Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-21
LONGING FOR "REvIvAL."

great revival" is needed. His state
ment has attracted general attention,
and is commented upon by the press.
| He said in substance that there Is
a general unsettlement Of both belief
and institutions. Except In the prov
ince of physical science, he said, no
progress is being made. No great men
are rising. no poets, no painters no
statesmen, no preachers. our age is
the age OF mediocrlty, What is need
ed he continued, Is a revival" one
| OF those sudden movements that come
like the blowing of the wind or the
rushing of the tide, and which are the
restoring Of the soul
Then the doctor asks what message
the next revival win bring. And he
suggests that this time Christ win be
calling His church to aid the common
people. BY this he means, that re-
ligion will come which win cleanse the
slums give us bright streets, and fur
nsh each with home, He says:
III ,ls a good thing for her ministers
to hold up before the eyes OF men
the ideal city. the New Jerusalem, but
let them also remember that I'm the
vision OF st. John the Holy City came
down from God out of heaven and let
them see that II be established In our
own green and pleasant land. IL is
right to preach life everlasting and to
exalt the life of the soul above meat
and rament, but II Is also right to
strive and pray that life here In the
cottages of the country and the crowd
ed streets OF the city may be brighter
cleaner, healthier, and gladder. When
Christianity has at great cost given
home to the humhlest of the people,
she will find welcome home in the
peoples heart
The thoughtful observer Of our time
will agree with the doctor on the
necessity of a new awakening through
out It appears to be as much needed
now, as at the time when the voice
was first heard from the wilderness:
Repent, for the kingdom OF heaven Is
at hand" For anything human eye
can see, unless such a revival takes
place which results In the 'regenera-
ton" Of society the end will be de-
struotlon. And 1t is also certain that
the comir~ revival will affect, benevo-
lently, the humber classes. The great
revival movements IN history have
all been Of that nature Under Moses
the people were liberated from seryi-
tude and given land of their own.
Under Ezra and his co-laborers, the
exies were led back to their homes,
The wars OF the Maccabees were fought
for God and home, The Gospel Of Je-
sus, in the same way, broke down the
bars between rich and poor, free and
slave citizen and alien. and made its
adherents free. 1t was n gospel espe-
clally for the poor. II Is therefore but
natural to expect that any revival COM
ing from God, viii have the same char
acteristlc. It win be directed against
all the conditions that make life miser-
able. 1t will bring salvation from s'n
and all It's consequences, temporal and
eternal.
| But as to the manner of the coming
several points are TO be remembered In
the first place, It cannG be made by
man, nor to the order Of man, 1t viii
come whenever God raises up His in.
struments. prepared from the begin.
| ming. for such work We see this exem'
pliaed In Moses and Aaron. IN Samuel
in Elijah, IN Malachi John the Baptist
and others called TO do a particular
work In the Lords kingdom Men may
do great deeds, even effect revolutions
in the affairs OF state, but they can
not revive the dead bones without III,
spirit OF prophecy
When the revival comes, It vii
call both rich and poor 20 repentance
It Is not true, that the sinners 1--we II
the slums alone II Is not true, tina
moral corruption can be washed ava!
with the filth Of the streets or tn
putrefaction Of the tenement houses. A
a matter OF fact, more wickedness hide
under the cover Of gold ana jewels
than under rags. Reformers nigh
clothe every pauper In ermne, and ye
be might remain an outcast from tn
kingdom OF Cod they might paw
every street with gold, but that woul
not make the city NE,
Jerusalem" as long as It's origin Is no
heavenly The preacher OF revival mus
be one who dares 10 rebuke Herod 4
his palace, even at the risk Of his head
and who dares to drive the hlasphemer
from the sacred precincts, even In sigh
of calvary
And when this revival comes, most q
the alleged watchers viii not recog
ni2e il as divine. They win treat tn
"revlyausts." as did the leaders Of tn
people, the prophets OF old. They wi
B stir up mobs against them, They wi
3 even kill them. When Christ cam,
J only few were aware Of the trement
{ GUS importance to the world OF His at
( vent. Almost the entire nation turne
away from Him at the critical momen
, The visible result Of the next gret
D revival" win be the establishment
t Chrlsts rogn upon earth. All powe
- all glory and honor VIII be surrende
= ed TO Him, whose right It Is to reign
1 That Is the Renaissance which h,
3 been promised by all the prophets, al
= which Is being prepared for In our oW
. age, through the Church Of chris
r when the time comes that all huma
a authority and dignity are subject
r Christ as the supreme ruler huma