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THE WORLD WIDE REVIVAL.
I.
Chicago is now in the midst of the greatest re
ligious awakening since the days of Dwight L.
Moody. Dr. R. A. Torrey has concluded a ten days’
conference and mission in which 600 to 800 public
ly confessed Christ, while Gypsy Smith has ended
a two weeks’ mission in which great numbers have
become Christians. In addition some local church
es are holding missions of their own, and others are
uniting for union revival meetings. It is prob
able that in all not less than 3,000 to 4,000 have
accepted Christ in Chicago during the last two or
three weeks.
The Holy Ghost has fallen upon many Christian
people in the city in a remarkable manner. Thous
ands are crying to God as never before that the
city may be shaken to its foundations. It is now
no uncommon thing for Christians to get up in a
meeting and confess with tear-filled eyes that they
have never known the real meaning of Christianity,
but that henceforth their single aim shall be to
win souls to Christ.
Dr. Torrey’s meetings were held in the famous
Moody Church, of which he was formerly the pas
tor. Night after night the church was filled and
overflow meetings were held in the church and the
Bible Institute. I heard a touching story of one
young man who was converted. He had been, to
gether with a friend, furnishing the music at
dances. He was the only member of his family who
was not a Christian. They had prayed for him for
years. One night he went to the meeting. God’s
Spirit convieted him and he accepted Christ. When
he reached home that night he woke up all the fam
ily and told them the good news. His father wept
for joy. The young man at once set out to win
others to his new-found Savior. He had an engage
ment to play at a dance the following Saturday
night. But he refused to attend and told his former
partner that he had given up all such things. That
home is now, said the friend who told me, the hap
piest in the city of Chicago.
In speaking of the spiritual condition of Chica
go at the present time, Dr. Torrey said:
“I have never seen a city riper for great work.
There is a deeper interest all over Chicago than ever
before. People are just waking up and the result
of the religious campaign being waged in all parts
of the city should be wonderful. I am delighted
with the week’s work at this church and I hope it
will have a lasting effect.”
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30,000 CONVERTS IN KOREA.
In Korea thirty thousand converts are recorded
during the winter and spring of last year. Person
al soul-winning in the power of the Huly Ghost is
the keynote of the work there. A recent bulletin
of the work there says:
“Christians are increasing so rapidly in so many
places, we sing praises one moment; next, stagger
under increasing problems.
“Ten new church buildings were erected by the
Fusan Christians during the three spring months
of the year. In one county there was not a believer
a year ago, now scores of believers and a church
building, erected by their own hands. With two
exceptions, every piece of money for these churches
came from the Korean money strings. A church
seating 120 cost S4O. This means fifty thousand
pieces of Korean cash which must be counted care
fully, and When counted and carried, caused three
men to stagger under the weight. The 500,000
pieces of cash (10 churches) came from people
whose income is fifteen cents a day.
“One Korean teacher was the means of bringing
thirty young men into the church who have started
a night school, the expense being paid by the new
converts.
“Chai Ryong, a city of 5,000 inhabitants, is the
new station opened in the Province of Whang Hai,
a province of some twenty-three counties and a
Progress of the Tire in 71any Lands,—The 'Rebibal in Chicago,
The Golden Age for February 14, 190*?.
By GEORGE T. B. DAVIS.
million inhabitants. Chai Ryong lies between Seoul
and Pyeng Yang. In this territory there are now
one hundred groups, 2,000 baptized communicants,
6,500 adherents and members, elders, deacons,
helpers, school teachers, Christians—all needing
help. A magistrate in the province said to a Ko
rean: ‘I have been in this office some time now,
and during that time no Christian has ever been be
fore me charged with crime. I have observed them
and they are good people. It would be a good thing
for our country if all the people would become
Christians. ’ ’ ’
Dr. C. C. Vinton writes: “It is the record of the
winter and spring that the number of those who
acknowledged Jesus as Master and Lord has grown
from 60,000 to 90,000 in all denominations in Ke
ren. The trend is toward Christianity, many com
ing from the higher ranks of Korean society.”
111.
CHILDREN’S ENTHUSIASM IN INDIA.
