Excerpt from Organized Christianity: Or New Testament Unity Demanded and Feasible in the Twentieth Century (Classic Reprint)
And the darkness over Church and world alike, that could be felt, was felt and reckoned upon as at once demanding and presaging the dawn — the morning dawn of brighter things even the Great Twentieth Century Revival! No-r were there lacking men and measures, leaders and schemes for its realization.
In the fall of 1900, Mr. William Phillips Hall (partly in the name of what Mr. Moody was supposed to intend to do), with others having indeed religious fervor and evangelical ideas and business energy and methods and highly confident predictions (yet on the fatal basis of existing organizations) notoriously failed of any twentieth century success.
J. Wilbur Chapman followed with unlimited financial support, General Assembly patronage.