month. After two years of faithful and efficient service, on account of war conditions, he thought it best to return to America, but the foundations of the Institute had been permanently fixed. His loss to the Institute was very keenly felt as is evident from a letter dated November twentysecond, 1916, written by the present General Secretary and Superintendent, Mr. James Delehanty, who said:

We are now nearing the end of our first year since we lost the most valuable and highly appreciated services of Doctor Elliott, and I feel that notwithstanding that great loss we have received much blessing because this Institute is of God, and so long as we seek to be obedient to His will we shall be sustained in the work. The students have made progress. They highly appreciate their instructors and in the midst of somewhat trying circumstances we are making some advance. In the evening classes we have had 106 enrollments during the year and at the present hold 64.

During the first five years of its existence-four and one half of which covered the period of the war-two hundred and fifty-three students have been trained in the Institute; seven diplomas having been granted, the students taking the full course; several are now in the employ of the churches; others are at work in the mission fields of Papua and India.

At the present time the management of the Institute is making an effort to secure a sufficient endowment which as a memorial is to be known as "the Doctor J. Wilbur Chapman Endowment Fund."

Dr. W. H. Fitchett, the distinguished author and preacher, summing up the result of the campaign, said:

No such gatherings have yet been seen in Australia. They could not have been drawn by any other theme than religion. We might have had great orators discoursing on science, on politics, on literature, but they would neither have gathered such multitudes nor held them

when they were gathered. But the vast audiences drawn by the mission never failed, and they never tired. No building was large enough to hold them. At the climax of the Melbourne mission the secular journals reported that the audience rose to 15,000. Newspaper reporters are not apt to exaggerate where a religious meeting is concerned, but allowing for unconscious newspaper exaggeration, the figures quoted show what multitudes the missioners gathered to their services.

What was it that held such vast audiences spellbound as if eternity itself were closing round them? It was the telling of a simple story, a story that first fell from the lips of God in the Garden of Eden, a story that was taken up and told by prophet, by priest, and by king, a story that became the prophetic burden of the ages, a story that was ever upon the lips of Him without whom there had been no story, a story that captured the imagination and the heart of Saul of Tarsus and sent him forth that he might, at whatever cost to himself, tell it to those who had never heard it. It was the simple story of Jesus. That was the story that Dr. Chapman ever told; that was the story upon which every member of the Chapman-Alexander party dwelt. Never in all those meetings did Dr. Chapman or any member of the party make a single apology for the Word of God. They believed in it, in its inspiration from Genesis to Revelation, and preached it as men preach who believe themselves to be the ambassadors of Christ and messengers of the Most High God to a world of sinners.

"The Chapman-Alexander Mission," Dr. Fitchett concludes, "is a link in a chain of spiritual force that runs right back to the day of Pentecost. All the great traditions of spiritual history are on its side. What great names are in the evangelical succession! Moody, McCheyne, Finney, Jonathan Edwards, Wesley, Whitfield! And the Chapman

Alexander Mission springs from the same root and yields the same fruit."

On the tenth of May, 1913, Dr. and Mrs. Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Norton, Mr. Charles Denison, and Mr. Norman Thomas sailed for Vancouver on the Niagara. This fine new steamer, curiously enough, was commanded by Captain Gibbs who was the master of the Makura on which steamer Dr. Chapman had sailed from Vancouver for the first Australian campaign. Mr. and Mrs. Harkness remained for a week of leisure in New Zealand, afterward returning to Australia and then to England. The balance of the party, Rev. G.T. B. Davis and his mother, Mr. R. B. Rock, Dr. Chapman's secretary, Mr. W. W. Rock, Mr. Alexander's secretary, left for Sydney on the Friday following, the sixteenth.

On the return trip to Vancouver Dr. and Mrs. Chapman spent an interesting day at Fiji, another at Honolulu, and arrived in Vancouver at the end of May. They proceeded to their home in Jamaica where Dr. Chapman remained during the summer, filling the pulpit of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church for ten Sundays, and completing his arrangements for the coming fall and winter.

CHAPTER XVI

SCOTLAND

SCOTLAND, from whatever angle viewed, captures the imagination, stimulates the mind, and wins the heart.

The Highlands, wind-swept and barren, in the majesty of their loneliness, are without a peer, and, though highly picturesque, as cheerless as the face of the elder who in solemn stateliness gives dignity to the meeting of the kirk session.

The land south of a line stretching from Glasgow to Edinburgh has been fixed in popular affection by the genius of Burns and Scott.

Burns mali exempli has nevertheless made classic the tongue of the Scotsmen and rooted himself in the affections of the English-speaking world.

Scott has bewitchingly delineated the manners and customs of the people, contrasted their virtues and vices, and made to glow with romance the regions described by his pen.

It is worth the journey across the sea to sit beside the "Twa Brigs" of Ayr or to walk in silent contemplation over the road taken by the cortège that followed the body of Sir Walter from Abbotsford to his final resting place in Dryburgh Abbey.

But the heart of the churchman is drawn to Scotland neither by the beauty of its scenery nor by the romance of its history, but because of those great spiritual movements that have moulded the thought, shaped the institutions,

inspired the ideals, and fixed the religious convictions of her people.

It was John Knox that ruled the realm of Scotland and proclaimed a spiritual liberty that has been consecrated and perpetuated by rivers of blood.

Knox, more than any other of the Reformers, captivated and fascinated the thought of Dr. Chapman; and for Scotland he cherished a deep and singular affection.

While in Australasia he received invitations to conduct a campaign in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The blessings that had accredited his work in Ireland and Wales, as well as the phenomenal religious awakening that was sweeping over Australia, had won the confidence of the Scottish churchmen and turned their thought to him as the one through whom might be ministered the spiritual refreshing for which they longed.

The invitation to Glasgow, forwarded to New Zealand, was as follows:

64 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, 1st April, 1912.

REV. J. WILBUR CHAPMAN, D.D., AND MR. CHARLES M. ALEXANDER. Dear Sirs:

Our Association has been in touch with Rev. Henry Montgomery of Belfast regarding a possible visit of yourself and your party to the City of Glasgow for an Evangelistic Campaign.

Consideration of this proposal has come before several meetings of the Board of this Association and it seemed to the members that the wise thing to do was to secure the sympathy and coöperation of the various churches in the city before we took any definite step. Accordingly deputations from our Board visited the Church of Scotland Presbytery of Glasgow and the United Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow, and on one of these occasions had the advantage of Mr. Montgomery's help and counsel. Further, we called a General Meeting which was a company representing very fully the different Churches and Christian Organizations in the City.