came slowly to me. Being myself one of the speakers, I
suppose I was more concerned about others' needs than my own. As my
wife and others humbled themselves before God and experienced the
cleansing of the precious Blood of Jesus, I found myself left
somewhat high and dry--dry just because I was high. I was stumbled by
the simplicity of the message, or rather the simplicity of what I had
to do to be revived and filled with the Spirit. When others at the
end of the conference testified of how Jesus had broken them at His
Cross and filled their hearts to overflowing with His Holy Spirit, I
had no such testimony. It was only afterwards that I was enabled to
give up trying to fit things into my doctrinal scheme, and come
humbly to the Cross for cleansing from my own personal sins. It was
like beginning my Christian life all over again. My flesh "came again
like that of a little child," as did Naaman's when he was willing to
humble himself and dip himself in Jordan. And it has been an
altogether new chapter in life since then. It has meant, however,
that I have had to choose constantly to die to the big "I," that
Jesus might be all, and constantly to come to Him for cleansing in
His precious Blood. But that is just why it is a new chapter.

At that time my wife and I had been issuing a little paper which we
called "Challenge," in which we were seeking to lead young Christians
into a deeper experience of the Lord Jesus. It was natural, then,
that in the following issue we should put down what God had shown us.
We simply put down in print the Message of Revival as it had come to
us. There was a sudden and surprising demand for the little paper,
because it carried this simple message. As we continued to write
further of the Message of Revival in subsequent issues, the demand
continued to increase surprisingly. Letters came in almost every day
telling of the way God was blessing His people through it, and asking
for further supplies. Requests began to come from far away countries,
to which the little paper was finding its way, and news began to come
of the beginnings of revival in the lives of God's people in various
parts. Translations too were made into French and German. We had been
caught up in the current of God's working beyond anything we expected
or deserved. Indeed we had nothing to glory in, for it became evident
that revival blessing was not so much the result of "Challenge," as
that "Challenge" was the result of rev