A Genuine Revival

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 21, 1878

A Genuine Revival.

It is a truth which cannot be too deeply impressed on the minds of experienced Christians, that a genuine revival is not an evanescent excitement; not a brief season of unusually religious activities. It is a reinvigoration of the church with those elements of religious life and power which will make her effective in her divinely-appointed mission. Such a revival has a far-reaching purpose, alike in the mind of God, and in the minds of those who are moved by his Spirit—not a sudden and momentary impulse toward holy living, but an endowment of power which shall find continued exercise in the various modes of religious labor and in personal influence, for the grand ends of gospel ministry. Such a revival fills the church with a tender, watchful, patient solicitude for the welfare of souls, and prompts to systematic and well-directed efforts to encourage, strengthen, and instruct those who have just entered upon the Christian life.—Christian Advocate.