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Welsh Revival 1904


THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN WALES - NO. 5

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10. PONTYPRIDD SERVICES

PONTYPRIDD, Sun., March 5.

Mr. Dan Roberts conducted very successful services at Pontypridd today, the morning and evening meetings being held at Graig Chapel, and the afternoon at Temple Chapel. Mr. Roberts was accompanied by Miss Annie Davies (Maesteg), Miss Maggie Davies (Maesteg), Miss Mary Davies (Gorseinon), and Miss S.A. Jones (Nantymoel). The afternoon meetings was characterised by a great deal of fervency and enthusiasm.

Quite a remarkable prayer was offered up by a working man, who thanked God that there were in that meeting some who had, with him been addicted to drink, but had now been reformed; and there was much pathos in his supplication that strength might be give him and his companions to overcome temptations. A man here remarked that they were styled “mad revivalist,” but they were , he said, “mad” on the right side, and this remark brought Miss S.A. Jones to her feet. This lady took the man’s remark as the subject of a very racy address. “Oh, it is not madness,” she said subsequently, “it is sanity. It was before the revival I was mad, but I am sane now,” and she then went on to dilate quite eloquently upon the change wrought in her character. The close of the meeting was marked by several conversions. The evening meeting was also a very fine one. A pathetic note was given to the meeting by a young girl praying for the salvation of her father, who she succeeded in getting to the meeting. Them meeting proceeded very finely, and close was marked by some beautiful singing.

Miss Maggie Davies (Maesteg), Miss S.A. Jones (Nantymoel), and Miss Mary Davies (Gorseinon) paid a visit to the prayer meeting held at the Maritime Level Colliery, Pontypridd, yesterday morning. Accompanied by several friends they made the journey into the level in a tram, and when a halt was made in a central position some 200 workmen gathered together, and a very impressive service was opened by the singing “Lead, kindly Light.” Miss S.A. Jones delivered an English address, in which she dwelt upon the importance of having the light of Christ in life in and out of the colliery. Miss Mary Davies in the course of a Welsh address remarked that if there was anyone in need of a Saviour more than another, it was a collier, who risked his life in the dark and dangerous surroundings of the coal-pit. Miss Maggie Davies fervently prayed in Welsh for the safety and salvation of all present and for the spread of the revival throughout the whole world. Mrs. Hope, in English prayer, thanked God for the revival, and asked for a blessing upon the manager and other officials of the colliery, as well as the workmen and their families. Several prayers were offered by the miners present, and “O frynian Caersalem ceir gweled” (From Salem clear summits a vision”) was sang on the journey outward. “Lead kindly Light” and other hymns were also sung. Just as the party reached the mouth of the level the young ladies rendered “Diolch iddo.

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