Revive deep spirituality in the hearts of your own children. Oh, that we might live so near to the great Shepherd as to be familiar with his voice, to know its tones, that so a stranger we may not follow; for we know not the voice of strangers. If it were possible, they would deceive even the very elect; and how shall your elect be kept from their deceptions but by abiding in the truth, and walking in the power of the Holy Spirit?
Oh, revive your church, we ask, in this respect! Give to those who know you intenser faith in the eternal verities, burning into us by experience the things which we do know; may they be beyond all question to us.