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9. The days of John the Baptist furnish us with another revival. The stern rough man came preaching the searching, arousing, convicting, and condemning truth of God - "Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." What was the language of a revival sermon. The spirit of Elijah was in him - and what was the result? It was this, "There went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region around about Jordan, and were baptised in Jordan confessing their sins." People of today would have said that that was nothing but excitement. But not many years after this another excitement followed, Jesus had ascended to the right had of God - to the place of power - Then the prophecies of old and the fresh promise of X was fulfilled The spirit was poured out. It came too in answer to prayer - A little obscure