Revival — Leonard Ravenhill

Isaiah 6: The Three Words of Revival

Usually, in leaving one country to go to another country, there's a serious handicap of language problem. But I always take comfort in America that while most of you don't speak English, at least you understand it.

And I'm glad for this privilege of fellowship.

And I want to read now from the prophecy of Isaiah, chapter 6, and reading from verse 1 into verse 9. Isaiah, chapter 6, from verse 1. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw, and saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

Above it stood the seraphims, each one had six wings. With train he covered his feet, and with train he covered his face, and with train did he fly. And one cried unto another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord.

The whole earth is full of his glory. And the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with snow. Then said I, woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips.

And I dwell in the midst of the people of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a life cold in his hand, which he had taken with the tongues from off the altar.

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lord, this hath touched me, and iniquity is taken away, and thy sins heard. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?

Then said I, here am I, send me. There are three simple words in verses five and seven and nine of this familiar chapter. They're so simple even a preacher could remember them. Verses five and seven and nine.

The first is the word of a man, woe. The second is the word of a seraphim, lo. And the third is the word of God, go. The first is a word of confession, woe is me. The second is a word of cleansing, lo, this hath touched thy lips.

And the third is a word of commission. I think that maybe the supreme need of the church of Jesus Christ today is vision. And that vision must be allied to something else, and that is passion. Isaiah here has a vision in three dimensions.

It was an upward vision, he saw the Lord. It was an inward vision, he saw Isaiah. It was an outward vision, he saw the world.

It was a vision of height, he saw the Lord, high and lifted up for the world.

It was a vision of deity, he saw God. And the cherubim and seraphim were not crying, Omnipotent, omnipotent, omnipotent is the Lord. Or omniscient is the Lord, or omnipresent is the Lord. God is omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent.

Those are the attributes of God. But God is essentially a holy God. And the cherubim and seraphim were not crying, omnipotent, but they were crying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord. Therefore it was a vision of holiness, they saw the Lord.

It was a vision of hellishness, he saw Isaiah. It was a vision of hopelessness, he saw the world. It was a vision of deity, he saw God. It was a vision of depravity, he saw himself. It was a vision of beauty, he saw the world outside.

Revival as the Manifest Presence of God

And I believe that there is no alternative. If we're going to have Bible revival, which is obviously very different from a city-wide campaign, one is worked up and the other is sent down. One has a human personality usually as the driving force, and the other there is a mighty impact of God.

For after all revival is nothing more than deity localized. It is God coming down into an area. It is God coming down upon a given situation. It may be God coming down upon a personality. But how different?

I suppose it's inevitable in traveling that you'll get to see great places and meet great people. Personally I don't think there are many great people. Those who think they're great, usually great aren't you?

But the great people that exist, well if a man knows himself, he's bound to be humble. And if a man knows God, he can't be proud. But I met a man quite recently who has been used as God in revival. The only revival maybe in the last five years, apart maybe from this visitation in the Argentine.

But I went to a meeting specifically to see this man by the name of Duncan Campbell, who was used in the Hebrides revival. Now I knew that he was a tired man on the verge apparently of a physical breakdown.

And I didn't want to ask to see him, but after the meeting he asked to see me, which was very wonderful. Because I'm nobody, but he said, I saw Ravenel in the audience tell him I want to see him. And so in the church office we had an interview, a visit as you would say, for maybe an hour.

And I began to ask that man about the visitation of God. You may have read of that visitation in the Hebrides. Those little islands, broken little bits of land off the west coast of Scotland. And this was such a revival that Campbell told me that when it began five years ago and subsequently as it's moved on, after five years of revival in that island, that a threat from senators of conference that just extinguished communism in one blast of God upon the impact of iniquity, that every communist leader got saved in one meeting.

He closed the taverns, he closed the dance halls. And he said to me, Ravenel, the amazing thing is this, that in five years there are only four backsliders. Now that must have been a revival. Do you know how it began?

Confession and the Price of Spiritual Vision

It began because there was a little woman there, a very little woman. She's about 95 pounds weight. She certainly isn't five feet high. She's 86 years of age. She's stone blind. But she prays eight hours a day.

