Show n I I i JI r I I WELSH L COLLIER u AS A f l A L LI TI f II III I I Wondrous Influence Exercised by byA p ill y J A Crude Untutored Miner finer Over II I I II I Vast Crowds 1 I i ij j L t I r k kNE HE NE SHOCKS THE OLD SCHOOL rM M i i Ministers Who In Solemnity I I Abole All 11 Things s lire Arc Horror Ii stricken Hidden at tit III II Outbursts Special Correspondence r Deo 1 have havo ouch I f CU extraordinary manifestations of o v what the pious ploua cull call tho power at or atthe I Ithe the Ihl spirit und anti sceptic c deride na nil con i been brn ed as are arc V A AAA J j of dally 0 occurrence nt the revival meet ln Inge conducted by Roberts Roberta tho the S I 1 collier preacher All 11 sorts and condi cond conditions lions of ot and tha tho l overly stricken the old oil and ond tho the young youns lad lab and lassies are re qually affected by I his Ib hi exhort exhortations and abandon them I 1 selves elves lo to frenzies of fervor Under his hili hl magic Influence young girl i f ij U low lose their and address crowded I t 1 I i Ii I i iby congregations who ur are moved moed to tore I I Ihy by hy their eloquence Hough uneducated j ed etl minus miners proclaim their 1 and anti conversion l In language that Mems I I 4 Inspired I Ic conventional d 1 A I t II folk who ordinarily detest above abo o fit I all things the live way unreservedly to toan I an all ecstasy Y of ot emotional enthusiasm en and I I t fluently testily testify to their change of at heart l J Something that one can enn only liken to I Ithe p the sift of or tongues appears n p to de do descend c I S i whom upon the time crowds whom Mr nob i I errs erts Ild eue I I i I t TIm THi WELSH WJ WI VESLY WESL SLY L i I I Already he ha his has been beiJu dubbed the tha I 1 I 1 l i l Welsh WIh Wesley nut But It would be dUn dim I I 1 cult to conceive of a man who Mho ho differs dieters 1 more w wId Idely ty ly from the renowned founder I of ot modern Methodism Of at learning and ana I i culture ho he possesses only may the tho barest rudiments Theology li le to him a n sealed i 1 I JI ii book Until a u few months ago he wan walt 1 i j it r 1 r working In hi a colliery slid and there thel nas lit I t I Itie tie tle to distinguish him him from hundreds of ot I M Continued on page l I I f r i W SN 11 L 0 III S t I ll T Continued from page puna men m n among amon whom he h wm Willi hia hi dully dally lie He Is la i fd tI y years ais old of told mill dl rill die height bright d i and with light lightblue blue e eyes e that hut no n out oar could correctly characterize ax as expressive tX rea lve Apart purl from ruin Ills hU religious work hu hr displays none of those fIURI flea which InveRt him with villi such Uth won wondrous drous drou powers power In hi the lima t pulpit In III life he Is I utterly lacking In lie He I le shy h nervous awk awkward a wk ward waid and nd Ms hia hi speech Is II far tar from rum fluent On Oil meeting him for time the 11 tint ret time line one Inevitably full tulle to 10 wondering a as AI to 10 the of fit It hi hie tremendous Influence us UI mi II evangelist HU HI own story of oC It IL Is I far tar more Inore Inter ruling then than any un theory that may my he be advanced to account for tor It In the col cot Il rl 1 he pondered much over the problems hems lems of lit Ilfe as all relented presented by hy those limo Iho among whom hi hl lot had been Leen cst cast and rune came nm to the that religion lone could muke make happiness and compatible corn what with grinding toll toil He Ile II saved raved ved what V lilt he could rould from hi hl wages wa ea e that thai he ht might on ets onti ti n r a 1 Nonconformist college collep and study tor for the tk ministry lie He had been there ther only a few lo weeks when something lap hap happened paned 00 I t was baptized of tile the Spirit lIMit there he told a visitor Afterwards It t lent lentlie ent IM lie a message tome home for lor a Ii week It U commanded 80 So I 1 obeyed obe At 1 my house homo another message was 0 given me nta nt It told Old me ne to 10 so ro forth fortis with three Ihre women om Their names nam were wre even n mentioned 1 rom com the message to them They obeyed Two 10 others other 01 here followed THE 11 A STATION TION now How was wai till this baptism of or the Spirit manifested he was asked God seized Iud hold of or me He lie prea d me down to the earth I 1 felt this the weight of ot Hl 1114 hand upon me nil for lor my fact wit 1111 purple purI My mother had the tamo amo ex n experience penance when she ah was waft wa