that there was little room for Jesus or any other honest men - at least, that the number of honest men in politics was mighty small. He pointed out that it was the duty of church people to go into politics to make sacrifices to further honest government.


The evangelist gave some startling figures in connection with his talk to serve, as he said, food for thought. Hundreds held up their hands and stood up at the close of the meeting when the evangelist asked for those who desired prayers of Christian people and who wanted to lead a Christian life. All of Mr. Chapman’s meetings at the First Presbyterian church have been well attended, but his meeting last night was the greatest of the series, in number of attendance, in numbers who professed a desire to lead a Christian life and in interest. Long before 7:30, the time for the meeting to begin, the ushers found it necessary to place hundreds of chairs in the Sunday School room, and in the aisles downstairs and upstairs; people were

even seated in the choir loft. Fully 3,000 were in the audience. The Philadelphia man, while a little hoarse, seemed at his best, and the plain simple arguments put to his auditors seemed to carry greater weight even than in his previous Denver meetings. He talked on “conversion,” and, as usual, illustrated many of his points with brief and well-told stories. He took his text from Matthew 18:3: “And said, Verily, I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” The singing of Fred Butler was a feature of the meeting. There is little doubt but that Butler’s singing has attracted thousands to the Chapman meeting. In the music, Mr. Smythe and his great chorus choir, share the honors with Mr. Butler.

DENVER POST Saturday, January 21, 1905 (page 13)

CHURCH SERVICES FOR SUNDAY Sunday Morning -- Regular services in all districts. 3 P.M. -- Men’s meeting at Trinity church. Address by Rev. W. E. Biederwolf. Young people’s rally at Central Presbyterian church, led by Rev. C. T. Schaeffer. 7:30 P.M. -- C. T. Schaeffer at People’s Tabernacle. Address to young people on “Our Habits.” Evening -- Each evangelist in his own district. “They came, they saw, they conquered.”

Just six little words, yet what do they mean to Denver? What do they mean to nearly 2,000 people? Eighteen days ago ten men came to this city. Seventeen days ago they saw. When did they conquer? It has all just been so quiet, so divorced from sensation or stimulus and yet so earnest, so convincing, that they just conquered, that is all. Perhaps only yesterday, perhaps the very day they came. Yesterday at noon Dr. Chapman, beyond doubt the greatest evangelist in the country at this time,


spoke to nearly four thousand people on “And They Sung A New Song” at the Tabor opera house. For nearly an hour he talked to them -- not preached, for Dr. Chapman does not do that -- talked just so simply and earnestly that a little child could not have helped but understand him, and told them that perhaps their mother, perhaps their little child was singing it. “Will you sing it?” he asked, and when that great mass of humanity, in the gallery, the balcony, the first floor and the boxes rose to its feet without a moment’s hesitation, didn’t it show that someone had conquered? In Coliseum hall Rev. W. E. Biederwolf, on of Dr. Chapman’s right-hand men, rose in the pulpit at 12:15 o’clock, several minutes after the doors had been closed, on the crowd still waiting to get in, and told the mass before him the same strange story. At the same time Rev. Henry Ostrom, Dr. Chapman’s other right-hand man, spoke in the Curtis theater and still that eager, surging crowd seemed no smaller, and the Novelty theater and the First Baptist church were opened and Evangelists John Elliott and C. B. Strouse called from the stage of the Tabor theater to preside. Wasn’t something conquering right then? It was a great day for Denver -- was the day of prayer yesterday -- and one that will probably never be forgotten. During the week that these men were here they occupied themselves solely with the pulpits; at the beginning of the second week they announced a campaign among the Capitol hill people; during the middle of the week they marched down to the red light district of the city, but when they announced their intention of holding a day of prayer, the ministers shook their heads. “It is impossible,” they said. “Nothing of the kind ever took place in this city and it will be a complete failure. No one will come.”

Was it a failure? Did they come? Ask the mayor, the governor, the business men of the city and the board of education. Now there remains just one more thing to be done -- the care of the homeless, wandering men in the lower end of town, and this is going to take place tonight. From 7 until 8 o’clock every hungry man in Denver is going to be given a free supper at the People’s Tabernacle, and when he has had enough he is going to be taken up stairs into the auditorium, where all of the evangelists, their singers and the ministers of the city will be gathered, and this same old story that has found its way into the slums, the homes of the prosperous and into the dens of the fallen, will be told them. That will probably be the last special meeting these men will hold in Denver. Sunday will be a quiet day in comparison to last week, and then Monday, after three weeks spent in their mission of love and of good will, they will go, but only in body, for the results of their mission will live for years in the hearts of Denver people. There is only one time in all his ten years of preaching that the evangelists have ever found Dr. Chapman lacking for words to express himself, and that was last night, when they presented him with a handsome loving cup in the parlor of the Adams hotel after his service at the Central Presbyterian church. W. E. Biederwolf made the presentation speech, and when it came time for Dr. Chapman to respond he could only falter a few words, so overcome was he with surprise and gratitude. Mrs. Chapman was given two dozen American beauty roses.


