. Review of reviews and world's work. ry of tlie veiy fiiStoutbreak of the revivaltiaces it to the trem-bling utterance of apoor Welsh girl, who, ata meeting in a Cardi-gan village, was thefirst to rise and no one else will,then I must say that Ilove the Lord JesusChrist with all my heart. The pathos and the passion of the avowalacted like an electric shock upon the after another rose and made the full surren-der, and the news spread like wildfire fiom placeto place that the revival liad broken out, and thatsouls were being ingathered to the Lord. Butthe revival was
. Review of reviews and world's work. ry of tlie veiy fiiStoutbreak of the revivaltiaces it to the trem-bling utterance of apoor Welsh girl, who, ata meeting in a Cardi-gan village, was thefirst to rise and no one else will,then I must say that Ilove the Lord JesusChrist with all my heart. The pathos and the passion of the avowalacted like an electric shock upon the after another rose and made the full surren-der, and the news spread like wildfire fiom placeto place that the revival liad broken out, and thatsouls were being ingathered to the Lord. Butthe revival was soon to find its focus in a youngtheological student of the name of Evan Roberts,wlio has abandoned his course at NewcastleEmelyn to carry on the work of the revivalthroughout AVales. I went down to South Wales in the middle ofDecember to see for myself wliat was going was profoundly impressed. •The British Empire, as Admii-al Fisher isnever tired of repeating. floats upon the Britishnavy. But the British navy steams on Welsh. EVAN ItOBEHTS. The leader in the great Welsh revival.) coal. The driving force of all our battleships ishewn from the mines of these Welsh valleys, bytlie men among whom this remarkable religiousawakening has taken place. On Sunday morn-ing, as the slow train crawled down the gloomyvalleys—for there was the mirk of coming snowin the air, and therewas no sun in the sky—I could not avoid theobvious and insistentsuggestion of thethought that Welsh re-ligious enthusiasm maybe destined to impartas compelling an im-pulse to tlie churches oftlie world as Welshcoal supplies to its na-vies. Nor was the forceof the suggestion weak-ened when, after at-tending three pro-longed services atMardy, a village of fivethousand inhabitants,lying on the other sideof Pontypridd, I foundthe flame of Welsh re-ligious enthusiasm assmokeless as its are no advertise-ments,-no brass bands,no posters, no hugetents. All the parapher-nalia of the got-up job are c
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