Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-08-26
RELIC Gus REVIVAL NeARq
One of the Worlds Great Spiritual
Movements Indicated.

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Movements Indicated.
From England and from all parts of
the United States come reports which
would seem to indicate the possibility
of one of the great religious move
| ments which have manifested them
selves at various times during the last
| century. In many large cities, notably
in some of the Western States, the re-
| yival of religious interest has led to
the occasional suspension of business
In order to facilitate attendance upon
| special meetings.
For some time, and particularly dur
ing the last twelve months, says the
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
| prophets have not been lacking who
have predicted the revival wave, the
advance influence of which Is indi-
Gated daily in the news dispatches. and
the manifestations do not greatly sur
| prise other thinkers who, without as
Stunning the gift Of prophecy, base their
| belief in a coming revival upon the
presidents afforded by history.
AS rule, with the usual exceptions
not greatly in evidence, all of the great
manifestations of religious interest in
the nineteenth century were preceded
! by aggressive assaults upon some one
or more Of the fundamental principles
of what is broadly denominated evan
| gellsm. In the earlier years of the
century these attacks were based upon
the writings and teachings of Paine.
Noltatre and others. 1t was subse-
quently realized that these writers and
thinkers, while they attempted to cut
the underplnning of religious faith. af
ford nothing tangible as a substitute.
In simply denying fundamental doc
trines they We're destructionists, pure
and simple.
1t has never been considered SIR
prising, therefore, that the men, some
OF them OF gigantic intellect, who diff
fered from the iconOclasts, rallied to
their standard and organized for de
Tense. This defense had the twofold
effect of arousing public interest in
theological questions not only but of
attracting the attention of people 9TH
r
ters. The result was such notable re-
Yiyals as that which swept the conn
try in the time of Finney. Midway in
the century and again just before the
beginning Of its last quarter there were
special manifestation Of religions in.
terest in each case following more or
less violent attacks upon cardinal doc
trines Of faith.
While it would not be strictly accur.
ate to say that these attacks are anita
types of the trend of thought in many
quarters on dOctrlnal lines In the fret
, four years Of the twentieth century I,
Is clear to every nonprejudiced observ.
er that that there IS a certain tendency
to discredit authorities and heliafs
which have been understood TO nndar
, lie the entire evangelical structure Sc
t true Is this that many who have hItb.
t ertO adhered to certain doctrines NOM
find themselves adrlft on a sen which
! Is, to say the least, sufficiently tumul
: tuous to produce an undercurrent ~
doubt in their minds. Many Of tbase
iconoclastic views, which just now fnd
such wide and rapid dissemination or
no doubt at best founded upon snncp
t latiOns which form as yet but hvnotba
t SEES; yet they are none the less unset
ting in their effect on the faith q,
mankind.
1t is not strange, then, that follow
ing the precedents Of the past, tber,
should be reaction and that this 70
action should still follow presidents r.
/, taking on the form of renewed relig
9 ious activity.