r what He has done for us, there can be no sweeping, wide,
resultant revival and ingathering of the elect of God. You may plan
and organize and get together, you will have only a flame that will
flare for a time and then go out.

Nay! only when we are on fire for Him can we make the hearts of men
to burn with the faith that shall turn them to Him and make them
hate and forsake whatever does not honour and glorify Him.

Over all the noise and rush of things, and all the machinery well
motived men sometimes set going in His name He is saying:

"Love me more! love me more!"

When some one you love with this intense personal love is absent you
are not satisfied till that absent one returns, fills your vision
and responds to the touch of your greeting and your love.

If you love the very person of the Son of God; if you have a
quivering, all-pervading enthusiasm for Him so that He is, indeed,
above all personalities in the universe to you, you will want Him to
return where you may look upon Him--not as Thomas did for doubt's
sake and stumbling hope's sake--but for the very joy of it until the
print of the nails in His hand and the print of the nails in His
feet shall be to you as the apocalypse of His glory and the
illumination of your soul.

Do you really want Him to come--this long absent Redeemer and Lord?

He is listening to hear whether you want Him to come; whether above
every plan and scheme you may have been building in His name; above
any religious, even spiritual ambition you may have, you want Him to
come for--Himself.

He is very still. He is listening to hear whether you will say that
one little word that has in it such vibrant meaning, that one word:

"Come."

The Church as a Church has long ago ceased to say--"Come."

But the old prayer is still written here in the closing page of Holy
Scripture:

"Amen. Even so, Come, Lord Jesus."

Are you willing to-night to put your faith and your heart into that
old prayer and bid Him come?

Have you the faith and sincerity to do it?

You say, "Yes."

Then rise to your feet as one person and say that prayer as I line
it out to you until it shall roll upward like a wave on the infinite
shore and break on our Lord's listening ears with the music of
love's unfailing appeal:

"AMEN. EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS."

In response to Dr. Haldeman the great audience filling the building
from pit to dome rose to its feet as in a flash and repeated the
prayer