I was just saying to myself while sitting
there, how lovely it is to be at
a convention that is delivered from all starchiness.
You know, sometimes we go to conventions and
we find ourselves fearfully bound, but thank God
for the liberty and the freedom.
Thank God for the friend behind me, Master,
what's his name again?
I forget.
Maxwell.
He has a way of delivering us from
all starchiness, as we say in Scotland.
Now will you turn with me to a
very familiar passage of scripture.
You will find it in the Psalm 85.
Psalm 85.
Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land.
Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people.
Thou hast covered all their sin.
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath.
Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of
thine anger.
Turn us, O God, of our salvation, and
cause thine anger toward us to cease.
Wilt thou be angry with us forever?
Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all
generations?
Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy
people may rejoice in thee?
Show us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant
us thy salvation.
I will hear what God the Lord will
speak, for he will speak peace to his
people and to his saints.
But let them not turn again to folly.
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear
him, that glory may dwell in our land.
Mercy and truth are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth shall spring out of the earth, and
righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Yea, the Lord shall give that which is
good, and our land shall yield her increase.
Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set
us in the way of his steps.
The Lord will bless that reading from his
word.
Now return with me to verse six.
We might read verses five and six.
Wilt thou be angry with us forever?
Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all
generations?
Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy
people may rejoice in thee?
I mentioned the other evening that I would
be speaking this afternoon on principles that govern
spiritual quickening.
And I would also tell you something of
how God, in his mercy, met with me
and brought revival to this heart and life
of mine.
Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy
people may rejoice in thee?
These words of the psalmist express the heart
-cry of many of God's dear children today.
There is without question a growing conviction in
many quarters that unless revival comes, that is,
a God-sent revival, other forces that are
out to defy every known Christian principle will
take the field.
Indeed, the observant eye can already see shadows,
a slant world that is ripening and ripening
fast for repentance or judgment.
With that conviction there seems to be a
growing hunger for God to manifest his power.
And so intense is the hunger, and so
deep the longing, that the cry of the
prophet of old is frequently heard upon the
lips of God's children.
O that thou wouldst lend the heavens and
come down, that the mountains might flow before
thy presence.
You will observe that in that prayer of
the prophet two fundamental things are suggested, that
unless God comes down, mountains will not flow
and sinners will not tremble.
But if God comes down, if God manifests
his power, if God shows his hand, if
God takes the field, mountains will flow.
Mountains of indifference, mountains of materialism, mountains of
humanism will flow before his presence, and
nations, not just individuals, but nations shall be
made to tremble.
We haven't seen nations trembling, but we have
seen communities, we have seen districts, we have
seen parishes in the grips of God in
the matter of hours when God came down.
It is true that we have seen man's
best endeavor in the field of evangelism, leaving
the community untouched.
We have seen crowded churches, we have seen
many professions, we have seen hundreds, yes, and
thousands responding to what you speak of here
as the altar call.
But I want to say this, dear people,
and I say it without fear of contradiction,
that you can have all that without God.
Now that may startle you, but I say
again, you can have all that on human
level.
Howard Spring was right when he wrote, the
kingdom of God is not going to be
advanced by our churches becoming filled with men,
but by men in our churches becoming filled
with God.
And that's the difference.
Oh, no, crowded churches, deep interested in church
activity is possible on near human level.
Leaving the community untouched.
The difference between successful evangelism, and I use
the word successful, and revival is this.
In evangelism you have the two, the three,
the ten, the twenty, and possibly the hundred,
making confession of Jesus Christ.
And at the end of the year you
are thankful if half of them are standing.
But the community remains untouched.
The public houses are crowded, the dances, dancing
saloons packed, the theater and the picture house
patronized by the hundreds.
No change in the community.
But in revival, when God the Holy Ghost
comes, when the winds of heaven blow, suddenly
the community becomes God conscious.
A God realization takes hold of young, middle
age, and old.
So that as in the case of the
Hebridean revival, 75 percent of those saved one
night were saved before they came near a
meeting.
The fear of God, the beginning of wisdom.
That is where the difference comes in between
evangelism and revival.
That is why I say our only hope
is not in crusades.
Thank God for all that has been accomplished.
Thank God for all that is being done
through missions.
I represent a mission in Scotland.
We have also workers in Canada.
And we thank God for all that is
being accomplished through the efforts of ministers and
evangelists and Christian workers, bringing one here and
two there to a saving knowledge of Jesus.
By our supreme need and the only answer
to the problem that confronts the Christian church
today, a visitation from God.
