Caernarfon (1859)

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Revival in Wales 1859-1903

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Similar statements are made respecting the work at Pwllhely, Bangor, Carnarvon, Nevin, and the whole of the districts called Lleyn and Eifionydd. Immense additions are made to the churches. In one month of the present year it is stated that one hundred and ninety one persons joined the communion of various denominations in the town of Pwllhely. In the letter communicating this intelligence it is said:—" The meeting held at the Calvinistic Methodist Chapel on the night of January 20 was extraordinary. The sight was awfully stirring—young men who had been indifferent about their souls before, now cried out the loudest, 'What must we do to be saved?' while aged men with hoary hairs were as lively as lambs, praising God for visiting His people with showers of heavenly rain."
In the month of December last, a correspondent at Bangor states:—" Although we have no loud expression of feeling under the ministry, we have amongst us warm hearts towards the Redeemer and His cause. In one day thirty persons joined the Calvinistic Methodists at the Tabernacle, and not a week passes without additions to all denomina­tions in the city. There is a most powerful movement amongst the children. They meet to pray everywhere, in the roads, the houses, the school-rooms, &c. They are full of the spirit of prayer, and it is remarkable what high and enlarged ideas they have, though expressed in humble language. They pray for all classes; sometimes a youth may be heard praying earnestly for an ungodly father, who was himself a month before a swearer and blasphemer. We know many examples of the kind. About twenty of these children have been admitted as candidates at Upper Bangor."
Later still, it is stated:—" The good work continues to go on amongst the various congregations in the city and neighbourhood. Old hearers have been led to decide for Christ; backsliders are reclaimed; young people who had been religiously trained, but who had sold their birth­right,' are now seeking a home in the house of God; prodigals are returning to their offended Father, and many young children are under deep religious impressions. .. We rejoice,' but it is with trembling.' "
A correspondent from the neighbourhood of Carnarvon says:—" There is not only less drinking than usual, but fewer public-houses—two have been closed at Ebenezer and Clwt-y-bont. A trial of the effects of the revival on the young men of the quarries was made in the last winter fair at Carnarvon. They generally took the lead in drunken­ness and dissipation, but how different the scene last time! Instead of spending their time in the taverns drinking and feasting, they held meetings to pray for the salvation of sinners and to praise God for their own conversion. A prayer-meeting, long to be remembered, was held at Pendref chapel on the fair night, and another on the second day of the fair at Moriah, chapel, at two o'clock in the afternoon. The fair throughout was such as had never been seen before. The public-houses were nearly empty, and all appeared to attend to their proper business. Some one was asked, ‘What kind of fair have you had this year?' The reply was, 'The people called for something to eat as usual, but there was very little drinking.' On their return home, the young people testified how much more happy they were now when able to go and return from the fair, without following the usual practice of drinking to excess. It was only twelve months before, that many of them had been guilty of drinking, quarrelling, and fighting. Now, for the first time, they had found that the way of duty is the way of pleasure and safety."
From ‘The Welsh Revival’ by Thomas Phillips

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