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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 8, 1916

The World's Great Need

We need more of the evangelistic spirit — more of the spirit which reaches out and lays hold of men for Christ. . . . Some men would have us believe that a new gospel is needed, as though we could have a new Christ. Some seem to consider the methods of the apostolic age obsolete. To counteract such ideas and to overcome such a spirit we need not so much articles, discussions, and conference resolutions as new evidences of the reality of the great facts and forces which hold your life and mine; new demonstrations in each community that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto the salvation of every man that believeth, no matter how hardened his condition may be; new demonstrations of the power of the Holy Spirit, showing that he is just as able to shake mightily whole communities today as in the days of Peter and John; new demonstrations that the Word of God is the Word of God, that it has dynamic power, that its truth sets men free; new demonstration that prayer is still able to remove mountains and that faith is the victory that literally overcomes the world.—John R. Mott.