Let me illustrate what I mean by an
incident that happened not in Louis or in
Uist, but on the small island of Berner.
I was addressing the Berner Convention.
The Berner Convention is perhaps one of the
largest conventions in Britain.
I was sitting in the pulpit beside the
chairman of the convention and the other speaker,
when I was suddenly gripped by the conviction
that I had to leave the convention and
leave at once and go to this island.
And I turned to the chairman and told
him my convictions.
Oh, he said, you cannot leave the convention.
You are down to give the closing address.
Oh, but I couldn't give the closing address
with this conviction.
So to make a long story short, it
was agreed that I should leave the convention.
And I left the following morning by plane
to the city of Glasgow and from Glasgow
by plane to the town of Stornoway and
then by car across the island where a
ferryboat met me and took me to this
island of say 500 inhabitants.
On arriving, I met a young lad.
I said nothing to the men who ferried
me across.
They were strangers to me.
I was never on the island.
I wasn't invited to the island and no
one on the island to my knowledge had
ever met me.
But I was there and I said to
the lad that met me, could you direct
me to the nearest minister?
We have no minister on the island just
now.
Both churches are vacant.
Would you then direct me to the nearest
elder?
Yes, the nearest elder lives in that house
on the hill.
So I said to the lad, would you
mind going up to the elder and tell
him that Mr. Camberliss come to the island
and if he asks what Camberliss, tell him
that Camberliss was on the island of Lewis.
So the young lad went up and after
a few minutes came back and said Hector
MacKinnon was expecting you to arrive today and
you were to stay with his brother and
he has asked me to tell you that
he has intimated a meeting in the church
for nine o'clock tonight and he expects
you to address it.
Now explain that as you will.
Here was a man who on the morning
of the day that I sat in the
church in Bangor, Ireland, decided to spend the
day in prayer.
He was concerned about the parish, particularly concerned
about the state of the young people, growing
up in a state of indifference to God
and to the church.
His wife told me that on three occasions
she went to the door of the barn
where he was praying and she heard him
pray, God I do not know where he
is but you know and you send him.
About ten o'clock that evening he was
possessed of the conviction that God had described
and that I would be on the island
on this particular day.
Hence the intimation that I would preach in
the church at nine o'clock that evening.
We went to the church, quite a considerable
congregation gathered, about 80.
The service was a very ordinary service.
Indeed at the end I wondered after all
if I was led to the island but
there were men there nearer to God than
I was.
My dear people we've got to be honest.
This old man that I already referred to
came to me and said I hope you're
not disappointed that revival hasn't come to the
church.
Tonight but God is hovering over us and
he will break through any minute.
There was a man near to God.
The secret of the Lord is with them
that fear him.
We are now walking down from the church.
The church is on a hillock.
The main road is down about 300 yards
beneath below the church.
The congregation are moving down and we are
walking behind them when suddenly oh this is
what I'm getting at noting the difference between
evangelism and revival.
Suddenly the elder stands, takes off his hat.
Stand Mr. Campbell.
God has come.
See what is happening.
And I look toward the congregation and I
saw them falling on their knees among the
heavens.
I heard the cry of the penitent and
that meeting that began at 11 o'clock
that night continued on the hillside until four
o'clock in the morning.
The island was suddenly gripped by God.
By God.
Was it because Campbell went to the island?
Banish the thought.
I thank God for the privilege and how
thankful I am that I was near enough
to God in that pulpit to hear his
voice.
I've often thought of that.
Oh, I've often thought of it.
If I was out of touch with God,
if I was not in a place where
I could hear the voice of the Savior,
the voice of God, would Bernara have missed
that mighty visitation that shook the island from
center to circumference?
I question if there was one single house
on the island that wasn't visited that night.
An awareness of God, a consciousness of God
seemed to hover over the very atmosphere.
The very atmosphere seemed to be charged with
the power of Almighty God.
That revival marked the principle brought
into operation.
If my people, called by my name, humble
themselves and pray and seek my faith and
turn from their wicked ways, then will I
in heaven hear, come, and heal their land.
There was at least one man on that
island who fulfilled the conditions of that one
passage of scripture.
And because he fulfilled the conditions, God being
a covenant-keeping God, must be true to
his covenant engagement.
And God, to vindicate his own honor, had
to listen to the prayers of the polished
postman who knelt in a barn for a
day.
The principle that governs spiritual quickening.
Oh, that God may find a people ready
to fulfill and to comply with the governing
principles relative to spiritual quickening.
