The True Nature of Religious Revival
By Eifion Evans
Evangelical Press of Wales. 234 pages. £8.50
ISBN 1 85049 119 4
Walter Cradock, the Welsh Puritan preacher, described revival in Wales in the 17th century as 'fire in the thatch'. Dr. Evans has put together a collection of writings, mainly about revivals in Wales.
We are given a survey of the revival of a 'declining and expiring' church in the Evangelical Awakening of the 18th century, and a 'dormant and listless' church in the Second Evangelical Awakening of the 19th century. This is not dull history because it is told through the lives of the men, some well known and others less well known outside Wales, whom God used in these revivals. There are, therefore, brief accounts of the lives and works of Richard Baxter, Griffith Jones, George Whitefield, David Jones, John Davies, Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland.
