Do You Want Revival? subtitled: Jonathan Edwards on why the Macks are going to Africa

Jonathan Edwards notes in his sermon, *Much in Deeds of Charity that "remarkable outpourings of the Spirit of God and an abounding in the practice of the duty [of good deeds]" tend to go together.To illustrate he draws attention to a revival in Germany that God began through the work of a certain pastor named Herman Franke. Edwards points out that the revival started apparently with a plan to help orphans. And at the time he was preaching, he said the revival had continued on for thirty years.He also draws attention to George Whitefield, whom we all know God used in almost unbelievable ways to accomplish revival in England and the United States. Edwards says that Whitefield consciously learned from Franke's example, literally "took pattern by this" and that Whitefield had said as much in letter he had written.He concludes and here is the line I love that, if we followed in the footsteps of these men that..."...there would be no more likely way for us to have the outpouring of the Spirit of God continued here..."For after all,"There is nothing seems to be more inviting as it were to the God of Love to dwell among a people than the prevailing of such a Spirit and practice their abounding in deeds of Love..."*The sermon, "Much in Deeds of Charity" may be found in The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, ed. Wilson H. Kimnach, Kenneth Minkema, and Douglas Sweeney (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), 197-211.