A Revival in the Kansas City Church
By Jas. Cochran
ELDER R. D. QUINN has just closed a four weeks' meeting in the Kansas City church. This church numbers nearly three hundred members, and, like many of our large churches, had settled down in the past few years into a state of indifference. Doubts as to the authenticity of the Testimonies and other cardinal truths of the Bible had entered the minds of many, causing great discouragement. The church was apparently on the eve of a wholesale apostasy. A number had given up, declaring they would walk no more with us. The change that has come the last four weeks is most remarkable. Never before in my experience have I seen the power of God so wonderfully displayed. The desire to get right with God permeated16the entire church. Discouragement has been banished, and doubts removed. There was nothing in the preaching to cause excitement. It was simply a setting forth of the message with the old-time spirit. God stamped his approval on the work, and set his hand to deliver the people. Men and women, many of whom had not attended the church for years, came to the meeting, and testified how the Lord had been working with them. God pointed out their sins, and delivered them out of bondage. Twenty-five or thirty of those who had been much in the background, and some who had been disfellowshipped for Sabbath-breaking and other reasons, were reclaimed. Eight began to observe all of God's commandments for the first time. A spirit of consecration and a burning desire to help close this work speedily has come into the church. God has set his hand to work for the people. May a work similar to this done in Kansas City be accomplished in all our churches. JAS. COCHRAN.