The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-05


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have been tempted often to go to London
for the cultivation OF their voices One
Of the Davies sisters il a soprano OF high
range, the other is a contralto, They sing
very effectively in Welsh a hymn the first
lines OF which are
This Is jesus precious Bible
And supremest Eift of God.
Sometimes they lead a great oongrega-
ton in singing by giving the pathetic and
beautiful song-a great favorite in Wales
beginning:
Think Of the blameioss Jesus.
The falrest ever known. n
How that dark night OF anguish
He agonlLed alone.
Roberts himself seems TO Re man OF
great common sense, and is q shrewd obser
reF-I In enc of his addresses he asked
whether there had ever been religious
revival In Church which had been torn by
discussions, In which the members and
the deaoons. or the members among them
selves. quauelled and bickered Had there
ever been seen religious fervor in Church
in which the members were cold toward
one another?
There were some curious Incidents Of
the revival. At one chapel famous foot
| ball player Mardi by name, arose, saying
that he had been keeping goal for the devil
] for many year. but that he now hoped 10
| play centre forward for his Saviour for
ever.
At one place Mr.. Roberts declared: II
you have the love OF Christ in. your heart
| you love everybody and cannot do q mean
trick. Therefore, II you are not prepared
| 10 forgive others. 1t La useless to get on your
knees tonight 10 ask God to forgive you
I don't say, Don't do it. Please yourself,
Of course; but one thing 10 absolutely GER
tain. God viii not listen TO you
In another meeting. after Mr.. Roberts
seemed to be carried almost heavenward
by his emotion and while all the company
sat quiet. worldngman came into the seat
beneath the pulpit and began 10 sing 1t
was plain that be could trust himself 10
sing. although fearful Of his power Of speech.
He sang in Welsh the verses the first Of
which, translated Ia:
In Eden this I'll G er confess.
lost Gods blessings numberiess;
Through sin dlsgraced was /;
But on tho Mount, Chrsts victory
All that lost restored 10 ne
IN sing until del
III many parts Vi nFlCS ana IN many
hymns the Welsh promise that IL God will
pardon them they will sing hymns to his
praise
Ono aneodote that is told was that Of q |
meeting in South Wales, where the oon-
gTegation spontaneously began the old |
song Tell Mother I'll Be There At this |
meeting Gypsy Smith a well known English |
evangelist, was present; after the song had |
been sung, he told the congregation OF
travelling TO South Wales so that he might |
see the lane where he had spent his boy !
hood 40 gypsy, where his gypsy mother
had pitched her tent, in which she died. |
Then he added:
We hadn Bible then, but she found Him.
The anecdcte was effectively told Then |
Mr.. Roberts began:
i thought whom Gypsy Smith was talk
ing about his mother having died In tent
he said Thought Of my Saviour. who had |
no place wbereon to lay his head and
He then became 80 overcoms by his
emotions that he sobbed aloud; and the
whols congregation was affected In like
manner
In South Wales there are many sailors.
especially at Cardiff. and they have got
into tho habit OF attending the revival
meetings Mtny have been converted
On one evening in Cardiff at one of these
meetings there were soma 300 persons who
had been converted. themselves playing
the humble part of lay missionaries, rea-
soning with or trying to persuade some
brother OF sister
These sights greatly affect the sailors
Sometimes a convert addresses the cnnRre-
cation in Spanis'i. storing after each SEN
t'nce. so that what he says can be inter-
preted to the sailors in broken English.
the interpreting being done by a Nor
wogiHn
The lending paper OF South Wales Is con-
vinced that the converts are already more
than 10000. Some OF the other enumer-
ators plaza the figure n little over 10000
In some Of the smaller towns almost every
one of the inhabitants heretofore ire
ligious has been converted; and In one
town near Swansea there were 1900 con-
versions in two weeks.
Roberts has a sin yIlarly rich voice. a
certain eloquence. not Of rhetoric. but OF
sincerity, which no art can teach. He
probably impresses the people who hear
him moro by mis- sincerity than 10y any other
quality, exactly a. the Wesleys and White
field did hundred and fifty years ego.
Undoubtedly at this time tho conditions
in Wales were favorable for religious
demonstration Of this sort. The wonder
ia whether what has been thus begun In
Wales will not spread over tho whole Of
England, quickening a somewhat low
moral sense and bringing a new spirit
that works up from the humber TO the
higher classes.