(Editorial item in London Methodist Times of January 12.)

Perhaps the most extraordinary event in connection with the Welsh Revival has been the issue of Revival Editions of the Cardiff Western Mail. The last issue, published on Monday evening, has been forwarded to us, and is really a most remarkable achievement of modern journalism. Religious optimists have often dreamed of the time when revival news should take the place of racing and police court intelligence in the press, but here we have a whole evening paper given up bodily to reports of the progress of this marvellous spiritual movement. Our enterprising contemporary has set out the matter in the attractive form employed in the case of ordinary news, with striking headlines, leaded type, and all the usual accessories of the evening paper. Instead of photographs of criminals and heroes of the football field, pictures of the evangelists are given, and a well-drawn cartoon illustrates the change in many a colliers home wrought at Christmas time through the agency of Mr. Evan Roberts.

On the back of the paper is printed a revival hymn set to music, and a summary of the conversions recorded since the beginning of the movement on November 8. Altogether the numbers have now reached 35,698 — figures which represent a minimum estimate of the far-reaching character of the revival. The Western Mail has also issued a second pamphlet on the revival, bringing down the descriptions of the revival meetings to the end of last year. This pamphlet may be obtained at 176 Fleet Street, E. C., for one penny.