We have been anticipating for some months now the coming of Reverend Duncan Kimball who is a native of Scotland. where he is principal of a Bible college there and, as we have been saying, greatly used of God in the ministry of revival, not only in the British Isles but throughout different portions of the world. This is not his first visit to Canada, but I believe it's his first visit to Regina. So we welcome him and trust that God will minister through him to us today. Before we turn to the Word of God, I would like to say one word of thanks to the pastor for his very warm and very gracious words of welcome. I'm sure I'm happy and privileged to be with you here this evening. Indeed, I feel very much at home already. Being motored to the church, I saw Lawrence Street and was certainly impressed. I presume called after Lorne in the old country, Argyllshire, that part of Scotland in which I was born and brought up, and also brought to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ many years ago, when the district of Lorne was swept by a revival. So I do feel at home with you, being so near to Lorne Street. Then, I do trust you will not find it too difficult to follow my Scottish Highland accent. Gaelic is my native language. I think in Gaelic, but I've got to come down to your level and talk to you in English. However, I'm sure that the good Lord will help us. And now will you turn with me to the portion of Scripture which we have read together, the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 4. And we shall turn again to that very familiar passage, verse 28. for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. And now, Lord, behold their threatening, and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word, by stretching forth thine hand to heal. and signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus." And when they prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they speak the word of God with boldness. And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul, neither said any of them that all of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together. The burden that is on my heart this evening for this meeting is that of a message on the Holy Ghost in revival, or God in revival. It will be generally agreed that the world we knew a few years ago is gone beyond recall, at least so far as man is concerned. Ideas and habits that seem to be part of the solid foundation of things have been completely abandoned. and are being remembered today as that which belongs to the vanished past, the God, the God. Now it seems to me that in this shaking of faith, we as Christian men and Christian women must ask ourselves What is the Church doing today? What am I doing today? To establish and advance the kingdom that cannot be shaken. In other words, what are we to offer a generation that is awake but is failing to find the answer to the supreme problem of the age, and the supreme problem is death. I know of no question in all the range of thoughts so vital in its issues for devastating in its implications Ask this one question. Is the Christian Church today, I speak as a Presbyterian minister, is the Christian Church today a light that marks the road that leads men to the Lamb? A lighthouse, for instance, can be very impulsive. The structure perfect, the work of a master. But that structure in the ocean could be a positive danger to navigation but for the life. It's the life that gives warning It's the light that gave direction apart from the light, a positive danger to navigation. There are institutions today in the world. They certainly are to be found in Britain. speak of them as churches. But I have no hesitation whatsoever in saying a positive danger in a Christian community, because they lack the one thing that can alone constitute the Church of God. The power, the presence, the anointing of the Holy Ghost. It was my privilege some time ago to address a congregation of clergymen of the Church of England under the chairmanship of the Bishop of Plymouth. I want to read to you words spoken by the Bishop in his Chairman's Remarks. Might I suggest that the serious question that confronts us today is not that the state of our country is so bad, But that in a country that claims to be Christian, the Christian witness has been an equal feeble and inspective. How is it that while we make such great claims for the power of the gospel, in practice we see so very little, now I want you to notice, we see so very little of the supernatural in operation. Of course, you believe that the work of God is supernatural. A Christian is a supernatural being, or is not a Christian. He is a person who has had a supernatural experience. and is so supernaturally awesome that in the moment of his conversion he is characterized by godliness in every part of his being, body, soul and spirit. I believe that the regeneration of a soul But he's a man brought into saving, covenant, and vital relationship with God. He's a man who knows the miracle working power of God in his life. I say again that regeneration is God's greatest miracle. far greater than the creation of worlds. Worlds will fall, will break, will burn. They will wax dim in their orbits. They will fall like leaves in autumn. I believe that day is coming. But the gentlest soul who has known the miracle of the new birth will survive the wreck of a million worlds. He's alive in God, the God that is eternal. Eternity awaits in this miracle. Well in this portion of Scripture which we have just read, we have miracles demonstrated. When they prayed, the place was shaken, and in multitudes were added to the church. That is God at work. God at work. Now one naturally asks, what had the early disciples that the Church lacks today? How is it that we're not witnessing miracles? How is it that we seldom hear the cry of the penitent? Or a man under deep distress or toll in his search after reality in God? What has it? There's only one answer to that question. They had the Holy Ghost. In other words, they believed in the personality of the third person of the Trinity, God, the Holy Ghost. And it wore the impact of God. the impact of the Holy Ghost. Not the eloquence of Peter. Not the logic of his hermits. But God, the Holy Ghost. Now let me illustrate by an incident that I shall not touch on on Sunday evening. I was in a church one evening in the northwest of Scotland. I was asked to assist at a communion service. Now, in that part of Scotland, a communion lasts for several days. It begins by a prayer meeting on Wednesday night and finishes by a thanksgiving service on Sunday night or Monday night. On this occasion I was asked to preach the action sermon, that is, the main sermon of the communion. I felt it going extremely hard. The parish, the district, had not