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Chapter 8 The Welsh Revival Before we look

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at the Welsh Revival, we should note that

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the Pentecostal pioneers had a heritage of many

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revivals.

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The denominations from which the pioneers came, whether

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Methodist, Brethren, Presbyterian, Baptist or Anglican, were deeply

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affected and impacted by revivals in previous centuries.

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There were those alive in the early 1900s

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who remember the great revival of 1859 that

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swept Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as

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Scotland and England.

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All these pioneers were well acquainted with the

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history of the Methodist Revival, which swept England

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in the 18th century.

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The Methodist Revival saved the nation from experiencing

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a bloody revolution like the one in France.

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God's way of deliverance was to raise up

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chosen vessels like George Whitefield, John Wesley and

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his brother Charles out at the despised Holy

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Club at Cambridge.

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Both Scotland and Wales experienced numbers of small

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awakenings, as well as large and national revivals

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over the centuries when the spirit was outpoured.

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In fact, Scotland and Wales have had more

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outpourings than any other nation in the world.

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Far too many to summarise here, but the

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reason we now single out the Welsh Revival,

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which broke out in November 1904, is that

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it preceded the Pentecostal movement by less than

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two years and was probably one of the

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greatest moulding influences upon the Pentecostal movement.

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In the years preceding the Welsh Revival, there

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were very definite signs of coming glory, especially

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in the ten months leading into that November.

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There were many who were soaked in prayer

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and who had a living expectation that they

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were on the verge of a great revival.

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Many hungry saints had read books, like Andrew

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Murray's With Christ in the School of Prayer,

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that prepared them for the place of prayer.

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God had prepared a people and carefully moulded

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many vessels to lead vast multitudes of souls

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back to God.

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Many were prepared, many were used, but one

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person, Evan Roberts, was certainly to become the

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most prominent and the one we shall look

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at here.

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Evan Roberts was born into a very godly,

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devout and hard-working family in 1878.

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He was one of 14 children and one

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of seven sons.

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Their home, called Island House, was situated on

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the banks of the River Lochr in Lochor,

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a small village in Glamorgan in South Wales.

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Near Lochor was a coal mine where Evan

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went to work with his father at the

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young age of 11, which brought an end

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to his school education.

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He was a door boy, which entailed opening

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and closing the door for the drams, carriages,

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carrying coal up and down the shafts.

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The old Welsh preachers often referred to those

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dark and dangerous mines as a picture of

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hell or the darkness of men's depraved hearts.

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Those like Evan who worked underground could very

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well relate to this picture language.

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From his earliest years, Evan was a very

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serious and solemn boy.

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He was a constant student of the Bible

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and was never found without it, either in

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his hand or in his pocket.

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Once, in an explosion in the mine, his

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Bible was scorched but Evan was unharmed.

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When manning the mine doors, he would often

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give the passing miners a written text of

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Scripture to meditate on and would later ask

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them what they had learned from it.

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This boy intended to be a preacher.

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His separation from all the boyish fun of

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his friends around him was a true mark

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of just how serious he was about us.

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He had no outstanding gift to speak or

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expound the Scriptures that anyone could see, but

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the blamelessness of his life was apparent to

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all.

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Evan faithfully attended every meeting at Moriah Chapel,

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the large Calvinistic Methodist church which his family

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attended.

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Moriah was one of several non-conformist chapels

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in Lough Corr.

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One day, an elder challenged young Evan concerning

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faithfulness in attending God's house.

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The elder had asked him how he would

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feel if he were absent when the Spirit

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of God fell.

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After that, Evan made it his habit to

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attend every meeting without fail.

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There was not a night of the week

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when he was not at some meeting.

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In 1902, he left his work in the

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mine and began an apprenticeship with his uncle

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as a blacksmith.

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He went about his business faithfully and almost

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unnoticed, but his desire to pursue the call

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of God became increasingly evident.

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For years, he held back from applying for

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ministerial training because he knew very well how

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such theological schools had killed the spirit of

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many.

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Prior to the revival, academic qualifications and learning

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had become the most emphasised thing in preparing

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for ministry.

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Spiritual life and fervency were secondary qualifications and

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almost ignored.

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Eventually, he was recommended for the ministry by

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Moriah Chapel in 1903, which meant that he

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had to pass the trial of preaching his

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first sermon before the presbytery in Moriah to

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prove his skills and then to preach in

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other associated chapels to further prove his call.

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It also meant that his personal experience of

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Christ and his call to the ministry would

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be scrutinised by mature, godly men in this

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church and area.

