If I look round, what is the state of everything now? Churches all ruined, candlesticks all broken; I cannot see one as it was after Pentecost. If the Lord were not the Restorer, where would all testimony be? What would become of His people in these closing times-the people that are waiting for Him-the poor weak ones who are saying, "Come "? He has ever been the Restorer of His people; if all has been ruined, yet all is so restored, that we have got everything which they had at Pentecost-the Holy Ghost ever abiding in and with us, as then, although in some respects acting differently. And I suppose every heart too can say, " I know something of that restoring love, the Lord passing through my circumstances, passed me through my sin to Himself."