Any man may hear the voice of God.

When man will listen, God speaks. When God speaks, men are changed.

When men are changed, nations are changed.

In the ancient days God spoke, and the wonderful things which He told Moses on the mountaintop have inspired mankind for centuries.

Down through the years men of God have heard His voice. God spoke to George Mueller, and he became the modern apostle of faith. Hudson Taylor heard Him speak, as he walked by the seashore on a memorable Sabbath morning, and in obedience to that Voice he launched forth into inland China, establishing Mission Stations in every province of that vast country.

God spoke to Dr. A. B. Simpson, and he stepped aside from a well-beaten path, and like Abraham of old “obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going” (Hebrews 11:8). Today, The Christian and Missionary Alliance, operating in more than twenty mission fields of the world, is the result of his obedience, and untold numbers have been blessed through his ministry.

Charles Cowman heard the “soft and gentle Voice,” when God spoke saying, “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee” (Genesis 12:1 KJV). The result—The Oriental missionary society, with hundreds of mission stations dotted all over the Orient! And now its activities embrace the wide world.

God is not dumb that He should speak no more.

If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find’st not Sinai, ’tis thy soul is poor: There towers the mountain of the Voice no less, Which whoso seeks shall find; but he who bends Intent on manna still, and mortal ends, Sees it not, neither hears its thundering lore.

LOWELL