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0:56the 19th century becomes a gallery of
1:01well-known famous powerful preachers
1:05christmas evans the one-eyed preacher
1:08the
1:08prince of anglesey thomas charles who
1:12started the sunday school movement was
1:13one of the founders for instance of the
1:15british and foreign bible society a
1:18great author and of course david morgan
1:20the revivalist of the
1:221859 revival along of course with other
1:26revivalists such as richard owen some
1:29years later
1:30for a long time i was much troubled in
1:32my soul and my heart by thinking over
1:34the failure of christianity
1:37oh and it seems such a failure such a
1:40failure
1:42and i prayed and prayed
1:44but nothing seemed to give me any relief
1:47these are the words of a young collier
1:49from west glamorgan
1:51he'd left school when he was 12 years
1:54old to help his father down the mine he
1:56was an unknown outside his village
1:59nobody really heard them no great
2:01preacher no degree in theology yet in
2:04his 26th year
2:06in a few weeks
2:08he was to become one of the most talked
2:10about christians in wales this is his
2:14story
2:15mostly
2:16in his own words
2:19evan roberts was born on june the 8th
2:211878
2:23the son of henry and hannah roberts at
2:26island house bulgamoneth on the lache
2:29estuary
2:31he grew up here he played here and he
2:34spent a lot of his time swimming in the
2:37lache river on one occasion he even
2:41saved his friend from drowning in the
2:44dangerous currents it was here that he
2:47went to church
2:48it was here that he spent his boyhood
2:52and later was to begin work in the local
2:56coal mine
2:59evan robert's love for spiritual things
3:02begins at an early age he's converted
3:05when he's 13
3:07but
3:08he decides to seek for a deeper
3:11spiritual experience after hearing a
3:14deacon in the meeting posing the
3:16question what if the spirit came
3:20and you were absent i said then to
3:23myself
3:24i will have the spirit
3:27and through all weather and in spite of
3:29all difficulties
3:30i went to the meetings
3:33many times and seeing other boys with
3:35the boats on the tide
3:37i was tempted to turn back and join them
3:40but no
3:42then i said to myself remember your
3:44resolve to be faithful
3:47and on i went
3:49pray meeting monday evening at the
3:50chapel
3:51prem meeting tuesday evenings at pisca
3:54church meeting wednesday evening band of
3:56hope thursday class friday evening to
3:59there i went faithfully throughout the
4:01years
4:03evan's dedication wasn't only a personal
4:06thing
4:07it soon developed into a passion and
4:09prayer for national revival
4:13for 10 or 11 years i have prayed for a
4:15revival
4:16i could sit up all night to read or talk
4:19about revivals
4:21it was the spirit that moved me to think
4:23about a revival
4:26spring 1904 was a key time for him
4:30it was a time of a much deeper
4:33experience of god he described the
4:36experience to wt stead the well-known
4:40journalist
4:41someone who lost his life just eight
4:43years later in the titanic disaster
4:48for a long time i was much troubled in
4:51my soul and my heart by thinking over
4:53the failure of christianity
4:55oh and it seems such a failure
4:58such a failure
5:00and i prayed and prayed
5:02but nothing seemed to give me any relief
5:04but one night after i'd been in great
5:07distress praying about this i went to
5:10sleep
5:11and at one o'clock in the morning
5:13suddenly i was waked up out of my sleep
5:14and i found myself with unspeakable joy
5:17and awe in the very presence of the
5:19almighty god
5:21at five o'clock it seemed to me as if i
5:23had again returned to earth
5:26were you not dreaming
5:27no i was wide awake
5:30and it was not only that morning but
5:32every morning for three or four months
5:34always i enjoyed four hours of that
5:36wonderful communion with god i cannot
5:39describe it i felt it and it seemed to
5:41change all my nature and i saw things in
5:44a different light and i knew that god
5:46was going to work in the land and not
5:48this land only but in all the world
5:51you put on paper all that you remembered
5:53of these times of communion no
5:55i wrote nothing at all
5:57and it went on all the time until i had
5:59to go to newcastle emblen to the college
6:02to prepare for the ministry
6:04on tuesday 13th of september 1904
6:08evan roberts arrived at the grammar
6:10school in newcastle emblin with his best
6:14friend sydney evans
6:18he lodged at t floyd just a few hundred
6:20yards from the grammar school
6:23between the school and the lodgings was
6:25sunnyside
6:26the home of the reverend evan phillips a
6:29patriarchal figure among the preachers
6:31of the day and someone who had
6:33experienced the last great national
6:36welsh awakening some 45 years previously
6:40he preached as a young man alongside the
6:43reverend david morgan from asparty
6:45astwith
6:46the most well known of the 1859 revival
6:50preachers
6:51by 1904
6:53he was the minister of bethel
6:56the calvinistic methodist chapel at
6:58newcastle emblin and his home sunnyside
7:01became a place of fellowship for the
7:03students at the grammar school
7:05but all was not well for the fledgling
7:08student
7:09on arriving at the grammar school in
7:11newcastle emblin
7:12he began to experience
7:14a spiritual coldness
7:17even the sight of the cross brought no
7:19tears to my eyes
7:23but this was all soon to change at blind
7:26which was to become the defining
7:28experience in evan robert's spiritual
7:30development
7:32before blind anarch we see the quiet
7:34unassuming serious student
7:37after blind and erich it's evan roberts
7:40the revivalist who was to become a
7:42household name in wales within six weeks
7:46this place was to become at one and the
7:48same time a crossroads for evan roberts
7:51and a meeting place for others who had a
7:53similar vision
7:55the chapel at bleinhaner was to be the
7:58venue of a convention for the deepening
8:00of the spiritual life
8:02this was arranged by some spiritually
8:04minded local ministers
8:06one of whom joseph jenkins from new key
8:10was to be deeply involved in north wales
8:12revival meetings during the next few
8:15months
8:16the young people in his church had
8:18experienced a powerful refreshing of
8:21their faith
8:22since february of that year
8:25it all began with the public testimony
8:27of one 16 year old girl flory evans
8:30she declared that she loved the lord
8:32jesus with all a heart
8:35the effect in the morning service was
8:36electrifying
8:38and the spiritual fervor spread rapidly
8:41to the other youth of the area in the
8:43following days and weeks
8:46this group of energized and
8:48evangelistically minded youth were to
8:50make a profound impression on roberts
8:53during his time at bleinaner and
8:55newcastle emblem
8:57also taking part in the convention were
8:59two other spiritually awakened ministers
9:02w.w lewis and seth joshua
9:06seth was an evangelist for the forward