been visited By anything in the nature of revival, God was weeping through communities sixty-odd miles away, but not in this community. Halfway through my address, I noticed that a young boy, sixteen years of age, who was saved in the revival, And who had come to this communion service, I saw them weeping bitterly. Tears flow in their eyes. We seldom see tears flowing today. Oh, thank God I saw them in Toronto last week. And God, in His nasty bitterness, is weeping. And I realized that the boy sitting in the pew was nearer to God than the minister in the pulpit. And I stopped preaching. And I asked him to pray. Converted about six weeks or thereabouts. had a remarkable experience in the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I trust to believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost was a definite, distinct experience. This young lad had it. So much so that A party had to go out in search of him. He went out to herd some cattle on the hillside. God met with him and his lying among the heather was wave after wave of divine realized patience sweeping through him. So much so that he forgot all about time and home. But they found him there. Well, I'm asking him now to lead in prayer. And that boy stood in that part of the country we stand at a prayer and we sit to faith. He stood, the congregation stood with him. He's looking up toward the heavens, he's praying. And in his prayer he says this, God, I seem to be gazing in through the open door. I see the Lamb in the midst of the throne." That morning at family worship, they were reading the fourth chapter of Revelation, and John saw the door. A door was opened in heaven, and he prayed, I think, as he gazed in through the door. And I see the Lamb in the midst of the throne with the keys of death and of hell at His girdle." Then he paused, began to weep, strangely moved by God. After a little, when he was able to control himself, he began again. Looking toward the heavens, he cried, their power there, let it loose. And at that moment, the miracle happened. Oh, my dear people, have you witnessed revival? Have you seen God at work in the field? God moved into the midst of men in that church. half the congregation slumped from the top of each other. About between 80 and 100 fell into a trance. Now, don't ask me to explain this, because I can't. Read the history of revival. Jonathan Edward revived in New England, the 59 revivals in Ireland and in Scotland, the 104, 1904, rather, revival in Wales, These were characterized by physical manifestations that cannot be explained on the basis of the human. We have to acknowledge that God is it. And God was certainly in that visitation. But the most remarkable thing that happened that night was this, that at that very moment, and this was happening in the church, a village five miles distance from the church, suddenly was gripped by an awareness of God. There wasn't a single minister near it, no special effort, nothing in the nature of evangelism. A sleeping village, suddenly gripped by God. the Holy Spirit moving into the homes of the people. And here and there a whole family, in a matter of hours, brought to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. The place was shaken where they were assembled together And multitudes were added to the church. The following day the churches in the parish were crowded. And God moved in in such a manner that there was hardly a hunt in the whole community, in the whole parish, but had someone in it who found the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. In some cases, whole family. Now God, at what cost, had that boy that seems to be lacking in our ministry today? He had the Holy Ghost. He is today a minister in southern Arabia, a missionary under the auspices of the Church of Scotland, and his ministry is being wonderfully blessed among Muhammadans. God, the Holy Ghost, doing the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the killing of the Holy Ghost, is the answer to the missionary problem today. I am convinced of that. Now it's quite obvious that the early disciples had certain fundamental convictions. They believed in action rather than entertainment. These are days when a great deal of emphasis is placed on the need of entertainment. I want to read an extract from a letter that I received from a group of ministers in London. You may have heard of Theodore Bamber, Mount Tamling's preacher in England. He signed the letter along with others. We are at our wit's end to know what to do with our young people, who made a decision for Christ recently at Haringey. They are demanding all sorts of entertainment, and if we do not provide it, we just cannot hold it. Tragic. I say tragic! Where is the Holy Ghost? Where is the gripping truth of God? It's lacking. Ah, but the early disciples believed in unction and not in entertainment. One of the sad features that characterizes much that goes under the name of evangelism is this craze for entertainment. And this emphasis upon what man himself can do. We can do this, we must do that. And if we do this and that, then God is sure to work. I was arrested by an address given by one of her workers at a minister's conference recently. I refer to a young worker in our own mission, that we'll be visiting Canada shortly. She made this statement, God is not obliged to send revival because we work toward revival. He's not even obliged to send revival if we pray. But he is bound by covenant promise to send revival when we humble ourselves and seek his face." She was, of course, speaking from that great passage, call by my name will humble themselves and pray and speak my faith. I in heaven will hear and will come and heal their land." That is the attitude and the approach that God honors. They believe in unction and not in entertainment. Or as they say, how can we get the teenager? How can we get the teenager today that in many parts of the world seems to be going wild, living in utter disregard to high principles? How can we get him? Well, how did they get them in the early days of the Church? How are they getting them just now in many parts of North West Scotland? Thank God we are seeing movement of the Spirit. I wouldn't say that we're witnessing revival such as we witnessed in 49, 50, 51, 52. But teenagers are being arrested, not by special efforts, not by publicity in the field of evangelism, but because of the prevailing prayer of men and women. I saw that happening recently in Ireland. in a most marked manner, a group of men giving themselves to waiting upon God, a group of men anointed by the Holy Ghost and praying in the Spirit, in touch with heaven, brought heaven down, so that, I witness this, And God looked thinner, stopping me on the street, as he left his car coming over to me and said, I was in the