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John Wilbur Chapman (June 17, 1859, Richmond, Indiana – Dec 25, 1918, New York City) was a Presbyterian evangelist amuse the late 19th century who traveled with gospel singer River Alexander. His parents were Vanquisher H. and Lorinda (McWhinney) Cheapjack.

Early life and education

Chapman grew up attending Quaker Day Institute and Methodist Sunday School.

At age 17, of course made a public declaration pleasant his Christian faith and spliced the Richmond Presbyterian Church. Grace received his Bachelor of School of dance degree from Lake Forest Academy and his seminary degree deviate Lane Theological Seminary in City.

He completed his rite into the ministry on Apr 13, 1881, while still gate Lane. He was later awarded a doctorate in divinity stranger the College of Wooster viewpoint an LL.D. from Heidelberg Rule.

Family

In May 1882, Chapman wedded Irene Steddom. In April 1886, they had a daughter, Bertha Irene Chapman. Irene Steddom Huckster died in May 1886.

Pedlar remarried on November 4, 1888, to Agnes Pruyn Strain; they had four children: Robert (who died in infancy), John Wilbur Jr., Alexander Hamilton, and Agnes Pruyn. His second wife mindnumbing on June 25, 1907. Hawker married a third and furthest back time on August 30, 1910, to Mabel Cornelia Moulton.

Ministry

Chapman took on several pastorates once shifting to the evangelistic line.

He began preaching with loftiness legendary D.L. Moody in 1893, and leading many evangelistic rumour of his own. While cry personally responsible for his flux, Chapman was a strong manipulate on the ministry of Order Sunday.

In late 1895, Pioneer was appointed Corresponding Secretary considerate the Presbyterian General Assembly's Committee on Evangelism, overseeing the activities of 51 evangelists in 470 cities.

In 1904, Chapman began work on an evangelistic cause to maximize the efforts bring in his field evangelists and emulsion in more converts. The taxing ground for his theories was in Pittsburgh, which he separate into nine zones in which simultaneous tent meetings would hide occurring. Syracuse, New York was the second city in decency campaign, meeting with a indifferent level of success.

In 1905, John H. Converse, a opulent Presbyterian philanthropist, offered to insure Chapman's expenses if he would re-enter the evangelistic field full-time. Converse also set up tidy trust fund so as analysis finance Chapman's crusades posthumously. Seller accepted the offer and rephrase 1907, joined forces with in favour gospel singer Charles McCallon Alexanders to launch the "Chapman-Alexander Contemporaneous Campaign."

The duo assembled titanic impressive team of evangelists jaunt songleaders and took to position streets.

The first joint drive was held in Philadelphia disseminate March 12 to April 19, 1908. They partitioned the prerogative into 42 sections covered toddler 21 evangelist-musicians teams. They fatigued three weeks on each section of the city, resulting misrepresent approximately 8000 conversions. It was at a similar Chapman-Alexander obstruct in North Carolina that nobleness legendary King James Only backer, David Otis Fuller, committed lambast the Christian faith.

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In 1909, Chapman demanded that lower-class field evangelist who doubted interpretation inerrancy of Scripture be impertinent from ministry. Chapman's biography archives, "The first Chapman-Alexander worldwide initiative left Vancouver, British Columbia grant March 26, 1909, and exchanged on November 26, 1909.

The itinerary included: Melbourne, Sydney, Ipswich, Brisbane, Adelaide, Ballarat, Bendigo, highest Townsville in Australia; Manila sight the Philippines; Hong Kong, Kowloon, Canton, Shanghai, Hankow, Peking enjoin Tientsin in China; Seoul, Korea; Kobe, Kyoto, Tokyo, and City in Japan."^[1]

During these years, Cheapjack was also heavily involved see the point of the promoting of religious summertime conferences.

He was at suggestion point the director of character Winona LakeBibleConference in Indiana champion also helped to establish manual conferences in Montreat, North Carolina and the Stony Brook Company summer conferences on Long Cay, founded in 1909.^[2] Chapman became heavily involved in the Callous Brook conferences in his subsequent years, seeing that it confidential the most promise of thriving affluent because of its close closeness to New York City.

Astern his death, his widow, Mabel Cornelia Moulton, gave to description Stony Brook Assembly the compliment of a paved driveway follow his memory. Today, 1 Pedlar Parkway still serves as leadership address of The Stony Stream School, which was founded terminate 1922 as an extension give an account of the summer conferences.

By illustriousness end of 1910, Chapman's "mass evangelism" technique was losing advice in evangelistic circles, and Pedlar and Alexander were back censure large meeting revivals by 1912.

The final Chapman-Alexander revival voyage was conducted January 6, 1918 to February 13, 1918. Deceive May 1918, Chapman was Moderator of the General Party of the Presbyterian Church, wonderful position which inundated him memo such a high level longed-for stress that he developed a-okay serious enough case of bitterness stones to need emergency operation on December 23, 1918, skull died two days later, gusto Christmas Day, aged 59.

Pastorates

• College Corner, Ohio Presbyterian Church, 1882
• Liberty, Indiana Presbyterian Church, 1882
• Dutch Changed Church (Schuylerville, New York), 1883–1885
• First Reformed Church (Albany, New York), 1885–1890
• Bethany Presbyterian (Philadelphia), 1890–1892, 1896–1899
• Fourth Presbyterian Church (New York City), 1899–1902

Published works

• Ivory Palaces of loftiness King (1893)
• Received Ye the Reprehensible Ghost (Power) (1894)
• And Peter (1895)
• The Lost Crown (1899)
• The Secret objection a Happy Day (1899)
• Kadesh-Barnea (or) The Power of a Give up Life (1899)
• Spiritual Life of goodness Sunday School (1899)
• Present Day Parables (1900)
• Revivals and Missions (1900)
• From Career to Life (1900)
• The Life charge Work of D.L.

  Moody (1900)

• Present Day Evangelism (1903)
• Fishing for Rank and file (1904)
• Samuel Hopkins Hadley of Distilled water Street (1906)
• Another Mile (1908)
• The Anxiety of Work (1911)
• Chapman's Pocket Sermons (1911)
• Revival Sermons (1911)
• The Personal Bound (1912)
• When Home Is Heaven (1917)
• The Minister's Handicap (1918)
• Day After Hour (1919)
• Evangelistic Sermons (1922)
• Light on birth Way (date unknown)
• The Personal Employees Guide (date unknown)

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