The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-05
CANDLER PREDICTS
 COMING REVIVAL Bishop Tells Of RevivaPs Inhu-
 ence On History THE INSTITUTE IS ENDED Bishop candler Says We Need Sweep ing Revival To Check Evil Crow
 Ing Out of the Money
 Power.
THE INSTITUTE IS ENDED

The final session of the preachers instf- tute of the North Alabama Methodist con- ference was held last night at o'clock when Bishop w A. Candler of Atlanta delivered at the First Methodist church the last of his series of sermons The afternoon session was held at Birming- ham college, when pr. A. J. Dickinson was the speaker
 The session last night was well attend ed, large number of visitors from the various churches in the city being pres cut to hear the visiting pastor. Bishop Candler is man of strong personality and never fails to hold the attention of his audience.
 The text of last nights sermon was taken from Habakkuk, 32, 70 Lord, re- vive Thy work In the midst of the years; in the midst of the years make known" He stated that he had thought at first to preach on the power of Christian joy, be- cause only glad religion can conquer the world. He said that he had also resolved to show wherein Christianity produces wealth and the means of wealth-ambition. He said, however, that he believed that both the power of Chris tlan joy and its power to produce riches might be treated under the text he had chosen.
 He showed how all revivals come as reaction from lack of religion the va rious periods of moral depression that the world has undergone; how Hobak- kuks prayer was for a,>~revival. The urhO ho5 efo reforms were only the product of an age of depression.
 There Is a great difference" he as- serted, between a revival of religion and religious revival. A religious revival is that which will cause religion to flour ish. Only in the Christian religion are revivals needed. One never hears of a back slidden Buddhist or a back-slidden Brahn anist or a back-slidden Moham- medan. They have nothing from which to backslide a man at the bottom of a hill can't fall down it. With Christianity 1t is different; such a religion puts a strain on the nature of a man.
 Some people cry, Why have we not a revival? Is not our culture advanced?' 9 Our culture has advanced, but where can you find modern man of culture who car produce a hymn to equal Wes- leys Jesus, Lover of My Soul? Charles Wesley was cultured man in the highest sense of the word. He was a man of powei but it was not his culture that made him great. Jonathan Edwards was 1 great philosopher and a most cultured man. and yet the secret of his power does not lie in that direction. Aaron Burr was man of culture, and yet his classical education was the cause of his ruin. He cast aside Christianity in his unbelief Had 1t not been for this the history of our country would have been changed, and the name of Aaron Burr not covered with slurs of reproach. You may have culture, but it is smeared out in very thin layers. Would that we had a narrower culture that there might be at least some depth
 "The English speaking nation was made by revivals. In her very laws may be plainly seen the effect of the Cromwellian commonwealth. The influence of Wesley has been far greater than that of Eng lands greatest prime minister, William Pitt Our own country owes its unity In a great measure to the religious re- vivals of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.
 ''In 1900 the valleys of the Cumberland, the Ohio and the Mississippi experienced a great revival under the McGee brothers and McKendrick. Aaron Burr's scheme to ests a rival republic from this region was suggested by the lax religion of the colonists. It Is to the McGees and Mex Kendrck. as well as to Thomas Jefferson, that the success of putting down this rebellion is due.
 ''Ir 1858 the country experienced another great revival. Many people speak with DE triotic pride of the short time required for anicable reconstruction after the civil war. but never give credit to the revival which had but recently swept the states,
 "I believe that we are on the eve Of another sweeping val We aro In reed of one if only to check the evil grow ing out of the money question. few the country could lay claim to- Now millionaire or even a millionaire, is not such a novelty. What we need is call for Christ suited to the time Where the revival will spring up I do not know, hut venture to prophecy that it is sure ly camirg''