An Everyday Revival

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 2, 1914

An Everyday Revival

A NEW spirit is working among us. Greater power is accompanying the efforts of our ministers. This is evidenced by the cheering reports which are now coming to us from every quarter. The spirit of revival felt by our churches at the last week of prayer occasion is also being seen in the camp meetings which are being held in the various parts of the country. The people of God are consecrating themselves anew to his service.

Backsliders are being reclaimed. Unconverted youth and children are consecrating their young lives to the cause of their Master. In the various tent meetings and evangelistic services being carried on in different parts of the field a larger number than usual are being converted.

Victory is turning on the side of Israel. And we earnestly hope that this spirit of consecrated service will take possession of every member of the church. With every Seventh-day Adventist church member enlisted in active service in the salvation of souls, what might not be accomplished during the closing months of 1914? And there must be this general enlistment of effort if this work shall ever be accomplished. This message cannot be carried to all nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples by our ministers alone. There must be a strong, united effort on the part of all believers. Nor will any general spasmodic effort accomplish this result. A missionary zeal and enthusiasm which is dependent continually upon special revival services is of little value. We need something more than a week of prayer revival, a camp meeting revival. We need an everyday revival in our religious experience. We need a religion that will stand the wear and grind, the perplexity and irritation, of the six days of toil as well as the period of Sabbath rest.

Sentiment and emotion, however appropriate at times in religious experience, can never furnish the motive power. There must be the deeper, underlying forces of conviction, integrity, principle, faithfulness, etc., to hold us calm and steady, and to keep us true to a settled purpose. Let us aim to cultivate in our lives and let us seek God for an experience which will enable us to pursue resolutely and faithfully and unswervingly the purpose of our existence as a denomination in the giving of the message of the Lord’s soon coming to the nations of men.