We have perused with interest a paper entitled, "The New Revival," read by the Rev. Quincy L. Dowd, pastor of the Winnetka (Illinois) Congregational Church, before the Illinois State Association at Oak Park, May 23, 1900; and we take the liberty of briefly reviewing his paper and making some extracts therefrom.
The paper is an able one, viewed from the standpoint of its author, and clearly indicates a real necessity for a religious revival or awakening; yet it takes an optimistic view of the situation, for the author is filled with a hope, amounting to conviction, that such a revival or awakening is near.
After pointing out that revivals are needed from time to time, he says that what first strikes attention is the certainty that a revival is now forming, and that it is no one body of believers, no one class of minds, who predict the revival. He refers to Mr. Moody's prediction, made a short time before his death, that a most remarkable religious awakening is at hand. He quotes also from Professor McGiffert, of Union Theological Seminary, who says:—