Now let me touch, first of all, on
the origin of revival.
You have it in this verse, Wilt thou
not revive us again?
My dear people, we do well to remember
that in the whole field of Christian experience,
the first step is and remains with God.
We want to remember that.
Thought, healing, endeavor must find their basis, must
find their inspiration in the sovereign mercy of
God.
Now I believe that.
I believe it with all my heart.
I remember making that statement at a conference
outside of London some time ago.
And at the close of the conference, the
chairman overheard a certain titled lady say, that
was a wonderful address that we listened to.
But I don't agree with all that he
said, particularly to the sovereignty of God.
But we must not forget that the dear
man was born and brought up among the
hills of Scotland.
And well, that is his background and he
can't help it.
Hallelujah.
Yes, my dear people, let me say again,
in the field of revival, God is sovereign.
But I hasten to say that I do
not believe in any conception of sovereignty that
nullifies man's responsibility.
God is the God of revival.
But we are the human agents through which
revival is possible.
And God found that man in the postman
of Bannera.
I believe this to be the reason for
so few making contact with Christ that is
vital to be one of the most disturbing
features of present-day evangelism.
Let me say, present-day evangelism is our
over-emphasis on what man can do.
Come to the front.
Raise your hand.
Respond to the altar call.
Come to Jesus and be happy.
God have mercy on us.
I say, God have mercy on us.
Man, in the final analysis, can do nothing
but throw himself on the sovereign mercy of
God.
Oh, let's get that clear.
That's not Highland theology.
It's New Testament theology.
It's Old Testament theology.
I'm tired, positively tired, of this gospel of
simply believism.
Oh, there's a difference between human faith and
saving faith.
I heard a prominent evangelist in Britain say
something that really startled me.
He said, you exercise faith in a plane.
You go into that plane and you exercise
faith that that plane will take you to
your destination.
You go into a steamer, you exercise faith
in the steamer and in the captain and
crew to take you to your destination.
Exercise that faith in the promises of God.
Did you ever hear or listen to such
nonsense?
That's human faith.
But saving faith is not human faith.
It's imparted.
It's given by God.
It's created.
It comes to me.
Oh, Calvin was like, and I love to
quote him, although I'm not an extreme Calvinist,
though I'm a Highlander.
Calvin said, we are saved through faith alone.
But the faith that saves is never alone.
God is in it.
Surely that is what Paul tells us.
In that great passage, I am crucified with
Christ.
Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ
he liveth in me, and the life that
I now live in the flesh.
I live by the faith of Paul.
Oh, no.
That wouldn't get him very far.
I live by the faith of the Son
of God.
The faith of God.
Now, I'm convinced of this, that if this
truth was stressed, there would be less appeals.
If this truth was stressed, our crusades and
campaigns would not be producing harvest of infidels.
If men and women would but recognize that
glorious truth, they shall seek me and shall
find me when they shall search for me
with all their heart.
That means that they may not find him
tonight, they may not find him tomorrow night,
they may not find him next week, they
may not find him for a month or
for six months, but if they are seeking
God with all their heart, they are going
to find him.
Or God is not true to his covenant
engagement.
Oh, let's get this clear.
It comes into revival.
That's why I could count upon my fine
fingers all that I spoke to a birthless
soul during the whole of the three years
I was in the midst of.
You see, in the northwest of Scotland, if
you were to press yourself and your advice
and your help upon an anxious soul, he
would be inclined to believe that it was
man's work, just man's work, and he would
much rather be left so that God himself
would handle him.
That's why we have known people for weeks
and longer in distress of soul before light
broke in upon them.
But you go back to those villages today.
I'm glad I see Mr. McFarlane of the
faith mission here.
He was up in Lewes not so very
long ago.
He was in a village that saw the
mighty movings of God.
I never spoke to one single person in
that village in an endeavor to help them
to find the Savior.
We just left them to God, and God
did it.
That's why you haven't a single backslider in
the whole of that community.
Oh, my dear people, when God does a
work, he does it well.
You can go back.
You can go back again, and you'll find
them pressing on with the God that revealed
not only himself to them but revealed himself
in them.
God, said David, God is the God of
our salvation, the fact of ultimate reality.
Surely is this, that salvation is of God.
I was asked recently to help a young
woman.
She was a nurse in Glasgow, now home
in the Hebrides, and she was in terrible
distress of soul, and the distress continued for
a long period.
My father thought that perhaps a word from
me might help her, so I called, and
I found the young woman in a terrible
state, fearfully distressed about her soul, the sense
of guilt, the sense of unworthiness, and behind
it all the question, am I in the
covenant?