9:08movement of the calvinistic methodist
9:10church
9:12he too had a burden for revival
9:15for the last four years he had been
9:17burned to pray that god would take a lad
9:20from the coal mine or from the field
9:22to revive the work in wales
9:24even as elijah had been taken from the
9:26plow
9:28he asked that god would not take a man
9:29from the universities which might feed
9:32pride and intellectualism
9:34but rather use a simple land
9:37that the glory might go to god alone
9:40seth had kept this mainly to himself
9:43until that thursday morning october the
9:4529th
9:47when he shared it with the students who
9:48were traveling with him in the car to
9:51blind and eric
9:52amongst them was evan roberts who had
9:55attended the convention on the wednesday
9:57and had obviously been affected
10:01speaking to one of evan phillips
10:02daughters on that wednesday
10:05he noted i have built the altar and laid
10:08the wood in order and have prepared the
10:11offering
10:12i have only to wait for the fire the
10:15young elijah was ready and he didn't
10:18have long to wait
10:20the fire was to fall the next day
10:23we started yesterday morning at six it
10:26was very fine and dry and full of lovely
10:28scenery as we climbed the hills we could
10:31see the mist in the valleys as if it
10:33were a sea
10:35we sang in the cart and my feelings were
10:37very varied
10:39now high
10:41now low
10:44the seven o'clock meeting was devoted to
10:46asking and answering questions
10:49the reverend w w lewis conducted
10:52at the close
10:54the rev seth joshua prayed and said
10:57during his prayer
10:58lord do this
11:00and this
11:01and this
11:02and bend us
11:05he did not say
11:06oh lord bend us
11:09it was the spirit that put the emphasis
11:11for me on
11:12bendes
11:14that is what you need
11:16is what the spirit said to me and as i
11:18went out i prayed
11:21oh lord
11:23bend me
11:25at the breakfast table in the reverend
11:27mp morgan's house mag phillips offered
11:30me bread and butter
11:32i refused
11:33as i was satisfied
11:35at the same moment the reverend seth
11:37joshua was put in his hand to take the
11:39bread and butter and the thought struck
11:41me
11:42is it possible that god is offering me
11:45the spirit
11:46and that i am unprepared to receive him
11:49that others are ready to receive but are
11:51not offered
11:54now my bosom was quite full and tight
11:59on the way to the nine o'clock meeting
12:02the rev seth joshua remarked we are
12:04going to have a wonderful meeting today
12:08to this i replied
12:09i feel myself almost bursting
12:16the meeting having been opened was
12:18handed over to the spirit
12:20oh lord pour out your spirit upon me i
12:22was conscious that i would have to pray
12:24as one
12:25and the others prayed
12:31i put the question to the spirit
12:33shall i pray now
12:35wait a minute
12:39when others prayed i felt a living force
12:42come into my bosom
12:44it held my breath and my legs shivered
12:47and at every prayer i asked
12:49shall i
12:50now the living force grew and grew i was
12:54almost bursting instantly someone ended
12:57his prayer my bosom boiling
13:00i would have burst if i had not prayed
13:03what boiled me was god commending his
13:05love i fell on my knees with my arms
13:08over the seat in front of me and the
13:09tears and perspiration flowed freely i
13:13thought blood was gushing forth
13:15mrs davis came to wipe my face
13:19for about two minutes it was fearful
13:21i cried
13:22bend me
13:24bend me bend us
13:26then
13:26oh
13:28and mrs davis said oh wonderful grace
13:32yes i said oh wonderful grace
13:37what bent me
13:38was god commending his love and i'm not
13:41seeing anything you need to commend
13:45after i was bent
13:47a wave of peace came over me
13:50and the audience sang i hear thy welcome
13:53voice
13:54[Music]
13:55and as they sang i thought of the
13:58bending at the judgment day
14:00and i was filled with compassion for
14:03those who would be bent on that day
14:06and i wept in thy precious
14:09[Music]
14:17i believe the total for this mission is
14:20certainly twenty souls
14:22grand meetings today at blenheim and
14:24many cried for mercy
14:27it was a remarkable thing to hear one
14:29young man evan roberts he courted the
14:32words and prayed
14:33bend me
14:34bend me o lord
14:37unknown to seth
14:40this became the answer to his prayer of
14:43the last four years
14:45that god would take someone not from the
14:48ministerial elite not from the students
14:52of the great colleges but would take
14:56someone from the
14:57or from the fields and use them
15:00evan roberts
15:02becomes a changed man
15:06henceforth the salvation of souls became
15:08the burden of my heart
15:10from that time i was on fire with a
15:12desire to go through all wales and if it
15:14were at all possible i was willing to
15:16pay god for allowing me to go
15:21evan experienced increasing difficulty
15:23continuing his studies at school on
15:26october the 28th he wrote to his sister
15:29mary spiritual things have such a hold
15:32on me
15:33to tell you the truth i have not done
15:35much work since i am here
15:38i try to shake off these thoughts
15:40spiritual thoughts
15:42but it would have been as easy to turn
15:44back the flow of the sea
15:47his only book becomes
15:50the bible
15:52john phillips the headmaster son of evan
15:55phillips the minister of bethel
15:57naughts the change in heaven
16:00from this point there was no way of
16:02getting roberts to school his old desire
16:04to benefit the guilty world gained
16:06continually in strength during these
16:08weeks and he conquered every other
16:10desire in his soul
16:12to all who knew him there was something
16:14strange in his mana now and he caused
16:16them great anxiety that his mind was
16:18becoming impaired
16:21a dr hughes from the united states who
16:24happened to be in the area
16:26spent some time with him and feared for
16:28his mental stability
16:31tutors and friends
16:33didn't know what to do for the best
16:38the month of october was to be a month
16:40of intense prayer for god's guidance as
16:43to the next step
16:44[Music]
16:48exactly a week after his experiences at
16:51blind henrich evan took part in a
16:53revival service in tour guin
16:56some five miles from newcastle airmen
16:59he was led by joseph jenkins the
17:01minister at newquay
17:03these early experiences were to give
17:05evan roberts the blueprint that he was
17:07to follow in his own meetings
17:10the minister opened the meeting for
17:11anyone to speak and evan roberts took
17:14the opportunity of encouraging the
17:16congregation to win souls for christ
17:20four hours meeting and no one but young
17:23people taking part a great number of
17:25those young people were girls from
17:27newquay
17:28teenagers and women in their early
17:30twenties already on fire since the
17:32spring of the year
17:34it was on a long
17:35five mile walk from this meeting that
17:37evan roberts turning to his best friend
