quietly: ‘I never preach now without believing that something will be done that will last for eternity.’ With some sense of the extent to which his ministry had that kind of effect on my own life, I recall thinking ‘That is the measure of faith I too need to have.’ The words have lingered with me now for four decades and been a constant reminder to me of Robert Murray M’Cheyne's wise comment that it is not ‘many words’ but ‘words spoken in faith’ that God blesses. Since its first publication, The Work of