Ireland Etc. & Revival — James A. Stewart

Now I thought this evening we will have a double header. I thought Mrs. Stewart would be the first one to go and I would be the second but she thought well I better answer the questions concerning the Irish question.

Since we have come to Memphis many of our friends have asked us all about our good friend Dr. Ian Paisley and also about the believers in Northern Ireland, the believers in the South of Ireland and what is the true story behind the Irish question as we see on the television and we are reading it.

Ian Paisley and Prayerful Evangelical Leadership

Dr. Ian Paisley was a young fellow as we have been preaching in his father's church. Now he is a gentleman around about 42 years of age, a big tall rough fellow, 42 years of age or so and he is a holy man of God.

Now no matter what the newspapers say or the commentators or television men tell you he is a holy man of God first and foremost, a man who talks with God and a man who walks with God and a man who has power with God.

And he comes from a very, very fine evangelical background. His father a very beloved Ulster pastor and then his own brother is possibly one of the finest Newfoundlanders we have in the whole of the British Isles preaching to a vast multitude and his Newfoundlanders belong to the open brethren assemblies, what we call the brethren fellowship.

They don't like that word brethren with a capital B but never mind open brethren and his brother is one of the finest of the open brethren group in Northern Ireland and throughout Great Britain and Brother Paisley himself is a wonderful pastor.

He has his new church dedicated just recently seats some 2 ,000 people and not only is he a good pastor but he is also a good Bible teacher. You know he spent his time in prison, he was in prison there as you know for a few months in Belfast because of false accusations and when he was in prison he wrote a wonderful exposition on the epistle to the Romans that could be used as any textbook in any Christian seminary or Bible school and then not only is he a wonderful expositor but he is also a wonderful soul winner and it is wonderful to go into that church and see the pastor weeping for souls and to see the congregation weeping for souls.

And then Dr. Paisley is also a very blessed revivalist. Now he has just spent his holidays with our children in Edinburgh that is our daughter and her husband Bob Doon and while he was on holiday he gave one gospel meeting to 1 ,000 people and 85 came forward to accept Christ as Savior.

Now he is a revivalist. And in that church they sometimes pray all night. Now I don't know if in Memphis you have any churches that pray all night but many times in their church they are praying all night and many times they gather every morning at 5 o 'clock to pray at 5 o 'clock and if you go earlier to work than that you can get into the 4 o 'clock prayer meeting if you want in the morning.

It will just suit your convenience how early you get up in the morning. And it is a revival church. The Holy Ghost is moving constantly. And then we would say that our brother Ian Paisley is a fighting fundamentalist.

Now he has nothing to do with a Presbyterian church as a denomination because the Presbyterian denomination of Northern Ireland has modernists in it. Modernist teaching in the seminary and also in alliance with the World Council of Churches or the British Council of Churches who in turn are allied with the World Council of Churches and so he has started his own independent Presbyterian churches and he is the moderator.

Now I was going to ask Mrs. Stewart how many churches they have. I can't tell you because the churches are growing up all over Ulster because the eyes of the Lord's people have been opened about the World Council of Churches and the compromise of evangelicals staying in the apostate church and so there may be 20 maybe 30 churches now of which Ian is a moderator and he is a fighting fundamentalist.

He will not compromise in any way the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why should he? And we are living in an age my dear brother and sister where believers, outstanding Christian leaders and outstanding brothers and sisters even in Memphis are compromising with their faith once and for all delivered to the saints.

They stay in the apostasy and try to make it better when God says come out from among them and be ye separate and touch not the unclean things because we believe the World Council of Churches is heading up for the Antichrist and we want nothing to do with preparing the advent of the Antichrist, the false Christ.

And so Brother Ian Paisley takes a definite, definite stand as a fighting fundamentalist and he makes sure that nobody is allowed in his pulpit or teaches a Sunday school class or sing a solo in his church that has anything to do with compromised evangelism.

For example if there is a great citywide evangelistic campaign in Belfast he wants to make sure that all the ministers who take part are born again and are fundamental and if they are not he will not participate in such an evangelistic campaign because he does not believe in compromised evangelism.

So he is unashamedly a fighting fundamentalist but also he is the champion of the protestant faith, the protestant cause. Now you know that he is a Martin Luther or a John Knox. Now we have a young man, a friend of our son-in-law Bob Doom, our son-in-law's friend, Jack Glass.

