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""REVIVALS. 317doned. The normal course was evidently first to cleansethe church from within.2. A later and natural development has been seenin successful special evangelistic efforts to reach the non-Christian population. There have been several suchmeetings in Shantung ;Soochow has been the scene ofa remarkable union tent campaign. In some of thesemeetings more than one thousand have enrolled themselves as "inquirers"or desiring to be taught the Bible.How permanent these results will prove it is too early todecide, but the direction of this development is normal,and as time passes and the leaders gain in experience,these results will be more fully conserved.3. Probably the most significant of all the featuresof these spiritual quickeuingsis in the remarkable changeof attitude of the young men in several of our leadingChristian colleges toward the work of the Christianministry. Dr. Arthur H. Smith, writing from Tungchow,near Peking, says: Mr. Ting lyi-mei has just beenhere In February only one of a graduating classof fourteen was willing to go to the Union Seminary tostudy theology. Now we have a roll of seventy-nine,who have pledged themselves to preach This isthe outcome of Pastor Ting s week here." In the Shantung Christian University at Weihsien there was anextraordinary movement early in April, 1909. Againthe human agent most conspicuously used of God wasRev. Ting Li-mei, who is a graduate of the college.Here over eighty students voluntarily pledged themselvesto enter the Christian ministry. A year later Prof. H.W. Luce reports that from this student volunteer bandten have already entered the theological seminary andthe rest seem to be standing firm to their purpose."In the Peking University (Methodist Episcopal)there has been a similar development. Here the StudentVolunteer Band has been large and enthusiastic for severalyears, but during the winter and spring of the current