REVIVAL IS COMING

The Revival is coming! And that is glad tidings of great joy. 

For the coming of a Revival is like the advent of spring. It proclaims the passing of the darkness and rigor of winter, it heralds the radiance of the summer, and prepares for the harvest of autumn. There is no phase of our life, personal, domestic, social, political, intellectual, which will not be affected, and affected for good, by the Revival. Every Revival in the past has produced great and lasting changes in the national life. And as it has been, so it will be. 

Who is there, whatever may be his belief or unbelief, but must admit that a Revival is due — nay, overdue?

To rejoice at the corning of the Revival, and to prepare to profit by its tidal flood of quickened religious life, it is not necessary that we should believe any of the dogmatic statements in which the Revivalists embody their conception of truth. Even thorough-paced agnostics admit that these seasons of spiritual exaltation which we call Revivals are realities to many of those who come under their influence, permanently affecting their whole future lives. Revivals come like the wind and vanish as mysteriously, and those who resist them may never again feel so potent a call to a higher life. 

Hence the infinite importance of this presents time. For the Revival that is coming like the spring, will pass like the seasons, and if we do not seize it as it passes, the opportunity may go by for most of us never to return. 

W.T. Stead, journalist who witnessed the great Welsh revival in 1904