He is a Baptist boy and he went to the Baptist seminary in Glasgow and to his utter astonishment he was naive and here is a boy of 20 years of age, he is hearing these Baptist professors deny the virgin birth, deny the fundamentals of the word of God.

And he is protesting and they are very angry because he protests and Jack Glass takes a definite stand against the modernists of Britain and against the alliance of the Roman Catholic Church and of course the newspapers dub him as the John Knox of Scotland, a young man only 28 years of age.

With Brother Paisley we say that these are you Martin Luther's and you John Knox's. Now do you know, I wish you could read German and if you think you know that we are very straight you ought to read Martin Luther.

In the German he is awful, he is not polite, you ought to see what he says about the Pope, you ought to see what he says about Rome. And now our evangelicals are working with the Roman Catholic Church, our evangelicals are allied with the Vatican and preparing for a great alliance which will head up for the coming Antichrist.

But we are so glad that our brother Ian Paisley is a militant Protestant and he is standing for what Martin Luther believed and what John Knox believed, an old time reformer. Now let's go right back into the question, the Irish question.

The Political and Religious Conflict in Ireland

May I say it is definitely a political question, definitely a political question. Now you know the South of Ireland used to belong to the British Empire and to Great Britain. In other words they were British subjects, their passport was British and they had representation in the Parliament in London.

But many years ago they broke away from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and they became the Republic of Erra, E-I-R-E, the Republic of Erra. And now the Republic of Erra is almost 100 Roman Catholic.

I do not think there is 1 of Protestants in the whole of the South of Ireland. And we see that they broke away from Great Britain because they did not want to live under the British Crown. Because nobody can be King or Queen of Great Britain except they are Protestants.

And so we discover that they have for years and years and years, as I have been evangelising the South of Ireland and Ulster, they have political movements to overthrow Ulster. They have gangs and terrorists during the past years planting bombs in Ulster and intimidating the people.

And then they have a population explosion. You see in the South of Ireland they have very little work, they have a very little income. Almost a million people Catholics in the South of Ireland have to go to England and work.

But they have sent many up to Northern Ireland to populate Northern Ireland with a population explosion to take over Protestant Ulster. And so there has been wars and battles over the border and intimidating the Protestants of Northern Ireland.

Now Londonderry, I first began to preach in Londonderry when I was 14 years of age. Londonderry is now a predominant Roman Catholic city and yet it is the second largest city of Protestant Ulster. And that is where the trouble began.

And so we discover now that Rome wants to take over Northern Ireland. I said it is a political question. Now I tell you why we must pray because Ulster, Northern Ireland is the last stronghold of Protestantism in the British Isles.

It is also the last stronghold of Evangelicalism in the British Isles. England is gone, Wales is gone and Scotland is gone. That is why we have American missionaries in Scotland. But the last stronghold of Evangelical Protestant life is in Northern Ireland.

Now you will be surprised to know that Northern Ireland, Ulster, is the most evangelized spot on earth. I think I can say that. We have nowhere else anywhere in Europe where we have such a large concentration of Evangelical believers.

I believe mile by mile, square mile for square mile, Northern Ireland is more evangelized than any spot on earth including anywhere in America. And in the churches, thank God, there is standing room only.

Many times they have to have two services every Sunday morning and there is a revival atmosphere always in the Northern Ireland. And it is wonderful to see these thousands of believers, filled with the Holy Ghost, filled with the love of Christ, out and out for the Lord Jesus Christ.

And you know the reason why it is a political question because the Vatican is a political association. You know many believers do not know that the Vatican is a state. The Vatican is absolutely nothing to do with Italy.

Vatican City is in Rome. But Rome is not in the Vatican City. The Vatican City is a principality, a state, a sovereign state having absolutely nothing to do with Rome. Now, with my good friend, Archduke Otto, who is the pretender to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that is Franz Josef's eldest boy.

He is a man of my age. And he himself told me, because the Hatzburgs, as you know, are the greatest family in the history of Roman Catholic Europe. They have provided more kings and queens and princes and princesses for the Roman Catholic thrones of Europe than any family in European history.

And Archduke Otto, the pretender to his father's throne of Austro-Hungary, told me that the Vatican is one of the most political powers in all the entire world. And he explained to me that there are thousands of diplomats.

And as you know, they have their ambassadors all over the earth. And so, when you go into the Vatican City, it is not Italy. It is a nation, a country by itself. And the Pope is the head of the state.