meeting last night. Will you show me the way to God? Aricity? No. Crucifixion? No. The Holy Spirit. I read part of that letter to you, but I didn't tell you that they asked me what entertainment did I provide in the Lewis and Harris revival. What entertainment? Well, I couldn't help smiling when I read that. I wrote back and said that I took nothing at all to do with the arranging of anything in the nature of entertainment. But I left that to the young converts themselves. And they found their entertainment in five prayer meetings a week, in each parish. Five prayer meetings. And indeed, they found their life, and they found their entertainment. I was saying to the students at the college today that I cannot understand all this talk about follow up work. Well you may not be talking about it in Canada but I can assure you they talk about it in Britain. You can't have a crusade or a special effort in the field of evangelism without arranging for men and women to follow up those who have made a decision at the crusade, such as Billy Graham had, or others. Call on them and try and get them interested in the church. Try and get them to come to some place of worship. Follow them up. My dear people, I just can't understand it. Surely a person born again of the Spirit of God needs not to be followed up. Why, the moment he comes into vital relationship with God, aspirations are created that find expression It is attendant in the prayer meeting, far less public worship in the church than Sabbath. Aspirations after God, as the heart panteth after the water brook, O panteth my soul after Thee, O God. Don't misunderstand me. I believe that there is a need, a great need today for instruction. in the Word of God, because of so many of our young people, yes, and old people, ignorance of the Word. There is a need for instruction. But oh, don't tell me that a person who has heard the Saviour needs to be followed up. He'll search out for green pastures, and he'll where food is given that will nourish the hunger after God is born again. Because that doesn't follow in every case where there's only deficiencies. Deficiencies. Oh, the thousands today in our land of were living under a self-created illusion and going on in contentment to a Christless hell who made a decision. And because of them having made a decision, led to believe that they're Christians. There never was a greater delusion forged from the anvils of hell than that. That doesn't make me a Christian. making a decision, joining the Church, becoming a Sunday school teacher or an elder or a minister. That doesn't make you a Christian. A Christian is that person who knows the power of the Holy Ghost, bringing the personality of God to be incorporated in his personality. and suddenly making this profound discovery that heaven hath invaded his head. Oh, how great, how great our need is to rediscover the personality of the Holy Ghost in our work and witness to God. I labored as a Presbyterian minister for seventeen years. I was, I should imagine, fairly successful as a minister in three congregations in Scotland. But there came a moment When, with a sense of baffling and frustration, I said, God, if you cannot do something better for me than I know now, I'm giving up the ministry and going back to business. Listen, dear people. God meant it. When I found myself at the end of all human resolve, And no one need come to me and say there isn't such an experience as the baptism of the Holy Ghost, subsequently condemned. God knows. A professor in your college Edinburgh faced me with the question, what difference has this experience made in your ministry? Well, I said, following that visitation of God in my own study. I went forth to preach the same sermons that I had been preaching for seventeen years. Of course, I was Evangelical. But you can be as dry as a cross and yet be very fundamental, such as my I went out to preach the same sermon, but with this difference, that now I saw hundreds weeping their way to tears. That's the difference, that's the difference that the Holy Ghost makes. Oh, we are laboring and tiring ourselves and seeing little accomplished, but oh, let God come, let God come. I am an old soldier of the First World War. Some of you may have been there. I was there. And you will recall that awful morning when the Germans sent over clouds of poison gas. And the clouds came right over the Highland Brigade of the 51st Scottish Division. The thing was terrible. Well now, what could we do, officer, or non-commissioned officer such as I was, what could we do? Would I suggest that we Call all who could stand to fix their bayonets and charge the cloud of gas. You die. Foolish! Or would I get on to the line and get in touch with the battery, and cry all with all haste, Get the batteries to fire on the clouds of gas? Folly! That wouldn't stop the havoc and the dying and the desolation and the destruction. The miracle happened. You read it in history. A miracle happened. The wind changed. And one breath of wind did what the ingenuity of man could never do. It glowed a cloud back to the German land. Wind did it. Breath did it. Oh, what an illustration of what is possible when God the Holy Ghost moves it. We are living today in an atmosphere which seems to me to be impregnated by satanic power. Horses are let loose that are out to defy every known Christian principle. And we organize, and we have our conventions and our conferences, and we pass our resolutions, and we organize in an endeavor to counter this movement in the world, but the movement advancing. Oh, for a breath of God to come, the winds of heaven to blow, and whom we shall see, other nations that have their origin in hell, fight back to the covenant of death from which they came. But God, my dear people, we've seen it happen. We've seen it happen. And it could happen again if the Church of Jesus Christ would again recognize the personality of the Holy Ghost. Then might I say that here were men who put power before influence. They put the power of God. Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. And the Holy Ghost came upon them. And power invested them. