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In 1904 Wales Had A Great Holy Spirit Revival ...
Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Feb 22, 2001 (message contributor)
In 1904 Wales had a great Holy Spirit revival when a hundred thousand people were converted in six months without any preaching, just god coming down, touching peoples¡¦ lives. The miners underground would suddenly stop working and cry out to God to become converted. In schools youth and children would have their heads on the desk weeping, and the teacher, often a Christian, would pray with them, leading them to Christ.
Such was the impact of this movement of the Holy Spirit, this awesome flood of God that was going through Wales, that many of the drinking saloons, the public houses closed down, the magistrates had no cases to conduct. After six months they were given white gloves as a symbol of the fact that they hadn¡¦t worked for six months.
One of the men who was converted in that revival was my grandfather. He was a miner. His job was leading the horses that pulled the tubs of coal from the mine.
My grandfather was a blasphemer and had a filthy tongue. The way he used to train his horses was by swearing at them. Then he got converted, and for days the horses didn¡¦t know what to do because he wouldn¡¦t swear at them. They had to learn a new language. So even the horses knew there was a revival going on because the change was so dramatic.
My grandfather then led my mother to Christ. My mother led my father to Christ. My father led me to Christ. So I see myself as a product of that revival.
(From an interview with Selwyn Hughes, author of Everyday Walk with Jesus Growing Churches,
Spring 2001, p.12)
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