RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AMONG THE PRESBYTERIANS IN EDINBURGH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 81, 14 November 1874, Page 9

RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AMONG THE PRESBYTERIANS IN EDINBURGH.

leaven is working stronelv in Scotland ™a i, t \. catholic we have not a religious «< revival" am oof <£ pP w • Ifcl - 8 a pity duty, a'ter years of i rre li g i OU3 and \i£ n X£g™nh So, tui

lead a «,n^K? vr d ? & h * mm P robabil ity have continued to lead a reprobate life, and die in their sins. Religion is usually the grand lever which moves the feelings and directa °the actions of men, in every relation of life private or public. When this lever is «,tw* f of . t fcllOße w ho know how to use it well, and who have fn S« yv°*l?fy v°*l?f ' g u ea v and * ood reßult9 ' and visible results, must and Sn JSf 0 - have ?° authl > rit y «<> ™ it, may -get hold of it i!? J« «' • ft c . lnj Sl? , of many - How often h tliis Beeu « and the present "revival" in Edinburgh is an illustration of it. It was when ti«nW 88 p n i PP rOIJ,?r 01 J,? of 6 were ««<*<* the influence and direc ShVp??? 8 Ciurc h, that the foundation of modern civilization and (the British Constitution were laid, 8O favorabl to true liberty. Ihen progress was safe and salutary. Europe has progress now, but progress detached almost entirely from any connection with the Church. ««,?«» l e6n *2 What hurtful cona equences, in a moral and religious sense, such modern progress is tending. But we have not seen the' a« fro*S; T^ &Te c E u W u iDßti » ofc ™lj returning to the Catholic Church a mn««S ? fn f afe harb ?? r frOm the P olitical BtorQl t Qa * they see JL P 1 f^ # hh ° 9e ° utßlde the Church are merel 7 struggling against Contino fl ffl^T 6111^ Partieß the most such as Oratmyta Infidela and English Nonconformists, are uniting their forces if only they can destroy the Catholic Church-the foe It once irnZ. . oonfede « l ?y-. B °th in America and England, the two most progressive countries m the WoT i d> it is universally admitted that Inß.. ShlEirfn Oath <»l«»«n are the two great powers which now divide Christendom ; and that Proteatantism is a power utterly inadequate to 2: p ? h T f her \ h . e tem P° ral Power of the Pope is not yet daSEtKnn r °> fc °f, Xt BtiU remainß in the Vati ca«, and ere another yo?e no dT' W agSm BJ>ring " P and eXtend its branches "<*