17:40and companion sydney evans asked
17:43do you think that it is too much to ask
17:45god to save one hundred thousand in
17:47wales
17:48another revival meeting attended by evan
17:51roberts was at capital drinkdown on the
17:5428th of october
17:56anne evan phillips daughter was an
17:59eyewitness to the event
18:02the reverend joseph jenkins and the
18:03girls from nokia were there holding a
18:05revival meeting
18:07roberts went up early in the afternoon
18:08to prepare himself for the six o'clock
18:10service
18:12he was in the woods praying after
18:14entering he had his eyes closed and was
18:16under some wonderful influences
18:19the meeting went on excellently in
18:21singing in prayer but before long it
18:23began to cool
18:25because speaking took the place of the
18:26prayer and praise
18:28the meetings going down said roberts and
18:30i cannot bear this at once he was on his
18:33feet and saying fervently that jesus was
18:36not glorified as he should be because
18:38people wanted to show themselves
18:41with these words he fell in the pill and
18:43prayed in such a manner that no one in
18:45the congregation had ever heard such a
18:47prayer
18:49he asked me to sing
18:51i refused about five times but at last i
18:54did and he accompanied me full of
18:55further
18:56thanks for the meeting that's couple
18:58drink it will be with me eternally
19:02evan didn't sleep all night
19:05the divine outpouring was so heavy that
19:08i had to shout out and ask god to
19:10withhold his hand
19:13and sister rachel
19:15had not experienced the same influence
19:17as the others
19:18evan asked her if she had refused to
19:20obey the holy spirit in any way no i
19:23don't think so but i have felt many
19:26times on sundays that i would like to
19:28repeat some hymn were it not that i fear
19:30what people would think and that i want
19:32to show myself oh yes he remarked
19:35that is it
19:37refusing to do a small thing like that
19:40is sufficient for him obedience must be
19:42given in the smallest thing it looks
19:44small to us
19:46but when obeying the blessing comes
19:49envisioned by the spirituality
19:52and the boldness of the new key girls he
19:55desires to go back to
19:58to reach his own youth with this message
20:01this he explains to wt stead
20:05one sundays i sat in the chapel i could
20:07not fix my mind upon the service for
20:10always before my eyes i saw as in a
20:11vision the school room in my own village
20:14and their sitting rows before me my old
20:17companions and all
20:32and i heard a voice in my inward ears as
20:34plain as anything saying go and speak to
20:37these people
20:39for a long time i would not but the
20:41pressure became greater and greater and
20:44i could hear nothing of the sermon
20:47then at last i could resist no longer
20:49and i said well lord
20:52if it is thy will
20:53i will go
20:55i went to my tutor and told him all
20:58things
20:59and asked him if he believed that if it
21:00was god or the devil
21:03and he said
21:04the devil does not put good thoughts
21:06into the mind
21:09i must go and obey the heavenly vision
21:12so i went back to my own village
21:16on monday october the 31st
21:19evan roberts left newcastle emblin for
21:23lucker
21:24intending to be away for a week
21:26he would not return for five months
21:30writing to flory evans that morning
21:33he asked to be remembered in prayer
21:36writing to another of the girls whilst
21:38on the train he explains his motives
21:41the reason for this is the command of
21:43the holy spirit
21:44he gave the command last night at the
21:46meeting and my thoughts were wandering
21:49and my mind riveted on our young flock
21:51at mariah there seemed a voice as if it
21:54said you must go
21:56you must go
21:59evan robert's arrival at lucca was
22:01unexpected
22:02at first his mother thought he was ill
22:05he explained that he was going to work
22:07amongst the youth of the area and
22:09planned to travel throughout wales
22:11offering christ to sinners mrs roberts
22:15sought to bring him back down to earth
22:17by reminding him of school and finance
22:21evan replied that
22:22god would provide
22:24the rest of the family noted the
22:26difference in him
22:28his speech was changed
22:30this wasn't the evan who went to college
22:32six weeks previously
22:34hearing that his brother dan was off
22:36work due to a weakness in his eyes
22:39evan declared that his eyes would
22:40recover immediately
22:42and they did
22:44dan was to become another of the key
22:46players in the spread of revival over
22:49the next few months
22:52evan roberts prophetic words to his
22:54brother were on the verge of fulfillment
22:57dan
22:58you shall see there will be a great
23:00change at lahar in less than a fortnight
23:04we are going to have the greatest
23:06revival wales has ever seen
23:09monday evening
23:10the 31st of october
23:131904
23:16evan roberts now back at lache goes to
23:19the prayer meeting held every monday
23:23here at maria
23:26at the end of the meeting he asks people
23:29to stay behind
23:3116 people stay behind plus one little
23:36girl
23:37it's the beginning
23:39of the evan roberts revival meetings
23:43here
23:44in this church at mariah
23:48in two weeks time
23:50the excitement will have gone throughout
23:53the whole of wales
23:55for the next week it's going to be here
23:58in this room
24:00in pisca just a few miles down the road
24:03and in some other local chapels
24:06evan roberts is excited
24:09things are going to happen
24:12things are actually happening
24:16on the saturday at the end of that first
24:18week he writes to elsie phillips a
24:22friend describing what he is going
24:25through
24:26we hold a prayer meeting every night at
24:27eight o'clock
24:29these meetings have been a success
24:31the young people say they could sit all
24:32night
24:34monday night i explained to them the
24:36object of the mission
24:38then i told them of the spirit's work in
24:40new key and newcastle emblem and urged
24:43them to prepare for the baptism of the
24:45holy spirit
24:47now this was the plan i have taken under
24:49the guidance of the holy spirit
24:52there are four things to be right
24:55you can go to heaven without being
24:56filled with the holy ghost but without
24:58being filled you will lose much on the
25:00way
25:02number one
25:03you must obtain full and complete pardon
25:06for the sins of the past
25:08if the past is not all right
25:10it must be made so
25:13every sin you know of confess it
25:15honestly before god
25:17number two is there anything doubtful in
25:19your life
25:20if so it must be removed and done away
25:23with
25:24is there a habit of doubtful character
25:26in your life away with it
25:28if there is
25:29there cannot be any joy in your heart
25:32until you remove the questionable habits
25:34and pleasures
25:35self-denial is one of the very first
25:38essentials of the religion of christ
25:40number three complete and immediate
25:44obedience to the holy spirit
25:46say not something prompts me to pray it
