hindrance, in ourselves or others. If there were not one
other sin, surely in the lack of prayer there is matter enough for
repentance and confession and returning to the Lord. Let us seek to
foster the spirit of confession and supplication and intercession in
those around us. Let us help to encourage and to train those who think
themselves too feeble. Let us lift up our voice to proclaim the great
truths. The revival must come from above; the revival must be received
in faith from above and brought down by prayer; the revival comes to the
humble and contrite, for them to carry to others; if we return to the
Lord with our whole heart, He will revive us. On those who see these
truths, rests the solemn responsibility of giving themselves up to
witness for them and to act them out.

And as each of us pleads for the revival throughout the Church, let us
specially, at the same time, cry to God for our own neighbourhood or
sphere of work. Let, with every minister and worker, there be "great
searchings of heart," as to whether they are ready to give such
proportion of time and strength to prayer as God would have. Let them,
even as in public they are leaders of their larger or smaller circles,
give themselves in secret to take their places in the front rank of the
great intercession host, that must prevail with God, ere the great
revival, the floods of blessing can come. Of all who speak or think of,
or long for, revival, let not one hold back in this great work of
honest, earnest, definite pleading: Revive Thy work, O Lord! Wilt Thou
not revive us again?

Come and let us return to the Lord: He will revive us! And let us know,
let us follow on to know the Lord. "_His going forth_ is sure as the
morning; and _He shall come unto us_ as the rain, as the latter rain
that watereth the earth." Amen. So be it.

NOTES

NOTE A, Chap. VI. p. 73

Just this day I have been meeting a very earnest lady missionary from
India. She confesses and mourns the lack of prayer. But--in India at
least--it can hardly be otherwise. You have only the morning hours, from
six to eleven, for your work. Some have attempted to rise at four, and
get the time they think they need, and have suffered, and had to give it
up. Some have tried to take time after lunch, and been found asleep on
their knees. You are not your own master, and must act with others. No
one who has not been in India can understand the difficulty; sufficient
time for much inte