the only real harbinger of revival which I have been able to
detect anywhere on the religious horizon. It may be the cloud the size
of a man's hand for which a few saints here and there have been looking.
It can result in a resurrection of life for many souls and a recapture
of that radiant wonder which should accompany faith in Christ, that
wonder which has all but fled the Church of God in our day.

But this hunger must be recognized by our religious leaders. Current
evangelicalism has (to change the figure) laid the altar and divided the
sacrifice into parts, but now seems satisfied to count the stones and
rearrange the pieces with never a care that there is not a sign of fire
upon the top of lofty Carmel. But God be thanked that there are a few
who care. They are those who, while they love the altar and delight in
the sacrifice, are yet unable to reconcile themselves to the continued
absence of fire. They desire God above all. They are athirst to taste
for themselves the "piercing sweetness" of the love of Christ about Whom
all the holy prophets did write and the psalmists did sing.

There is today no lack of Bible teachers to set forth correctly the
principles of the doctrines of Christ, but too many of these seem
satisfied to teach the fundamentals of the faith year after year,
strangely unaware that there is in their ministry no manifest Presence,
nor anything unusual in their personal lives. They minister constantly
to believers who feel within their breasts a longing which their
teaching simply does not satisfy.

I trust I speak in charity, but the lack in our pulpits is real.
Milton's terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to
his: "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed." It is a solemn thing,
and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving
while actually seated at the Father's table. The truth of Wesley's words
is established before our eyes: "Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at
best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot
subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without
right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love
or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this."

Thanks to our splendid Bible societies and to other effective agencies
for the dissemination of the Word, there are today many millions of
people who hold "right opinions," probably more than ever before in the
history of t