Category: The Revival and After the Revival

To the pastor of such a blessed fold, with the busy, dangerous world outside, the wolf near at hand, and the flock in peril, we say: Use all the spiritual…

All the activities of a new convert’s life must be captured and controlled in the interest of his new career. His body as well as his soul must be held…

In the Methodist Episcopal Church, there is a “probation” period for catechumens that lasts for six months. During this time, all people who want to join the church go through…

All of the church’s resources must be used to protect people during the dangerous reactions that almost always follow a revival. Upon the young converts must be brought steadily and…

Converts must understand that the essential element in religion is not “good feeling,” but “good willing.” It is Divine truth at work in the soul, beyond the intellect, among the…

Converts must grow in grace. They must grow out of the period of “milk” into that of “strong meat.” They must grow in knowledge, in love, and in self-control. They…

Converts must stop being dependent on their circumstances, especially the strange and unusual ones that brought them to their new faith. “Milk for babes.” The glow of the revival, the…

Converts must stop relying on the most important and respected tools of converting grace.The most successful evangelists are men, and, singularly, they are often very ordinary and very weak men—neither…

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,…