“Preaching on ‘Suddenly there came a sound from heaven’ (Acts 2:2), during the decline which marked the early 1900s, he said, “When the sound is heard from heaven, and the next revival comes, there will be nothing said from the pulpit or platform about ‘up-to-date’ or ‘social subject’, or the clap-trap that is popular today; it will be Bible! Bible! Bible! And the people clamouring, ‘Let us have the Word of God.’  The gospel was preached [at Pentecost], and what followed? Conviction! ‘They were pricked in their heart.’ They said to Peter, ‘Men and brethren, what shall we do?’  ‘But’, says someone, ‘do you imagine such a thing could ever happen today?’  Yes, indeed I do.  I have seen it!  Every week for years and years, men and women coming and saying, ‘What shall we do?’ “

Archibald G Brown

qtd by Iain Murray

Archibald G Brown: Spurgeon’s Successor

Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2011  pp367-368