sympathy. We commend them with our unreserved endorsement of their purposes, plans, and message to the Christian people of the world. To Mr. E. G. Chapman we desire to convey our recognition and appreciation of his exceptional business ability and the efficient manner in which he has managed the business affairs of this great Simultaneous Campaign. To his patient and unwearying labours we are indebted for the quiet, harmonious, and effective working of the machinery indispensable to the success of this great enterprise.

To Mr. John Converse, of Philadelphia, and to the Evangelistic Committee of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, we send our greetings and congratulations, together with our appreciation for what they have done to make possible the great blessings we have experienced by exceptional gifts to evangelistic work.

We thus set our seal of approbation, commendation, and appreciation of Doctor Chapman and Mr. Alexander and rejoice in their zeal and wisdom in God's work.

We furthermore set our seal of endorsement heartily and enthusiastically on the Simultaneous Campaign method of evangelizing our cities.

May God in His grace and mercy continue with these His servants, wherever they go, and may He richly bless us in our efforts to continue the work here begun.

CHAPTER X

ON THE WAY TO AUSTRALIA

BY THE press, and through private correspondence, the gracious revival that spread over Boston was made known in all parts of the globe.

Commendatory and congratulatory letters were received from Cairo, from Paris, from Smyrna, from Constantinople; from various points in England, and from every section of the United States.

Earnest and appealing calls for similar meetings came from many American cities, but these all had to be declined, because God had ordained that the next Simultaneous Campaign should blaze out under the Constellation of the Southern Cross.

From Boston the evangelistic party proceeded to Springfield, Massachusetts, and there rehearsed, after the manner of Paul and Barnabas at Antioch, "All that God had done." Preparations were then made for the impending journey to Australia.

The party consisted of Dr. Chapman; Agnes, his daughter; Alexander Hamilton, his youngest son; Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Alexander; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Norton; Mr. and Mrs. William Asher; Mr. G. T. B. Davis and mother; Mr. Robert Harkness; Mr. Frank Dickson; Mr. Earnest Naftzger; Miss Bertha Breckenridge, secretary to Dr. Chapman; Mr. Edwin H. Bookmyer, secretary to Mr. Alexander; and the writer.

We came together at Minneapolis, and, after again rehearsing the blessings that had come to Boston, left for Winnipeg, arriving there on the twentieth of March, 1909. Here we found Dr. Grenfell, the illustrious apostle to Labrador, widely advertised for services to be held on Saturday and Sunday, the two days scheduled for the party to remain in that city. There had been arranged for Dr. Chapman a reception to which Dr. Grenfell was invited and at which he made an address. He also participated in other services planned for the Chapman-Alexander party.

We left Winnipeg by night express and arrived the next morning at Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, and the shipping and distributing centre for ten thousand square miles of splendid farms. Here a service was held in the city square where an impromptu throng, estimated at from six to eight hundred, had assembled under protection of a squad of the far-famed Royal Northwest Mounted Police. That splendid body has its Western headquarters at Regina and is made up largely of gentlemen of education and of refined family antecedents, even to a few scions of the English nobility, seeking adventure, but dispensing such diplomatic justice and control over the wild territory where they range as to commend the confidence and willing obedience of white and red men alike. One of these rangers was known to his companions as "Willie Wilson." He was the second son of the Earl of Strathallyn and esteemed it a mark of distinction to have been chosen to introduce the party.

From Regina the train soon began the long climb toward the Great Divide. On such a journey it was impossible for a man of Dr. Chapman's temperament to ignore the great

voices that, with such appealing power, speak from the mountains. Mile after mile, impressions were made upon his mind. A close observer of nature, he lost no opportunity to enrich the great fund of illustrations that he used with such precise and appealing application.

On the twenty-fourth day of March the party arrived at the fine station in Vancouver. Here three services had been arranged, with crowds so great that overflow meetings were held, all of which Dr. Chapman addressed, speaking one day five times in succession.

On Friday, the twenty-sixth of March, we embarked on the steamship Makura of the Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Line, which, slipping her cables, ran out by the Burrard Inlet, veered southerly into the Strait of Georgia, and then made a sharp turn to the west around Saturna Island and thence on a direct course to Victoria, the last stop before sailing out into the Pacific. As the steamer made her way out into the open sea Dr. Chapman, by invitation of the commanding officer, stood upon the bridge and looked upon the ocean rolling its mighty swell to the great arch of its horizon, "the emblem of unwearied, unconquerable power, the wild, various, fantastic, tameless unity of the sea." Behind him lay the receding shores of America; before him, more than seven thousand miles away, lay that unknown continent whither he was bound to proclaim to its people the Gospel of Christ.

Mr. Alexander had before sailed over those waters, and from that experience he knew what, either for utility or entertainment, might be desirable to take on such a voyage. Among the variegated purchases suggested by his fertile ingenuity there was a complete printing outfit by means of

which he expected to issue during the voyage a daily paper into which, if there could appear no great headlines from the outside world, there might be recorded such events as might be interesting if not momentous to us in that floating world we were to call our own for the next three weeks. It is needless to say, for reasons easily conjectured, that the issue of this paper was somewhat irregular. However, when an issue did appear, it contained a contribution from Dr. Chapman, a copy of a gospel hymn, and various other contributions by members of the Chapman-Alexander party or such other passengers on the Makura as had the literary ability to get their productions past the editor. One of the really fine contributions to the first issue was a poem written by Fanny J. Crosby, never before having appeared in print, and "Affectionately inscribed to the Chapman-Alexander Mission 'Round the World."

O, heralds of the Cross of Christ,
Ye chosen of the Lord,

Take up anew your glorious work:
Gird on the Spirit's sword;
And trusting in its mighty power,
With banners wide unfurled,
Go forth and, in His name, fulfill

Your mission 'round the world.

There was a day, a precious day,
When we together met

Within a consecrated home

Our hearts will ne'er forget:

And while we knelt with quivering lips,`
And tears our cheeks impearled,

We prayed, in faith, our Lord to bless
Your mission 'round the world.