Today several of the evangelists and their families left for a trip to Cripple Creek as guests of D. J. McWaters of the Colorado Short Line, while the

rest went on a coaching trip to the Y.M.C.A. health farm.

DENVER REPUBLICAN Saturday, January 21, 1905

DENVER OBSERVES A DAY OF PRAYER

BUSINESS SUSPENDED IN MIDDLE OF DAY FOR THE EVANGELISTS.

BIG MEETINGS ADDRESSED BY THE CHAPMAN WORKERS AT THEATERS AND CHURCHES.

CROWD OF SEVERAL THOUSAND CHURCH

MEMBERS WILL INVADE TENDERLOIN TONIGHT. The evangelistic meetings close with the Monday night meetings. Several thousand men, members of churches, headed by J. Wilbur Chapman and his associate evangelists, and Denver pastors, will march in a giant column through the Tenderloin district tonight. Volunteers to the number of 1,000 men have been called for from each of the 10 evangelistic districts for the march. The column will form on Arapahoe street in front of the Y. M. C. A. and at 7:30 o’clock will proceed on the march. After the march, Evangelist Toy, who went from the business life to the pulpit, will address a great mass meeting in the Tabernacle at Twentieth and Lawrence streets. “And He said, ‘In that city some day there shall be a great carnival day of prayer.’”

“That city” may have been some city of the olden time. Or it may have been some city of the present day. But no matter. If Denver was meant, no truer words were ever spoken. For Friday, January 19, 1905 (Newspaper made a mistake in the date. It was January 20.) will go down in religious history as one of the great carnival days of prayer, either of olden or new time. Be it certain, that never before had Denver witnessed such a wave of religious feeling. A feeling that enveloped the city of sunshine from one end to the other. With one accord, all Denver marched towards the Tabor Grand opera house, the Coliseum hall, the Curtis theater, where the three great mass meetings of the day were advertised to begin at 12:15 o’clock.


As the minute for starting the meetings neared, the great throngs rapidly disappeared from the streets, and the thoroughfares became deserted, except for a few here and there.

HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY FROM PRINCIPAL MEETINGS

Hundreds were turned away from the three principal meetings. The thousands of business and professional men who, with city, county, and state officials, and schools, had closed, at Mr. Chapman’s request, between 11 and 2:30 o’clock, had done their work well. They had given thousands, besides themselves, time and opportunity to attend the meetings. The drawing power of Mr. Chapman, Mr. Biederwolf, Mr. Ostrom and their associates did the rest. Long before time for opening the three principal meetings it had been announced that an overflow meeting would be held in the First Baptist church, to be addressed by Clarence B. Strouse, the young Virginian, the former club and society man. So the hundreds and thousands that could not get into the Tabor Grand, the Coliseum and the Curtis, wended their way towards the First Baptist church. Even there, many found it impossible to even get within range of the speakers voice, let alone get a seat or standing room inside of the church. These disappointed ones were directed to the Novelty theater, where a second overflow meeting was scheduled to be held. They proceeded there only to be disappointed again, for hundreds had preceded them, only to be turned away because there was no more room inside.

In the Tabor Grand, where Mr. Chapman, leader of the great union revivalist movement, was the principal speaker, every seat on the main floor and in the several galleries was filled. The stairways leading to each floor were packed. The aisles were packed. The great stage was in a similar condition. Gov. Alva Adams, Mayor Robert Speer and other equally as well known public, professional and business men were present.

