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"REVIVALS. 319carries so easily. Still less may these steady life-producing rivulets and canals disregard the noisy torrents fromthe hills, the source of all. It is the divine trinity ofnature in torrent, stream, and river that makes whatotherwise would be desert blossom as the rose and givesa nation s home. So in the kingdom of heaven, whichthe missionary body has been commissioned to set up inChina. The spiritual mountain peaks here and thereprecipitate the torrents that come with what .seem to beneedless noise and rush. The roar subsides, but thewater of life quietly spreads over fields far and widefrom streamlet to canal and back again to stream, evergiving life and food for the multitudes. Finally theygather into the resistless power of the mighty river,where throb the heart centres of the nation in the Christian universities, where the master workmen are inpreparation for future leadership. The revivals of therecent past are but the earnest of the a Spirit," prophecy of what is to come. The accompanying signs willchange from time to time, but it will be "the sameSpirit.""There are diversities of operations, but it isthe same God which worketh allin all."WILLIAM N. BREWSTER.