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The World- Wide Revival: w I. Another Outpouring in China. AILY the world-wide revival is grow ing, and God’s -Spirit is being more mightily poured out. In hundreds of places in Christian and heathen lands prayer is being answered, and showers of blessings are descending. The key note of nearly all the awakenings seems to be a: deep conviction of sin, and a subsequent passion for souls. And the D origin of each work of grace seems to lie in the strong crying to God of consecrated souls, who have first been cleansed themselves. In Hokeo Kiang-si, China, it was a doctor named Yao that was the chief human instrument in bring ing the revival. One Sunday he was overcome with a "vision of the sin in the hearts of the peopb about him. Thereafter he gave himself unceis ingly to prayer, and ere long the power of Go.l fell upon the people. Miss Marion 11. Fisher, writing in China’s M’l lions of the preparation of prayer, says: 11 During the week following the doctor came daily to meet with us and with those of our house hold who wished to pray for the ‘showers.’ Our longing grew with our prayers. The second week I was in the country. That week and the next ihite there was united prayer twice daily with pJI the household, when others sometimes joined us. The doctor begrudged himself food and sleep; he was up before daylight, spending hours in prayer.’’ In describing the scenes when the revival came, Miss Fisher says: ‘‘Then suddenly such a sense of sin came over the congregation that no one voice could be hearl above the loud weeping and cries for mercy. It seemed as though the outward act of bending be fore God ’had helped their hearts to bend before Him. After half an hour or more most had found peace. The service did not close till 3.30, when the congregation scattered for their mid-day meal. It was too late to have the afternoon meeting, as many had come from a distance “In the evening the usual Christian Endeavcr meeting was given up for another of waiting upon God. It was a wonderful time. During one pa cf the meeting almost every one was on his knees pleading aloud with the Lord for himself or others. For more than two and a half hours hymns, prayer and testimony followed each other without inter ruption, and there was no sense of weariness. The lord had visited His people and we had proved that what He had promised He was able to per ft rm. “ These two weeks since, the reviving work ha< been going on more quickly, but none the less really. Some of the Christians are being dealt with for love of money, some for not closing shops on Sunday, one enquirer for dishonesty in business, another who was selling firecrackers (for idol wor ship). A battle is going on such as we have not known before, and many are coming through vic t->. ious. V e still look for a greater ingathering of souls, knowing that the blessing will stop only wnen we stop praying and expecting. Many of ti?e girls for whom we have been praying have come out definitely on the Lord’s side.” 11. Gracious Revival in Mexico. Even in Mexico the Spirit of God is working powerfully. Zion’s Herald reports the awakening in the Mexican capital as follows. “News reaches us of a gracious revival in rhe City of Mexico. The native pastors of the four evangelical churches working in that city planned for a four weeks’ campaign which ran on for an other week still. Every morning the pastors ami ether workers met for consultation and prayer. Every evening evangelistic services were held in one of the churches. “The members of the various congregations en tered heartily into the plans of the pastors, and ditl effective work. One consecrated woman made By GEORGE T. B. DAVIS. The Golden Age for November 29, 1906. personal appeal to fifty different individuals. An other visited fifteen families and invited them to the services. A young man who thought he had no gift for such work printed an invitation on two hundred postals and mailed them. “The closing service was a most memorable one. It began as a preaching service, but soon took the form of song, testimony and prayer, so manifestly under the guidance of the Holy Spirit as to call to mind the recent great movement in Wales, though we cannot as yet expect in Mexico such ra merical results as have come from great revivals in the United States and England. Over one hun dred conversions were registered.” 111. Wonderful Work in Korea. Pentecostal days are being witnessed in Korm at the present time. Marvelous things have oc curred during the past twelve months. A mis sionary, writing in an American journal, says: “What but the hand of God can bring such hosts into the kingdom? During the year the num ber of Christians has almost doubled. We had six thousand friends and fellow-believers in Jesus last year. We now have over eleven thousand. This is in the Syen Chyun district alone. Mr Kearns baptized with his own hands one thousand 'and twenty-seven Korean Christians between May 1, 1905, and May 1, 1906. “Again, what but the hand of God can be mak ing all these people such lovers of the Holy B’lfie, so fervent in prayers and so eager to spend th fir time in the service and employment of the privileges of church worship? One night during a recent offi cers’ class, a shipment of 500 Bibles arrived on the railroad. Before ten o’clock the next morning every volume was sold and paid for. That the church life manifests the presence of the Holy Spirit is beautifully illustrated by the Tung Kang gr< up. We got word a year ago that in the extreme m 1 lowest corner of Korea, over three hundred miles from Syen Chyun, some had begun to believe. Lai or reports gave thirty as the number of believ ers. This spring when visited seventy believers attended church. There were only three men who had ever seen a missionary. The remarkable