THE COMING REVIVAL.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14072, 17 June 1911, Page 11

THE COMING REVIVAL.

INFLUENCED BY HIGHER CRITICISM. At Clapham ■ Congregational Church, on a recent Sunday morning, in a sermon remarkable for its breadth of view, the Rev. W. Morton Barwell drew attention to the sequence of .notion and reaction which characterised tho history of the Christian Church (says tho "Christian World")- A period of quiet and ebb, when men were tempted to say that the spirit or revelation was no more, was always followed by a period of manifestation, generally foctissed in some saint or epochal movement. Augustine, ot. Francis of Assisi, the Reformation, John Wealey, the Moodey and feankey missions of tho last century, all ; marked a period of reanimation and revival, and yet the character of each of tho new movements of spiritual restoration was determined by tho quiet and unnoticed influences that had been at work during tho period of apparent dearth. 3lr Barwell believed that at tho moment wo wore standing on the threshold of another such quickening and declaratory period. As to the character of the coming revival, ho said nothing except that it would be influenced by the enlarging and educative forces which hnd l>oeri at work in the minds of men during the Inst few years—such forces as the Higher Criticism and historical criticism, and the opening np of our knowledge of the East and of other world-religions.