“After this,” to quote more closely Mr. Phillips’s words, “Mr. Roberts was in a new world, and walked on the frontiers of the spiritual world — seeing visions, etc. He could perceive some sign in the moon, and was surprised that no one else could see what he saw. He saw a hand coming out of the moon, as if directing him. He would rise from his bed in the depth of night and go out of the house to see it, and to pray. One night he had a wonderful vision in the garden between his lodging-house, Ty Liwyd, and Ebenezer Independent Chapel. In the hedge he saw the devil with threatening, mocking face, which somewhat frightened him. But immediately he saw a shining One with a glittering sword in His hand, and smiting the foe till he disappeared; Mr. Roberts recognised both; and do not we also know them now?

“When Mr. Roberts came relating these visions to me, I was afraid for his mind, and gave a hint that they might arise from physical weakness, At first I trembled for him; but suddenly the words came to me, ‘Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams,’ and I felt quiet in my mind, and a believer in his visions.” We have considered it worth while to recapitulate the story in this authentic setting.

He had only been at school a few weeks, but he now felt he must go home. He “saw” scores of his own age in the gallery of the chapel at Loughor, careless of the world to come, and he was eager to try and save them. Mr. Phillips advised him to follow his heart, and he had no surprise when he heard, early in November, that “Loughor was on fire.”