CHAUTAUQUA SALUTE GIVEN LEADERS AT TABOR MEETING

One of the most impressive moments of the meeting was when the great audience, that part of it which was fortunate enough to have seats, rose, and all in the great auditorium gave Mr. Chapman, Bishop Warner, Dean Hart and other distinguished personages on the stage the chautaugua salute, each person waving a handkerchief high in the air. Mr. Chapman took for his text, “And They Sung A New Song,” from Revelation, 11.9. Strong men rocked to and fro, overpowered by a strange and majestic feeling. Women buried their faces in handkerchiefs. Little children cried because they could not understand what troubled their elders and were frightened. Following his usual custom, Mr. Chapman, forced his points home by little human interest stories from real life, the everyday life of everyday people. And the captured thousands sat and stood and drank in each word of hope and cheer and promise. In one of his illustrations he pictured the brave lads in blue as they wrestled with death in the fever-stricken hospitals during the Spanish war. He spoke in particular of one beardless boy,


thousands of miles from home and loved ones, who, after a religious meeting in his ward one afternoon, died, softly singing,

“When at last I near the shore, And the fearful breakers roar, May I hear Thee say to me, ‘Fear not, I will pilot thee.’”

The audience may have forgotten just what point in the speaker’s argument this story was intended to strengthen, but it could not forget the wan young face of that soldier lad, as he lay on the white-sheeted cot, his head resting on the spotless white pillow and his eyes turned heavenward, with the smile hovering about the cold lips that told of the strange and beautiful city the sightless eyes were seeing.

THOUSANDS TRY TO SHAKE HANDS WITH BIEDERWOLF

Scene just as great were taking place at the same moment in the Coliseum, the Curtis, the First Baptist church and Novelty theater. At the Coliseum, after Mr. Biederwolf finished his address, thousands gathered about him anxious just to touch his hand. In the Curtis theater, where every night appearing in “The Fatal Scar,” Henry Ostrom, “the Sherlock Holmes evangelist,” held forth. Mr. Strouse, who among other titles lays claim to that of “the layman preacher,” did excellent work in the First Baptist church. The meeting in the Novelty, though smaller because of less room, was as interesting as either of the large meetings.

Both Mr. Biederwolf and Mr. Ostrom held meetings at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. And in all of the 10 districts last night there were overflow meetings. It was necessary a half an hour before opening of the meeting at the Central Presbyterian church, where Mr. Chapman had been preaching, to lock the doors and admit no more, although hundreds clamored for admittance. Mr. Chapman spoke last night on social games of cards and dancing, directing his remarks particularly to the young people. Every available inch of space in the auditorium was occupied. Hundreds of chairs were placed in the Sunday school room and aisles, and people were crowded into the choir loft. The platform was crowded. As in previous meetings, hundreds evinced a desire to lead a Christian life. Great morning meetings were held yesterday forenoon at 11 o’clock in all of the churches, when each pastor met with his own people, and hundreds of strangers that attended the services. the Rev. Mr. Vosburgh, pastor of First Baptist church was unable to be present at his church and his place was taken by Evangelist Stough. C. T. Schaeffer, the great children’s evangelist who had been holding such successful young people’s meetings during the Chapman campaign, will hold a closing rally of young people of all of the 10 districts, in the Central Presbyterian church at 3 o’clock Sunday. Mr. Chapman will speak, Mr. Schaeffer will give his famous illustrated lecture, “Why Jesus Is For All The World.” Mr. Smythe, Mr. Chapman’s choir director, and a boys’ choir of 250 voices, will furnish the music, with Beal’s juvenile orchestra.


DENVER TIMES Saturday, January 21, 1905

RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASM EXCITED BY REVIVAL

IS RUNNING HIGH HERE The waning days of the great religious revival in Denver find enthusiasm running at a high pitch. Never before has so deep an impression been made on the Christian element in Denver, and yesterday’s day of prayer attested the interest which is felt even among the nonchurch members in the work of the evangelists. Monday night closes the work in Denver and the city pastors have determined to continue the good which has been begun by every effort in their power. The esteem in which Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, head of the crusade, is held by his co-laborers was demonstrated last night, when the evangelist was presented with a loving cup from the men who are aiding him in reclaiming Denver from sin. The presentation was made at the Adams hotel last night after the day of prayer had ended. Today there are no special services. Many of the evangelists are enjoying an excursion to Cripple Creek, while Dr. Chapman and a few others have gone on a tallyho ride to the Y. M. C. A. health farm. This evening there will be a monster mass meeting for men in the People’s tabernacle at Twentieth and Lawrence streets. Dr. Chapman will preside. Rev. Daniel S. Toy will be the