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision. And the church of Jesus Christ born in a night. Because they put power before influence. Now I think it will be generally agreed that the state of the world today presents a challenge to the Christian Church. There is a growing conviction among true thinking men that unless we witness a demonstration of the power of God that will lift men beyond the ordinary, either of fear of the extraordinary begun the natural into the sphere of the supernatural. The average man that we know will look upon us, will stagger back, disappointed, disillusioned, and dissatisfied. The early church conquered, said Glover, because the early believer in the power of the Holy Ghost, outlive, out-form and out-die the pagan. He had a quality of life that could not be explained on the basis of the human. And I say again, until we rediscover that, and with perfect and true intentions with God. We shall go on preaching our evangelical sermon, but the multitude shall pass us to hell." You remember Paul and Silas in prison? Why, they hadn't sufficient influence to keep them out of prison. That was bad enough. But they had so much of the power of God, asked to shake the old prison to its very foundation, and listen to the cry of the penitent. What shall I do to be saved, not influenced, I believe that the hour has come when preachers and pastors and evangelists must forget influence and proclaim the whole counsel of God to a bewildered, a bewildered world. The apostles were not men of influence. Not many wise, not many don't know. God has called the foolish, the weak things, defiant things, influence. But prepare to honor God. Oh, give us such men. Give us such men. Men who will put Reputation acquired is necessary. And stand with God in his endeavour to bring the lost world back through the preaching of the everlasting gospel-based and fundamental truth. What have they then? What have they? They believed in the Holy Ghost. Notice the prayer of verse 29. And now, Lord, behold their threatening, and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word, by stretching forth thy hand to heal, that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus." You see, they looked for signs and wonders. And because they looked and expected, they saw signs and wonders happening. We saw that in Ireland, in the town of Lisbon, just six weeks ago. I question if I witnessed anything like it outside of the heavens. Suddenly, through the singing of one of our workers, that I've already referred to, that will be visiting Canada shortly. She's an outstanding singer. But she sings under the anointing of the Holy Ghost. And she sings a lovely hymn that speaks of the blood that is getting deeper than the same can go. The blood reaching deeper than the same can go. And as she sang, wave after wave of God came over them. It's eight o'clock. The benediction is now pronounced. And I sit down and she sits down. And then an elder of the church rose to his feet and said this, God, Mr. Campbell has sat down, Miss Morrison has sat down, now you get to your seat. Sting words, now you get to your feet and demonstrate your power. We were in that church until twenty minutes past eleven. No one thought of leaving. The cry of the penitent, the cry of Christian men seeking to get right with God, Again and again men would say, God, let the blood reach deeper than the stain that troubles me. One farmer would cry in bitterness, Oh, let the blood reach deeper than the stain that troubles me. That's God's word. They looked for crimes and looked for wonders. And that happened. I close by quoting a verse from him following the quotation, Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost. That's a significant word. Filled with the Holy Ghost. If you're full of the Holy Ghost, you cannot be full of anything else. God means food. Every avenue of my redeeming personality, under the control of God, filled with the Holy Ghost. And God now is moving in that food. Here is a verse, empty it but thou mayest fill me. I clean vessel in thine hand, with no power, but as thou givest graciously at each command, I take the power of Pentecost. I take the promise of the Holy Ghost, which gave me to the uttermost I came, he undertakes, suggesting that if I obey the laws of the Spirit, the power of the Spirit will obey me. Miracles will happen, multitudes added to the church. A man bowing before the crowned right of our crowned leader. I find this old text interesting. First of all, it speaks to me of a crisis creating a sense of urgency. A crisis creating a sense of urgency. In the case of the lepers, the cry for escape, when they were made to face their own dire and desperate need. Listen again to what they said. If we stay here, we die. Here you have a personal consciousness of need and a personal conviction that they themselves must do something about it. I wonder if I have here a far-fetched comparison suggesting the desperate need of our own land today and perhaps the need of our individual lives, if they're not a-praying today, a-praying for righteousness, a-praying for true godliness, a-praying for the movings of the Spirit of God in the midst of men. I am eager to say this morning that the streams of vital Christianity never ran so low as they seem to be running today. Take the world that you know and the world that I know today. Are we not in the midst of a world that is wrought in a sea of trouble because We've left God in the lumber of forgotten things. We have said we can get on without you. That is the desperate condition and state of the world today. Not that man, generally speaking, is more wicked than in other days, but he is certainly more I received a letter from one of her workers laboring in the center of England. And in her letter she said this, the average man in the average village in the middle of England is either an atheist or an agnostic. And here I am speaking about Britain, I can't speak for your country. But my deep-seated conviction is that the crying knee of this momentous hour in world system is for a manifestation of God. Is it true that Canada has never known revival? I've been told that. You've had moments in different places. You've had manifestations of God in some communities. But I understand from the pages of Church history in the realm of revival that Canada has never witnessed a nationwide manifestation of God No, the need, the crying need, the desperate need is for this manifestation, not just church activity, not just conventions and conferences for the deepening of spiritual life, not just gathering together to discuss the question of revival. All that may be helpful and has its place in the economy of grace. But the need of this hour is for something altogether different from anything that man can conceive of, or man arranged. A manifestation, sounds from heaven, God stepping into the midst of man and demonstrating his power, the God who threw werewolves into space by the touch of his hand, demonstrating that power in the midst of man whom he hath created and whom he judges and will judge. That is the picture you have here, a people moved, a situation saved. because of something happening that man of himself could never accomplish. Just a sound from heaven. And that leads one to ask this question, what is the church really prepared to do about it? Here where Lepers who did come. Now I want to be perfectly personal and direct. I believe that there are many within