thing was the unconsciously sincere nature of their trust in the Bible and the acceptance they gave to ail things of the church. There was no sign of low motives in the movement. “We have also had a beautiful illustration of the practical and simple prayer life among oar Korean friends recently. Our little town of Syen Chyun is quite largely Christian and a large chur. ’i to seat twelve or fourteen hundred worshipper is now nearing completion. It is a beautiful build ing towering above all the little thatched huts, and is the pride of all the town. The construction of so large a building involved the possibility of many accidents because most of the workmen had nevsr seen such a building. To our surprise, and yet not to tur surprise, we soon learned that the singing of the hymns we heard each morning wafted out over the village before we were up, was the si ig ir.g of the carpenters at the church. Each day before beginning the day’s labor, the head civ penter called them together and led a short service, the chief petition in all their prayers, day by day, be.i g that God would make them careful so that no lives might be lost while building His house. It is a day of great joy and we have hearts to be lieve that it is of the Lord and will endure.” The death of “Old Bob,” the faithful servant, who lived his life at the famous Belle Meade farm near Nashville, Tenn., removes one of the few sur vivors of the most picturesque period of our coun try. “Bob” was well known to turfmen in all parts of the world, and when the Belle Meade place was sold he begged to be allowed to retain his cabin until the end came to him. He has had more newspaper mention, perhaps, than any mem ber of his race who was known only for his fidelity and loyalty to his work and to his employers. “The Empire State of the Earth.” {Editorial Correspondence.) Georgia may be -the “Empire State of the South,” but Texas is the Empire State of the Earth! Bob Taylor said that “she is the biggest black waffle on the gridiron of the Republic,” and the genial senator-humorist helped the stranger with that striking sentence to catch only a little glimpse of the bountiful bigness of Texas. “If you see my brother John out in Texas— ’spose you will, ’cause he lives out there—just tell him that I am getting along very well.” That is about the conception that many a Georgia man has about the size of Texas before he ever sees it; but it has never occurred to him that his brother John may be living in Texas a whole thousand miles away from somebody else who lives in the same wide Empire. Describe a circle from Texar kana, with the outer rim as far as El Paso, and you will take in Denver and Chicago and Raleigh, while on the southern rim you would cover just about all the Gulf of Mexico and come very near making acquaintance with the Equator! But the people of Texas are bigger than her bor ders, and their hearts are larger than her prog ress and wider than her plains! A Mighty Gathering. The Texas Baptist Convention with three thou sand delegates, and visitors is undloubtedlly tlhe greatest religious gathering in any state in the world. This is not strange. The other denomina tions have divided synods and conferences accord ing to what would seem to be convenient geograph ical lines; but the Texas Baptists are like the peo ple of the whole empire—they do not want to be divided. They love to come together by the thous ands, and feel the throb and thrill of marvelous fellowship and enjoy the sweep and “whoop” of doing big things. Just think of forty-seven thous and dollars raised in one night’s service for the care of 600 children at Buckner’s Orphan Home; then $4,700 raised the next day for ministerial ed ucation; and then about $50,000 raised that night for Christian Education—the liberation and en largement of the correlated schools of the Conven tion! This follows the startling sum of $90,000 given last year to the great Sanitarium being built by the Convention at Dallas, and over $200,000 given this year to missions. And this follows more than $200,000 given for Christian education in re cent years. That is the way Texas does things. But no wonder—for R. C. Buckner, the grand old man who presides over the convention at seventy five with the vigor of youth and the grace of a patriarch is here; B. H. Carro'l, standing like an in tellectual colossus in humble grandeur before the throne of God; Samuel Palmer Brooks, walking in and out, a veritable giant of mental and spiritual power before a thousand students of Baylor Univ ersity; J. B. Gambrell, “grizzled, grand and grey,” the most captivating “stump speaker” in a re ligious gathering on the American Continent; Lee Scarborough, with the honors of Yale upon him and “old-time religion” in his heart; J. Frank Norris, a younger son of Baylor, with philosophy and eloquence shrined at the foot of the Cross; an.! Geo. AV. Truett, the magician of eloquence and the dynamo of spiritual power, swaying a kingdom among men beautiful to contemplate and inspiring to behold—these masters among men have all spok en since the convention began, and while they have spoken, thousands have listened and rejoiced and wept and resolved and have the nrisen up to do wonderful things for the uplift of humanity and the glory of God. This is not intended in any sense to be a report of proceedings, but rather a hurriedly drawn pic ture of the spirit and purpose of this remarkable body of men and women. There will be other echoes of this flying trip to the greatest State of the greatest nation on the earth. Wm. D. Upshaw. Waco, Tex., Nov. 10, 1906 The Carnegie Hero Fund has recently given rec ognition to sixteen persons for deeds of valor which have resulted in saving life. Most of these persons have been young and have received the money to enable them to procure educational advantages. 3