No Red Coats Wanted.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7723, 27 January 1905, Page 4

No Red Coats Wanted.

REVIVALISM as a check to VOLUNTEERING. AISKRKAX, Dec. 1.",. Two days of work, in Merthvr Yale and Aberfan have yielded six conversions lo 111* Evan Roberts, a surprisingly small numlx?r compared to | the hundreds he used to achieve in a Ifew hours. Though his meetings were packed and he had the aid of Jlme. Kate Morgan Llewellyn, a superb contralto, and the clear, girlish soprano oi Miss Annie Davies, he found lit Up left for him to do. In the three weeks preceding his advent tho local churches have made ovjer two hundred conversions, and Ro--1 berts and his ladies have but gleaned the poor remainder. His meeting this afternoon in Zion Chapel was the most crowded I have yet seen. Roberts exorted and smiled. Hymn fallowed and praver succeeded prayer, and Mine. Llewellyn outdid herself—all to no purpose. The crowd seemed actually to sulk and to hang back. So marked was this attitude that the young Hiss Davies, in the middle of a sacred song which she is wont to illustrate | by clasping a Hible to her bosom, i , ld thfc hig book down and subsidcd into tears. An unexpected effect of the revival ui tho Mbrth.vr and Rhondda Val ; !evs has been to check" volunteering. A doctor at Aberfan, who is an ollicer m the Hrd \olunteer Battalion of ;^/ V^ Sh T " efri, " ent ' tokJ "i" to-dav that thti Free Churches of the district actualiy denied membership to nicn in the corps. „ 'J is si ( '»ply because they wear a red coat. lie explained. That brand/-' 1U ' re as 11,0 dßvil ' s I asked the Ren Moses Davis who concludes this month twentv- ■" S minis tcr of the AberI t-alvimslic Methodist Chapel if i-suppftng I wore a Volunteer and ;- ct desired to join his Church he would reject mo? " X„," ho replied. I 1 " oul<l ,ak c you as a sinner. We ,aro commanded not to reject sinners."—Daily Mail. Seeing a brewer's van delivering ■ casks and bottles at some cottages in a Vale of Neath village, a Methodist deacon named Thomas knelt in jtho road and prayed. Overcome by |Ms earnestness,, the cottagers refused |to take in the liquor they had ordered. I At a meeting conducted at Cardiff jby one of the Roberts's women Jielpers a man gave a shout of joy and threw his arms round a penitent's necic. Then a shriek of joy went up from a woman in the chapel. It was their son who had jleft them after a quarrel years before.