Revival Appeals and Lasting Conversion
By Editor
A CALIFORNIA clergyman, writing to his church paper, speaks as follows of a revivalist who has been working in his church for a few weeks past:— "His style is pictorial and pathetic. His appeals at times were very powerful, and scores were moved and arose for prayers under this influence, that will not, probably, unite with any church." This must necessarily be the result where, instead of reasoning out of the Scriptures, the speaker relies on pathetic appeals to the imagination. And the worst of it is that those who are thus "moved" usually settle down into their former indifference as soon as the sensation dies away, and their indifference to gospel truth increases each time they are thus moved.