THE SCOTTISH REVIVAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18018, 17 February 1922, Page 4

THE SCOTTISH REVIVAL.

"It is at least suggestjvo," says the Scotsman, "that the 'wave of revivalism' which has swept along the eastern coasts of England and Scotland should have been practically confined to the fishing stations, and, in these places, to tho section of the population engaged in tho actual harvest of the sea, While in the Fraserburgh district, which may be taken as the centre of the present movement, tho sixth part of tho community that can bo classed as fisher-folk havo been strongly affected by the upheaval, the remaining five-sixths have been touched only slightly, where touched at all; and while the fire of enthusiasm has spread with lightning rapidity and intensity from one coast village to another, it has not spread inland. It is pointed out that it has followed hard upon an unusually bad fishing season. Adversity has helped to bring the fisher peoplo and their families to the mood of repentance, and, what is perhaps more singular, of sacrifice. Unusual prosperity was enjoyed, in some quarters at least, during the war, at a time when other sections of the population were suffering severely in pocket and at board; and the feeling appears to have spread that the effects of too great abundance of 'this world's gear' have been spiritually deadening, and that expiation must be made, not only for sins, but for luiuries."