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318 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.year (1910) President Lowry writes that as the result ofrevival meetings, in addition to the already large numberof volunteers for the ministry, forty or more of theirbrightest students, who had been tempted by the glittering offer of the Chinese government to send students toAmerica on the returned indemnity fund, had given upthese ambitions, surrendering to the higher call of Godto become ambassadors to their nation, commissioned bythe King of kings and Lord of lords." Withoutburdening the reader of these brief pages with excessive details, the results of the writer s investigation ofthis important theme indicate:1. In all sections of China, from extreme north totropical south, from eastern seaboard to west of theYangtze gorges, during the past three years there havebeen marked manifestations of the power of the HolySpirit, deeply convicting nominal Christians of sin, leading to confession and restitution and every indication ofgenuine repentance/ The standard of Christian moralityhas been raised thereby and deep foundations laid forfuture spiritual and moral victories.2. There has been a quickening of evangelistic zealin various places, which may be taken us a prophecy ofa more general awakening of the Christian community toits obligations and opportunity in this important regard.3. The best trained of the Christian young men ofthe colleges are hearing and heeding the call to theministry in a manner altogether unprecedented. Thefirst rushing torrent of spiritual emotion might be compared with the spring freshet floods in the mountains ;these soon settle into the smaller streams that spreadquietly through the valleys, givinglife to the multitudes ;while the ultimate gathering of the many into one formsa great artery, which bears upon its deep bosom thecommerce of a nation. Let not the mighty tide with itsquiet power despise the irrigation streams from whenceit came and which make possible the great cargoes it