speaker of the evening, choosing as his subject, “From Sporting Life To The Pulpit.” Parson Uzzell will make the evening doubly pleasant for those who attend by serving a lunch first. It will consist of sandwiches and coffee, and all those who join the throng will be served. All of the evangelists and singer will be present and the meeting in the auditorium will begin at 8 o’clock. The men workers from each evangelistic district in the city will meet at the Y. M. C. A. rooms at 7 o’clock tonight, and will form a procession and march up Larimer street with music. They will gather all the men they can on the way from there to the tabernacle. Tomorrow morning Rev. W. H. Stough will speak at the tabernacle, and in the evening Rev. C. T. Schaeffer will address the children. Arrangements have been made for an overflow meeting of the central district at Central Christian church tomorrow. This gathering will be addressed by Dr. W. Bayard Craig. At the close of the big evangelistic meetings Rev. Joshua Gravett will inaugurate a little revival in his church, the Galilee Baptist. He will hold evening meetings.



NOTHING LIKE IT IN YEARS

DENVER REVIVALS ARE SHAKING THE COUNTRY City divided into 10 districts. Meetings per day in each district - 2. Meetings during the week in theaters - 10. Midnight meetings - 2. Total meetings during week -- 222. Average attendance per meeting -- 500. Estimated total attendance during week -- 111,000. Average converts during week -- 18. Total converts during week -- 4,000. Cost of the revival meetings in Denver -- $3,000. “It is not present results. The tide has turned and is flowing toward the Gospel. The people are ready to be assisted. The work is now for the Denver ministers to take advantage of conditions, which they will do. The results are inestimable.” -- Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. One of the largest and best of the many revival meetings of the week was that held at the People’s Tabernacle at Twentieth and Lawrence streets night. The speaker was Rev. Robert S. Toy of Baltimore.

The large church was filled to overflowing. The congregation was one composed almost entirely of men. They represented all walks of life. Men with blue overalls occupied seats beside well groomed preachers. Old and young had been urged to come to the meeting by the revivalists, who, accompanied by several hundred supporters, had marched through Larimer street and the tenderloin district singing hymns. The district was deserted. The devil, which usually haunts the streets, had gone into hiding while the evangelists marched through. Dr. Chapman and “Parson” Uzzell assisted in the meeting at the tabernacle and nearly two score stepped to the altar after the address and expressed their desire to be Christians. Meetings will be held today and tomorrow, when the series will close. All of the visiting ministers agree that the present revivals are shaking the people of the country as nothing has since the days of Dwight Moody.


DENVER TIMES Monday, January 23, 1905

REVIVAL IS TO CLOSE HERE TONIGHT, AND IS

PRONOUNCED BY EVERYBODY A SUCCESS The fruits of the past eighteen days of revival services were reviewed at length at two meetings held today in the Tabor Opera house. The first gathering, over which Dr. John Elliott presided, heard reports from the local preachers as to the results of the evangelistic exercises and alternated these brief talks with general prayer led by different members of the congregation. It was an inspiring scene. From the stage, from the parquet, from the boxes and from the highest gallery, voices intoned impromptu prayers, just a few words of gratitude from the heart for all that has been accomplished through the revival. Rev. Thomas Uzzell, pastor of the People’s tabernacle, on request gave a detailed account of his monster meeting for men Saturday night, telling in touching tones how “the broadcloth of the banker rubbed frequently against the rags of the tramp,” and concluding with these words: “If there ever existed a fence separating Capitol hill from the slums, that has been smashed to splinters by the Godly teachings of these evangelists who have made all men brothers. The early meeting adjourned promptly at 12 o’clock and the Tabor Opera house was cleared for the meeting addressed by Dr. Chapman at 12:10 o’clock. This was designed especially for business men and before the first gathering had dispersed the lobby of the theater was lined with people anxious to hear Dr. Chapman.

At Trinity church this afternoon Dr. Strouse is telling the story of his conversion. The last meetings in connection with the great crusade which has shaken Denver from the depths of vice and sin will be held this evening in the ten districts and then tomorrow morning the ten evangelists will begin their journey toward California, where they will remain an equal length of time. The work in Denver has proved phenomenal. William Mason Danner, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., and who has virtually directed the entire campaign, said this morning: “The number of conversions runs into the thousands. We have no exact statistics as yet, but are not in the least disappointed over the results. The revival was the greatest religious movement Denver ever experienced.” Prominent churchmen agree with Mr. Danner and feel much encouraged over the religious awakening and believe it will be an easy thing now to continue the good work. Rev. Robert F. Coyle, who directed the meetings in the central district, is especially enthusiastic. That Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, who led the campaign in Denver, believes his work has been eminently successful is evidenced by the following telegram which he sent last night to New York: “Managing Editor New York American: Denver is more mightily moved than any city I have visited. Several thousand men have professed conversion. The churches are thronged and hundreds turned

