A REMARKABLE REVIVAL IN PERSIA.
Woman’s Work for Women gives some striking incidents connected with a revival last winter in a village of sixty houses, six miles from Oroomiah. There were only three families who did not attend the special services, and nearly every attendant became an inquirer for the way of life. A striking proof of the sincerity of the converts was seen in the fact that at the conclusion of the services, immediately after a farewell meeting, the whole company went out to spill the wine which they had previously made from the large grape crop. Drunkenness had prevailed through wine drinking, and in their zeal for reformation every house save one immediately poured out its wine, and soon the last man yielded. A Mohammedan who was present said, "Please tell me what this means." And after he was told he exclaimed: "Blessed be God! Would that I were a sacrifice to the religion that teaches men such virtue!" The pastor of the village, when asked to what source he traced the revival, said, "One of our Sunday school classes of small boys." It seems that during the week of prayer these boys, from eight to fifteen years of age, organized a systematic visitation of all the houses of the village. After their suppers they would go to a house, New Testament and hymn book in hand, and ask permission to sing some of their songs and read from the Bible, and then follow with several prayers. In this way during the winter they visited every house in the village, always receiving a warm welcome. One characteristic of these revivals was the conversion of the worst characters. A band of young men who had done much evil in different villages are now engaged in giving earnest testimony as to what God has done for them.—Missionary Herald.