The Place of Prayer in Evangelism 107 the world, but the church as a whole has slept on and not re sponded to the call, and it almost seems as if the door was at last being closed and that our Lord was saying to us as He said to the disciples who slept in the Garden of Gethse- mane, “Sleep on now, the opportunity I gave you and that you despised is now gone.” We cannot have it so. Let us pray that God will give us one more opportunity. I believe He will, as dark as the present day seems. Let us pray just as earnestly that God will lead His church to improve the one more opportunity as it is given. Let us be very earnest, very persistent in our prayers. Let us determine that we will not take no for an answer, and we shall see world-wide evangelization, and that glad day for which we are longing above all other days will speedily come when “the Lord Him self shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God,” and when His completed body, the church, will be caught up to meet Him in the air. “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
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