Orr knew Evan Roberts personally, but not until years after the revival.
“At the end of the prayer meeting, when they were getting up to go home, he said, ‘our young brother, Evan Roberts feels he has a word for you, if you care to wait.’ Many went on home, but 17 people waited. And Evan Roberts began like delivering a telegram:
‘I have a message for you from the Lord.
You must confess any known sin, and put any wrong done to man right again.
Second, you must put away any doubtful habit.
Third, you must obey the Spirit promptly.
Finally, you must confess your faith publicly.’
Those became the four points of the Welsh Revival.”
All 17 responded.
A newspaper reporter wrote of a meeting he attended a week or two later:
“When the meeting closed at 4:25 in the morning, they didn’t want to go home.”
“Didn’t you hear Robert Coleman say ‘that’s what it was like at Asbury College?’ But could you imagine a whole country like that? It was phenomenal. The reports were in every newspaper in the western world.
Not only were 100,000 people converted, but the social impact was astounding.”
Five years later:
“The number who remained in fellowship was 82.5%, which was astounding. But as I say, the social impact was even more amazing. … In some places the police were unemployed.”
– J. Edwin Orr
(occasional sound glitches at the start mostly soon disappear)
Garland, Texas – The Welsh Revival of 1904-05 by J. Edwin Orr
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