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ght nnci a~ain thl11 Rft"rnoon to e Italian h:m<'l-llnd to """ Cren~e,.. 111'<'re dl~nppolnted, In th,. mn· l'n"!<r.-.rrn:nymr~~~ctlni"fO l'<'cnn<1 ~>dltlnn ot · Adnnts ln the. t hr,• wcro douhUA'IIIII nlled 'll"lth reCr e'R t n r "'" hlllr ll'l about the mo11t tly mu,.h· :~l chal'llct<'rl~tic ttetn lhe lr:ldl!r whe n he flr10t np?('ano . t lrnce l<no1ll'll no 111 undcr that u . !'hork. llf'CII.U!!O tht'y f'an ere

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"' "' __ ..._ htlfchf<A aril lllro uJ!Nl "" '' hupdr<'< l"' · ~ U\e Talior OPera house. The first turncd A.'lll'lly. Tonhtht f!TI'Ilt meetln., h~ld ·t ,: ) gathering, o~tr which .Dr. :John Elliott for mr.·n. Kcvf'ral huridrc<l · promtn,;·ul

1 presided, heard reports from the JocaJ Chrh•tlM men went through the · 11tr~t" 1

with ln,•ltatlon... All R.(!Toe that Dnnv•· r ~ .~ preachers II to the result! of the I!! on tire, l'plrltuRily; 1 conaldt"r It m O><t 1

evangeliatlc exerci&H and altemated pMnOmenal. 'fh"' rounlry at llll"p 1"1 , c· these brief talks with 1e11eral prJyer waklnlll' Ufl "JIIritualiy. 1 b"llf'Ye we are 1 · led by d'ifferent members of the con- on the cve or a world-wldll rl'v1val. 1

I~Ye Tuctod"Y tor I..ns 'Angt>l""· gregation. fi Wll All illapiriJll tcene, "J. WILBUR .CHAPMAN.'' From the stage, from the parqurt, 'or. Chatima•'• !'•rmoa' .. from the boxes and from the high.,t Dr. Chapman llp(lke Ja5t nl~~:ht at t h " gaUery, voicu illtone4 impromptu c,.nlrnl Pre11byterlan church on the tnplc ,

j f d f t ltud ".Almost PeMJuadf'd," 111\Yin« In part: prayers, uat • ew wor . !t 0 gra e "Then A&Tippa aald unto Paul, 'Almo"t from U!e heart for aU tha_t_h~_l ~ _thou .per.u&dNt-mfl te lle ··a-~1\tolaUan .' -- -.tCCOIDphebe4 {brougJl ~ rtTiTiJ. . "ThPT'f' I!! _ A. ~rfect lllu,.trl\llnn. of thi"

- Rev; Thomal!f UH1'!11, ·p:-u!t('ll' !'It tn6· }'Po- Nf'w '1'-tamPnt te.xt In t.he Old Trl'!npie 's tabf'ma.clo, on T'f'QU~t (ti\Ve a de- ment story ·or th11 children of l!!rR,.I. :-\n t tailed BCOOUnt Of bill monstPr tnnetfn&- for a ,gff!Ot While llftPf' the}' hnd d cp'art r d men Saturday night, tr.Jllng In touchln~t from E~~:ypt, whPn the,· hR•I go nf' · f' l\>< t tones how "thl! broAdcloth or the bnnke r Hf'rod. thrOUith thc wllrlern rHs by thfl rubbed frequently a,ltRin!lt the rags ot the wa)' .or the mtmnt&ln or the Amorltell, "'' tram!)," '11nd concludlnlfl' with the!!fl the Lord hl\<l romm.&n<IMt thf'm. t h<' Y words: "lt there eYer ext11ted a: fMtee came. ACOOrdlnc to the 11tory, to Keda!' h ~pa.ratln~r Ca.pltol · hill/rom the alums. Bunelt..' ' · th1tt hM bMn l!ln1lllhe to !lpllntcn!! by Wf'll Attf'n ... d M-tlna•· _ thll Godly teaehlnp of the~ evancelhrt• The ll\fi!N•t mN>tln.,,. M . the ~vlv :t l who hav11 mad& s.U men brothf'nt. ".. wer., · tho11c or Y""ter•lny "rt,.rn"otr In t " "'