And so, it is a political organization. And that is what makes the Irish question a political question. And they are seeking, in every conceivable way, to take over, now, Northern Ireland. And if the Roman Catholics, Romanism, took over Northern Ireland, then the last stronghold of the Protestant faith and the Christian faith has been destroyed.

And that would be a great triumph for Rome. Now, I can remember when the trouble was starting. Just about, maybe three years ago, Mrs. Stewart knows better than me, I'm not good at dates, we travel so much.

But maybe three years ago, we were having a campaign for two weeks with Dr. Paisley's Church in Belfast. And I said to him, Ian, we haven't had an open-air march yet. You know, in Great Britain, it's our custom to have open-air marches.

If this was Great Britain, we'd have a march around the city streets, inviting the unsaved to come into the meeting. We have that almost every night. And so, I said to Ian, we haven't had a march yet.

And he's an Irishman, of course, and Irish people are always laughing. They never stop laughing. They're either going to tell you a joke, or just finish telling a joke. And so, he just laughed and laughed and said, he said, James, he said, would you want to end up in prison?

And I said, well, what's the matter? Oh, he said, if we start marching around the streets, we'll end up in prison. Don't you know the power of Rome? Well, I said, let's start anyhow. He said, no, we must ask the police.

I said, what? No, no, we can't march. We can't have an open-air gospel march in Belfast unless we ask the police. Well, I said, it's a Protestant land. We're under a Protestant throne. The Queen is a Protestant.

She has to be a Protestant. Why can't we just go out marching and preach in the streets if we want to? No, they said, you can preach, but you can't march. We must ask police permission. And they did not give it to us.

Well, I said, no, I'm asking. And so, he laughed and said, alright, off to prison, boys. And so, we got permission after several days. But can you imagine, I was astonished, and my wife, we had to have police protection.

Can you imagine police protection? And singing gospel hymns, have you been to Jesus for the cleansing flood or the cleansing flower? And are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? And just shouting out gospel texts, not saying anything against the Pope, but simply saying, come to hear the gospel.

And we are marching around our own Protestant part of Belfast, not our own Roman Catholic part of Belfast, and yet we must have police protection. And so, very recently after that, Dr. Paisley was falsely accused with others, preachers we know, and put into prison for several months.

And now, he is a militant leader of the Protestants and the Evangelicals. And we thank God for his courage. Now, the Romans have been trying to kill him, naturally trying to kill him. You pray that God will preserve him.

And then, will you please pray that God will continue to keep revival fires burning in Ulster. You know, it is not enough to be negative, you must be positive. It is not enough to contend for the faith, you must also have revival.

You must win souls for Jesus Christ. And Spurgeon called his magazine, the sword and the trowel. Now, you must have the sword to defend the faith and fight the devil, but you must have a trowel in your hand.

You must build up the spiritual walls of Zion. And that is just exactly what the believers are seeking to do in Northern Ireland. Now, no believers anywhere on earth give so much money for God's work as the believers in Ulster.

They hilariously and hilariously and hilariously give, give, give, give, give. And you can imagine in this revival atmosphere how Satan would like to destroy it all together. And so, I trust that what I have told you this evening will give you some idea of what is happening there in Northern Ireland and South of Ireland.

And as I said already to you that Northern Ireland is the most evangelized spot in Great Britain. Will you please remember that the South of Ireland is the most un-evangelized spot in Great Britain. And they are the most fanatical Romanists in the world.

I have been in Columbia, South America. We have been in Roman Catholic Spain many times, but they are not bitter in comparison to the Roman Catholics at South of Ireland. They supplied America with its first Roman Catholic President, President Kennedy's people from Ulster or from Arran.

And almost 65 of all the professors in the American Catholic Universities from the South of Ireland, 80 of all your nuns, your priests, your missionaries of the Roman Catholic Church are from the South of Ireland.

They have seminaries of 10 ,000 in their seminaries. The whole of South of Ireland is dedicated to one thing, to the spread of Romanism around the world. And their zealousness for their religion would put us to shame.

If we had a Protestant Church of 35 ,000 people here in Memphis, we would think we had something, wouldn't we? But we could show you a Catholic Church in Dublin, Ireland with 35 ,000 and 40 ,000 members.

And thousands and thousands at that church there for a few minutes before they go to work at 6 o 'clock, 5 o 'clock in the morning. And so that is zeal. And so will you please pray? It is very dangerous.