25:49is not something it is the holy ghost
25:52whatsoever he says to you
25:55do it
25:56the world may laugh
25:58he did not you will not be here long
26:02bow to him now
26:04do not say hush when one breaks into
26:06prayer resist not the spirit
26:10four
26:11a public and personal confession of
26:14christ
26:15how long will it take you to make a
26:17confession of christ stand up now do not
26:20look at one another
26:22out with a confession
26:24these are the four things leading to the
26:27grand blessing
26:29this is our success this week in public
26:32confession
26:34monday night
26:3516
26:36tuesday 6
26:38wednesday 4
26:40thursday 20
26:42friday 19
26:44total
26:4565. by the end of the first week a
26:48change was evident in many people this
26:51became a talking point in chapel pub and
26:53workplace i worked with a lot of men in
26:56the coal mines from dallas they were
26:57nearly all from dallas the fellas that i
26:59worked with
27:01let me tell you a little story about
27:02dallas
27:04it's how the welsh revival came to our
27:06village
27:08the schoolmaster in our village was a
27:10man called t.c thomas this was in 1904
27:15he heard that the great welsh revivalist
27:17evan roberts
27:18was in dallas
27:21and so after school one evening he went
27:23up to dallas and like everyone else
27:26caught fire
27:27you just could not go into those revival
27:29meetings without catching fire
27:32he came down after the uh
27:35after the service was over on the coal
27:37miners train
27:38it gone into the village about quarter
27:40to ten now i don't know if it's the same
27:42now
27:43but at ten o'clock all the taverns
27:45closed
27:46i captioning not
27:53[Music]
28:01wore a top available hat and silk tails
28:04and a silver silver uh knob cane and
28:08he got off the train
28:10came out of the railroad station and
28:12right there on the road in those days
28:13even when we were younger they were
28:15still cobbled stones
28:17he took off his hat
28:19and laid down his cane
28:20and got on his knees
28:22and began to sing the praises of god and
28:25what a great thing it is to to express
28:27the things of god in music the apostle
28:30paul said that one of the great signs of
28:32being filled with the holy spirit is
28:34singing to yourselves not speaking to
28:35yourselves
28:36singing to yourselves in psalms and
28:39hymns and spiritual songs he's put a
28:42song in our hearts hallelujah and so
28:46my grandmother was coming up the hill
28:49the bottom the village coming up with a
28:51friend of hers that we got to know very
28:53well mrs naomi george they were coming
28:55up and they heard this singing and they
28:57couldn't tell where it was coming from
29:00and she went to the janitor of the
29:02church of england again a dear old lady
29:04that i knew in later years mrs bernal
29:07and said mrs bernal you've locked the
29:08vicar in the church
29:12and mrs burno said never
29:14she said oh yes we can hear him singing
29:17and so mrs bernal got the key and went
29:19to the church of england which of course
29:21was also the church of wales but the
29:22church of england and uh there was no
29:25vicar in the church
29:27and they could hear this singing
29:29coming from nowhere but coming from
29:31everywhere
29:33you see
29:34just just below just just just 50 or
29:37less than that below where tc thomas was
29:39singing was the station hotel
29:41a tavern
29:43and the men heard him sing
29:46you've never really heard him singing
29:48until you've heard a bunch of welshman
29:49outside or inside a tavern singing
29:52and
29:53someone said tc thomas has gone mad
29:57he's on his knees up there singing
30:00and some of them with the glasses in
30:01their hand went up and they stood around
30:03two old tc thomas
30:05and there he was with tears streaming
30:07down his face and his hands up to god
30:09singing uh because all welsh hymnology
30:12is packed full of the blood of jesus
30:14christ
30:16and he was singing and magnifying the
30:17blood of jesus
30:19and you know
30:21just 15 yards above it is sami's
30:23billiard halls
30:24and the fellas looked out of the window
30:27and they said
30:28tc thomas is going mad
30:31and so they put down their billiard cues
30:33and came out and some of them with a cue
30:35still in their hand and they stood
30:36around
30:37poor old tc thomas and now here they
30:39were from the station hotel here they
30:41were from sami's billion hall it was
30:43only quarter to 10 at night and now by
30:4510 o'clock we'll say and some of the
30:47women came out and and
30:49and strange things began to happen
30:52tc thomas was quite unaware of any of
30:54them being there he was praising god and
30:56then and then one man with a beer glass
30:58in his hand got down on his knees
31:01and began to join with tc thomas and
31:04another and another and another until by
31:07the time my grandmother came up the hill
31:09there they were dozens of men some of
31:11them with via glasses in their hand some
31:13of them with billiard cues in their hand
31:15housewives with their aprons on standing
31:18around falling on their knees and that
31:20night scores of people give their heart
31:22to jesus christ not a preacher near them
31:25the holy spirit falling hallelujah
31:28singing and praising and magnifying
31:30jesus christ praise the lord
31:35you know
31:36there's a scottish chorus that says it's
31:38a prayer that says once more lord once
31:41more
31:42that's how the revival came
31:45to our village
31:47my grandfather never got saved he would
31:49tell my grandmother you come home here
31:52tonight after being in that meeting and
31:54i'll beat you up
31:56and my grandmother and i oh my george
31:58would go to the church and say we've got
32:00to be home before 10 o'clock tonight
32:02that's the time that their husbands came
32:04out of the pubs
32:05out of the taverns we've got to be home
32:07they were never home before three
32:09o'clock in the morning
32:10never
32:11never
32:12never never
32:15oh how many times i wish i could be here
32:18all day telling you how many times god
32:20moved
32:21and he's still the same hallelujah
32:25this change even affected evan's home
32:28our family has had a great change
32:31my sister a girl of 16 who before was a
32:34sarcastic and peevish girl has had a
32:36grand change
32:38and the testimony is that she is happy
32:40now and that there is some joy in living
32:43you can see the change in her face
32:47not everyone was positive some said that
32:49he was out of his mind
32:52others questioned that if the holy
32:54spirit is at work
32:56why doesn't he come before midnight
32:59some called him a deceiver
33:01evan robert's controversial methods
33:04became such a talking point
33:06that people were coming to the meetings
33:08to decide for themselves
33:10and they were overflowing
33:13evan described the second week as a week
33:15of direct prayer
33:18this began on the sunday evening
33:20the revivalist himself described the