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It is of interest to note that George

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Muller's writings on faith and prayer left a

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quiet mark upon him in his walk with

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God.

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As he prepared for ministry, he prayed much

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that God would baptise him with the Holy

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Spirit and power.

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Evan was no victim of higher criticism or

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modernism.

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He believed in the total depravity of man's

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heart, the eternal punishment of Christ-rejectors and

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of the miracle-working power of God to

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save sinners, to wash them clean in his

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precious blood.

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He preached obedience, holiness and subjection to Christ

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in all things.

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But he was deeply depressed over the state

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of church generally across the nation.

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It was a sad failure in comparison to

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what he read in the scriptures.

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One night, while trying to prevail with God

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and prayer, he fell asleep.

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In the middle of the night, he awoke

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suddenly with unspeakable joy in the very presence

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of Almighty God.

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For four hours, he spoke to the Lord

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face to face as a friend would speak

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to a friend.

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From that moment, he knew that God was

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going to work in the land.

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A similar burden of prayer came to him

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every night for the next four months.

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It would be wrong to say that this

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was the beginning of his prayer for revival,

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for he had been praying for it throughout

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the previous 11 years that God would send

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revival to Wales, and for 13 years he

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had prayed for a personal filling of the

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Holy Spirit.

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In September 1904, at the age of 26,

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he moved to Newcastle Grammar School for preliminary

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studies for the ministry.

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It was here that he would have a

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meeting with God that would be as significant

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as Moses meeting God at the burning bush.

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Seth Joshua, pioneer evangelist for the Calvinistic Methodist

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forward movement, had been mightily converted back in

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1882 at a Salvation Army meeting when he

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knelt at an old mourner's bench and cried

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unto God for forgiveness and salvation.

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Those were days when Salvationists had invaded the

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Welsh Valleys with a spirit of revival.

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They held open-air meetings and the Salvation

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Lassies played the tambourines amidst testimonies and shouts

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of Hallelujah!

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The CM forward movement, Calvinistic Methodist forward movement,

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was founded by denominational leaders as an earnest

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attempt to reach the Welsh communities previously untouched

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and unmoved by the power of the Gospel.

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The forward movement certainly carried something of the

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spirit of those old-fashioned Salvationists and so

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did Seth Joshua.

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Those who knew Joshua called him a man

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of God, for he was wholly dedicated and

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consecrated unto God.

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He was a man that God could use.

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He was not bound by typical trends of

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religion or tradition, for some time he'd been

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greatly concerned about the emphasis on education rather

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than emphasis on a real spiritual experience and

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walk with God as the main qualifications for

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ministry.

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He continued with a deep burden and prayer

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that the Lord would, open quote, take a

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lad from the coal mine or from the

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field even as he took Elisha from the

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plough to revive his work, close quote.

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When old Joshua came to Newcastle, Emlyn, to

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hold a campaign, the principal of Evan Roberts'

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school encouraged all the young men to attend

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the meetings.

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At these meetings Evan was much impressed with

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the fervour and the message of the preacher

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as he sat night after night intently listening

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to this messenger from heaven.

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The campaign ended without any unusual manifestational sign

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that God was about to do a great

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work and Joshua thought that the ground was

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hard and the people unresponsive.

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Even Evan found his own heart to be

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somewhat hard and cold.

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The evangelist moved on to his next preaching

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appointment, a small neighbourhood on the coast of

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the cardigan bay, but there were some very

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definite workings of God in the hearts of

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the people of this place.

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A group of the students from the grammar

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school made plans to travel to those meetings

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and Evan was among them.

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As they travelled they sang, It is coming,

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it is coming, the power of the Holy

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Ghost, I receive it, I receive it, the

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power of the Holy Ghost.

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After the first early morning meeting Seth Joshua

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prayed asking God to bend them.

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This prayer became Evan's prayer in a powerful

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Now he prayed, bend me Lord, with all

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Soon this would become the prayer of a

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nation.

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In the meeting the next morning young Evan

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fell upon his knees and then lay prostrate

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asking God this one thing, bend me, bend

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He was sweating profusely as he travailed in

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prayer and groaned in spirit.

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That day he died, he became a new

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man, another man.

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It was a virtual baptism of fire in

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which God did bend him.

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These meetings continued for several days with other

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young friends having similar experiences.

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Evan was now given over to prayer for

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a great spiritual awakening in Wales.

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It became impossible for him to carry on

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his studies at the college.