The early me11tln« adjourned promptly ten eYFlnlfeii!Otle dl11trlct11 or DenYer. 1'11 ., At 12 o'cloe'lt A.n<J the T11.bor Open hou~~e Tt1nlty Methodl"t rhurch, whert~ )I r. wlu!l cleanHI tor tbe mf't!tbl~ add"""'~ tJtcd.,rwoTt · conduett'f1 the llt>rvlc<"". ,.. ,. ,. by Dr. Clulpman a.t 12:10 o'clock. Thill the b<-11t attPndl'd, and hunf!rtd" w~ r11 "'' ll!l dl'!!lr;neod """llt"Cially ror bul!lnt'll!'l men turned I'"'"Y trom thh• ehurch:. -A Mil~'<' • nnd before the Slf!!t gatherln;r had dl~- tlon of $:Z.ll00 w~ tlllccn up fo,. th" Y. P""MOM the lobby of th• theeter wu. lined M. C. A. aftf'r the p!'l"llr.h.,,. had told nt with peop141 anxlovs to hear Dr. Chap- th,. nl'eod,. ot that auocllltlon. man. • "~'* (}jllntlf'mf'n" Wll!l th,. toub~et nf

At Trlntty cbun'h tbltt &ft~>moon Dt-. U1e tof't'1Tlon. whlrh wu hl'llf'od hy a l11.rs:" Strouse Ia telllnC the ltory of hiii · C(Inver- number ot re~>n. The -work ·or llnrrr l'otnx"lon. wciJ and hili ln~e ch"lr Willi a fr.A.tun~ of Th~ Jut ~tng~t 1n: oonn~tinn with the mcf'tln~. · .

the ~t d'usade wbtch has 11baken ~n-. A younlll' pi!<JPie'• ratty W'IIJII hf'fd at t1>fl -ver tmm the depth• or YtCtt and onn will Cf!!ltral Prctlbyterhn cllurnb Y~""'"''~":v he held thla rnnlnJr In th"' tm d .. tneta attem~ by th4 Rev. Mr. 8chnt>fl"nr. The and then tomoM"'w mtlmlnw th~ ten e"Yan- e•enJn• m~tlnl' In th., tl'n l'llwtrlctJI wl're gelialll will ~lfln their Journey toward wei\ attended, . and ttwo . m~ttnc thl!l ,.. rCalltomla. whrre they will reroaJn an temoon and. e.ftfrfnl', which wtll clo~ thll equa.l len«1b- of time-. The Jll4rltt In 'Dfon· ~M. .,... n~ted to be ~rowdf'd. yer hu ~ phenomenal William Ma· A re11umi!l or the (!f'>!lt or the f'l~ttte~n fiOn ·Dannt'r, ~t&ry or tbe T. X. c • .A.. daY1' of reYI'rlll ~I'll 11bo'll'e thll.t the llnd- who hal v1rtually directed the ent1n Rntlctpa.ted coet wu aot· · l""&ch..., anct nlmpal~. utd thh• mornlnl': ~'The num- tbat eolleett~• ban ~l:v J>ftld th!l ber of conYenloNI fUll !I into the 'lbo'Q- . ,.nttre eoxJ)f'nll" ot the -.rorlt. L(o"" thR.n snnda. We have no exact etll.tU!Uca u sr~.oou · . wu r«!qulred roor t~ C"-Tni!AI~n. yet. · but am not ill -u!e teart diBilJ'liOlllted Whtre· tt ·wae ••»eeted that the eoet · would over the M!!!!UitiL Tbe tevfval wu the re&dl 1!!0.000. The .rr,.. will ofl'ertmr• ltrfllltf'lt rella1oua mO'f1!ment ~nT1!r ...-er tor the 11ut t'tl~ day11 of tbn I'Ampa.llm erpf'rlt'n~d.'' · .. , . , •• wo to · the e?&~lllrt• tbt'mf14!h•f'"' l n

Prominent' churehmt'b aa-ree 'With Mr. U\e t"bl14ren'a WOf'k E•a.~Uat 8chaf'C'I'r r ~pncr and t.~l · .. much toncouraced nvet bu been parttcularfr eul'cetttrful. ~. Boyl . the re!t~toua awaJu~nlnlll' and believe rt an4 ctrl" tn t~ num~r or Mn l'la, .• will tte an~ tbtnc now rn cootlnue the j01n('4 the 8un4&y a<''hoola throulll'h ht. c!• trooc1 ·wot-k. Rev. Robert F. Coyle. •bo for:tll. _ . . . • _ ... 'direct~ the m~ttn)'ll In the "ceftti'al dl.- Jl'roai ent"T viewpoint U.e eam'P&llll'n trtet, · ta especially ~tbualutJc. . wblch clooot"10 tonlltht Sa abealutely the