these walls who are conscious of the desperate need of the land today. And they will subscribe to the conviction that revival is the only answer. That a manifestation of God is the only answer to the problem. That is your conviction. Well, that was the conviction of the lepers. If we stay here, we die. We'll do something about it. In other words, we'll take a risk. And in the economy of great blessed be God, there are no risks. They did something about it. Now tell me, what are we really prepared to do about it? Let's face ourselves with unqualified honesty. Let us stand in the full blaze of the searching beam of God. I'm talking about revival. I'm interested in revival. I'm aware of the desperate situation. What am I doing about it? I wonder if I may ask one question. How much time did you spend today in prayer that God might visit the land, that God might come in revival power and in revival blessing? Measure your sincerity and your honesty Yes, your Christian experience by that. I have said frequently recently that it is my deep-seated conviction that much that grows under the name of church activity, and I say this as a Presbyterian minister, is just a laughing stock of devils. We are not sincere. We are not sincere. We don't act according to what appears to be our conditions. If I really was concerned, if I really viewed the situation as heaven must do it today, why every moment at my disposal would be spent in pleading the promises of God? That's God in the soul. That's the life force of Jesus making itself manifest through my mortal flesh. But my dear people, are we there? Are we there? Or you may say what a dear lady said about my preaching some little time ago. I was asked to address a conference of women outside of London. Never an easy conference to address. However, I was there for a week, the only male among them. After one sermon or address, the lady, a titled lady, the wife of a lord, she was heard to say a very interesting address, a very interesting address, but we must not forget that the dear man was born and brought up among the hills of Scotland, and he hath a theology of his own. No, this is the word, and I believe the message, that the Church of Jesus Christ stands in need of in this desperate hour, that the Church of God will face reality and will face sincerity, he that doeth truth." Or in other words, he that is truthful will come to the light. Notice further, that there is here also a consciousness of obligation. We do not well fit is a day of glad tidings. Of course it is. A day when God wills to have glory still. If my people, called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my faith, then I in heaven will hear and will come, I'm quoting from the Gaelic, and will come and heal the land. That's the God that we worship. That's the God that we believe in. My dear people, this is the day of grace. This is the hour of Pentecostal reality. I've said repeatedly recently, if Pentecost cannot be repeated, If recitations such as those witnessed by the early church following Pentecost cannot be repeated, then we are living in a day when the Word of God holds no pattern or precedent. But we are living in that day. We are living in the day of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit that hath been outpoured But oh, for men and women, so in the hands of the Holy Ghost, and so possessed by the Spirit, that they will recognize that this is indeed an hour of glad tidings. We have a message. We have an answer to the problems that confront the Church, yes, and the world today. God is forgotten. That is an arresting passage in the prophecy of Isaiah. Your sins and your iniquities have sent God into hiding. What sin? What iniquity? The sin and the iniquity of his people. And I am called to say again, that there is only one thing that hinders revival in Canada today, and that is the sin of God's people. Revival doesn't begin among the ungodly, of course it doesn't. It begins among the people of God, my people, called by my name. they would do something. Oh, here were lepers, and they did something about it. And because they did something about it, the situation was saved. Oh, let me say again, the man who was eyes to see is today gazing upon ominous shadows of planted world. that is ripening for repentance or judgment. Repentance! Oh, that the word may ring through the Christian church. Repentance! Repentance is a saving grace whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of sin and a pretension of the mercy of God, doth with grief and hatred, turn from it. Be my people, turn from it, and seek my face. Oh, let me repeat it, words that are pregnant with meaning. I in heaven will listen." But why is he not listening? Why is he not listening? Why is he not coming down? Why is the land not healed? because the Church is asleep. Regardless of the multitudes that are perishing as represented by Samaria here, a famine, a desperate situation. There is one thing above another. that the church of Jesus Christ needs today, it is surely, oh, it is surely a sense, a gripping sense of an engrossing purpose. Why is the church in existence? Why was it called into being? Surely to propagate the message of the gospel. surely to honor God in the midst of men. I wonder how many of us believe that the character of God is committed to his people. Believe I am. Committed to his people. Committed to his church. When they fail, he fails in the eyes of the average man of the world. Oh, tell me, dear people, are we truly representing God? Are we showing a concern? Are we gripped by fundamental convictions that unless a man is born again, he will be doomed and damned forever? My dear people, how many of us believe in hell? I'm glad you're going to discuss it. How many of us believe it? It seems to me that few in the Christian Church today really believe in the doom of the damned. Could we sleep if we did? Could we rest if we did? Would the prayer meeting be so empty? And listen, you do not judge the life vitality of any congregation by what you see on Sunday morning. Of course you don't. That's not the criteria. That is not the evidence of spirituality. You go to a prayer meeting on Wednesday or Thursday. That's the evidence. That's the evidence. That's the measure of your impact. That's the measure of your interest in revival. That's the measure of your vision relative to the desperate need of the country. That's the measure. Oh, let's face it this morning. Let's face it with honesty and sincerity. Listen to the words of Scripture I send thee to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. My dear people, this is the conviction. Oh, this is the conviction that gives purpose and gives direction. to the true child of God. I read somewhere, I think it was from Boston's Fourfold State, that great