33:22scene after the service i continued
33:25until it was twelve o'clock
33:28i said it was not satisfied with it and
33:30that we must get the blessing
33:32even if it was necessary to stay down
33:34until daybreak
33:36i said that we would have to strive with
33:38heaven
33:39now we must believe that the spirit will
33:41come not think he will come not hope he
33:43will come but finally believe that he
33:46will come
33:47after this the spirit said that everyone
33:49was to pray
33:50pray now not confess not sing not give
33:54experiences but pray and believe and
33:57want and this is the prayer
33:59send the spirit now for jesus sake
34:03the people were sitting and only closed
34:05their eyes
34:07the prayer began with me and then it
34:09went from seat to seat
34:11boys and girls
34:13young men and maidens some asking in
34:15silence some allowed some coldly some
34:18with warmth
34:20some formally some in tears some with
34:22difficulty some adding to it boys and
34:25girls strong voices then tender voices
34:30oh wonderful
34:31i never thought of such an effect
34:34this will be the plan for the week
34:37everyone to pray individually for the
34:39spirit
34:40send the spirit now for jesus christ's
34:43sake
34:44evan robert's enthusiasm was unbounded
34:48and often overpowering
34:50meetings went on until three or four in
34:52the morning
34:53and it wasn't long before the press got
34:55to know of the religious goings-on at
34:57lache
34:59on thursday november the 10th the first
35:03report appeared in the columns of the
35:05western mail by friday the 11th
35:08the western mail had sent a special
35:10correspondent to cover the events in
35:12detail a remarkable religious revival is
35:16now taking place at lucker
35:18for some days a young man named evan
35:20roberts a native of lucker but at
35:23present a student at newcastle emblin
35:25has been causing great surprise by his
35:27extraordinary orations at mariah chapel
35:30such excitement has prevailed that the
35:32road in which the chapel is situated has
35:35been lined with people from end to end
35:38soon all the other newspapers followed
35:40suit
35:41and consistent coverage was to continue
35:43well into 1905. this not only chronicled
35:47events
35:48but also created a hunger for similar
35:50outpourings of the spirit throughout the
35:52principality
35:54evan roberts progress from lucker to the
35:56valleys liverpool and north wales
35:59was reported and analyzed here was the
36:02new howell harris
36:04here was a young man sincere
36:06enthusiastic who spoke the language of
36:09the people
36:11interest in him grew from day to day
36:14many other local ministers and young
36:16people
36:17also took up the challenge to reach
36:19wales
36:20still many of the national papers
36:24couldn't get away from their fascination
36:26with evan roberts
36:28one of the first press interviews was on
36:31friday november the 11th to brindy evans
36:34the editor of the freneti mercury
36:38it gives us a glimpse of the revivalist
36:40at this early stage
36:42the young mishna was full of enthusiasm
36:45for his work but there were traces in
36:47his deathly white face of severe mental
36:50strain
36:51the long vigils of the weak had
36:52evidently told on him
36:54and more so as he had been able to sleep
36:56but little
36:58however there were no signs of fatigue
37:00in his conversation
37:02he walked up and down the little room
37:04with a restlessness the toad of a brain
37:06ever at work
37:09the toil and long hours were eventually
37:12to take their toll but for now evan
37:14roberts is unstoppable
37:18brinley asked the question
37:20are you over taxing your strength
37:23no
37:24fine i am not
37:26the holy ghost will sustain me
37:29i was converted 13 years ago and i've
37:32been praying for the holy ghost ever
37:34since and now it has come
37:37oh it is glorious
37:40what i want is for the people to know
37:42the joy of religion
37:44religion was never intended to make a
37:46man gloomy it should be the happiest
37:49thing in life
37:51our fathers
37:52thank god for them were saintly men but
37:55were gloomy and melancholy
37:57as though religion was a sore trial to
37:59the flesh
38:01what they missed was the joy of our lord
38:05they got into a groove
38:07and we must now get out of it
38:11and getting out of the groove was
38:12exactly what happened to welsh
38:14non-conformity over the next year or so
38:18from lache
38:19evan went on a whirlwind tour of the
38:22valleys of south wales
38:24the various meetings were being
38:26chronicled in detail by the newspapers
38:29of the day
38:30and they were services with a difference
38:33the usual format was put to one side
38:37here was someone who spoke their
38:39language he had a spirituality which was
38:42in the vernacular it was different it
38:45was sensational his major themes
38:49revolved constantly around gethsemane
38:54the cross
38:56it was as if he himself had been there
39:00he
39:01felt what it was like to bend to the
39:04will of god and when he spoke about that
39:07he was often overcome
39:09tears in his eyes
39:11sometimes he'd have to sit down he
39:13couldn't say any more he would
39:16he was he was overcome himself
39:19he spoke from the heart
39:21sometimes
39:22his heart spoke for him
39:26evan's emotional outpouring was called
39:28exhibitionism by his critics
39:31the most public being that of the
39:33reverend peter price from dallas whose
39:35letter was published by the western mail
39:38accusing evan roberts of leading a phony
39:41revival
39:43evan himself never replied to the
39:45criticism
39:46yet the western mail was full of letters
39:48for and against the young revivalist and
39:51his methods
39:52something which many feel hurt him
39:55deeply
39:56but deliberate exhibitionism seemed the
39:59furthest thing from his mind
40:01he often rebuked congregations who he
40:04felt came to see a spectacle
40:07he was nothing
40:09people should come to worship god alone
40:13meaning to take away attention from
40:15himself
40:16he would on occasion remain silent in
40:18the pulpit for over an hour
40:22yet the result of this unexpected
40:24behavior made him even more headlines
40:28and there was a mysterious side
40:31here was a man who claimed to know what
40:33was going on in the hearts and minds of
40:35the congregation
40:36here was a man who could prophesy how
40:39many would be converted in the meeting
40:42here was a man who seemed to be a
40:44spokesman for god himself on various
40:46issues
40:47and there was something about that face
40:50those eyes
40:52there were other differences in his
40:54meetings
40:55evan roberts team was made up of women
40:58young women similar to the girls he had
41:00met in newquay
41:02they would be involved in singing and
41:04testifying but it didn't stop there
41:07many dared to step into the male domain
41:10and pass on a message or two as well
41:14these spiritual suffragettes played as
41:17important a part in the services as evan
41:19himself
