ival blessing. God was at work
in many hearts and in many parts. The testimony of those who had been
revived made others hungry, who in turn found their way to the Cross,
and so the blessing spread from life to life. And wherever the
blessing spread, the little paper seemed to go, for it sought to put
in clear and Scriptural language what so many were beginning to
experience.

The connection of all this with the present little book is that this
book is simply a collection of some of those numbers of "Challenge."
Circumstances make it difficult at the moment for us to continue to
send out further issues of "Challenge," and yet the requests for back
numbers have continued to come in. There is obviously a need for this
simple Message of Revival to be made available to a wider circle of
readers, for there is a growing thirst in God's people for the Rivers
of Living Water. And so, encouraged by God's blessing on what has
gone before, we have put together some of the more helpful numbers of
"Challenge," together with two extra chapters, and send them on their
way, looking to God to use them as He will. We cannot boast that this
contains an orderly treatment of our subject chapter by chapter. Each
article was designed to be complete in itself, and therefore now that
they are put together in one pamphlet, there cannot but be a good
deal of overlapping, and certain things will be seen to be repeated
again and again. It cannot, therefore, be regarded as an ordinary
book, and the chapters might best be read each one on its own, rather
than the whole of them at one sitting.

It must not be thought that this pamphlet represents a purely
personal contribution on our part. The things recorded in this book
have been learnt in fellowship with others in various parts, who have
begun, like ourselves, to walk the Way of the Cross in a new way. Any
others in that fellowship might have written these chapters. It is a
fellowship, too, which is continually growing, for an ever-increasing
number of lives are being quietly influenced and blessed by the
movement of Revival in this country now. This fact, we think, adds to
the strength and significance of what is here written.

Now a word about Revival itself. The conception of Revival contained
in the following pages may come as a surprise to many. The common
conception of Revival is usually that of a spectacular religious
awakening, in which large numbers of the unconverted are convicted of