book that comes down to us from the Puritan period. This is what Boston said. No man is born into the world whose work is not born with suggesting that God has a plan. Young folk, are you listening? That God has a plan and that God has a purpose. Why is it that so few young men today are offering for foreign mission work? Why is it that so few young men are willing to go out to the villages and the country districts of Canada to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ? It's just because they have no sense of purpose or a heaven-given direction. They are not aware of the fact that God has a plan and that God has a purpose, that every man's life is a plan of God. No, I'm not prepared to depart from my ambition. Let the multitudes go to hell, my ambition. My security My stupid salad! God help us! God help us! Is that the spirit of a Christian? Is that the spirit of a man who is willing to face the implications of Calvary? No. The cry of his heart is, take the world, but give me Jesus! So that the day will come when through my sacrificial giving of myself I shall come before him with jewels that will sparkle as diamonds in the coronet of his eternal glory. And there, because there came an hour in my experience when I faced reality, stood before the implications of Calvary and cried, I'm going through, Jesus, I'm going through. I'll pay the price whatever others do. I'll go the way of the world despite you. I started out, Jesus. I'm going through. I was in a room one day. Young woman came into the room, and she knelt at the couch beside me. She's weeping bitter, weeping bitter, and she cried, Mr. Campbell, I'm in my Gethsemane. I'm in my Gethsemane. What was it? She was engaged to a young minister. A young minister that certainly will make his name in the church. He had asked her hand in marriage. One night, she's kneeling in prayer in her own room. She couldn't tell me whether she fell asleep or fell into a trance. She couldn't tell me. But she heard the wail of the damned, the wail of the masses, of the masses in Congo, in Congo, in Congo. And that night, in Harge Sengen, she said, to the hand of her, and gripped the hand of the man of Calvary. Since then, that young girl has been instrumental in leading hundreds to Christ. She is waiting for a congregal open to her. She will be back there The moment the door opens, but many others out waiting to get in. Why do I tell you that story? Was it easy? Was it easy to put that hand aside of all that it meant and all that it promised? God may not ask you to do that, but he asked you to think. the implications of Calvary. Oh, we're so unwilling to face the cross. We want an easy path. What's the path of the master of these? I often think of him there in that struggle in the wilderness. The enemy comes to him. The kingdoms of the world demonstrate your power. throw yourself down, turn the stones into bread and the world will follow you." And I sometimes wonder if Jesus at that moment didn't just pause for a second and then he lifted his eyes. He looked down toward Gethsemane and he saw the bitter cup He lifted his eyes and he saw Calvary with its shame and death. But I venture to say that his eyes rose higher and he saw a city that had foundations whose builder and maker is God. He saw the redeemed host. He listened to their singing. there singing the song of Moses and of the Lamb. And he knew that if he failed in that hour, that song would never be sung. Get thee behind me, Satan! And he set his face steadfastly to go to Jerusalem, making possible the good tidings I lay beside, at least a few yards from a Highlander, young man of the 42nd Highlander, at the Battle of Passchendaele. He's wounded, badly wounded in his right arm. He's doing his best to stem the flow of blood. Indeed, I saw him tear his shirt to try and bandage the wound. But as he walks up this wounded arm, he's looking across that bloody field. And there in front of him, he saw a young man with the carton of the 42nd Highlanders, the black one. I heard him say, boys, I'm sure that's Chuck Flave Blair Gowrie. I'm sure that's Chuck Flave Blair Gowrie. And then as I watched that wounded comrade out there, I saw a hand being lifted, a soul beckoning for help, or beckoning for someone to give him a drink. And then I saw this young man springing to his feet, and in face of the enemy's fire, cry, That's Chuck Ray Blair Dowry! And I'll save him or die in the attempt." And he saved him. He saved him. Oh, for that spirit. Oh, for that character. Oh, for that sense of purpose and conviction. I'll save them. Take the barrel, but give me Jesus. Take ambition, and security. Oh, take it, take it, take it all! But let me be instrumental in saving souls that will sparkle as diamonds in the coronet of His eternal glory. Are we there, dear people? Oh, are we there? This is a day for glad tidings, and we hold How is the crime, oh, the crime of being silent? Am I speaking to criminals today? Am I speaking to criminals in face of the need, in face of the desperate situation, silent? Oh, may God forgive. I'm sure some of you must have heard of the great Dr. Thomas Chalmers, the leader of the disruption from the Church of Scotland in 1843, when the great free Church of Scotland came into being, but became the great missionary church of our beloved land. This movement was led by Thomas Chalmers, they left their mansions, they left their churches, because they refused to bow to the establishment of Parliament. Lee Kim Ryder, hundreds of them, founded the Church. Dr. Chalmers is visiting the North East of Scotland in the interest of the Church, and on this occasion is staying in one of our country hotels in that part of our land. After supper, the provider came to the doctor and said, Dr. Chalmers, will you lead us in worship? It was their custom, of course, as it is the custom there, to have worship after supper, even in hotels. He was asked to take the book as it is commonly referred And while reading the chapter, he was suddenly gripped by the conviction that he should speak to the proprietor about his soul. The proprietor was a God-fearing man. He wasn't a Christian. But he was a man who read the Bible and insisted upon family worship every evening. Something said to Thomas Chalmers now, speak to the man They went on their knees, and Chalmers prayed, and as he prayed, his conviction seemed to grip him. But another voice spoke, and the other voice said, there are quite a lot of guests in the hotel tonight, and the staff are very busy, including the professor himself. Just wait for a more opportune moment. You'll be back again in the near future, and you can take time to talk to them there. now this is in Zalmer's diary he went to his room and retired to rest sleeping until about midnight when a disturbance in the hotel woke up