THE Revival is coming! In some places in South Wales, for instance, it has already come. From Wales it is spreading over the land. How far it will spread, how soon it will reach you, no one can say with certainty. But it seems probable that this year the Revival will make itself felt in your neighbourhood, in your home, and in your heart.

And that is glad tidings of great joy.

For the coming of a Revival is like the advent of spring. It proclaims the passing of the darkness and rigour of winter, it heralds the radiance of the summer, and prepares for the harvest of autumn. There is no phase of our life, personal, domestic, social, political, intellectual, which will not be affected, and affected for good, by the Revival. Every Revival in the past has produced great and lasting changes in the national life. And as it has been, so it will be.

Who is there, whatever may be his belief or unbelief, but must admit that a Revival is due — nay, overdue?

To rejoice at the corning of the Revival, and to prepare to profit by its tidal flood of quickened religious life, it is not necessary that we should believe any of the dogmatic statements in which the Revivalists embody their conception of truth. Even thorough-paced agnostics admit that these seasons of spiritual exaltation which we call Revivals are realities to many of those who come under their influence, permanently affecting their whole future lives. Revivals come like the wind and vanish as mysteriously, and those who resist them may never again feel so potent a call to a higher life.
Hence the infinite importance of this present time. For the Revival that is coming like the spring, will pass like the seasons, and if we do not seize it as it passes, the opportunity may go by for most of us never to return.

It is what I have seen in South Wales and in Liverpool that convinces me the Revival is at our doors. In this little pamphlet you will find reprinted from my larger book the story of what I saw, and how it impressed me. It is because I believe this Revival will change, transform, inspire, and glorify the lives of multitudes who at present know nothing and care nothing for the things that make for their own peace and the welfare of their fellowmen that I send out this little book, so that you, my reader, may also hear the bugle call which I have heard sounding through the land: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight! Woe unto us if we neglect to spread the glad tidings abroad through the land, for then the Revival may pass by, and, too late, we may awake to discover that we have missed the gift of God which it bore for our soul.