Our study of them suggests, that the first stage in any social regeneration is likely to be brought about by the instinctive rallying of individuals about a natural leader, strong enough to compel and direct them; and whose appeal is to the impulsive life, to an acknowledged of unacknowledged lack or craving, not to the faculty of deliberate choice.

This leader, then, must offer new life and love, not intellectual solutions.

He must be able to share with his flock his own ardour and apprehension of Reality; and evoke from them the profound human impulse to imitation.

They will catch his enthusiasm, and thus receive the suggestions of his teaching and of his life.

This first stage, supremely illustrated in the disciples of Christ, and again in the groups who gathered round such men as St.Francis, Fox, or Booth, is re-experienced in a lesser way in every successful revival: and each genuine restoration of the life of Spirit, whether its declared aim be social or religious, has a certain revivalistic character.