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Soldier Field Rally, Chicago, May 30, 1945
of Jesus Christ is the only thing worth living for and dying by. It is THEIR JOB and it is OUR JOB to pray workers into ALL of these communities until ALL of the thirty-six million and more young people in the United States, together with our brothers and sisters across the border in Canada, in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and other English speaking countries, shall have heard the Good News that the Lord Jesus Christ is able to save from sin. The Cause That Unites Our second great job is to promote and encourage great city-wide revival meetings. 1 believe that God has raised up “ YOUTH FOR CHRIST”—a most unique min istry of the Holy Spirit—to unite churches and people who otherwise could not get together. Here we are— Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists, Lutherans, Free Church people, members of independent churches, and folk who gather in assemblies of one kind or another—and we love each other! We feel that there are no differences between us that bar fellowship and cooperation. Young people, we must not fail God. We must do all we can in every way we can to achieve, under God, a revival in the cities of America. I am trusting God, and I know you are praying that one year from now, in the providence of Almighty God, we will move into the great Chicago Stadium seating 30,000 people, and that He will give us a revival, the like of which this city has not known for decades. You have it within your power, under God, to bring about in this city a movement of God by the Holy Spirit that will shake our city and will move beyond our city to other areas of this land until that for which our fathers ( Continued on Page 333)
A FTER the great Soldier Field Rally on Memorial Day, / \ when more than 65,000 young people and their JL friends gathered together in that great testimony to the saving grace of Jesus Christ, friends in Canada and across America began to ask—“What’s next? What’s on the program?” I want to answer these questions; and in this con nection, I have chosen two verses of Scripture. First, the last words of Jesus before He left this world and went to Heaven. Turning to twelve young men whose hearts had been touched to receive Him as Saviour, and who had caught the vision, He said: “ Go ye unto all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). The second passage indicates their obedience: “They that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word” (Acts 8:4). What of the Future? What about this thing called, “YOUTH FOR CHRIST” ? What is its future? What are the plans? What is the job for which we must roll up our sleeves and to which we look forward, and upon bended knee ask God, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to enable us to press on until victory has come? Young people, we have a four-fold task. The first big job is to reach into every city, every town, every village, and every rural community on the North American con tinent and in the English speaking world with the Good News that Jesus saves! Young people are ready; young people are hungry; young people are responsive. They are sick and tired of all this “ boogie-woogie” and “jitterbugging”—they long for something that is REAL! They want the thing that challenges the heroic in their make-up. They desire -that which demands sacrifice. They yearn for the highest and the holiest. They have found, with us, that the Gospel
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