converted She fell tell to the ground so no that people thought she Mile was Will III I have surrendered my it life to the keeping of or the 1 l If gs o where It mo liven l en now 1 l lam am walling waiting the Masters bidding Ah All It II Is II a 11 grand life lICe I J am inn haPpy so 10 o hap hal py Pr that I r could walk on air Tired 7 1 Never God has hal he made mude me strong Ho Ito Hohas has hili ha givers given me courage I could taco face ace millions million The rh sincerity of nf his hi faiths faith In All nil Is tl li yond question with the tho sense len ens of oC a divine e ly I when whets he lie addresses himself him to 10 the fulfillment of It II nil all hl and nn 1 solf restraint vanish In Jn the pulpit he IH la absolutely devoid dohl of or Ills taco slows glows with the enthusiasm that consumes hires him lie He takes no thought of or he hI U Is to say auy he will tell lell you ou and yet he Is III never neer nt tit a lose loaa for tor a IL phrase lie He hold hie hll congregation for hour In some pome I strange arhon hn lur to 10 them hens the Iho same frenzy that po him A t he men man nisei 1 women bury their faces facen In their Ih lr hands and ob tob aloud When he lie pause nausea others Jump to 10 their feet feol and put forth their petition or stories of or marvelous con conversion conversion version and contrition It may muy bo ho that fomo rough unkempt toiler toller who ha liar newer liner 11 r spoken a n word In public before sell will pray pm and end exhort with a 11 fluency ClU and fervor that knows knowl no check ch k until exhaustion overpowers him HOLDS INFLUENCE NCI And yet et this untutored preacher whore over his auditor auditors iX ex coed fell that of or the most gifted 1 divines Is III In nn no sense II II C nil an orator oven even In lit what might be termed hia hl most moat Inspired mo melts menta There Is III no method 1 In III his Ills ad nd addresses dresses Printed Prated 1 verbatim they hoy would make Inake poor reading Hut hurt they Inov his hearers no liS people 11 lire are never stirred by Iho most renowned of oC pulpit orators Hu lie differs from rum nil all revivalists the writer ha hail ever heard In the tho way WilY ho h reveals the mho Joy and his faith has Iota brought him turn Ho Ito smiles S when len ho he prays he II gives way to bursts of ot laughter laugh laughter ter when alien he exhorts exhort Ills religion r Is full of or mirth Perhaps this thin many inny ac ne account count In Komo for the wwi von Brous Influence hn ho exercises For Vot most moat of those composing his this thin Ihl life liCe In I hard and sordid and they mu t feel It I is IR worth to 10 obtain such na he lie has hns found rut Hut It II Is III precisely fly this thle feature of ot hits bin voile over many Welsh WI h shako their heads head In III grave With them religion u le n mt solemn bush busl ens laughter In church or chapel appears hardly less IrA a r desecration an oath O Mirth with them It whit theaters theater musts halls and ud suet Ungodly plows They hey dont donl khow wit win witto to 10 make mako of ot the tho collier preachers um use of oC It nut the common alarm people ut lit least hove have tau no such uch The fhe collier Preacher hRS has taken thorn theta by b storm and Isle liB among them then Is assured Thoy want n a religion r that will give them n t lively sense rente of ot happiness In tide thin world all as s well at ns assurance of It In III the tha po zt end It II In le that Eau J ei to theta WOUl At AI many factories men man have ho slopped cork ork to hold ld and pros pio complain that title this loads 10 1 to tu n it I serious loss lews of or money whoa the hoot hool hooter hooler er WM Wn 11 sounded pounded at al n big tinplate works the other morning the men m n 1111 It dropped their tools and for lore lers cr of o men 11 hour they held helt n a prayer nt while tho the stood Idle They preyed for the too ton He lie would rather had the tho money mOMY lost while they the wore praying than their prayers prayon If It a man wishes to t a commune with his hie Maker Mallon ho said ho should do de to so o oIn In the solitude of hl hIs hia bedchamber or In hili church or chapel A largo laigo largo 7 Is Is tho Wrong If It this thin thing on vo wo hlo to 10 tot do Join is put t a 1 slop atop to 10 It II u I Jt It Is Ii understood that when lIer Iler preacher his th lh the col ut will re su mo his hla a to files for th he t III hr try It bait hOIl been heen l might K led learn that III tit JlII ot of him can possibly inu tau I I |