That Dt-. J. WUbur ChA.Dman.. •ho ~ motlt noteworthy on ft'COI'd tn Colorado. tllfl umpalcn In ~111rer, i)etl~ hf• wM'Ir hatt ' beftt ~tt:r ~eMht1 Itt e\'ld nt'@4 by tho foll!JWt.. telqram Which be tRnt ' laiJt Jdpt ·to .}lf.,r Toefl: . . ''Miltlartnc Edttor_H.- ,.OS'It A•t1od:

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away. Several hundred prominent Christian men went through the streets with invitations. All agree that Denver is on fire, spiritually. I consider it most phenomenal. The country at large is waking up spiritually. I believe we are on the eve of a world-wide revival. I leave Tuesday for Los Angles. “J. Wilbur Chapman.”

DR. CHAPMAN’S SERMON Dr. Chapman spoke last night at the Central Presbyterian church on the topic, “Almost Persuaded,” saying in part: “Then Agrippa said unto Paul, ‘Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.’ “There is a perfect illustration of this New Testament text in the Old Testament story of the children of Israel. Not a great while after they had departed from Egypt, when they had gone past Herod, through the wilderness by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord had commanded them, they came, according to the story, to Kedash Barnea.”

WELL ATTENDED MEETINGS The largest meetings of the revival were those of yesterday afternoon in the ten evangelistic districts of Denver. The Trinity Methodist church, where Mr. Biederwolf conducted the services, was the best attended, and hundreds were turned

away from this church. A collection of $2,500 was taken up for the Y. M. C. A. after the preacher had told of the needs of that association. “God’s Gentlemen” was the subject of the sermon, which was heard by a large number of men. The work of Harry Maxwell and his large choir was a feature of the meeting. A young people’s rally was held at the Central Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon by the Rev. Mr. Schaeffer. The evening meeting in the ten districts were well attended, and the meeting this afternoon and evening, which will close the series, are expected to be crowded. A resume of the cost of the eighteen days of revival meetings shows that the anticipated cost was not reached and that collections have practically paid the entire expense of the work. Less than $5,000 was required for the campaign, while it was expected that the cost would reach $20,000. The free will offerings for the last three days of the campaign go to the evangelists themselves. In the children’s work Evangelist Schaeffer has been particularly successful. Boys and girls to the number of 900 have joined the Sunday schools through his efforts. From every viewpoint the campaign which closes tonight is absolutely the most noteworthy on record in Colorado.


DENVER POST Tuesday, January 24, 1905 (page 8)

REVIVAL WAS BIGGEST KNOWN

CLOSE OF SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN AGAINST SIN The revival that has been occupying the hearts and minds of the entire city for over eighteen days has closed, thus putting an end to the greatest religious campaign the city has ever seen. After a day or so of rest Dr. Chapman and his corps of evangelists and singers will leave for Los Angles, where the same mission of love will be continued. Last night farewell services were held in all ten of the districts, and Dr. Chapman spoke as usual in the Central Presbyterian church. Long before the time for the doors to be opened a mass of humanity had congregated on the steps, and when the services began there was not standing room.

Dr. Chapman spoke of the work that had been done in Denver, saying that more good had been accomplished here than in any other city ever visited by the evangelists, and when he ceased speaking the audience with one accord arose, and the air was filled with waving handkerchiefs. There were tears in the eyes of many, for no man ever visited Denver on a similar mission who has so won his way into the hearts of the people of every class and condition as has Dr. Chapman. Similar meetings were held in all of the other districts, and when the last sermon had been preached and the last song sung, the crowds went home, carrying with them the memory of one of the greatest events Denver has ever seen.

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DENVER REVIVAL JANUARY 1905

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 • Much larger than normal attendance reported in Services throughout the City. • Up-Town district holds meeting.

2 • First Newspaper article published about Revival. • Districts & Evangelists listed in newspaper.

3 • Choirs Practice tonight. 4 • Dr. Chapman & others arrive Denver by train. • Chapman speaks to Real Estate Exchange - they promise support to campaign. • Revival services start tonight - 7:45 p.m. in all 10 districts.

5 • Dr. Chapman sized up. • 3:30 p.m. meetings begin at Plymouth Congregational Ch • Chapman quoted as to what he says he can and will do. • 7:45 p.m. meetings in all districts.

