as pride, hardness, doubt, fear, self-pity,
which are often passed over as merely human reaction. It means a
readiness to "break" and confess at the feet of Him who was broken
for us, for the Blood does not cleanse excuses, but always cleanses
sin, confessed as sin; then revival is just the daily experience of a
soul full of Jesus and running over.

Further, we are beginning to learn, as a company of Christ's
witnesses, that the rivers of life to the world do not flow out in
their fulness through one man, but through the body, the team. Our
brokenness and openness must be two-way, horizontal as well as
vertical, with one another as with God. We are just beginning to
experience in our own ranks that team work in the Spirit is one of
the keys to revival, and that we have to learn and practice the laws
of a living fellowship.

I need not say more, as Roy Hession and his wife expound the whole
matter. But we have seen God at work in our midst. I could name
half-a-dozen of our workers, several of them leaders, in whose lives
there has been a new spiritual revolution. Then rivulets of blessing
in some of our individual lives have been merging in a larger stream.
God has been giving us times as a company when "as they prayed, the
place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they were
all filled with the Holy Ghost." Here and there on our battle fields,
distant and near, the sound of abundance of rain is being heard; and
we believe among many companies of God's people He is preparing
afresh for these last days a "sharp threshing instrument having
teeth," and that what God is saying to us through this Revival, and
through the interpretation of that message in this pamphlet, is a
word of the Lord for our day. May it be greatly used to produce
revived lives, revived fellowships and revived churches.
PREFACE

In April, 1947, several missionaries came at my invitation to an
Easter Conference which I was organising. I invited them to come as
speakers, because I had heard that they had been experiencing Revival
in their field for a number of years, and I was interested in
Revival. What they had to say was very different from much of what I
had associated with Revival. It was very simple and very quiet. As
they unfolded their message and gave their testimonies, I discovered
that I was the neediest person in the conference and was far more in
need of being revived than I had ever realised. That discovery,
however, only