ANOTHER EVAN ROBERTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144085, 2 May 1913, Page 6

ANOTHER EVAN ROBERTS.

DOINGS IN WALES. Another extraordinary “revival” movement is reported from Wales, This time the evangelist is a jollierpreacher named Stephen Jeffery, who since last Christmas has been conducting a mission at Cymtwrch, a mining village in the Swansea valley. He preaches in a small iron building erected on what looks like a dust heap, to which neither roadway nor path loads. Scores of converts have been made, and there are many who declare, as in previous Welsh revivals, that the sick have been cured miraculously. Jeffery went to Cymtwrch at Christmas from Macstag to conduct for throe days the ordinary services in the little iron church. At his firs}, meeting only about twenty persons were present, but the next day there were 200. Before long meetings had to be closed because the people were packed almost on top of each other, and the heat was unbearable. Crowds numbering 2000 have congregated ontsido the little church. Although day after day it has poured in torrents, people have walked miles over the hills to hear the preaching, and all over Wales congregations, gathered in little chapels, are praying that the revival will spread. In a week or two possibly Jeffery will he considered another Evan Roberts. ■ * A special correspondent says: “I sat last night in his packed iron church and saw folk, their faces lit with eostacy, swaying with emotion. . ‘Tho Spirit has come!’ shouted one woman, sinking on her knees and bursting into prayer, and fervent ejaculations of contrition and devotion came from all around, as, preaching in Welsh, Mr. Jeffery, exhorted his hearers to repent. For hours it went on, and so it will go on day after day and night after night. “Remarkable cases of healing are reported. I saw a Mrs. James to-day in the neighbour’s cottage where she was cured. She had suffered from heart trouble for ten years. A service was taking place in Mrs. Roberts’ cottage across the way, while Mrs. James was baking. “ ‘The spirit led her,’ said Mrs. Roberts, ‘so she left her baking and'came across. It was wonderful for anyone to see it. Mrs. James was wonderfully moved. Her hands worked up and down, all over her body, particularly her heart, and all at once she jumped up and proclaimed herself healed.’ “Then it was the turn of Mrs. James’ sister-in-law, Mrs. Walter Evans. ‘She had been ill for a long time and she wanted healing,’ a friend told me. ‘She came to one of the meetings and Mr. Jeffery and his brother laid hands upon her. Tl)en two of tho others did so. Then she began to pray, and after she had prayed she got up cured and went home to sleep.’ ’’