41:20even interrupting his messages at times
41:23with their musical contributions
41:26many became well known during the next
41:28year their pictures reproduced in the
41:31western mail revival postcards probably
41:34the most well known was annie davis of
41:36my stag
41:38who with her sister and essay jones from
41:40nantum oil joined evan's team in
41:43mid-november
41:47when entering the chapel i knew there
41:49was a great power working there
41:51my soul was moved to its depths
41:54my tears freely flowed when the reverend
41:56david hills asked me and said
41:59kanaru bethany
42:01sing something annie
42:03with an irresistible force i leapt from
42:05my seat and sang
42:07here is love vast as the ocean
42:10i could not finish it as i was sobbing
42:12too much
42:14i could not refrain from weeping
42:16throughout the meeting
42:18after the meeting evan roberts spoke to
42:20me
42:21saying you must come with me
42:24i went with him and was with him all the
42:27time that he was journeying to and fro
42:30this wasn't everyone's idea of a woman's
42:32place
42:33yet the congregation seemed to respond
42:36positively
42:37to the new feminine touch in the
42:39services
42:40[Music]
42:41the singing wasn't limited to the
42:42soloists often the congregation would
42:45sing well-known hymns for hours at a
42:47time
42:48hymns that had now taken on deeper
42:51and newer meanings in the heat of
42:53revival
42:55helping to express
42:56the newly felt spiritual truths
42:58experienced by thousands of converts
43:02incorporated into the meetings
43:04with the prayers of the saints
43:06fresh
43:08real
43:08enthusiastic
43:10free from the stereotypical forms of
43:13previous years
43:14they broke all of the rules of grammar
43:17and public speaking
43:19they also seem to break into heaven
43:21itself
43:22lord save my father is sure to be in the
43:25pub going after him lord i know it's not
43:28a respectable place for you to go to but
43:30will you go lord save him and bring him
43:33to the meeting mother is breaking a
43:35heart
43:37give me strength to stand against the
43:39devil
43:40he's pulling hard on my coat
43:42but he can pull it to pieces before i
43:44give in
43:45and the pieces will be the trophies of
43:48my victory
43:50oh lord if you please when you get hold
43:53of samuel owen tell him that the pubs
43:55are closed in fisting york
43:57he'll be pleased to know
44:00lord
44:01you are driving a chariot of salvation
44:03through this place
44:05but please lord
44:07not too fast
44:09could you slow down a little
44:11remember that there are some like me who
44:14may not be able to get on in time
44:18thank you for calvary and although it's
44:20only a little mountain it's grown bigger
44:22than the himalayas by now
44:24and the whole of wales can see the
44:26summit
44:28hundreds responded to confess christ
44:32the effect of these meetings was seen
44:34and felt throughout the principality
44:38churches were crowded
44:40prayer meetings were held not just in
44:42the vestry but in the pit and the steel
44:45works
44:46there was even a drop in alcohol
44:48consumption
44:50publicans were complaining that their
44:51trade was suffering
44:53due to so many turning from alcohol
44:56good language replaced bad language
44:59many of the pit ponies accustomed only
45:02to the cursing and swearing of the
45:04miners
45:05were unable to comprehend cleaned up
45:07speech
45:09and as a result didn't work as well
45:11even sport suffered
45:13as footballers were taken up with the
45:16revival meetings and failed to turn up
45:18for matches
45:20the biggest and most lasting impact of
45:23the revival
45:25was the change it made in people's lives
45:29the western mail published lists of
45:31numbers
45:33during the revival itself
45:35numbers of people who profess to be
45:37converted
45:3830 in one town 50 in another town 200 or
45:42more in another town but the reality of
45:45the fact
45:47was that these numbers were people
45:51people who had experienced a total
45:55transformation of their inner and social
45:59lives people who would put energy and
46:02life into the churches of the future
46:06people who never forgot their experience
46:10people
46:11who saw
46:13alcohol
46:14changed into
46:16chairs and clothes for their children
46:19people who experienced a change of
46:22language a new language a language that
46:26sometimes wasn't even understood by
46:28those who are used to them
46:30these were new people who'd experienced
46:33the old religion
46:35but in a brand new way
46:38i knew evan roberts personally
46:40but he felt called to the ministry and
46:42he was studying at newcastle emblem
46:44college when seth joshua came back from
46:47that church and told of the local
46:49revival
46:51in uk
46:53and evan robert's heart was stirred
46:56the students of the seminary petitioned
46:59the principal to cancel all classes and
47:03let them
47:04attend seth joshua's next meeting
47:07at a place called blind honor
47:10the principal said you'll learn more in
47:12one week of revival than three years of
47:15study at college
47:17so the students all went down there
47:21he said to his roommate sydney evans
47:24do you think god could give us a hundred
47:26thousand souls
47:28now if one of my students came and said
47:31i want to go into evangelism do you
47:33think god would give me a hundred
47:34thousand souls i would put it down to
47:36enthusiasm
47:39but evan roberts was deadly in earnest
47:41and it's very interesting in the next
47:42five months there were a hundred
47:43thousand conversions
47:45he went to the principal he said i can't
47:47concentrate
47:48on my studies
47:50i keep hearing a voice that says you
47:51must go back and talk to young people in
47:54your home church
47:55mr phillips he said is that the voice of
47:58the spirit or the voice of the devil
48:01and the principle said very wisely the
48:04devil never gives orders like that
48:07so he went home his parents said why
48:09don't you study
48:11are you in trouble
48:12have you been sent down
48:14no he said they give me time off to
48:16speak to the young people
48:18what young people
48:19in our church
48:21well they said we were in church on
48:22sunday and the pastor made no
48:24announcement
48:25evan roberts says he doesn't know yet
48:28now what would you say if you're a
48:30pastor and somebody came back from a
48:31bible school after two months study and
48:34say i've come to preach
48:36well you'd be careful
48:38not to hurt his feelings
48:39you'd be even more careful not to hurt
48:41the people's feelings
48:43so he didn't invite him immediately to
48:45start preaching he said how about coming
48:47to the prayer meeting on monday monday
48:50night was prayer meeting night
48:52he didn't ask him to speak to the prayer
48:54meeting
48:56at the end of the prayer meeting when
48:57they were getting up to go home he's our
48:59young brother evan roberts feels he has
49:01a word for you if you care to wait
49:05many went on home but 17 people waited
