CHAPMAN, J. Wilbur, American clergy man, evangelist and author: b. Richmond, Ind., 17 June 1859. He studied for a time at Oberlin College and was graduated 1879 at Lake Forest University. He was educated in theology at Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio. The de gree of D.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Wooster. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Heidelberg Uni versity, Otterbein, Ohio. He has filled pastor ates in Indiana, Ohio and New York. His special ministry was in the First Re formed Church in Albany, N. Y.; the Bethany Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and the Fourth Presbyterian Church, New York city. Much of his ministry has been along evangel istic lines. He was an intimate associate of D. L. Moody, a noted evangelist. For 10 years he was the corresponding secretary of the Gen eral Assembly's committee on evangelistic work in connection with the Presbyterian Church.
He is the representative at large of this com mittee at the present time. For 10 years he has given his time to evangelistic work. In addi tion to the larger cities in the United States, he has labored in Canada, Hawaii, the Fiji Islands, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Philippines, China, Korea, Japan, Ceylon, is land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He s the author of 'Receive ye the Holy Ghost' ; 'And Peter' ; 'Kadesh Barnea' ; 'The Lost Crown': 'The Secret of a Happy Day' (1899) • 'The Surrendered Life' (1899) ; 'Spiritual Life in the Sunday School' • 'From Life to Life); 'Present Day Parables); 'Life of D. L. Moody) (1900) ; 'Present Day Evangelism' (1903) ; 'The Problem of the World' (1911); 'Chapman's Pocket Sermons' (1911); 'Re vival Sermons' (1911) ; 'Present Day Evan gelization' (1912).