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J.J wilbur chapman sermons Born in Richmond, IN, he attended Quaker Day School and Methodist Sunday school. At age 17 he made a public declaration of his Christian faith and joined the Richmond Presbyterian Church. He received his seminary degree from Lane Theoloical Seminary, Cincinnati, OH.
Wilbur Chapman, Evangelist and Pastor
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John Wilbur Chapman was born in Richmond, Indiana, on June 17, His parents Alexander H. and Lorinda Chapman prepared him for a life of Christian ministry. The young man felt he could never pinpoint a date for his conversion, but did make public his acknowledgment of Christ at age seventeen.
In Chapman joined the Richmond Presbyterian Church and later that year left to attend Oberlin College.
After one year at Oberlin, Chapman transferred to Lake Forest University where he received his B.A. in His seminary years, , were spent at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, during which time he was ordained on April 13,
The young minister married Irene Steddon, in May , prior to assuming his first pastorate. Chapman's first child, Bertha Irene, was born on April 1, , which was followed a month later by his wife's death.
The minister then married Agnes Pruyn Strain on November 4, She bore Chapman four children: Robert (who died in infancy), John Wilbur, Jr., Alexander Hamilton, and Agnes Pruyn.
J wilbur chapman wikipedia death
John Wilbur Chapman (June 17, , Richmond, Indiana – December 25, , New York City) was a Presbyterian evangelist in the late 19th century who traveled with gospel singer Charles Alexander. His parents were Alexander H. and Lorinda (McWhinney) Chapman.Chapman's second wife died June 25, He married his third and last wife Mabel Cornelia Moulton on August 30,
Chapman led several churches prior to his full time evangelistic efforts. The following churches came under Chapman's care from until College Corner Presbyterian Church (Ohio) and Liberty Presbyterian Church (Indiana), ; Dutch Reformed Church (Schuylerville, NY), ; First Reformed Church (Albany, NY), ; Bethany Presbyterian (Philadelphia, PA), , ; Fourth Presbyterian Church (New York City, NY),
Chapman began his evangelistic work full time in , preaching with D.
L. Moody at the World's Fair and conducting many meetings on his own. He hired William Ashley "Billy" Sunday as an advance man, thus giving him his start in evangelism. At this same time, the evangelist Sol C. Dickey set up a Bible Conference Center in Winona Lake, Indiana. This center held lifelong interest to Chapman along with the others he helped develop in Montreat, North Carolina, and Stony Brook, Long Island, New York.
After returning to the active pastorate for a short time, at the end of , Chapman was appointed Corresponding Secretary of the Presbyterian General Assembly's Committee on Evangelism.
He directed the activities of fifty-one evangelists in cities and also found time to write one of his numerous books, Present Day Evangelism. In , John H. Converse, a wealthy Presbyterian layman, offered to underwrite Chapman's expenses if he would return to full time evangelistic work. Converse also set up a trust fund to provide monies even after his own death.
From Chapman began to develop and promote a new method of urban evangelism.
His idea was to hold several meetings throughout a city simultaneously, thereby reaching more people and stirring more hearts to enter into Christian service.
J wilbur chapman wikipedia John Wilbur Chapman (June 17, , Richmond, Indiana – December 25, , New York City) was a Presbyterian evangelist in the late 19th century who traveled with gospel singer Charles Alexander. His parents were Alexander H. and Lorinda (McWhinney) Chapman.The first city to try Chapman's theory was Pittsburgh in The city was divided into nine districts with nine meeting places as the revival was conducted. Chapman took the central position and his assistants the rest. Another campaign was planned and executed in Syracuse, New York, in ; however, there were still unfinished details to be worked out for the method to be widely accepted.
Charles McCallon Alexander, world famous song leader, who had been traveling with R.
A. Torrey, joined with Chapman in The two men became a team and formed the "Chapman-Alexander Simultaneous Campaign." Enjoying the benefits of both their influences, the men were able to build a large group of evangelists and song leaders to assist them in the large city-wide campaigns.
The first joint campaign was held in Philadelphia from March 12 to April 19, The city was divided into forty-two districts with twenty-one teams of evangelist-musicians.
Three weeks were spent in each half of the city with estimates of eight thousand conversions. The following revival held in Boston from January 26 to February 17, , is considered to be Chapman's most successful.
J wilbur chapman wikipedia biography Early in , Chapman collected some thirty evangelists and musicians for the most successful campaign of his career—Boston. He divided the city into twenty-seven districts and tried to awaken the whole city in three weeks. Chapman and Alexander conducted the central meetings in Tremont Temple.The city was divided into twenty-seven districts and recorded seven thousand conversions.
The first Chapman-Alexander worldwide campaign left Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 26, , and returned November Stops along the way included: Melbourne, Sydney, Ipswich, Brisbane, Adelaide, Ballarat, Bendigo, and Townsville in Australia; Manila in the Philippines; Hong Kong, Kowloon, Canton, Shanghai, Hankow, Peking and Tientsin in China; Seoul, Korea; Kobe, Kyoto, Tokyo, and Yokohama in Japan.
Chapman continued his non-stop evangelistic efforts in both the United States and Europe in , including a very successful Chicago meeting from October 16 to November However, Chapman's technique of mass evangelism lost much of its popularity.
A series of unsuccessful campaigns were conducted in Bangor and Portland, Maine, and Dayton and Columbus, Ohio. Chapman was not credited with the failures, and so from on all the revivals were mass meetings led by Chapman.
Many services were conducted by the evangelist in the next couple of years in Australia, Scotland, Ireland, India, New Zealand, and the United States, averaging three to five sermons a day in many places.
His career as evangelist ended with the Chapman-Alexander campaign January 6 to February 13,
The Presbyterian General Assembly elected him Moderator in May The strenuous routine required for the position combined with all the energy expended during his campaigns created a collapse of Chapman's health. He was forced to undergo emergency surgery for gallstones on December 23 and died on December 25,
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