Am I in the covenant?
So I knelt beside her, and did my
best to help her.
I quoted that great verse of scripture that
I so often quote, John 10 and 27.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know
them, and they follow me, and I give
unto them eternal life, and they shall never
perish.
Never can any man pluck them out of
my Father's hand.
I quoted it again, and I tried to
point out the two supreme characteristics of the
sheep for whom Christ died.
They hear his voice, and they follow.
Have you heard his voice?
Oh, have you heard his voice, young people?
Have you heard his voice?
It's different from the voice of man, the
voice of the shepherd, speaking the word of
conviction, speaking the word of pardon, speaking the
word of assurance, speaking the word of power.
Have you heard the voice of the shepherd?
I spoke along these lines, and then she
looked at me through her tears and said,
Mr. Campbell, I thank you for your kindly
words of counsel, but surely, surely, as a
minister, you believe that a verse of scripture
won't save you.
Have you got it?
Oh, have you got it?
There are thousands today living under a self
-created delusion, and a delusion given birth to
in our evangelistic crusades, who have nothing to
rest upon but a verse of scripture.
Are you saved by a verse of scripture?
Listen to the poet.
The promise can't save, though the promise is
sure, till the blood we get under that
cleanses us through.
It cleanses me now.
Hallelujah to God.
I rest on the promise, but I'm under
the blood.
That's it.
Beyond, beyond the sacred page, I see thee,
Lord.
I seek thee, Lord.
My spirit yearns for thee, thou living word.
Tell me, hath the living word spoken?
Has the living word spoken, or are you
just holding on to a verse of scripture?
Well, she said, surely you are not suggesting
that a verse of scripture will save me.
My heart cries for Jesus.
That's it.
My heart cries for Jesus.
And Jesus, four or five days after that,
revealed himself in her.
Revealed himself in her.
And she was gloriously saved.
And today, she rests upon the promise.
She feeds upon the word that brings her
to Jesus.
Oh, let's get this clear.
It's a truth we want to lay hold
of.
And it becomes so wonderfully real in revival.
People have said to me, but you see,
Mr. Campbell, up there, up there, they know
the word of God, and the Holy Spirit
has ground to work on, and they're not
tied up with this doctrine and that doctrine
and the other doctrine.
But listen, friends, I shall probably be talking
to you tomorrow night about how God sweeps
into communities where the word of God, to
a large extent, is unknown.
There are such communities in Britain, almost pagan.
But I've seen God sweeping into such communities.
For instance, the Midlands of England, just recently,
sweeping into a godless community.
And suddenly, men and women, understanding perfectly what
it means to be born again and what
it means to be sanctified, who, before the
movings of God, knew nothing or could not
understand what Christ meant by saying you must
be born again.
That's why I say there's hope for any
community when God takes the situation in hand.
The origin then, God, and the way God
works, I think we've seen that.
But his agents are his people.
God, as I already said, is the God
of revival.
He is sovereign.
But as I already said, I quote again,
we do not believe in any conception of
sovereignty that nullifies my responsibility.
To say, as many do today, well, we
can do nothing.
We've just to wait for the wind to
blow.
Well, that may be a very accommodating doctrine
to the man at ease in Zion, but
it will not stand in the light of
divine revelation.
I wonder how many of us here talking
about revival and interested in the convention are
giving time to God in prayer.
I'm thankful that I was brought up in
a home where prayer had a prominent place.
Mother hoped that at least God had an
hour every morning.
Stillness in the farmhouse.
No work from half past six in the
morning to half past seven.
Horses fed at six.
Oh yes, they had to be attended to.
These were the days of horses.
I'm not sure, but they were better days
than the days in which we're living.
Half past six to half past seven.
Quietness in the farmhouse, in order that we
might listen to God and give God an
opportunity to speak to us.
We are the human agent through which revival
is possible.
Let me ask this question.
Are you in the place where God can
trust you with revival?
He is sovereign.
He is supernatural.
God is in the place where He can
trust you with revival, but He comes down
and in His sovereign purpose and wise economy,
He has placed this treasure in ethereal vessels.
Are you one that we can use?
Are you one that we can trust?
Are you in intimate fellowship with God?
I'm sure some of you will have heard
of that lovely Scottish saint by the name
of Murray McChane, died at 27, but left
his mark, an indelible mark, on Scotland.
Murray McChane was wonderfully used in revival prior
to the disruption of 43.