49:08and evan roberts began
49:10like
49:11delivering a telegram i have a message
49:14for you from the lord
49:17you must confess any known sin
49:20and put any wrong done to man right
49:23again
49:25second
49:27you must put away any doubtful habit
49:31third you must obey the spirit promptly
49:36finally you must confess your faith
49:39publicly
49:41those became the four points of the
49:43welsh revival the pastor was so pleased
49:45he said we have a mission service
49:46tomorrow night would you speak there he
49:48spoke at the midweek service on
49:50wednesday
49:52on thursday at a temperance meeting
49:54but they turned it into a general
49:55meeting on friday that class meetings
49:58they combined them
50:00the crowds got so big
50:02on sunday a visiting minister came to
50:05preach
50:06and evan roberts sat on the pew with his
50:08family
50:10but the people get up at the end of the
50:12evening service and we'd like to hear
50:13evan roberts again so that another
50:15meeting
50:17and next week the break came
50:21you say what do you mean the break
50:24there was a deep moving of the holy
50:26spirit
50:29it's very interesting that at the same
50:30time in north wales
50:32a baptist pastor r b jones
50:35was preaching
50:37and the prayers of the people drowned
50:40out his preaching
50:42such a move of god's spirit
50:46the newspapers in wales
50:48were very interested the western mail
50:50sent on a reporter report on this
50:54he said it was a most unusual meeting
50:56there didn't seem to be an order of
50:57service
50:59yet the people didn't want to go home
51:03and he said when the meeting closed at 4
51:0525 in the morning
51:08make a note of that john
51:10when the meeting closed at 4 25 in the
51:12morning
51:14they didn't want to go home
51:16they were standing outside the church
51:17still talking
51:19and then a very british remark from the
51:21reporter he said i felt that this was no
51:24ordinary gathering
51:27but the news was out
51:29and our landslide of interest came
51:32on saturday every grocery store in that
51:36industrial valley was entered of
51:38groceries by people coming to the
51:40meetings
51:41and on sunday every church packed a
51:43suffocation
51:45the movement was on
51:47i talked to talked to dr martin lewis
51:50he died some years ago he said he was
51:52just seven years of age when evan
51:54roberts came to their valley
51:56he wasn't expected
51:58his father came back from the mines he
52:01was a coal miner took a bath put on a
52:03sunday clothes and said come mother
52:05we're going to the meeting
52:06they went to the big church in the
52:08village
52:09packed a supplication
52:11four o'clock in the afternoon
52:14they couldn't find a place but when they
52:16saw a mother of three little children
52:17they made room for her
52:19evan roberts arrived unexpectedly at
52:22seven the church was so crowded he
52:24climbed on a bench and walked on the
52:27shoulders of the men up the aisle and
52:30climbed over the front of the pulpit
52:32he only said one word in welsh
52:36let us pray
52:37that's all they ever heard him say
52:40everyone began to pray simultaneously
52:42aloud
52:44you say what kind of praying was that
52:46everyone was so in the presence of god
52:49he didn't know what anyone else was
52:50praying
52:52where the spirit of god was moving that
52:54people prayed simultaneously i said to
52:57martha lewis with a prayer like you know
52:58you go to a meeting where people say
53:00jesus jesus or lord lord or help us lord
53:03or something like that no no everyone
53:05praying his own prayer one man was
53:06praying oh god give me another chance
53:08and i'll put things right
53:10and the mother was praying oh god my boy
53:13hasn't written to me since he went to
53:14liverpool two years ago lord what but my
53:17boy somebody else praying something else
53:19one man took his elbow and hit mr lewis
53:21senior and said would you stop praying
53:24tell me how i can become a christian i
53:26can't stand this evan roberts left
53:31at 10 o'clock at night to go to another
53:33meeting
53:35his leaving was a commotion of course he
53:37had to climb on the shoulders again and
53:38walk back
53:39but the meeting went on
53:41mr lewis at two o'clock in the morning
53:43said come mother we better take the
53:44children home to bed one child had
53:46fallen asleep another was topping over
53:48they walked home in the drizzle
53:50put them to bed so close to daybreak
53:53that mr lewis sat in the rocking chair
53:55in front of the kitchen fire and slept
53:57till daybreak went off to the mines
53:58again came back at three
54:00took a bath
54:02and said come mother we're going back to
54:03the meeting went back to the same church
54:06the meeting going full tilt
54:09say that's incredible but could you
54:11imagine a whole country like that
54:14it is no secret what god can do what
54:17he's done for others he'll do for you
54:21dr martin lloyd jones died earlier this
54:23year the famous welsh preacher
54:26he said to me once if you want to find
54:27out something about the welsh revival
54:30and its beginnings get the records of
54:33the church at new key in cardigan
54:36joseph jenkins said to his young people
54:38one sunday morning
54:41what does jesus christ mean to you
54:44they were embarrassed
54:47now there were decent young people they
54:49always began their meetings with
54:51prayer and singing
54:53they love to get around to piano or
54:54organ and sing welsh hymns
54:57they would give a little testimonies
54:58generally recitations if you know what i
55:00mean
55:01but
55:02this was their christian social club
55:05it just so happened they were church
55:07young people
55:08they went on picnics together that's
55:11where boy met girl and so forth
55:14then there was a silence
55:16and when joseph jenkins asked the second
55:18time a young fellow spoke up and said
55:21jesus christ is the hope of the world
55:24he said no no i don't mean that
55:26what does he mean to you
55:30a girl called flory evans who had only
55:32been converted three weeks
55:34spoke up
55:36in first love and said i love the lord
55:38jesus with all my heart
55:40and it was so sincere
55:42there was a sense
55:44of the presence of god in that little
55:45meeting
55:47joseph jenkins formed the young people
55:49into a team he went around preaching and
55:51used them for testimony
55:54and mrs jesse pan lewis a famous
55:58woman christian in wales wrote
56:00to the life of faith a magazine in
56:02london and said there's a cloud no
56:04bigger than a man's hand arising in
56:07wales
56:08seth joshua went to that church for a
56:11week of meetings
56:13organized in the usual way but there was
56:16such power
56:18i have read his diary you'll find it in
56:20the national archives of wales
56:2219th of september
56:24i tried to close the meeting several
56:26times last night but it went on
56:28without human control
56:32peter joshua said his father would say
56:34now young people it's three minutes to
56:3612.
