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“It is my
prayer, and my hope, that [this book] will lead many to realize anew
and afresh the glory and the wonder of ‘the power of God’, that they
will begin to long and yearn and to pray for another ‘visitation
from on high’ such as was experienced in 1904-5.”
— D. Martyn
Lloyd-Jones
The Welsh Revival of 1904, Evangelical Press of Wales, 1969.
This
is an important study of a particular important revival, the most recent
large-scale revival the western world has known. The book covers its
origins, the major people involved, its strengths and defects, and the
results. It started through God’s working in a young man named Evan
Roberts.
“As might be expected, an influx of new people into the churches brought new life and zeal. The sale of Bibles soared, the Sunday Schools received fresh recruits, buildings were either enlarged or completely rebuilt. Family worship was set up for the first time in many homes. The prayer meetings were invigorated, many new ones started, and others established which continued for several years to be a prominent and beneficial feature of the life of the churches. … Throughout the lean years of declension in the churches which followed the 1914-18 war it was ‘the children of the revival’ who maintained the spiritual glow in the prayer and society meeting and Sunday School.”
Yet there were significant defects which are also worth our study today. “Unhappily, Roberts did not always observe the biblical safeguards for the proper exercise of spiritual gifts. As a result, a ministry of the Word was often absent, depriving the congregations of basic teaching which was crucial not only to a right understanding of the faith, but also to ensure proper growth in it.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes, “I am very happy indeed to recommend this study of the Welsh Revival of 1904-5. … What was needed was a writer who was a trained historian, able to deal with the subject theologically. Moreover, it called for a writer with spiritual insight, understanding and sympathy. Dr. Evans combines these qualities in an exceptional way, with a result that his book is invaluable, not only as a study of this revival, but also as a study of the phenomenon of revival in general.”
--Dean Brown
Author Eifion Evans is a retired minister of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, living in Carmarthenshire. He is a friend of Cornerstone church and has preached here several times.
The author of Revival Comes to Wales, Daniel Rowland and the Great Evangelical Awakening in Wales, Fire in the Thatch; The True Nature of Religious Revival, and other books, he has made a life long study of revival.
“Eifion” is pronounced approximately “avion” or “eye-vion”.
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