I wonder how many preachers here pray eight minutes a day. Eight hours I mean. Eight hours a day. And has been hidden away in a little cottage in a chimney corner refusing to die till God sent revival.

And God sent revival on the Hebrides, on the Isle of Lewis and on the Isle of Harris. But the amazing thing is this, that before God could send that revival he had to deal with a preacher and deal with a holiness preacher.

A man in the faith mission, a man who is known all over our country as an exceptionally good fundamentalist and holiness preacher. And he was sitting on the platform in an auditorium much larger than this, away in the city of Edinburgh in Scotland, not far from Glasgow.

And he was turning his Bible over, getting ready to preach. He was listening to Dr. Fitch, a great theologian up there. And Fitch was bringing down with amazing unction the power of God on that meeting when suddenly the Spirit located the preacher that was to follow him and said, as Duncan Campbell told me, Campbell what are you going to preach tonight?

And he said, well I'm going to preach on the Holy Ghost. And suddenly the Holy Ghost said to him, why preach about something you don't have? Now I'm not clever enough to know whether there are any degrees in death.

But if there are degrees of death, the Holy Ghost without the Holy Ghost. And the Lord said to him, why preach? Five years ago you were filled with the Spirit. Five years ago you saw wonderful things.

But no longer you see that. Your altars are not filled. Your eyes are not filled. Your heart isn't filled. Why aren't you just proud of the fact that you're booked for the next five big conferences in the British Isles?

Now as I've said repeatedly, I believe that there is a baptism of water and I believe there's a baptism of fire. But I believe that a great need of the Church of God and particularly holiness people right here is a baptism of honesty.

We just won't be honest. We hide behind doctrine. We hide behind terms and phrases. If you ask a man, is he a Christian? He says, I don't smoke, I don't dance, I don't swear, I don't do this. Well neither do nuns in convents.

And neither does a priest in Kentucky. He doesn't do those things either.

It's a tragedy when you should try and prove your fundamentalism by what you don't do. Rather the thing is, prove it by what you do do. And so the Spirit says to the preacher, it's no good preaching about the Spirit.

You can preach about Him theologically. You can preach about Him scripturally, historically. But you can't preach about Him personally. And you can't transmit life to this people tonight. And therefore you'd better go home.

And good honest man he went home. When he got home there with his clerical attire and his nightclothes. His wife said to him, well darling you're home very early tonight. What's the trouble? He said, listen dear, I don't want to talk.

I'm going to get along with God. He said, wait until I went inside the door. And I shut the door of my little study. Somewhere around about ten o 'clock at night and the clock went to eleven and it struck twelve.

And one and two and three and four and five and six. And I was still laid on my face prostrate before God. And then he said about half past six in the morning. I knew that somebody entered the room. I could hear somebody tiptoeing across the rug.

I heard somebody's knees touch the ground. I heard somebody fall down. I heard somebody begin to pray. He has a very beautiful cultured daughter. That daughter had no idea except by revelation from God what was happening.

But the exact vision that this man had, a threefold vision. And that vision says this wonderful man to me, I saw God upon his sword. And then he said, I saw myself. And then he said, Ravenel I can't tell you whether I was in the flesh.

I can't tell you whether I was elevated like Paul. I didn't know whether I was in the body or out of the body. I don't know whether I had a dream. I had a vision what I had. But if I do know he said I was on the edge of an abyss.

And I could see millions and millions and millions more of people. There they were. Fire around them and torment and agony and shrieking and weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. And I had a revelation of hell.

And Campbell says I've never been the same man since that. And how in the world could he be? You say I'm a fundamentalist. I believe in hell. So does the devil anyhow. The trouble with many of us we can put the whole world in hell without setting a tear over it.

And then I remember looking at the face of that man. And he said Ravenel I had a vision I'd always wanted one all my life. But he said I'm not sure I'd ever pray for any other man to have a vision. It's too much.

And the saving factor was this he said that at half past six in the morning without saying a word to anybody else when I thought as though my whole brain would burst. When I felt like saying to God why did you give this to me?

It's not normal. A man can't bear it. How can you clamp eternity into time? How can you stamp a revelation that only God should see on the eyeballs of a man? How can a human personality bear the groans and horrors of millions of men?