56:37tomorrow's another day
56:39so let's have a benediction
56:42and you can go home and then have the
56:44benediction there'll be a slight pause
56:46then someone would say let us pray and
56:48they start again
56:50when he said now young people
56:52it's after 12. tomorrow's another day
56:55someone said today is tomorrow this is
56:57tomorrow now
57:01seth joshua went from there
57:04probably the best campaign it ever had
57:05in his life up to that time
57:07but he hadn't seen anything yet
57:09and he went to newcastle england college
57:11where there was a young coal miner 26
57:13years of age studying for the ministry
57:15his name was evan roberts i've read the
57:17welsh newspapers of the period there
57:19were little snippets of church news
57:22like the reverend peter jones has just
57:25been appointed chaplain to the bishop of
57:26some davids
57:28that was very interesting to the
57:30episcopalians but not earth shaking if
57:32you know what i mean then there are
57:33items like mowbray methodist church has
57:36had a very interesting rummage cell
57:40suddenly a headline great crowds of
57:42people drawn to lochur
57:45that was evan robert's hometown
57:47it said for some days now a young man
57:49named evan roberts has been causing
57:51great surprise in the moriah church
57:55said the main road between swansea and
57:57planet on which the church of situate
57:59was packed from wall to wall
58:01people trying to get into the church
58:02shopkeepers were closing early to find a
58:04place
58:05steel workers and miners were coming in
58:07their dungarees
58:10now the news was out
58:12another occasion he stood up and said
58:14how many of you believe the promises of
58:16god is a great roar of amen
58:20would you agree he said
58:22that a promise made by the lord jesus is
58:24especially precious
58:26well yes
58:28do you know one that says where two or
58:30three are gathered in my name there am i
58:31in the midst yes
58:36do we have two or three here tonight
58:39great roar of laughter than nearly three
58:40thousand
58:43is jesus here
58:45yes i asked you is jesus here yes
58:50do you believe it yes
58:53then he said you don't need me he put on
58:55his hat and coat and went to another
58:56meeting
59:01the impact of that revival was
59:03astounding
59:07as i said a hundred thousand people from
59:09outside the churches were added to the
59:11memberships
59:14not counting maybe a hundred thousand
59:16more who were converted to already
59:18members when a man is a member of a
59:20church and gets converted he doesn't
59:21resign and join again
59:23so it doesn't show in statistics
59:25the social impact was equally powerful
59:30judges were presented with white gloves
59:32not a case to try
59:35now if a man commits a murder in los
59:37angeles
59:38it may be a year before he comes to
59:40trial the calendar so crowded
59:43but in those british courts the
59:46chamberlain will get up and say your
59:47honor there are no cases to try
59:51no murders
59:52no robberies no rapes no embezzlements
59:56nothing
59:57and often the judge was presented with
59:59white gloves
1:00:00a symbol of no cases to try
1:00:06they had emergency meetings in the
1:00:08district councils to discuss what to do
1:00:10with the police now that they were
1:00:12unemployed some had an affirmative
1:00:14program they said
1:00:16well
1:00:17we
1:00:19respect them for what they want to do
1:00:20although they're having to do so let's
1:00:22just continue to pay them their salaries
1:00:24all they said we're wasting money
1:00:26they called in the sergeant of the
1:00:28police in one occasion
1:00:30what do you do with your time
1:00:32well he said before the revival of two
1:00:34main jobs one was to prevent crime the
1:00:36other to control crowds at football
1:00:38games at market days that sort of thing
1:00:41since the revival is practically no
1:00:43crime
1:00:44so we just go with the cries
1:00:47a counselor said what do you mean police
1:00:49spend their time directing traffic to
1:00:51meetings no no he said we have 17 police
1:00:54in our station but we've got three good
1:00:57quartets if any church wants a quartet
1:00:59to sing they just notify the police
1:01:06drunkenness was cut in half
1:01:08have the figures for the country of
1:01:09glamorgan in which cardiff is situated
1:01:13cut down from ten thousand arrests a
1:01:15year to five thousand within the year
1:01:18i came across a case in north wales a
1:01:21place
1:01:22in anglocy
1:01:23where a policeman was on duty outside a
1:01:25courtroom
1:01:27when he heard a burst of singing in the
1:01:28courtroom
1:01:29so strange to hear people sing in a
1:01:31courtroom he rushed in
1:01:33he found the prisoner had broken down
1:01:36and confessed he was the sinner asked
1:01:38this advocate not to defend him anymore
1:01:41the judge took his gavel and said
1:01:43i adjourn the court now young man
1:01:46may i speak to not as a judge but as a
1:01:48christian and he told him you have
1:01:50sinned against society but i want to
1:01:52tell you first how to get right with god
1:01:54and the young man accepted christ there
1:01:57and the jury burst into one of those
1:01:59great welsh hymns
1:02:03and the policeman added his base to the
1:02:06choir
1:02:09it was phenomenal the reports were in
1:02:11every newspaper in the western world you
1:02:14look up
1:02:15any dallas paper of 1904 towards the end
1:02:19of 1904 you find reports of the welsh
1:02:21revival
1:02:23i decided to research that and i found
1:02:25the number who remained in fellowship
1:02:28was 82 and a half percent
1:02:31which was astounding
1:02:33but as i say the social impact was
1:02:35even more amazing
1:02:38this was the welsh revival
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