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He asked God for others who were filled

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with fire who would stand by him for

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the task and they were soon given to

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He made initial plans to step out in

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faith with this little band in evangelistic labors

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from county to county but it seems the

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Lord restrained him from this.

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One day with great excitement Evan went to

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see his good friend Sidney Evans to tell

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Sidney that the Lord had given him a

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vision of all of Wales being lifted up

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to heaven and that he'd received the assurance

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that 100 souls would be saved.

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Another night while standing in a garden with

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Sidney looking up at the beautiful full moon

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they experienced the same vision at the same

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It was a hand reaching down from the

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moon to the earth to take something unto

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itself.

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They were both convinced that this was a

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token of the confirmation that the hand of

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God would be outstretched to work in the

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nation to bring in a great harvest of

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souls.

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Another time he had a vision of hell

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and the terrible suffering of lost sinners.

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As he saw this he pleaded with God

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to close hell's door for one year and

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give the people an opportunity to repent.

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During those weeks of intensity there were those

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who felt Evan was losing touch with reality

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and that he was becoming fanatical and extreme.

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They were very concerned about him.

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Evan and Sidney would be up frequently in

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the middle of the night travailing in prayer

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and one night their hostess came and rebuked

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them for the noise at such an unearthly

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hour.

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It was in the Sunday morning meeting as

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the minister Evan Phillips preached on the subject

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Father the hour is come that Evan had

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a vision of the church in Locore with

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young men sitting in rows and he was

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preaching to them.

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The Spirit of God was commissioning him to

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go and to speak to them and he

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yielded to God's will.

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After speaking with the principal of the school

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he left Newcastle on the 31st of October

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to return to Locore by train.

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All he had was the Holy Spirit and

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a vision from God.

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No one was expecting him in Locore and

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no meetings were arranged.

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His family were skeptical of his enthusiasm and

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his minister was slow to arrange a meeting.

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Finally he persuaded the various older ministers in

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the area to allow him to speak at

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some of the smaller less important meetings that

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week.

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The first meeting was a youth meeting held

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on a Monday night.

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There were just 17 young people present.

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As he testified of what God had been

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doing in his life and was about to

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do in the nation he exhorted them to

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prepare themselves for a baptism of the Holy

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Ghost.

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At first the meeting was hard going but

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suddenly the power of God came down and

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all who were not saved were converted and

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others yielded themselves unreservedly to God.

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The next days news of the deep impact

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and change in the lives of these young

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people spread in the community.

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Night after night meetings were held with more

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gatherings as Evan went from church to church.

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The people prayed, listened, repented and rejoiced.

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His message to sinners was repent.

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His message to the saints was be filled

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with the Spirit.

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By the end of the week the community

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was astir.

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Meetings went on for five hours with many

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laying prostrate on the ground under deep conviction

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of sin and agony of soul until they

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received salvation.

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The following week meetings continued to five in

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the morning with sleep, food and normal activities

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forgotten.

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Then an invitation came from a church in

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Aberdare 30 miles to the east where the

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proposed speaker had cancelled his morning engagement.

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Evan arrived there with three young ladies accompanying

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him.

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The congregation had been trundling along in normalcy

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but not for much longer.

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The church elders expected a good service but

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nothing unusual.

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The service began with one of the young

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ladies bursting into song as tears rolled down

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her cheeks.

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The young preacher was bent over in his

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seat shaking as he wept.

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Suddenly one of the church's proudest members fell

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on her knees and confessed her sins publicly

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in agonizing prayer.

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People knelt everywhere.

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The organ remained silent with the organist on

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her seat as the service continued all day.

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By nightfall the community was astir and a

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great host gathered at the chapel that evening.

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Some were singing, O the lamb, the bleeding

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lamb or throw out the lifeline.

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Others were praying and travailing.

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Some were sitting, many were kneeling and others

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were prostrate.

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Words of knowledge flowed from the young revivalist.

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Meetings continued, the fire spread and homes were

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changed.

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The exact same thing happened in every chapel

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in Aberdare where the people sought God.

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The services were spontaneous and unorganized.

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People prayed, testified and sang as prompted by

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the spirit of God.

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Reports began to appear in newspapers which at

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first were very disparaging but when reporters also

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began to get converted the papers carried very

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positive supportive reports.

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News of this Welsh revival now spread abroad

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to many nations.

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At times Evan could preach for hours, other

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times he gave short direct words but always

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in the Welsh language.

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Sometimes he cried, sometimes he laughed and other

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times he rejoiced.

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He was of course the most prominent in

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this new revival, a vessel raised up by

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God to lead but the revival was everywhere.