It was the revivals of McChane and Boner
and others that led to that great disruption
when the free church left the establishment.
Murray McChane said this, If we are to
walk worthy of our high and holy calling,
we must live in daily consideration of the
greatness and glory of Jesus.
That's it now.
Living in daily consideration of the greatness and
the glory of Jesus.
Because the man who is there is just
the man that God can trust.
With revival he is sovereign, but I'm the
instrument that he wills to use.
Oh, tell me, friend, tell me, are you
there?
Now, I want to close my talk by
telling you something of how God, in his
mercy, met with me.
I think I must go back to the
days of my conversion.
I was converted under strange circumstances, I cannot
take time to tell it all, but I
was a piper and a step-dancer, and
I was playing in a concert and dance
outside of Auburn when God spoke to me,
God spoke to me in the dance.
I had a praying father and a praying
mother, and I left the dance and went
home, shut myself in the bar and knelt
among the straw, prepared for the horses in
the morning and cried, God, I do not
know how to come, I know not what
to do, but if you'll save me as
I am, I'm coming now and God save
me.
God save me.
And I say here today that never for
one single moment had I ever any occasion
to doubt the work that God did in
my heart that morning.
God did a sovereign and supernatural work and
set me gloriously free.
I believe that I can honestly say that
godliness, godliness, characterized every part of my being,
body, soul and spirit, in that wonderful experience,
and I'm not talking of sanctification or the
deeper life, I'm just talking of a soul
born again, when God does the work.
But shortly after that, I joined the 46th
and found myself in France during the First
World War.
And I wasn't long there until I discovered
that there were powers resident within me that
were more than a match for me.
You see, I was cradled in the midst
of godliness, and I was sheltered in a
godly home.
Now I found myself in the midst of
extreme ungodliness, extreme ungodliness.
And I soon discovered, as I already said,
forces resident within me that were more than
a match for me.
Again and again I cried, O God, speak
the word of deliverance along this particular avenue.
However, to make a long story short, I'm
in a cavalry charge, and in that cavalry
charge I at last found myself lying on
the battlefield, badly wounded.
I thank God for a young trooper of
the Canadian horse.
I owe a great deal to Canada, for
that reason I'm happy to be here, to
pay a long-standing debt.
I was lying on the ground when there
was a second charge, and this charge was
by the Canadian horse, the last charge, cavalry
charge of the British Army, outside of Amiens,
on the 12th of April, 1918.
As they charged over that bloody field, a
horse's hoof struck me in the spine, and
I must have groaned, and that groan registered
in the mind of the young trooper that
was in the charge.
So much so, that in the providence of
God he came right back to where I
lay.
After they had cleared the hills and took
the guns, he came back, dismounted and threw
me across the horse's back, and carried me
to the first casualty clearing station.
I thank God for that young man, whoever
or wherever he is.
I, on that horse's back, entered into an
experience that revolutionized my life.
I believed that I was dying.
I knew that I was being carried to
the casualty clearing station, but would I ever
see it?
And I prayed a prayer, frequently prayed by
my father, God, make me as holy as
a saved sinner can be.
And listen friends, God swept into my life,
God the Holy Ghost, I cannot explain it
in any other way, swept into my life,
and I was brought to the station.
Now listen, I couldn't speak very much in
English then, Gaelic was my language, but I
know this, that I began to talk about
Jesus in Gaelic, in Gaelic, and there wasn't
a soul there that could understand me, but
God understood me.
And I want to say this, that before
we left that casualty clearing station, seven Canadians
were gloriously saved, seven of them.
Again, I must leave that casualty clearing station,
and after a year in hustle, a year
in a month, and after a few months
of Bible training, I went out to proclaim
the unsearchable riches of Jesus, and I saw
the nidder-guiled revival.
God moved in these parishes in a mighty
way, and hundreds were swept into the kingdom
of God, and then an evil hour struck
me.
I stepped consciously out of the will of
God, began to study for the ministry, and
I'm sorry to say that during that period
I drifted far from God in my mind,
in my mind, and in my heart.
Oh, I was still evangelical, passed through, came
out as a minister, and for 17 years
ministered to two congregations.
I was scandal of the nidder-guiled revival,
and I would be asked to address conventions
and conferences.
Oh, the deceit of the human heart.
I knew how unfit I was.
Oh, I would never question my salvation, and
no one in the parish would question my
salvation because I tried to live consistently, but
I knew barrenness, barrenness in my spirit.
Prayer became a burden in the word of
God, a dead word.
Oh, brother, have you had that experience?