And at that very minute he said my beautiful girl at the side of me began to pray this prayer. Please God don't let my daddy lose his mind. God don't let my daddy go mad here. Oh God don't let my daddy go insane.

Please, please keep your hand on him or he'll die. And he never told her that he was seeing that vision. But he said it was just like somebody putting a block of ice on my burning head and my burning heart at that moment.

The prayer of my daughter. She was as it were some cold draft from heaven. And she went down to the room and I stayed there more hours. And finally got up. No longer the man I had been before. With a three fold vision.

Upward, inward and outward. To go out and live for God. To go out there into the isles of the west coast of Scotland and see that phenomenal visitation of the Holy Ghost. We want revival of course we'd all say that.

I'm not sure that we do. Supposing we change that and say that we want revival. Yes sir we want revival. Well whether we want it or not we need it. But at what price? You pick up the book and read there in the first book of Kings about a man that stood one day and said there should be no rain on the earth for the space of three years and six months according to my word not God's word.

I shall have none. Well would you like revival at the price of getting up every morning at four o 'clock to go and get one loaf of bread for your family to last a day? He didn't read the verse. But you remember later down the road this man saw a woman picking up sticks and she had some meal and she was going to make a loaf.

And when he said make me a little cake first what did she say? I want to make a cake for myself. We're going to make a cake and and then what? Die that's right. Everybody else is dying. We talk about preaching to bring down blessing.

Where's a preacher that can strangle a nation? I'll send the nation bankrupt. You'll be going to funerals every hour of the day. The economy of the nation will be destroyed. You won't have a motor car.

At least you'll have it but you won't have money to buy gas for it. You'll wear your clothes without buying any new ones for the few years if revival comes that way. But do we want revival at that price?

Is it better for a nation to go to hell prosperous with a big waistline or go to heaven with with your clothes hanging on your skin like an old coat hanging on pegs. If God hasn't gone out of business then revival must be possible.

Heavenly-Mindedness and the Vision of a Perishing World

But the trouble is we don't want revival. We just want blessing. We just want our churches filled. We just want an easy way. Ah to see to see the world as God sees it. Why? You've only just started talking about vision and somebody very smartly comes up and says vision, vision.

Oh be careful that's a very dangerous word. You'll become a visionary. There is a saying current in our country and I've heard it in your country too. I've heard people say something like this that that if you get a vision like that you'll become so heavenly minded you're no earthly use.

Well let them say it, it's quite smart. But I want to tell you that as far as I know this generation and the holiness folk included as well the trouble is not that we're so heavenly minded we're no earthly use.

The trouble is we're so earthly minded we're no heavenly use. If you have a vision without a task you'll be a visionary. If you have a task without a vision it's drudgery. But if you have a task with a vision it's a missionary.

Whether you're in Cincinnati or Timbuktu. This man says in the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord. When God took Uzziah out of the way Uzziah had an unobstructed view of God. And listen before you ask God for an unobstructed view of himself be sure that you're prepared to pay the price.

He might even take your wife, your husband or a friend or even your ministry and cast you away in some place to fast and weep for six months in order that that vision might be clear that in the year that King Uzziah died when he went out to the leper colony in that year I saw the Lord.

Yes we certainly need this vision these days. A hundred and fifty years ago there was a writer in England by the name of Thomas Binney. He wrote some very wonderful hymns. He wrote that wonderful hymn I think one of the greatest Eternal Light.

Eternal Light. How pure the soul must be. When placed within thy searching sight it shrinks not that with calm delight can live and look on thee. And he says in the second verse of that hymn the spirits that surround thy throne in this chapter of Isaiah 6 the spirits that surround thy throne may bear that burning bliss that that is surely theirs alone since they have never, never known a fallen world like this.

And immediately after him comes another hymn writer that says thou didst not spare thine only son but gavest him for a world undone. Well I am tempted to be cynical nearly there and curl my lip and say a man wrote a hundred and fifty years ago a fallen world like this a fallen world they didn't even have movies in those days.

Why even when I was a little boy if a woman showed her ankles they had suspicion that she was a street woman. It's gone a long way since then. A fallen world. Oh dear. If the world was fallen a hundred and fifty years ago I suggest it's a hundred and fifty times more fallen today anyhow.

