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Return to Revivals Main Index >> The Revivals "Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?" Psalm 85:6 Revival Awakes The Conscience. -- The Rev. J. J. Morgan, who was at tonight's meeting, tells me that at a chapel where he had just been preaching, one of the deacons read aloud to the congregation a letter from a member, acknowledging that years ago he kept back the price of some tickets sold for the church. He now returned the money and humbly begged forgiveness. -- Daily News Revival Revives The Memory. -- A still more striking indirect effect of the revival was told me by a gentleman at Hafod tonight. "Eight years ago," he said, "a lady borrowed a sovereign from my wife. When asked for it after a few weeks she denied the debt. Now she has sent the sovereign back, acknowledging that her statement was a lie, and asking for forgiveness. This story would have a most sensational effect if I were permitted to reveal the lady's name, and the position of her husband. For eight years this trifling debt has been rankling in her conscience." -- Daily News Deprecating the intrusion of General Booth and other eminent leaders upon the Welsh Revival, "Invicta" writes to the Daily News: -- "A revival without a famous orator! Can it be! Why any one almost can say as clever things as Evan Roberts if there were nothing but human cleverness in it. So there are thousandswho quietly and trustfully are going to prayer on behalf of their own tiny churches and their own villages, that the Spirit which has come to Wales and found her ready by years of deep Scripture study and exercise of `home religion,' may baptize these also. "Let us plead, for the sake of the out-of-the-way workers that their rising hopes be not blighted by the fear lest after all it be of no use --that the work of God can only be done by the famous `stars.' Let the stars rest awhile, that the Sun Him-self may shine." A few weeks ago the revival began at Hafod with an old collier of sixty-three years who had never been to a chapel service since he left Sunday-school fifty years ago. His wife attended one of the missions of Mr. Evan Roberts at the neighboring town of Porth, and came home singing and praying. The next Sunday, while she was at the Silvan Chapel, of which she is a member, the old man came in and publicly gave himself up to Christ. His wife wept with joy, the congregation were moved to songs of passionate sympathy, the sermon had to be abandoned, and since then there have been no regular services, nothing but almost continuous revival. -- Daily News "It is very often true, when a revival seems to have an extreme character that the fact is due, not to the real state produced, but to the previous fall, the death and desolation, with which it is contrasted. The dishonor does not belong to the revival, but to the decay of principle in the disciple which needs reviving. There ought to be no declension of real principle; but, if there is, no dishonor attaches to God in recover-ing His disciple from it, but the more illustrious honor. Commonly, if the ridicule were thrown upon the worldliness -- the dishonorable looseness of life and principle -- that preceded it, it would not be misplaced." -- Bushnell Not a single word of abuse against any person or any class of the community found a place in the address of the revivalist or in the prayers of the congregation; and this consistent absence of any fierce tirade, which is too often part and parcel of the stockin-trade of zealous propagandists, is one of the significant and most wholesome features of the present movement. -- Western Mail, Cardiff The Christ is asserting His claims in new and unexpected ways, and therein we do rejoice. Let materialistic men say what they will, the weeping and contrition of Welsh miners over sin, and its putting away by them, is more consonant with the true Christmas joy than all the empty songs and greetings of the multitudes who by their sin crucify afresh the Christ in the midst of their revelry. -- Dr. Campbell Morgan "Our young people desert the theater, the foot-ball field, and the public-house by the thousand, and flock into every place of worship whose doors are open; and scores of them take part in every way they can to advance the movement. Old backsliders and hardened sinners follow the lead of the young, and come home rejoicing. Ministers of the gospel take heart and wait confidently. They all know the movement is of God, and are steadily preparing for the 'building up' which is to follow." -- A Wales Minister Welsh Revival And The Western Mail Editorial item in London Methodist Times of January 12 Perhaps the most extraordinary event in connection with the Welsh Revival has been the issue of "Revival Editions" of the Cardiff West-ern Mail. The last issue, published on Monday evening, has been for-warded to us, and is really a most remarkable achievement of modem journalism. Religious optimists have often dreamed of the time when revival news should take the place of racing and police court intelligence in the press; but here we have a whole evening paper given up bodily to reports of the progress of this marvelous spiritual movement. Our enterprising contemporary has set out the matter in the at-tractive form employed in the case of ordinary news, with striking headlines, leaded type, and all the usual accessories of the evening paper. Instead of photographs of criminals and heroes of the football field, pictures of the evangelists are given, and a well drawn cartoon illustrates the change in many a collier's home wrought at Christmas time through the agency of Mr. Evan Roberts. On the back of the paper is printed a revival hymn set to mu-sic, and a summary of the conversions recorded since the beginning of the movement on November 8. Altogether the numbers have now reached 35,698 -- a figure which represents a minimum estimate of the far-reaching character of the revival. The Western Mail has also issued a second pamphlet on the revival, bringing down the descriptions of the revival meetings to the end of last year. This pamphlet maybe obtained at 176 Fleet, E.C., for one penny. |
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