We have one of our missionaries now, he is a pastor now in America, an Irishman, and he was left almost half dead and killed by the Romanists. Why? Because he is preaching the gospel in the streets in South of Ireland.

It is dangerous. On my first occasion, about 14 years of age, when preaching down there, we had to leave the village fast because they ran out after us with big butcher's knives. They would have used them all right.

They are fanatical and they hate us and hate the gospel of the Lord Jesus. But you pray for the situation in South of Ireland. Pray for the missionaries who are laboring in the South of Ireland, many in grave danger even now.

Joel’s Pattern of Weeping, Sweeping, and Reaping Revival

But God is working and God is moving. And we want you to pray in a very definite way for that ministry. Now this evening I want in the second part of our meeting to carry on with our ministry last night.

Now I wonder how many was here last night so I know where we are going. Oh that is wonderful. Almost everybody was here last night. I am so glad. Now I am reading this evening and talking concerning revival this evening.

I am in the prophecy of Joel. I am in the prophecy of Joel. And just for the sake of you who may have not been here tonight, the few who were not here rather last night, we spoke last night on the prayer roots to revival.

And we gave us our verses Isaiah 57 verse 15 and Ezekiel or Exodus chapter 3 verse 3. And you remember how that we read the scripture there in Isaiah 57 and 15. And then of course Exodus 3 and 3 Moses says I will now turn aside and see this great wonderful supernatural sight.

And we saw that the prayer roots to revival first was an awareness of the presence of God. And then that brought about a humiliation before God. And then the third prayer root was a holy wonder at the things of God.

And so this evening I want to carry on with the thought of revival. I prayed so much last night after the service and I prayed so much today. Oh God what would you have me say this evening. And God would have me carry on from where I left off last night concerning revival.

Now in Joel chapter 1 and chapter 2 we find the kind of revival that God wants. Now you will see here portrayed for us a real genuine thorough work of God the Holy Spirit. And you will see a genuine lasting work of grace.

There is no false fire here and so there is no false alarm. And I want you to notice three things concerning revival as it is sketched out for us by the prophet Joel. Now you notice first of all it was a weeping revival.

A weeping revival. And then it was a sweeping revival. And lastly it was a reaping revival. First of all a weeping revival. A sweeping revival. And a reaping revival. Now will you notice the reaping revival.

The weeping revival. Will you please remember. Oh get this right into your understanding tonight. True genuine Holy Ghost revival never begins with laughter. It never begins with joyous singing. Never, never, never, never.

It begins with weeping. Weeping. Notice here in verse 13 of chapter 1. And then you notice again chapter 2 verse 12. Now why is it a weeping revival? There are two reasons given here in Joel. First of all because of the terrible condition of Zion.

Read here in the first verse of chapter 1. The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Hear this you old men and give ear all you inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days or even the days of your fathers?

No. Tell ye your children of it. And let your children tell their children. And their children another generation. That which the palm of worm hath left hath the locust eaten. And that which the locust hath left hath the canker worm eaten.

And that which the canker worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. Awake ye drunkards and weep and howl all ye drinkers of wine because of the new wine. For it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation is come up upon my land strong and without number.

Whose teeth are the teeth of a lion and he that hath cheek teeth of a great lion. He hath laid my vine ways and bought my fig tree. He hath made it clean there and cast it away. The branches thereof are made white.

Now it has to be a weeping revival because of the terrible condition of Zion. The prophet, God says through the prophet Joel to the people of Zion. Have you fathers ever seen this before? Have your fathers and your grandfathers?

No, no, no. Then tell it to your children. Tell it to your grandchildren. And even go to another generation and tell it to your great grandchildren. The terrible condition of Zion today. Oh my brother, my sister.

Need I tell you that we have a reason to weep today in America because of the lamentable terrible condition of Zion, spiritual Zion. You know revival begins with weeping and then it finishes with laughing.

Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning. And you remember we have two or three revival songs that talk about singing and laughing and dreaming. Well just like one that dreamt. And we say we can't believe it's true what God has done, what God has accomplished.

And we have knowing people when revival came to laugh and laugh like drunken men and women. And they would laugh and laugh and telephone each other all night long through the city, crisscrossing the city.

Did you hear the news? My husband is just saved. Did you hear the news? All my family got saved tonight in the meetings. And the people are laughing and laughing and laughing with a holy laughter. But my friend revival finishes up that way but it begins with weeping.

And then you know there is a weeping revival also here because of the indifference of Zion. The indifference of Zion. Then we have it again in verse 13 of chapter 1. We have it there for the meat offering, the latter part of the verse of verse 13 chapter 1.