The tragedy is that the enemy has already come in like a flood that the spirit of God so far in this generation has not lifted up a standard against him in the truest sense of that word. I'm not denying that to be spiritually minded is joy and peace but I'm equally sure that to be statistically minded can be very uncomfortable.

Do you know how many millions of people there are in the world this afternoon? Let's take this last vision first. God is looking out on the world he says who will go for us? Oh some people fall their hands and say well after all, after all Mr. Ravenhill be very careful you know there's a thing called dispensationalism brother don't I know it.

Poor pathetic pale Protestantism right now is being tortured on the rack of dispensationalism. God isn't with us so we have to find an excuse for it. One of the great preachers of America said only a few weeks ago that since God gave the great commission go ye into all the world and preach the gospel he also said heal the sick, send the leper, raise the dead do this, do the other but since we're not doing the latter we must cease to do the former.

And henceforth he said as regards this church we shall support no more missions if you want to support them individually all right but this church will support no more missions there is no evidence of the supernatural power of God right now.

Well nobody doubts that Christianity began in the upper room it began by being supernatural it's ending by being superficial. Why a lady came to me the other day when I finished preaching in an alliance church she was a Pentecostal lady and I had no arguments against them but she said Mr. Ravenhill there's no fire in my church.

She said it's a beautiful new modern building and she said even now we're saving money to get it air conditioned for this summer and I said sister you ought to get it fire conditioned. After all you know you never put fire where there's a corpse it will smell.

You always keep a current of fresh air. I think that's why they have air conditioning in some of the churches they'd smell so bad if they got the fire. But the fact is that we're more concerned about coolness than we are about fire these days.

And so somebody says yes it's true this is the last minute the last minute of this dispensation. But we can't do anything about it all we can do is sit down God is sovereign. Of course he is sovereign.

You mean to say one of these days God will wake up and rub his eyes and realize how serious the situation is that every hour of that clock today 500 people die without Christ 5 ,000 in 10 hours 10 ,000 in 20 hours nearly 25 ,000 in 24 hours and God sits on his throne and it doesn't make any difference to God the blood of Calvary is flowing hell is filling and the race is so great that 500 people an hour die without Jesus Christ that doesn't hurt God.

You're trying to suggest now that while the word of God says that he's not willing that many should perish he's not willing pardon me that any should perish you're trying to suggest now he's willing that many should perish.

I think it's difficult usually to get into a reasonably good prayer meeting well prayer meetings don't count much these days anyhow they're only giving God advice most of them but even if you get into a decent prayer meeting somebody shoots up as a kind of I suppose to make God feel better kind of give God a vote of confidence and they say Lord thou art able to do far more exceeding abundantly above all that we can either ask or think and everybody says amen.

The Bible doesn't say that. I don't know when anybody quoted it correctly. Millions of people are perishing. The last census of the human race.

Is that there are 2 ,400 million people cut 400 million off.

And say they're born again which I doubt you've got 2 ,000 million people that are going to perish eternally. That's a mighty lot. Supposing we had a revival in the next five years that gave us 100 million people really born again in the spirit of God.

I'm not talking about decisions I'm talking about the residue. I mean when the wind has blown some away and adversity has come and opposition has come and you still have a solid block a nice big slab of 100 million people converted.

Rather that would alter the spiritual temperature of the world if you had 100 million people converted. If America got 20 million 20 million really regenerate people in the next five years what a mighty difference it would make to America.

If England got 10 million remember that England isn't as big as Pennsylvania you have 156 million people in America we have 50 million people in our little island. If we give you 20 million regenerate people in the next five years that would be wonderful.

Supposing England gets 10 million no 5 million supposing India gets 10 million supposing Africa gets 10 million and you distribute the 100 million regenerate people in a worldwide breathing of God why better we'd be hysterical with joy nearly.

We'd be saying 100 million people born again our churches are packed out we're building new churches 100 million people really converted and then when you've done the devil still has 1 ,900 million people to go to hell forever.

Not much. Oh God is able to do it sure he is. I believe that God is going to pour his spirit out in the days in which I'm living. I believe before Christ comes the world will be shaken with a mighty spiritual earthquake.