In the Etah district in India even the children
are becoming so aroused as to desire to pray all
night. A missionary writes: “The little boys are
greatly interested, including my own little one. He
had a dozen or more on our side veranda the other
evening. In the midst of it he came in to tell me
that the iSpirit had come into the hearts of the
boys, and they wanted to give up lying, stealing
and swearing, and all these things. About nine
o’clock when I suggested that it would be better
for them all to get to bed, he urged to be allowed
to stay up all night. He said: ‘I believe the Spirit
wants me to pray all night.’ I asked him how
it would do for them all to retire now, and if any
of them wanted to have another meeting to get up
early the next morning. This satisfied him, and
he made the appointment. He wakened himself at
half past six the next morning, and got on his
clothes in a hurry and went out to the boys. He
did not eat anything till eleven o’clock that day,
and would not have done so then if I had not in
sisted. The thought keeps coming to me, ‘For of
such is the kingdom of heaven.’ ”
IV.
THE WORK IN WALES.
The work of Grace in Wales still continues. The
Missionary Review of the World states that the
wonderful morning prayer meeting down in the coal
mine at Pontypridd, which Mr. Thomas Spurgeon
visited (and the present writer as well) has con
tinued throughout all these months. The Review
says:
“Permanent fruits of the good work appear.
Two instances may be cited: A short time ago a
workman’s wife died, and in order to be with the
dying woman and to carry out the arrangements
for the funeral, the husband had to stay away from
work for five or six days. During that time five
trains of coal per day were cut and loaded for him
by his fellow-workmen, who divided the labor
among them in turns, and marked the trams with
the number of their bereaved comrade, so that he
would be, and was, paid for the work. Such a
thing had never previously been known in the col
liery. The other case is of a totally different char
acter. The manager one day received a postal
order for Is. enclosed in a letter from an English
colliery village, with the explanation that the
sender had, while working at Pontypridd, stolen a
hammer from the pit-top, that he had since come
under the influence of the revival—in England—
and as his conscience pricked him, he sent the value
of the hammer and hoped the money and an ex
pression of his deep contrition would be accepted.”
THE AWAKENING IN NORWAY.
The revival in Norway which has continued for
months goes on apace. It is stirring almost all
classes as is the case in the cities in America where
the fire has fallen. The Missionary Review says
regarding this movement:
‘ ‘ The awakening in the Land of the Midnight Sun,
under Mr. Lunde, has had no parallel within a hun
dred veal’s. It is specially pronounced in Chris
tiania, but its effects are traceable everywhere. The
Norwegian papers which usually ignore religious
gatherings and movements, have given much space
to the work and its beneficial results among all
classes, and the converts are found in every grade
of society, except the ‘upper ten.’
“Old debts have been settled, conscience money
paid, misappropriated articles restored, drinking
given up and a purer moral atmosphere is distinctly
perceptible to all.
“The revival has been the theme of general con
versation for months, and many city ministers have
taken part regularly, and evangelists and workers
have had no cessation of toil, nor desire for it, the
results having been so numerous, striking and
blessed. The work has even reached the jails and
prison chape’s, and both wardens and criminals
have found the Saviour.
“Mr. Lunde much resembles Evan Roberts. His
one passion is to win souls; he speaks with burn
ing zeal, dwelling on the atoning death and resur
rection of Christ; he believes in the Bible as the
living Word of God; and above all, is a man of
prayer. ’ ’
Each in His Own Tongue.
A fire-mist and a planet,
A Crystal and a cell,
A jelly-fish and a saurian
And caves where the cave-men dwell,
Then a sense of law and beauty,
And a face turned from the clod—
Some call it Evolution,
And others call it God.
A haze on the fair horizon,
The infinite tender sky,
The ripe, rich tints of the corn fields,
And the wild goose sailing high.
And all over upland and lowland,
The charm of the golden-rod—
Some of us call it AUTUMN,
And others call it GOD.
Like tides on a crescent sea-beach,
When the moon is new and thin,
Into our lives high yearnings
Come welling and surging in;
Come from the mystic ocean
Whose rim no foot hath trod—
Some of us call it LONGING,
And others call it GOD.
A picket frozen on duty,
A mother starved fop her brood,
Socrates drinking the hemlock,
And Jesus on the rood;
And millions who humble and nameless
The same straight pathway plod—
Some call it CONSECRATION,
And others call it GOD. —Anonymous.
General Miles tells this story of a soldier in
General Longstreet’s corps, which had been on a
hard march: About 3or 4 o’clock in the morning
when every one was tired out, a Georgia soldier
put his rifle up against the tents on the other side
where Longstreet was. “Well.” he said, “this is
pretty hard—to fight all day and march all night.
But I suppose I can do it for my country—for the
love of my country.” He continued: “I can go
hungry. I can fight. If peed be, I can die for
my country. But when this war is over I’ll be blow
ed if I ever love another country.”—Kansas City
Star.
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