For the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. They are compromising, they are hard hearted, they are robbing God of their times and of their time and of their money and of themselves.

And may I say to you this evening I would not be a true man of God. And I am your missionary. And we counted a high privilege and a high honor to be your missionary. But we counted a solemn responsibility to be your missionary on the foreign mission fields of the earth.

But I am not talking this evening as your missionary. I am talking as a prophet of God tonight. And I say this when I come back to America I am confused, I am bewildered at what I see and what I hear.

Confused and bewildered. At what I? The coldness, the deadness of the Lord's dear people. It overwhelms me. Can you explain it to me? Why is it that in communist lands and pagan lands that the believers there under persecution with not even 1 of our privileges, our spiritual privileges, love the Lord so intensely.

And we are so cold in our devotion and salvage to Jesus Christ. And we make all the alibis and excuses of why we have not done something for the Lord. They kept back the offerings that were to be brought into the holy place and the money that was to be placed in the treasure house.

Because they were cold. They were living in the distance. They were half-hearted. And that is why we must weep and weep and weep and weep. It is a weeping revival. Now just the other evening I was in a prayer meeting.

Prayer Warriors and the Presence of God

In fact the experience is so holy. It was so sacred to me that I even felt I grieved the Holy Spirit telling Mrs. Chur about it. You know when you meet with God you are in God's holy presence and you can't tell everything that God tells you.

You can't tell everything about your secrets before the Lord. But the other evening I had one of the most exhilarating experiences I have had for months. And I wasn't expecting it. I used to preach with Mrs. Chur missionary messages this particular weekend.

And we got very tired and weary because I have a battle with my health every day because of my heart trouble and constant traveling and preaching and writing and book writing and hours and hours proofreading and writing to our missionaries and writing to the native pastors around the world.

And when I got in there on a Saturday night I was ready to flop and get to bed early so I could rise enough in the morning early to get ready for the preaching on the Lord's day. But the pastor with a tear in his eye or a tear in his speech said to me, Brother James are you too tired and weary to go to our prayer meeting?

And I was just going to say yes I am too tired and weary. And then I said wait a minute I said do you have a prayer meeting on Saturday night tonight specially for tomorrow? Oh no not specially. He said we have it every Saturday night.

I said with who? I said with two people. No no no two deacons. No no no he said we have 16 every Saturday night. I said you have 16 men that pray with you every Saturday night from half past seven to nine o 'clock?

He said I do. Oh I said brother I said that's a miracle. It's a miracle in America to find 16 men with their pastor every Saturday night praying from half past seven to nine o 'clock. That's a miracle.

You talk of the cross and the red seeds. Join the way. It's a bigger miracle. And I said pastor I'll surely be there. And you know I had some pains. Glory be to God friend when I got that prayer meeting I forgot all about my pain.

You know the moment I went in there was a large large auditorium. And you know usually you don't feel the power of God in a big auditorium with only 15 or 16 men praying. You feel more the power of God in a small room.

But when I went into that building that huge building I felt the power and presence of God. I was aware of God right away. And then the pastor very quietly said now brethren you know what we're here for we're glad to have brother Stuart and now let's pray.

And he turned out the lights and just a soft glow over us and these 16 men prayed. Oh brother, sister I wish you had been there. You talk about the world series. Oh brother that's peanuts. Oh listen you talk about the world's prayer the world's exposition.

Nothing. These men were flat on their faces before God. And I shuddered. I said oh God I can't believe what I'm hearing. They were giants in prayer. Ordinary common man. Giants. And I knew they had been praying for months.

And when I left that we couldn't talk to each other. We had seen God face to face. We have a new Christian center in Scotland to evangelize the youth and we call it Panayle. The missionaries asked me what should be the name I said Panayle.

I have seen God face to face. We had a Panayle that night. It wasn't a long prayer meeting but we could have carried on all night long quite easily. It was only an hour and a half prayer meeting. But old friend when I got up from my knees I knew we had seen God face to face.

And I said oh God sure they are going to have revival in that church. You see when we arrived drove up the pastor said very quietly without unemotionally. Very quietly said sister Ruth, Mrs. Durr we are going to have revival in our church.

Well of course many people tell us that and it never counts. But brothers sister it's coming to that church. God could do nothing else but send revival to that church. They are standing room only already.