Well two men agree with me but anyhow we'll carry on that's what I believe. Because I can't believe that God is happy to see this generation perish with 2 ,400 million people. And so God is able oh he's able he's able we're always telling him he's able as though he doesn't know that.

God is able to do far more exceeding abundantly above all that we can either ask or think above 100 million people saved in the next five years he's able to do exceeding abundantly he may give us 200, 300, 500 million people and then the devil still has three times as many.

But he only does it the word of God says and the sting is in the end of that text he's able to do far more exceeding abundantly above all that we can either ask or think according to the power that worketh in us.

The Church’s Unbelief and the Need for Supernatural Power

And the hold up is not in God the hold up is in the church. You fool yourself if you think that God's problem this afternoon is is communism it certainly is not. Not even in America. God's problem in America is not Romanism.

It's as devilish and wicked it comes out of the same womb it hates us with the same unholy hatred. America arrests every communist before he gets off the boat in New York it's a suspicion that they feed millions of dollars into Romanism.

That Romanism is as diabolical. Remember however nice Mr. Sheen looks on television. But God's problem in America is not Romanism. God's problem is not communism. God's problem in America is dead fundamentalism.

The world can't tie the hands of God. The modernists can't tie the hands of God. The only people who can tie the hands of God are strange enough might be right in this very building this afternoon we are the people that tie God's hands.

The best title for the church of God today in my judgment is this we're unbelieving believers. Somebody someday will pick this bible up and be simple enough to believe it. And when they do we'll all be embarrassed somewhere down the line.

Somebody put the idea over that all you do is come to a conference like this. And they used to sing a chorus. Simple faith. The promise see and look to God alone. Lots of impossibilities. But right now the impossibilities.

Laugh at us. The men are saying show me your faith. Where is your faith. Where is your God. Where is power. Well we're in a jam. We're in a serious situation. We never never more needed a manifestation of the Holy Ghost than we do right now this afternoon and in this day in which we're living.

But where is the manifestation. What about these millions. I very often tell the alliance people maybe some here but you know A .B. Simpson didn't raise the alliance up to be a missionary society. He raised it up to get people filled with the Holy Ghost and after that go to the mission field.

You can get a man filled with the. You can get a man to the mission field without him being filled with the Holy Ghost. But you can't get them filled with the Holy Ghost without they'll go to the mission field where there is no vision.

Where there is no vision. Brother we've got enough doctrine to sink all the ships in the world. What we lack is vision. And to the vision we lack passion. Where there is no vision the people perish. That's why they perish today.

That's why in the recent manifesto of the communists they say we don't need to fear Christianity. I have this in black and white where they said in their manifesto Christianity is certainly more powerful than what we have.

Jesus Christ can do more than Karl Marx. But the Christians don't believe it. And secondly they won't sacrifice for it. Why we sit at ease as though we were really getting some place every tick of that clock today communism has gained 44 square miles of territory in the world.

Every tick of that clock today the church of God is going further and further back. Last year in Japan alone the population increased 1 ,100 ,000 ,000. I'm sorry, 1 ,100 ,000 rather not 1 ,100 ,000 ,000.

1 ,100 ,000 ,000 increase in the population. When MacArthur wanted an invasion of the gospel he asked for 2 ,000 ministers to go into Japan. Well they nearly got 2 ,000. Roman Catholicism sent 1 ,200.

Anyhow we sent 200 and most of them were not even fundamental. Yes, think of it five years ago this afternoon there were 345 Protestant missionaries in China this afternoon. As far as we know there are five.

I don't care how well you know church history. You can't deny this fact that never before in the history of the church of God has the church withdrawn unblocked from a nation. Men have died and shed their blood and refused to go.

But all that Stalin did was hop and pop and blow the house down and everybody ran away. And they evacuated and left the poor Chinese. And there's a big area with 400 ,000 ,000 people in it. There were more Roman Catholics stayed behind than Protestants.

You know when the Roman Catholic leaves his country to become a missionary he says goodbye to family. He's not coming back. He's never guaranteed a furlough. He goes to die. I'm not saying it's not hard on the mission people.

I'm not saying people don't need a furlough. But lots of them get a lot more than they need. I'm quite sure about that. He goes to die. And they stayed in China. India has 375 ,000 ,000 people this afternoon.

