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20 development. The fountains of life are purified, and a social and civil reformation is the result." Dr. Fish of Newark, N.J. in his recently published Hand book of Revival makes the following interesting statement: We boast of the progress of this age; and nothing is more astonishing than the recent advancement in science, philosophy, invention, learning, philanthropy, and civil jurisprudence. But this is attributable in great part to the religious awakenings of the last 300 years. An aroused intellect has been back of all this. Revivals of religion are favorable to intellectual action, not only as they bring the mind at the time into vigorous exercise and into contact with the mighty truth of Gods word but as they originate in the subjects of their moral feelings and habits which are peculiarly favorable to the acquisition