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19 Our indebtedness to him is to be discharged in proportion as we succeed in perfecting ourselves and in saving others - O what heavy debts we are carrying, saved ourselves, but we have saved nobody else! Our obligation to revival efforts will appear in answering two questions: What have revivals done for the world; and what have they done for us personally? No one sermon is sufficient to adequately reply to either if these inquiries. We must be content with the merest outline Take the first question Think of it first in its most general aspect - What society is not made the better for a work of this kind. Conversions may be but few in comparison with the multitude of unsaved but the very springs of society feel the uplifting power of Grace. "Exalted to be the sons of God, and thrilled with new impulses, men burst asunder the chains of superstition, tyranny and vice and come into a higher and broader