ich proves how special prayer can meet special need, and
bring down the power of the Spirit. And sometimes again by a season of
revival coming in answer to united urgent supplication. In these and
many other ways God is showing us what intercession can do, and
beseeching us to waken up and train His great host to be, every one, a
people of intercessors.

_God seeks intercessors._--He sends His servants out to call them. Let
ministers make this a part of their duty. Let them make their church a
training school of intercession. Give the people definite objects for
prayer. Encourage them to take a definite time to it, if it were only
ten minutes every day. Help them to understand the boldness they may use
with God. Teach them to expect and look out for answers. Show them what
it is first to pray and get an answer in secret, and then carry the
answer and impart the blessing. Tell everyone who is master of his own
time that he is as the angels, free to tarry before the throne and then
go out and minister to the heirs of salvation. Sound out the blessed
tidings that this honour is for all God's people. There is no
difference. That servant girl, this day labourer, that bedridden
invalid, this daughter in her mother's home, these men and young men in
business--all are called, all, all are needed. God seeks intercessors.

_God seeks intercessors._--As ministers take up the work of finding and
training them it will urge themselves to pray more. Christ gave Paul to
be a pattern of His grace before He made him a preacher of it. It has
been well said, "The first duty of a clergyman is humbly to beg of God
that all he would have done in his people may be first truly and fully
done in himself." The effort to bring this message of God may cause much
heart-searching and humiliation. All the better. The best practice in
doing a thing is helping others to do it. O ye servants of Christ, set
as watchmen to cry to God day and night, let us awake to our holy
calling. Let us believe in the power of intercession. Let us practise
it. Let us seek on behalf of our people to get from God Himself the
Spirit and the Life we preach. With our spirit and life given up to God
in intercession, the Spirit and Life that God gives them through us
cannot fail to be the Life of Intercession too.

A PLEA FOR MORE PRAYER

CHAPTER XV

The Coming Revival

"Wilt Thou not revive us again: that Thy people may rejoice in
Thee?"--PS. lxxxv. 6.