The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-02-21

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world as much today as they ever
did. But in the changed temper of
Paris and London they are seen to
be capable of amicable adjust
' ment, and the race of competitive
ornaments between France and
England has been suspended by
mutual consent. Nothing material
has altered, there has only been a
change of mood, which may be des-
cribed as a change of heart. 1t is
because such change of heart,
not in two nations, but in all ma
tons, is indispensable if civiliza-
ton is not to perish beneath the
weight of its ornaments that there
is growing up wonderful belief
that the revival which mas broken
of great international revival,
which, if it does not lead nations
to beat their swords into plow-
shares and their spears into prun-
ing hooks, will at least produce
such a return of sanity and good
feeling among our nations as to
| lead to an enormous abatement of
the crushing burdens of military
and naval ornaments. For a re-
vival that did not effect that, would
be revival hardly worth the
name. 1t is no use proclaiming
Christ as our Savior, Lord and
| King in our churches when in our
| senates and courts we pay supreme
| homage to the anti-Christ of lingo
| ism.
Domestic Strife Ends.
In Wales, where the revival has
the most hold, the result is most
marked in the ceSsa ton of domes-
tic strife. There is an almost ma
gical disappearance of wife-b beat
ing, of fighting, of violence and of
crime. Long separated families
have come together, ancient feuds
| have been healed, new temper
prevails. 1t was the same in South
Africa after the revival services
held by Gypsy Smith at the begin
ming of last year. The most aston
| ishing recOnciliations took place
| between the English and Dutch.
Men who had never spoken since
the outbreak of the war ment nj
| tears, in the inquiry room, and
united In praise and prayer to their
! common Father What the revival
! has effected in private life in
| Wales, and in a community torn
hx oil in, f,,;n !
may yet accomplish on a still
wider scale in allaying internation-
al enmities, and substituting
sense of international brotherhood
for the dominant mood of interna-
tiOnal hatred In other words,
hoop and believe that in the good
providence of God, the good pre-
liminary work begun at The Hague
| in 1899 may be made effective by
a great revival of a spirit of bro
therly love and the enthusiast of
humanity.
There is an awakened interest
in the revivals in Wales, through
out the whole of Europe, that is
astonishing to those who know the
cold indifference of contempt with
which evangelical movements are
regarded by free thinkers and Ro-
| man Catholics alike. In Russia, II
the present turmoil should result
in any relaxation of the severity
of the law against religious propa-
ganda, we may expect to see a re-
vival of religious enthusiasm the
like of which as comparable only
to the passionate enthusiasm for
liberty. fraternity and equality of
revolutionary France. For the
French revolution was in its way
revival, a revival clad in hell
fire, as Carlyle would say.
But 1t is in the English speaking
world that we may expect to see
the first manifest signs of the reli-
gous revival working out good re-
suits in social, political and inter
national affairs. The great mission
which DR.. Torrey, of Chicago, and
Mr.. Alexander, of Tennessee, are
conducting in the Royal Albert
hall, of London, is a striking illus
tration of the unity of the English
speaking world in the field of
| Christian service. DR.. Torrey, on
his arrival in England from mis-
sion tour round the world, made
the following remarkable declara-
ton:
II believe that you and II was
going to say are at the dawn, but
we are beyond that-we have
crossed the threshold to one of the
Sreatast enochs of tho church al