6 • 120 Conversions reported in first two nights at Central Presbyterian Church. • One district splits to two. • 3:30 and 7:45 p.m. meetings in all districts. • 1,500 attend Central Baptist Church; 1,200 Asbury Methodist Church.

7 • Denver Post characterizes Chapman - and notes his purpose in coming. • No Services Today. • More Evangelistic team members arrive Denver today.

8 • 1,000 exhorted to live “true Christian lives.” • 3,000 men attend service at First Baptist Church. • 3 p.m. services, all districts. • Newspapers report some 2,000 commitments thus far. • 3,000 women attend Trinity Methodist Church today.

9 • 11 a.m. Good Cheer Mtg, First Congregational Ch • Local Pastors begin to catch fire - paper reports. • Twelve districts now. • 100 profess faith in Asbury church. • 3 and 7:45 meetings held in all districts.

10 • Noon meetings begin at Denver & Rio Grande railroad shops - held daily. • 3 p.m. meetings held in all districts. • 7:45 p.m. meetings held in all districts.

11 • Stock Convention in session this week in Denver. •Noonday meetings begin at First Baptist Ch. and others. • Meeting at Burnham shops - 150 attend. • 3 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. meetings in all districts. • 100s attend “after meeting”

12 • Noonday meeting at First Baptist Church = hear Biederwolf. • 3 p.m. meetings in all districts. • 7:45 p.m. meetings in all districts.

13 • Capitol Hill district crowd increases, 25 saved. • Noonday mtg. at F.B.C. • 3 and 7:45 p.m. meetings in all districts. • 10 p.m. = all evangelists & some 2,000 others march • Midnight service at Curtis theater, 50 profess faith.

14 • No Services Today ← bitter cold, snow and ice on sidewalks.

15 • Mass Men’s mtg. at 3 2,500 attend, 100s turned away, 125 profess faith. • Women’s mtg. at 3. • Boy’s mtg. (12-18) at 4. • 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. meetings in all districts. • C.T.Walker doing colored people’s meetings this week.

16 • 11 a.m. Good Cheer mtg. First Congregational Ch. • Noonday, F.B.C. with Chapman. • Young People’s meeting with Schaeffer. • 3 & 7:30 p.m. mtgs. all dist. • So. Broadway Christian Ch. begins Evangelistic services.

17 • Noonday meetings at First Baptist Church, with Ostrom. • 3 p.m. meetings in all districts. • 7:30 p.m. meetings in all districts. • NOTE: Inclement weather - all meetings well attended.

18 • 9:30 a.m. Denver Bible Conference - all day. • Three Days of Prayer start. • Noonday, Tabor Opera, Chapman, 100 voice choir. • Give away 1,500 tickets in saloons & resorts to Free Supper & Service 1/21 • 3 & 7:30 in all districts.

19 • Denver Bible Conf. • Three Days of Prayer cont’s • Mayor Speer issues order about Day of Prayer 1/20. • Continue give away tickets. • 3 p.m. services, all districts. • 7:30 services, all districts, 3,000 attend First Presb. Ch. to hear Dr. Chapman.

20 • DAY OF PRAYER • 10-11 a.m. Pastors/People meet in 60 churches in City. • 11:30 - 2:00 Businesses / Offices / Schools close. • 12:15 Mass Prayer mtgs., 5 locations plus-17,000 attend. • Overflows at 3 & 7:30 p.m. services throughout districts.

21 • over 1,000 men gather to march and invite to Supper • Men Only, FREE Supper at People’s Tabernacle and Preaching to follow, men’s choir - 40 make professions of faith.

22 • 3 p.m. Mass Men’s Meeting at Trinity M. E. Ch. • 3 p.m. Young People’s Mass meeting from all districts at Central Presb. • 7:30 p.m. meetings in all districts.

23 • CLOSING DAY OF MEETINGS. • 10 a.m. Testimony meeting. • 12:15 Chapman meets with Denver Bussiness men. • 7:30 p.m. meetings in all districts.

24 25 26 27 ↓ • Tabor, 4,000 attend • Coliseum, 4,000 attend • Curtis, 1,700 attend • First Baptist Ch. overrun. • Novelty theater, overrun. • 500 Businesses & City & County offices close 2½ hrs. • Govenor & Mayor attend • Many saloons, resorts close

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NOTE: Dr. Chapman, himself, visited many churches and the city as a whole = then divided the city into 10 districts, choosing key churches in each district for holding services.

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