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Many ministers arose to preach and lead their

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people back to God and into personal revival.

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National sports events were deserted of their normal

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large crowds, theatres were empty, pubs were closed

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and crime dropped immediately.

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In Cardiff police reported that drunkenness dropped by

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60 percent within one month of the revival

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beginning.

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This revival even invaded brothels and gambling dens

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in the city.

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Hardened cursing minors were suddenly transformed formed and

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these were regarded as the hardest people to

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reach in the entire land.

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Agnostics repented and put faith in the blood

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of the Lamb for forgiveness of their sins.

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Children prayed down the power of God.

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At the centre of every prayer, every song

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and every message was the finished work of

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Calvary and the bleeding Lamb.

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Preachers came from across Britain and the world

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to see the glory of the Lord fill

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his temple.

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When F.B. Meyer, the famous London preacher

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and teacher, came to investigate he was urged

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to preach but he refused and sat silent

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in the school of the Holy Ghost as

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he listened to inexperienced untrained minors preach eloquently.

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The great Bible expositor G.

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Campbell Morgan, scared of being a hindrance, finished

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his preaching engagements in Wales as quickly as

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he could and told Evan he was leaving

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to return home.

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When asked his opinion about the revival he

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said it is Pentecost continued.

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William Booth packed his bag and left the

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revival as quickly as possible.

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These great preachers and leaders were scared to

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touch this work of God.

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They sat idly by while children and old

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coal miners prayed and testified.

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True revival is never organised by man, committees

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or denominations.

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The fear of God was dominant amidst manifestations

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of power and it protected the work.

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Evan himself strove to keep out of sight

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so as not to hinder the work of

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God.

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He refused many international invitations to minister.

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Even politicians had to take note.

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Mr Lloyd George, a member of Parliament and

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later Prime Minister of Great Britain said, quote,

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it is certainly the most remarkable spiritual movement

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this generation has witnessed.

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It seems to be rocking Welsh life like

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a great earthquake, close quote.

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This revival especially captured the youth but it

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never missed or neglected the old.

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It was a singing revival but the songs

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were crammed with sound doctrine.

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It was a time of blessing for the

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church.

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The emphasis was on seeing sinners saved.

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It was indeed a Welsh revival not a

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British revival but the fire did spread to

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Britain, Europe and the world through those whose

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tongue was touched by a call from off

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thy altar.

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A desire and love for reading the written

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scriptures was restored to the church during this

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revival.

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Holiness of heart and conduct was wrought mightily

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deep within lives.

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Worldly methods of drawing and keeping people in

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the church were nullified.

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This was a heaven-sent revival.

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One eyewitness said divine movements have their birthplace

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in the heart of deity, close quote.

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Evan Roberts had maintained an unparalleled and active

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schedule without proper break or rest.

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It was inevitable that this would take its

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toll.

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By January 1906 he had finished a phase

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of his life.

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He had ministered in South Wales continually as

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well as in the North and in Liverpool

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in England.

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A great many praised him as an anointed

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man of God while others considered him a

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deceiver and his revival false and erroneous.

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He passed into a time of terrible mental

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strain and fatigue and his body was tired.

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To the surprise of all he seemed to

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suddenly disappear from the work and disappear from

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sight.

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Then in January 1951 Roberts went to be

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with the Lord.

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We do not have the space to continue

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the story here but there are many great

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biographies on Evan Roberts and the Welsh revival

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available to read.

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At a glance what were the final results

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of this revival?

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Within two months of its beginning there had

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been over 30,000 converts.

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Within six months 100,000 converts.

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By the beginning of 1906 who could know?

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By 1910 its influence was felt in every

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corner of the globe.

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Religious systems in Britain tried to explain it

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away by claiming it was the product of

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Welsh emotion but for well over 100 years

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it has now been regarded as a major

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part of Christian heritage of genuine revivals and

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Christians continue to be encouraged and challenged by

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it.

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It has been much speculated and stated that

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within two years much of the harvest was

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lost but the evidence in fact shows that

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the vast majority remained as members of established

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churches.

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The proof of this is that all the

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local churches were full and later membership suffered

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little.

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Now what was the influence upon the Pentecostal

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movement?

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Without doubt the primary mark and greatest effect

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of the Welsh revival upon the Pentecostal movement

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was the converts it produced.

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Welshmen like Stephen and George Jeffreys, Dan and

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Joan Williams and Tom Mercy were converted and

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deeply impacted at this time.

