RUSSIA'S SEETHING VOLCANO Collier Preacher.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7709, 11 January 1905, Page 2

RUSSIA'S SEETHING VOLCANO

Collier Preacher.

OHUS OF PRESERVING PEACE PLACED ON THE CZAR. _ Attempted Assassination. ST. rKTRHSItUUC, Jan. !). 31. l'obiedonostzeff warned the Czar that if ho breaks his oath to pre- E serve the autocracy everyone else ' will violate his, causing ruin to the £ Church and State. Ivuntzky, a nobleman, on the pretext of presenting a petition, tiied to aSHUHßinute the Chief of I'olice in his ollice at Ekaturjimtt.lio,. He 1 find one idiot, l>i«t missed, land ' was subset luWitiy arrested. ' J EXTRAORDIMRY REPORTS. I'OJL'ULAII UNEASINESS IX POLAND, (lteqeived Jan. JO, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 10. Extraordinary rumours me cur- ' rent at Lodz, in Poland, about ' rioting at St. Petersburg. Hun- ( dreds of persons are supposed to have been killed in the streets. A concei't in aid of the Lodz Ked Cross branch was abandoned, as no audience put in an appearance owing to the general uneasiness.

REVIVAL SCENE IN A WELSH CHURCH. \ Evan Roberts, the young Welsh re- ; vivalist, stood before a great congre- • gation in the Calvinistic Methodist Chapel at the little mining town of Abercynonj recently, un«d with his eyes streaming with tears called to thonifin a soft piteous voice, ''Dewch ato, dewch ato" ("Come to Him, come to Him"). A| wonderful scene followed. Hardfaced miners weeping openly, women wailing aboud in passionate Welsh, and well-diessed men in the gallery announcing themselves as converts. Just More eleven a tall, cleanshaven young fellow, with a black overcoat turned up to his cars, walked briskly up the steps into the chapel. He had never been there before, but there wns not a word of introduction. He walked up the central passage iamong the gathering, straight on to the dais, ami then, with his collar still turned up, and his hands in his overcoat pockets, strode up ami down in front of the people. Five seconds later he began to talk to them. As he moved to and fro, he was preaching—preaching, not with declamatory phrase or strained appeal, but with soft-voiced conversation. He looked a boy, this young Welsh) blacksmith who in two weeks has linnd a dozen Welsh communities with his burning religion. He is twenty-six and looks nineteen. He has a pale, handsome face . with dreamy blue eyes. Strangely forceful conviction and unconventionnlity have made him a po.wer. The revivalist spoke fluently and . simply, with quaint .illustrations and . gentle smiles, but without passion. ; For half an hour he spoke, and then i the crisis came. The young preacher was on his feet before the excited congregation. His hand was above his head, and he called upon those of the audience who were saved to stand up. Fivc- • sixths of the people rose to their feet. Roberts sprang on to the front seat ■ the better to see the congregation. The live singing girls who accom- > puny him left their form and made ' their way into the body of the con- ' gregation.. liobvrls' eyes looked sun- ! ken. He began to speak to the poof pie in uti intense whisiwr. He stood - quite still, but the emotion of the man was like a beucon. L In a feverish whisper he implored • his hearers to listen while there was time. He pleaded with them as he " would have pleaded with children. ' "Bo not scoff at God," he said. As his eye fell on those who still - kept their seats he unconsciously ■ wrung his hands in agony. "J)e\vch ato," he wailed, " dewch ato." Great, tears were running down his cheeks, and the intensity of , the man was painful to witness. [ MANY CONVERTS. ; All over the chapel fiwomen were , crying. In the gallery a burly man I of forty had his head buried in his ■ hands on the rail in front of him, - and was shaking with sobs. Iloberts loudly asked for names of < converts. A man who had remaini ed seated in the gallery rose to his . feet and announced his name. His - face was grey with emotion, and ho 3 leaned against t/hc wall exhausted. , From various parts of the hall - came names, which a red-haired man - at a desk busily entered in n book. , Meanwhile the five girls were here , and there kneeling by the side • -of the men who pbduraleiy remained "" seated? •WiHl'Taces /thrust close they appealed to them and then prayed over them. Tn one case a girl prayed by the side of a man for ten - minutes and eventually got him to • his feet. There was triumph in, Roberts' eye. 3 "Evan Edwards," ho cried to the " man with the pen. "John Jones." >' "John Jones again with his two ! boys." Suddenly he made a dash for the middle of the congregation, and tried persuasion on a man who had not risen. He soon had him on his feet. There was), dominating, over-power-ing persuasion in this slim figure in - the black overcoat. Nothing could g withstand him. l lie seized an obstinate greybeard s by the band, talked to him rapidly, >' gave a little smile, and the victory - was won. He dashed upstairs to the - gallery to the side of a middle-aged ' man who had withstood the attacks ' of the preacher's lieutenants, prayed--1 by his side for a minute, and then 3 with i» jubilant gesture announced ' his name to tho man with the pen. So, jvith brief intervals for food, 1 the praying, the singing, 'and the - conversion scenes went, on all day • and far into the night.—Daily Mail.