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7 so many contradictory influences brought to bear upon them, that religion would decline and keep on declining, till God could have time - so to speak- to shape the course of events so as to produce anther excitement and then pour out his spirit again to convert sinners. Then the cruter? acting causes would again operate, and religion would decline, and the nation would be swept away in the vortex of luxury, idolatry and pride." When Habakkuk prayed "O Lord revive they work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known, in wrath remember mercy" he prayed for a revival. But long before this in the days of Samuel when the people had strayed from the Lord serving Baalim, it is said "Israel lamented after the Lord" and Samuel said - "If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, and serve him only, he will deliver you." That deliverance came. When they went