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PRAY FOR REVIVAL LOCAL NATIONAL WORLD-WIDE
UST prior to the Founders’ Day Conference in the Moody -f Bible Institute one year ago, a considerable number of able evangelical leaders throughout the country were asked to i indicate briefly why God’s people should pray for revival in | | the_ body of Christ. Their replies were read at the Conference, and some were published afterwards in The Sunday School Times of Phil adelphia. The following unpublished reply was one of the strongest ■f received: A. . ' .... : I ! “ The condition among young people in the church— of | § which I have made a careful study for years— is appalling. | g There is a form of godliness, but a recklessness concerning | spiritual life. The inroads of the moving picture; the super ficiality of many of the preachers and leaders in church life, | and the violation of their church vows; thè appalling condi- | tions existing among young people in our public schools and | | The foregoing description—how strangely similar to the descrip tion of the period that immediately preceded the great revival of | | 1800 (as told by C. L. Thompson in “ Times of Refreshing” ): “ Death I in the churches, rottenness in public morals, infidelity coming in like a 1 flood upon the schools and the thinkers of the young republic.” And | also of the period immediately preceding the sweeping revival of 1857 and 1858: “ It was a time of reckless expenditures, of unparalleled fever for riches without consideration of how they were, obtained, of apathetic conscience and wakeful selfishness, of coldness and deadness | in the Church and alarming godlessness outside of -it. The nation | seemed drifting in the same direction in which it had gone before the great revival of 1800. Skepticism, both speculative and practical, per vaded all ranks of society. We were becoming a people without God 1 in the world.” And then, in both cases, not through evangelistic appeal, but | through prayer, came the same kind of mighty awakenings that ere | long, if it-so pleases God, we are once more to see throughout the length and breadth of America, and this time of the world. And j again it will be as it was then: “ Everywhere men began to pray. | They had no words for each other. They -had reached the ultimate of human resources. Almost unconsciously they began to cry unto God, unknown to each other, without concert of effort or thought. I ' East and West, North and South, the people thronged the churches and halls,” not for preaching, but “ FOR PRAYER” ; and tens of thousands were swept as it were by the breath of God into the king- | dom. _ j Are YOU longing for revival? Are YOU praying for it? Are YOU believing God for it? Are YOU asking others to join you? Or are YOU indifferent? Do YOU want to see in this paper appeals like ~ | this.from time to time? Write to the editor and tell him so. DO IT | | TODAY! But above all— | KEEP PRAYING FOR REVIVAL; GOD WILL ANSWER. .| According to the Church’s faith, so shall it be. j — Great Commission Prayer League. | i 1 colleges,—is enough to break one’s heart.”
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