No gimmicks. You don't need gimmicks. Gimmicks squeeze the Holy Ghost. Don't need gimmicks. Flying in orchards. Where did you fly them in again? Not Jamaica where is it? Hawaii Island I think you fly them in and you get this.

If you come to Sunday school. All the gimmicks. I'll give you a book. I got a book the other night because I attended a gospel service. Can you imagine? Me a minister can say I am an old man and the grandness gives me a book because I can't stand to come to a meeting one night.

Can you imagine? Oh no friend. No no. How is a revival coming? That place is standing room only. Why? God is there. And wherever God is no place that people are going to come from miles and miles around to see God working.

So friend let me say this. We just now are making India our number one mission field for a literature crusade. India's army is 450 million people. Now we are in touch with native pastors. They are praying for revival and we should be.

They have invited us to come to the baptistic campaigns all over India. But you know we just got a letter the other day and listen to this I have written it down. They inaugurated just a few months ago a hundred days of round the clock praying.

Somebody praying every hour on the 24 hours for a hundred days. A 24 hour vigil. And you know 10 ,000 believers took part. Young men and young women. Men and women. 10 ,000. And they prayed around the clock.

Non-stop for 2 ,400 hours. Will anybody say Hallelujah? Are you too ashamed? Say Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 2 ,400 hours. Oh wouldn't you like to fly into that right away now? Oh yes so it's a weeping revival.

And we know that we need to weep. I've been praying that God would have me speak this week on a message I've never had them to preach on. Let alone myself or Mrs. Stewart. And Eli trembled for the ark of God.

And Eli trembled for the ark of God. My brother and sister if there ever was a day when we needed to weep over the spiritual condition of Zion and the indifference of the saints in Zion. It's right now in November 1969.

Preparing for Sweeping Revival

It will be a weeping revival. And then because it's a weeping revival it has to be a sweeping revival. And it's sweeping in its preparations. There's no half measures you see. There can be no half measures.

Because desperate conditions demand desperate preparations and desperate measures. And so I read there in 114. Sanctify ye a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God and cry unto the Lord.

And then coming to chapter 2 verse 15 and 17. Blow the trumpet in Zion. Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the people. Sanctify the congregation. Assemble the elders. Gather the children and those that suck the breast.

Let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet. Let the priest, the minister of the Lord weep between the porch and the altar. I haven't time to expound that between the porch and the altar but it's a blessed truth there.

And let them say spare thy people O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproach that the heathen should rule over them. Wherefore should they say among the people where is their God? And so it's a sweeping revival.

And it's sweeping in it's preparation. Call everything to a stand still. Now we would say oh no no no that's not the way to revival. Do you know it's possible for you to be carrying on so much work for the Lord that you couldn't have revival?

If God is not moving and God is not working it's better to call a halt to all we're doing. And to say why is God not working? I can remember as a young man maybe 18 or 19 years of age I forget which I was reading the Acts of the Apostles and I was so convicted my minister was so powerless.

And I said Lord you know I'm the boy preacher of Great Britain and all I'm seeing is 60 or 70 souls saved night after night. But I said that's not Pentecost that's not the Acts of the Apostles. But I'm not seeing revival I'm seeing good evangelistic campaigns but Lord I'm not seeing what we saw in the Acts of the Apostles and what we had in the olden days.

Oh God I must have revival. And I canceled all my needs. And I said oh God I'm going to wait in your presence fast and pray for weeks. I wasn't married I had no children no wife I could go alone. And I said I'm going to fast and pray and I will not preach until the Holy Ghost comes down upon me.

And you know I tell this story I have them in the car but I've written it down a story about Mr. Brown I call him he was a stutterer. God raised up this man a stutterer to come work with me. And he bought a trailer an old trailer not the beautiful trailers we have here in America the run down old thing in Britain.

And we fasted and prayed for months there and then the Holy Ghost came down on us and we were ready to preach. And my dear friend we saw revival. But I canceled everything I called everything to a halt.

I read in the life story of Dr. A .T. Pearson a spiritual giant who said he resigned from all the missionary committees and all the evangelistic committees around the world. And he almost resigned from his own pulpit.

You know why? He wanted to call everything to a halt and stand still in his spiritual life and say oh God what's wrong why am I so bound and unfaithful. I haven't told this story it's not in Dynamite in Europe or appeared in any magazine but you know the reason why God sent revival to Latvia and used me as a revivalist for that part of Russia was because there was a group of about 30 to 40 Baptist pastors.