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Nashville
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Meadow, Tennesee
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Birmingham,
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'''Charles
M.
Alexander''' (
–1920
) was an American [[evangelist]] with a talent for music.
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'''Charles
McCallon
Alexander''' (
1867–1920
) was an American [[evangelist]] with a talent for music.
He took part in evangelistic outreaches with other evangelists, including Dr. [[R. A. Torrey]] and Dr. [[J. Wilbur Chapman]].{{ref|[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4577569 Well-Known Evangelist Dead], ''The Argus'', [[15 October]] [[1920]].|name=Argus}}
He took part in evangelistic outreaches with other evangelists, including Dr. [[R. A. Torrey]] and Dr. [[J. Wilbur Chapman]].{{ref|[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4577569 Well-Known Evangelist Dead], ''The Argus'', [[15 October]] [[1920]].|name=Argus}}
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== Tours ==
== Tours ==
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Alexander
visited
[[
Australia
]]
with Dr. Torrey
in
1902
.
<
ref name=
"Argus" />
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Alexander
's first involvement with mass evangelism was from 1892 to 1902 with evangelist
[[
M. B. Williams
]]
, who concentrated on campaigns
in
[[Iowa]] and other mid-western parts of the [[United States]]
.
{{
ref
|Faris Daniel Whitesell, [http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/balexander.html Charles M. Alexander: The Persuasive Personal Worker], ''Great Personal Workers'', Moody Press, Chicago, 1956.|
name=
FDW}}
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He later toured England where he met his wife
.
<ref name="Argus" />
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From 1902 to 1906 Alexander travelled around the world, visiting [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[India]], [[Britain]], and [[Canada]], as well as further ministry in the United States, accompanying evangelist Dr. [[R. A. Torrey]]
.
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Alexander
returned
to [[Australia]] in
1909 and 1912
, with Dr. Chapman.
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At the time of his death
he
was planning another visit to Australia.<ref name="Argus" />{{ref|Piggin, Stuart, [http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/CTE/Documents/MELBOURNE%20UNIVERSITY%20EVANGELICAL%20UNION.doc The Challenging but Glorious Heritage, Difficult but Joyful birth, and Troubled but Triumphant Childhood of the Melbourne University Evangelical Union, 1930 to 1940.], [[14 May]] [[2005]]}}
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<poem style="background:#FFA; padding:0.5em">
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When all my labors and trials are o’er,
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And I am safe on that beautiful shore,
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Just to be near the dear Lord I adore,
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Will through the ages be glory for me.
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''O that will be glory for me,''
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''Glory for me, glory for me,''
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''When by His grace I shall look on His face,''
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''That will be glory, be glory for me.''
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</poem>
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The first verse and refrain of the "Glory song".
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</div>
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Alexander
and Torrey's visit
to [[Australia]]
began
in
1902<ref name="Argus" /> in [[Melbourne]]
, with
a "[[simultaneous campaign]]" (in which multiple meetings were run simultaneously in different parts of the city), in which weekly attendances numbered a quarter of a million,{{ref|Piggin, Stuart, [http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/CTE/Documents/MELBOURNE%20UNIVERSITY%20EVANGELICAL%20UNION.doc The Challenging but Glorious Heritage, Difficult but Joyful birth, and Troubled but Triumphant Childhood of the Melbourne University Evangelical Union, 1930 to 1940.], [[14 May]] [[2005]]}} equivalent to about half of Melbourne's population at the time.{{ref|Hugo, Graham, [http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/dc057c1016e548b4ca256c470025ff88/0b82c2f2654c3694ca2569de002139d9!OpenDocument A Century of Population Change in Australia], Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2001.}}
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At this Melbourne campaign Alexander included the ''[[Glory Song]]'' for the first time, singing it as a solo. The song went on to become one of the best-known Christian hymns.
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Leaving Australia, Torry and Alexander went to Britain, where, in [[Birmingham]], he met his wife, [[Helen Cadbury]], from the family that founded [[Cadbury's]] chocolate.<ref name="Argus" />
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From 1908 until his death in 1920, Alexander accompanied evangelist
Dr.
[[Wilbur
Chapman
.]] around the world,<ref name="FDW" /> returning to [[Australia]] in 1909 and 1912
.
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At the time of his death
, Alexander
was planning another visit to Australia.<ref name="Argus" />{{ref|Piggin, Stuart, [http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/CTE/Documents/MELBOURNE%20UNIVERSITY%20EVANGELICAL%20UNION.doc The Challenging but Glorious Heritage, Difficult but Joyful birth, and Troubled but Triumphant Childhood of the Melbourne University Evangelical Union, 1930 to 1940.], [[14 May]] [[2005]]}}
== References ==
== References ==