And Nero isn't too sympathetic to the gospel. England entered Africa with a Bible in her hand. Now she's trying to hold it with a bomb in her hand. And people who are well informed say after all it's going to be difficult to hold Africa much more than another 5 years.

There's a steel ring around the world a trickle ring if you like. There's also a ring of communism and there's a ring of Romanism and of false religion. And sir, 2000 years after Jesus came if I were to take a pin out of my coat and rub that wall with a pin you could measure the depth of that pin scratch if you had a scientific measure.

And what the measure of my little channel is with my pin on that wall. That's the measure, that's the impact of Christianity on Mohammedanism in 2000 years whether you better quit shouting about how much you've got somebody's responsible for it.

It's got obligations. You're tied in to so many people if you're Christ millions and millions this afternoon we don't have time to stay. Last year I was privileged to preach to about a thousand ministers and missionaries for 4 days in Chicago the Alliance Annual Meeting and God really moved one day and we stayed to pray.

We prayed till about 3 o 'clock in the morning and God really moved. And that Sunday morning we came out of that great stately Methodist Cathedral in the centre of Chicago. We were all saying goodbye.

I'd never been in a match of prayer like this. Didn't God move, I'd never been the same man. And so forth we came out of that warm kind of semi-pentecostal atmosphere and stepped into the street a lovely May Sabbath morning 3 o 'clock in the morning and right across the road there was a doorway and I heard music and I looked again after 3 o 'clock I just stood and looked right opposite and right down that long alleyway inside of that building.

There was a platform right up to the door. There was a girl with hardly a stitch of clothing on her and a man behind her playing something and a man playing a golden saxophone and this almost nude creature walked right to the door of that building and I took a peep inside and it was jammed at 3 o 'clock Sunday morning in a Christian country and I watched people come out and come to this side of the street and I followed them up the street and when I looked in it was a semi-dark place just little flickering blue lights.

The woman at the door at least the back, she was completely naked and as these young people 17 and 18 came in I looked in there and there it was filled with smoke and stinking tobacco and stale beer and there it was full of weird horrible sensual music and I said to myself this is a Christian country.

The same thing in New York, the same thing in London. The same thing in Chicago. Any other city you like, this is Christianity. This is a Christian country. At 3 o 'clock in a Sunday morning but I didn't see any other house of prayer open.

I didn't see anybody out with tracts still the perishing rather the only way you rescue them is with their feet above the mantelpiece and having a nice comfortable time.

Evangelism, Compassion, and the Vision of Calvary

There are some jewels right at the side of your own church.

Somebody as pure as your daughter was as pure maybe a year ago and tonight she sells her body for a few cents. Your newspaper said last week that America last year had 400 ,000 divorces. America has something like more than a million illegitimate children a year now.

That's something to go at. Isn't it. We'd rather talk about the doctrine of the Holy Spirit that you've heard a thousand times and say it's fact. What's the good of talking about the Holy Ghost. If deity isn't coming down and touching this thing God is saying who will go for it.

He looks for a man, not a cherubim not a seraphim, not a half man a half deity, he looks for men. God takes men, not money, not methods not machinery, not movement men God's always wanted men. That's why he chose 12 men could have brought 12 million angels with him if he wanted to do the job that way.

He chose men. And here's a world with millions millions, millions dying. They were dying while you were sleeping last night. They were dying while you were fooling around somewhere God is saying who will go for it.

I hear people say sometimes I heard someone say only a few days ago praying very earnestly for somebody that they loved. And I don't doubt their sincerity. But I heard this person saying with a kind of anguish oh God, will you please give him a vision of hell that never gets an amen out of me.

I'm not sure that sinners need a vision of hell. It seems to me the sinner needs a vision of Calvary. He needs to see the love of God. He needs to say there, that was my cross. But he bore my sin in his body on the tree.

And he needs to see the love of God. Listen, if anybody needs a vision of hell it's you and I that need that vision. Talk about it, we don't feel it. It doesn't hurt us anymore. It's a little thing that we've got away in the refrigerators of our mind nicely freezed off and cooled.

It doesn't sting, it doesn't hurt it doesn't trouble, it doesn't bring us to tears. I was passing through a city in England late last year with my three little boys. One of them said Daddy, what's the building on the hill.