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4 two things in view - the quickening of Saints and the Consequent Conversion of Sinners. We cannot reasonably expect this order will be changed x If God condescends sometimes to save souls over the slumbering bodies of his people, it is not for us to think that he will always do so. Judgment must first begin at the house of God. If many souls are to be saved - many Christians must be waked up. Ordinarily, God works on the principle of Contact. He saves one soul, and through him he works to save others. He puts one praying heart into a family and makes the Salvation of all the rest dependent upon the faith of that one - Parable of the leaven? In this way Conversions are multiplied - and the revival becomes general. Mr. Barnes says take the case of a single true conversion to God & extend it to a Community - to many individuals passing through that change and you have all the theory of a revival