p. 208 | The Great Revival

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1902

The Great Revival

WE have reached the time of a great revival. We expect that revival, and do not think it anything strange or unusual when it comes. It is a revival, too, whose coming fills every heart with gladness. Every tree and shrub and field and garden is about to give a wonderful manifestation of new life, the result of a quickening process which has now begun in nature. Nature believes in revivals. They are in the natural order of things. They are simply a manifestation of life, from Him in whom all life has its source. God is life, and life is a natural thing everywhere in the universe over which God reigns. Death is everywhere unnatural. A revival means more of life, less of death. Surely, we cannot have too much of life. A revival in spiritual life is no less desirable, and should be no less natural with us, than a revival in the physical world around us. In this all nature speaks to us the truth of God.