Echoes from the Welsh Hills; Or Reminiscences of the Preachers and People of Wales (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... Two well-known ministers, in addition to those who officiated on Sunday, were announced to preach on Monday, and thus there was a very special interest felt in the services. Although the church at "Horeb" was a Baptist Church, and the ministers who preached were Baptist ministers, yet, as is customary on such occasions, members of all denominations attended in large numbers on Sunday afternoon and during Monday. The farmers and their servants not being busily employed at that season of the year were able to attend in large numbers, and, it being about full moon, they were able to return home at night along narrow roads and devious by-paths without any serious inconvenience. Many a quiet glen and secluded nook were awakened out of their slumbers by the songs of the pilgrim bands as they wended their way homeward on that bright, calm, moonlit night. The whole country for many miles round was astir with the music of the sanctuary. On the following night, Shadrach was busy at work in the smithy, when John Vaughan entered. John was anxious to know how his cousin had been getting on since the services. Shadrach, who from his youth had been a member of the church at "Horeb," was a man of a volcanic nature, ever throbbing with a hidden fire, which at any time might leap forth into a livid flame. Throughout Sunday and Monday he had been ablaze, and whenever that occurred in Shadrach's experience the flame did not soon subside, but burned brightly for many weeks together. Thus John, although he had been hard at work, had been thinking of him all the day, and could stay away no longer. John Vaughan had been brought up carefully in the Methodist persuasion. His mother was a Calvinistic Methodist of the most rigid type, and, according to a custom very prevalent among ...