That there is a widespread spirit of prayer amongst Christians tuns generally cannot be gainsaid. We rejoice that it is so, and note specially that a call has gone forth “to engage in increasing intercession during the coming winter for the most powerful revival Great Britain and Ireland has ever yet received from our merciful God.... Let us see to it that not even a single village or hamlet in the United Kingdom is unrepresented in this great approach to God in so critical a time in our nation’s history.”
This is a bold petition―the need is great, but the resources of God are greater still, and all is at the disposal of faith. But there must be humiliation and confession of sin on the part of those who pray.