Evangelist Gypsy Smith, was asked what the secret of revival is.
He said, “Go home. Take a piece of chalk. Draw a circle around yourself. Then
pray, ‘O Lord, revive everything inside this circle.’”
Source: Personal Revival,
S. J. Hill
Submitted by the homiletics class of West Coast Baptist College
Dr. John R. Rice, a great
evangelist now with the Lord, was asked to conduct a revival meeting at a
Baptist church in Woodbine, Texas. Divisions and strife had broken the heart of
the pastor until he had resigned and left. The county missionary, hoping to see
the church revived and God’s work made prosperous, asked Dr. Rice to come and
preach the revival services. He found the whole community divided. One or more
deacons had had fist fights in the quarrel that had reached nearly every home.
Many had taken a vow never to return to the little church.