So one day, oh, how I thanked God
for that day.
My young daughter came to me, thank God
for her, a girl of 16 years of
age.
She came to me and she said, Daddy,
I would like to see you in your
study.
I've been praying for you, Daddy.
I want to speak to you.
And she took me to my study and
she threw herself on my knees, as daughters
sometimes do.
She put her arms round my neck and
I can still see the tears streaming from
her eyes as she said, Daddy, when you
were a pilgrim in the state mission, after
the First World War, you saw revival in
Scotland.
You saw revival.
Daddy, how is it that God is not
using you in revival today?
Tell me, Daddy, when did you last lead
a soul to Christ?
Thank God for faithful daughters.
And I tell you, dear people, that shook
me.
Oh, it shook me.
I knew, I knew Campbell, a convention speaker,
Campbell, the evangelistic minister, in his study, smashed
and broken by a question from his daughter.
And listen, I was booked to address the
Cassie Convention that year, along with a brother
of Dr. William Fitch of Toronto, Dr. Fitch
of Belfast.
I went to the convention, oh, the deceit
of the human heart.
I went to the convention and I gave
my address, and I was so thankful when
it was over.
The words kept ringing in my ear, when
did you last lead a soul to Christ?
When did you last lead a soul to
Christ?
Then God, in his own wonderful way, moved
Dr. Tom Fitch to depart from the address
that he had prepared and give his own
personal testimony.
And Dr. Fitch gave his personal testimony.
And I went home, resolved that unless God
would do something for me and give me
back what I lost, that I certainly would
resign from the ministry.
I was absolutely decided on that.
So on going home, I said to my
wife and daughter, I'm going to my study
and I want you to leave me alone.
I'm going to seek a meeting with God.
And I went to my study, I shut
the door, I put the rug down on
the floor in front of the fire, and
I lay on the rug.
I cannot take time to tell you all
that God said to me in that hour,
but I'm thankful to say that he spoke
to me the word of pardon, and the
word of forgiveness, and the word of recommission.
And I cried, God, won't you give me
again what you gave me on the battlefield?
Listen, friend, God did it.
My daughter came in at two o'clock
in the morning, she lay down beside me
and she said, this, daddy, whatever it costs,
go through with God.
Whatever it costs, go through with God.
And I said, Sheena, I'm going through whatever
it may cost, and God knows what it
cost me, to stand in my pulpit the
following Sunday and make a public apology for
pretending what I was not in the midst
of my congregation.
Five of my office-bearers left me within
a week.
They wouldn't have a fool in the pulpit.
Oh, that may happen.
It sometimes happens, you see, in revival there's
subtraction before addition.
But listen, friends, as I lay there, God
the Holy Ghost came upon me.
Wave after wave came rolling over me until
the love of God swept through me like
a mighty river, so much so that there
were no men.
Now, listen, my daughter beside me put her
hand on my shoulder and she prayed, Oh,
God, keep his reason to daddy.
I was never more sane in my life,
but I was so wrought upon by the
Holy Ghost that I cried and I laughed
and I prayed.
Oh, I cannot.
Someone asked me, Did they speak in tongues?
Oh, I have asked that again and again.
No, my dear people, I've never spoken in
tongues, nor have I ever been in a
meeting where tongues have been practiced.
Just a short time ago I heard someone
say something in a meeting.
They said she spoke in tongues, but I
didn't understand it or hear it.
No, my dear people, mind you, when I
say that, don't think that I'm denying the
gifts mentioned in the New Testament.
Precious gifts when God gives them.
But all I can say is that that
never came to me.
But I say the baptism of the Holy
Ghost came to me in a mighty, cleansing,
empowering power.
A professor in Edinburgh met me some time
afterwards.
Of course, it was known abroad that something
had happened to Campbell.
Of course, something did happen to him.
I was set free.
Glorious freedom.
This professor said to me, Now tell me,
tell me, Campbell, tell me that you had
a wonderful experience in your study.
Yes, I said, God came to me.
What difference did it make in your life?
Well, I think, Professor, that the difference must
be obvious to you from what has already
happened.
I said, I went out to preach the
same sermons that I'd been preaching for seventeen
years.
Went out to preach the same sermons with
this difference that I now saw hundreds conduct.
Hundreds brought savingly to Christ.
If God in his mercy has been pleased
to use me in some small measure since
that hour, I can trace it back to
that moment when Sheena said to me, Whatever
it costs, Daddy, go through with God.
I say to you, brother, whatever it costs,
whatever it costs, go through with God.