press has become religious; earnest and generous editorials, and the reports of the Tabernacle sermons, have reached every fireside. Scarcely a church, or a home, in New England, but, in these and other ways, has felt the healthy throb of this revival movement. The present revival, like all others in history, cannot be otherwise regarded than as "a link in the great erings of business men, representing all classes of business and all grades of society, at noon every day. “There are established and sustained by large numbers, besides the Tremont Temple meeting, and the ladies' meeting in Park Street Church, a meeting of the dry-goods and shoe men on Summer Street; of the furniture men on New Washington Street; of the marketmen on Blackstone Street; of the grocers in State Street Block; of the fishmen on Commercial Street; and efforts are being made to establish, next week, one or two more meetings in other localities, representing other interests. These meetings are attended by numbers varying from two hundred to fifteen hundred. Those who have been instrumental in starting them have been surprised at the response which has been made. At the grocers' meeting, which was started Friday, it was not expected there would be more than from twenty to thirty present, and there were between one and two hundred. So with the fishmen's meeting, the numbers were far in excess of what was anticipated; and the starting of the new meetings does not seem materially to reduce the numbers in attendance at those which have been going on for some days. "Among the meetings to be started this week, is one by the daily and weekly press, including editors, proprietors, reporters, correspondents, proofreaders, and compositors, which is to be held in Amory Hall, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 4 P. M., commencing on Monday. "Meanwhile the Tabernacle audiences are larger than ever before, and the interest there seems to deepen." chain of redemption; a stage in advance; a forward movement of that kingdom which is to absorb all other kingdoms into itself; a manifestation of the dominion, power, and grace of him who is made King of kings and Lord of lords; a fulfilment of that promise, If I go away, I will send the Comforter, and he shall convince the world of sin.” Thus the thought, so frequently advanced in this discussion, returns, that, back of human wills, purposes, and efforts, there is discovered, in every religious reform, the Divine Majesty, and the ripening of Divine purpose and plan. For the local good wrought by the Tabernacle, therefore, and for the inspiration given to the religious life and thinking of New England, as likewise for the good discovered in all the upward and onward movements in history, we are led reverently to adore Thee, thou Spirit glorious.* These revivals will come and pass, and come and pass again, some men scoffing, others praying and rejoicing in a newly redeemed life, until the Son of Man shall appear in the heavens; then, those who have yielded their wills to the Will Infinite, out of "every kindred and tongue, and people and nation," shall rise up to greet the fullness of the Infinite Glory and Majesty but faintly foreshadowed in every revival; the chain of redemption will then be complete, and these cleansed and consecrated ones shall hear themselves proclaimed the kings and priests of the blissful and eternal ages. * Appendix, VI. : APPENDIX. I. (PAGE 22.) MATTHEW ARNOLD AND HEBREW REVIVALS. MR. [R. ARNOLD, in "God and the Bible," speaking of Professor Kuenen's History, says: "We may all read there of a religious revival in Hebrew religion under Samson and Samuel, and how by degrees Jahvism grew in spirituality, and the age of ecstasy and of the Witch of Endor gave place to the prophets of the cighth century, conscious of a real inner call. Well, but what is the reason of all this advance, this 'development of monotheism,' as people call it? Professor Keunen thinks that it is largely due to 'the influence of the war between Baal and Jahveh upon the minds of those who had remained loyal to Jahveh.' So, we are told, arose the deep gulf of separation between Jahveh and the heathen 'nonentities,' as the Hebrew prophets call them. "So?- but how? Not out of mere blind obstinacy, not ́from having fought for a God called Jahveh, against a god called Baal, so long and so hard that his champions grew bent on sticking to Jahveh, and found out all manner of perfections for him. Israel adhered to Jahveh for the same reason which had at first made him take to the worship of Jahveh― that Jahveh was the Eternal Power that makes for |