The West (church and society) needs revival
Arthur Wallis in Rain from Heaven states,
“Though this book emphasises the spiritual rather than the social effects of revival, it is not out of place here to mention that its effect on social reform has been profound. Lecky, the historian, stated that it was the Methodist Revival which saved England from the bloody revolution that overtook France, Writing of the period prior to the American Civil War, Timothy L. Smith, in his Revivalism and Social Reform, shows how the curbing of drunkenness, vice and other social ills, as well as the abolition of slavery, were direct results of the revivals that came from the frontier to dominate the urban religious scene.”
When I observe the decay and confusion in much of Western society and church I cannot help but reflect that they need revival.