couldn't understand it but on coming down to breakfast He was told that, at 11.20, the proprietor had died of a heart attack. Dr. Chalmers tells us that he went back to his room, couldn't think of breakfast, buried his head in the pillow, and cried. It was, my God, an opportune moment, but I miss it. It was an opportune moment, but I miss it. This is a day of glad tidings. Oh, are we missing the opportunity that is ours? I believe that God is calling for men, especially young Who will get into the battle? With this battle cry, I'll save them or die in the attempt. I'm sure that was the thought in the mind of the poet when he penned the words, Give me men to match my mountains. Give me men to match my plains. Men with empires in their purpose. men with eras in their brains. Give me men to plead for nations, like Elijah on his knees, who in hours of death-like stillness waits to catch that heavenly breeze. Give me men of faith and vision, stripped of every earthly gain, to let cross Our hearts vow, dark will roll, God's clouds of rain. O give us, give us such man. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen that thy people may rejoice in thee." It was suggested to me that I should tell you a little this evening of the gracious movement of God's Holy Spirit that began in the northwest of Scotland in December of 39 and continued for over three years. The moment known as the Hebridean Revival. Now let me say right at the beginning that that revival did not begin by my going to Lourdes. It agreed with me again and again that mere reference made to him as the man that brought revival to Lourdes. No, I don't carry revival with me in my pocket. Revival began in Hebrew before I ever set foot on the island. And tonight I'm going to tell you how that gracious movement began. It began in a prayer burden. And that prayer burden came two elderly women living in a little cottage in the parish of Barber on the island of Lewes. Two sisters, one 82 and the other 84, years of age. They were led to the Lord 60 years ago through one of our workers laboring then on the island of Lewes. by the name of Miller, who for many years was a director in the Africans in the mission and is still closely associated with it. They, one evening, had led to Jacob and God in prayer. They had been burdened for quite a while because of the stream of genuine, vital Christianity in running so low in the parties. This was a fact that hardly a young person attended a public worship. It's true that they read their Bibles, read family worship in their homes, but seldom darkened the door of a church. And this was very disturbing to the two sisters and also to the minister and his office there. They had special efforts, special evangelists were brought to the parish, missions were conducted over the years, but back from every endeavour they came with a sense of baffling and frustration. A vision came to one of them. Strange things happen in revival. Things that you cannot explain on the basis of the human. A vision came to one of the sisters. She couldn't tell him whether she had fallen asleep on her knees, and the position came to her then, or whether she fell into a trance. during the prayer period and the vision came then to her. She couldn't be sure about that. But this is the vision that she had. She saw the church of her father crowded with young people. She saw a strange minister in the pulpit and through that vision she was convinced that God was speaking to her and revealing that revival was going to visit not only their parish, but the whole of the Western Highlands. She sent for the minister and told the minister her story, and suggested to him that he and his office-bearer should get themselves to getting from God in prayer. Wait, he said, upon God, until God reveals why this revival is not coming through the palace. The minister, a wise man, listened to the word of this dear woman, a real prophetess. He called his office bearers together, and before she sided on the suggestion of one of her sisters, A few nights a week should be spent waiting for God in prayer. They would kneel in their little cottage at Vardis Cross Road, and the minister and his office bearer at the other end of the party on Tuesday and Friday night. So they told themselves that they were waiting for God in prayer. Weeks passed, months passed, and nothing happened. The churches were offensive, the young people of the parish are indifferent, the drinking houses closed, prisons of entertainment are closed, but very little thought of God until one night, miracle, miracle. A young man in the group of August Vera up and read from Psalm 24. Who shall ascend the hill of God? Who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, the blessing of the Lord, not just our blessing. There are a great many people out there after our blessing. You may be here this evening and you're after our blessing. But here we are, men, at least one young man, seeking the blessing of the Lord. You look down at the minister and the other of his bearers. They're kneeling amongst straw in a barn. And in very crude language they address us. They don't appear so crude in the Gaelic language. It's a little softer than your English. You said this, it seems to me just so much to come back. To be paying us, we are paying less. to be waiting as we are waiting, since we ourselves are not rightly related to God. Lifted up his arms toward the heavens and cried, God, are my hands clean? Is my heart sure? And that young man took no further with his prayer. You know? And then a strange thing happened. Something that started the ministry that had never been before. This young man fell into a trance. Now as I frequently say, please do not come to me after this meeting. and asking questions about the physical manifestations of this moment, because I cannot answer your questions. I could not understand the physical manifestation, but at least I am certain God was in there. When that young man fell into this trance, A power was let loose in the parish. That shook the Hebrides. Though I wasn't there, there was no public intimation of enemies to be held in any of the churches. But on the following day, the churches were crowded. by men and women seeking after God. The miracle had happened. God had taken the field. This is not a special effort. This is not a conspiracy. This is not an evangelistic campaign organized and sponsored by men and by churches. This is God getting into the field. The God of miracles and the God of revival. And the following day, the minister called on the two sisters. And they knew that something had happened. Just two at that particular hour When this was happening in the barns, they were strangely moved by a fresh infill of their coaling boat, eighty-two and eighty-four years of age. Who was the