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These men all played significant roles in the

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three Pentecostal denominations that later arose in Britain

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and Ireland.

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An indelible mark was left upon these men

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of the reality, power and purpose of God

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in bringing a nation to its knees.

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There can be no doubt that these men

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were the main pioneers of Elam, the assemblies

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of God and the apostolic churches across the

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land.

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Later their ministries were to have a profound

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effect in many other nations of the world.

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After the Welsh revival began to wane there

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were those across the land who were not

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willing to return to dead denominationalism or the

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formalism of former years.

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Very often these children of the revival were

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pushed out of their old churches and left

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with no option but to start their own

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mission halls and assemblies.

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Many of these new assemblies later received the

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message of the Pentecostal baptism.

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Donald G was converted in London through preaching

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of Seth Joshua in October 1905 who came

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red-hot from the revival.

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Others who were already mature in ministry were

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profoundly stirred.

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For example, Alexander Boddy came to see the

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revival personally and talked with Evan Roberts asking

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him to come to Sunderland.

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Boddy's church hall was that one used in

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the first Sunderland Wits and Tithe convention in

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1905 for Welsh revival meetings.

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In Boddy's mind these two revivals were inseparably

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linked.

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Smith Wigglesworth visited the revival in 1905.

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Cecil Paulhill visited in 1906.

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T.B. Barrett of Norway published reports of

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the Welsh revival in his paper called By

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Poshton and also carried the story of Evan

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Roberts's baptism in the Holy Ghost.

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This had a wide readership in Norway.

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In January 1905 Barrett wrote to Evan Roberts

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in Wales asking for earnest prayer that Norway

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might have a similar revival and that he,

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Barrett, might experience a baptism of fire.

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When Barrett later received his baptism in the

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Holy Spirit followed by the revival in Oslo

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in December 1906, he believed that this was

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the answer to prayer by the Welsh saints.

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Pandita Ramabai, who was the daughter of a

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Brahmin in the west of India, was highly

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educated and very active in social reform in

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the nation.

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While staying in England in the 1880s she

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was converted and baptized in water.

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In 1895 she opened a home in India

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called Mukti, meaning salvation, which gave refuge to

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young women.

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By 1905 Pandita Ramabai had two thousand girls

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who'd taken refuge with her.

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Her work was very well known and respected

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in many nations.

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After hearing of the Welsh revival in 1904

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she started special early morning prayer meetings in

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January 1905 during which they sought God for

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a genuine revival for themselves and the world.

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In July that year revival came and when

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it did it carried all the marks of

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a Pentecostal revival.

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These ladies were filled with the Holy Ghost,

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spoke in tongues, prophesied and went forth by

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hundreds to witness and preach the gospel in

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their region.

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As they did many turned to the Lord

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and sick bodies were healed.

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Whilst this predated the Pentecostal revival which later

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came to America and Britain, Pandita Ramabai later

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had close ties with the Pentecostal pioneers.

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Joseph Smale, an Englishman trained at CH Spurgeon's

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College, was a pastor in Los Angeles.

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At a time when he needed a vacation

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he returned to England and took a tour

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of the Middle East.

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Before returning to LA he heard of and

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then encountered the Welsh revival.

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When he returned to LA in June 1905

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he entered his pulpit on fire.

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His first message was the great Welsh revival.

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He wholeheartedly believed that a similar revival would

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come to LA and just before his return

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in 1905 F.B. Meyer had spoken in

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LA about the Welsh revival which many of

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Smale's congregation had attended.

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Frank Barthelmen corresponded with Evan Roberts informing him

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about the work in LA and asking for

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prayer.

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He received three responses from him between June

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and November 1905 assuring him of prayer.

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Barthelmen also distributed accounts of the revival right

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across the city's churches and leaders.

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These men were later central in Los Angeles

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outpouring or as it became known the Azusa

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Street revival.

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In 1910 Barthelmen visited Britain for the first

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time to minister at a Pentecostal assembly.

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In between visiting and ministering with Smith Wigglesworth

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in Bradford in the north of England and

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for Cecil Paulhill in London he stopped with

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Evan Roberts in Leicester for an afternoon.

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The evidence is in the fruit.

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We can see that the Welsh revival was

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a significant if not major influence in the

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bringing forth of a Pentecostal revival in India,

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America, Britain, Norway, Europe and in Britain it

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is utterly impossible to separate the two.

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Interestingly in later years when someone asked Evan

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Roberts where the fruit of the Welsh revival

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was he pointed to the Pentecostal evangelist Stephen

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Jeffreys.