The Revival and After the Revival – Chapter XVI
The problem before us relates to the care of converts—young and old, new believers and reclaimed backsliders; those who have never had religious education and those who have been brought…
Don’t be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you can figure out what God’s will is—what is good and pleasing and mature. - Romans 12:2
The problem before us relates to the care of converts—young and old, new believers and reclaimed backsliders; those who have never had religious education and those who have been brought…
There is something almost pitiable in the group of young disciples—”fruits of the recent revival”—that one sees now and then standing at the close of a service in the church,…
After the “revivalist” has, through the Spirit of life, “revived” the church, after the “evangelist” has proclaimed his “evangel,” and through the Spirit of all grace, all souls are “evangelized,”…
Let us also be very wise in these matters. Let us restrain the impatient soul, chastise the arrogant self-seeker, and restrain the conceited Pharisee who boasts of his liberty. Let…
Is there, however, to be no restraint? Is the realm of religious experience beyond all laws of human emotion? Is “common sense” to be rejected and “taste” to be ignored…
But must there be extravagances? Sometimes charity for impulsive and demonstrative “brethren and sisters”—old brethren and sisters who have borne the burden and the heat of the day—will justify their…
But are the extravagances essential to the solidity of the work? Certainly not. Of course, while flesh and spirit antagonize, while the world aims one way and the Church another,…
But is not the work of grace carried on in this world through the truth? How can we think of a work as divine if it has a little bit…
This is a faithful picture of what I saw in that elegant church on the stormy evening in question. The revivalist is really not much of a “scholar.” He knows,…
On one occasion, I was able to watch for a short time how a so-called “boy evangelist,” Mr. _, did his job.In a big western city, the scene was a…