strange minister that we saw in the process? Asked Van Eersen. The minister replied, so that I cannot tell you. But a certain minister there in Glasgow has suggested that we invite a certain man. I've just been on the phone with this minister in Glasgow, and he referred to a man who saw a gracious movement in the city of Glasgow some little time ago. Well, I happen to be That, man, this is something, dear people, that I just cannot understand why God in His mercy should have so directed that I should be called to visit the island of Lourdes at that particular time. But I was glad that the College was prepared to release me for ten days. It was agreed that I should go to a parish revival for ten days to conduct some... Yes, they told me on the phone that there was a movement, that the churches were crowded with people, but as yet nothing had broken out that would favor or revive it, other than an interest was created among the people for the house of God. Well, I found myself on the pier in Stornow, met by the minister and two of his office-bearers. Just as I stepped off the gangway, one of the office-bearers came over to me and said, Might I ask you a question before you go any further? Are you walking with God? This is one of the men that prayed in the barn. This was one of the men to whom God had spoken. And he was afraid about the ark of God in the palace. Are you that in despair? And I was glad that I was able to say to him there, I fear God and If I had time, I would have told you of the gracious experience that I had in my own study, when God, in his mercy, met with me after seventeen years of frustration and baffling as a minister, tired of it all, at the end of my service, at the end of all human resource, being so very little accomplished, And then God said to my life, you needn't come to me with the clothes of this service and tell me that there's nothing in this talk about the baptism of the Holy Ghost. My dear people, to me it's the most real thing. God comes out and God takes possession until the body so trembled that one with a grave, a human grave, could not contain God. There that is what happened to me. And in that realization and consciousness, I then, Mr. Lewis, I know what the peer and the minister is talking to me. Yes, we're sure you're tired, Mr. Campbell. and possibly hungry, there is a supper waiting for you at the mass. But we wonder if you will address a meeting in the parish church at nine o'clock tonight. Just on our way to the mass, it will be a short meeting. We just want the people to know that you've come and that you're to minister to us for ten days." Well, it's interesting to know that I never got that supper, and that instead of being on the island for ten days, I was there for almost four years. We went to the church. A congregation of approximately 300 had gathered. It was a good meeting. There was a gracious sense of joy. I teach for about an hour and a half. You see, in the Highlands, we read and learn very much. I mustn't forget that I'm in Canada tonight, and let's wait before midnight. Then I give the address to the Minister of Commencement and the Dictionary. The congregation leaves the church. lying walking down the aisle with this poor young man who fell into a trance in the barn, walking towards the door of the church, when he screamed and looking up toward the heavens, he cried, God, you did not kill us. Could you say that prayer? Could I say that prayer? Ah, here is a man nearer to God than a man receiving a kiss. Here is a man who knew that secret was eternal. God, you made a promise, and I believe that you're a covenant-keeping God that must return to your covenant engagement. And I'm looking to you now to fulfill your promise that forewater and the frost and And like the pond that dry dries, with pain and continued pain for such as an hour. And then I saw the door of the church open, and the session clock of the church coming in. Mr. Campbell come to the door and see what happened. See what happened. Revival was surely coming. There must be anything between six and seven hundred standing outside. A crowd of young people that were at a concert and dance in the village hall are outside here and many of them have cried to God for help. Open the church again, open the church again and let them in. was opened again, and this congregation walked in, crowded the church, in every corner of the pulpit except the aisles in the pulpit itself. So that I had difficulty in getting to the pulpit when I got there, I found a young woman, a schoolteacher, a graduate of Aberdeen University, lying flat on her face in the pulpit, and asking if there's nothing for us to not let loose. He was one of the persons sitting at the conference that night. But now you are not safe, crying to God for nothing. That meeting continued until four o'clock in the morning. That's why I didn't get myself. Four o'clock, I'm leaving the church. A young man comes to me. A God-fearing young man, but not a Christian. As I have said again and again, you can be God-fearing and not be a Christian. There are thousands of God-fearing people in the highlands of Scotland who are not Christians. Standing in church, conducting family worship, praying with their children, but they're not Christians. Oh, there is a difference. Let me say that you could gather all the natural goodness in the world into one grand whole, and you wouldn't have that which would constitute one Christian experience. Natural goodness is not Christian experience. is one who knows the experience of the Holy Ghost, bringing the personality of God to the incorporated in great personality, and suddenly discovering that Heaven hath invaded his soul and his supernatural authority. If a man was a good living fellow, He came to me and said, Mr. Campbell, there's something wonderful happening in the party. There's a crowd of people at the police station. There must be anything between three and four hundred. I don't know where they've come from, other than that a bus is here from another party, and we can't understand it. We are going to the police station. And some are weeping, and some are moaning by the roadside, and some are crying to God for mercy. We cannot understand it. Why did they go to the police station? It's always possible there is a God-fearing man next to the police station, the cottage, where the two elderly sisters live. But that's the magnetic power. So I went along and saw a sight that gladdened my heart. Young men, old men, middle-aged men, and women, gripped by God. by the Holy Ghost that convicts of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. They're there on their faces, many of them. Praise God for nothing to interest it alone that seven of the young men who were saved that night are parish ministers today in the Church