Carriers of the Fire Quotes

“A new boldness in the women was there from the earliest days of the meetings in Loughor. Evan saw this as a fulfilment of the prophecy of Joel that in the last days “God would pour out His Spirit on all flesh.” His emphasis on this released women to move in radical obedience. Gender was not an excuse for disobedience. In Pentre on December 4th he said, “You must do anything and everything, anywhere and everywhere.”16 In the beginning of the Revival people seemed to receive the gift of God regardless of who was carrying it. This meant that even those who, outside of a revival setting would have been most despised, the women and the young, were received because of the anointing they were carrying. It was as if in daring to be used, in humbling themselves and breaking barriers of convention and fear, the Father dramatically raised them up. Evan’s preaching in later meetings further validated their involvement,”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...

“Establish Revival meetings there, call the denominations together. Explain “The Four Conditions”: If there is past sin or sins hitherto unconfessed we cannot receive the Spirit. Therefore we must search, and ask the Spirit to search. If there is anything doubtful in our lives it must be removed. Anything we are uncertain about, its rightness or wrongness, that thing must be removed. An entire giving up of ourselves to the Spirit; we must speak and do all that He requires of us. Public confession of Christ. And at the end of the meeting let all who have confessed Christ remain behind and initiate the round of prayer. Take care that each one prays: Send the Spirit now for Jesus Christ’s sake; Send the Spirit powerfully now for Jesus Christ’s sake; Send the Spirit more powerfully now for Jesus Christ’s sake; Send the Spirit still more powerfully now for Jesus Christ’s sake.”14 This form of prayer would have had its roots more in early monasticism than in the tradition within which he grew up. The simplicity of this prayer “crafted” by the Holy Spirit was dynamite when it was prayed out by those who had previously been silent witnesses in the face of the power of God.”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...

“Do not attempt to make it longer because it is a prayer given by the Holy Spirit.”13”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...

“One day after having spent some time on his knees in his tiny room, Evan went out to his mother. Placing his hand on her shoulder he said with a tremor in his voice and a strange light in his eyes, “Mother, you have been a Christian a good many years and a good Christian mother you have been. But mother, there is one thing more that you need.” Mrs. Roberts, astonished and visibly affected, looked into her son’s face and wistfully queried what this one thing was. He answered, “Mam, the one thing more that you need is the baptism of the Holy Ghost.” So unexpected was the message and so strangely was it uttered that the mother said little if anything to her son about what he spoke. “For eight days I pondered his words over in my heart, mentioned the incident to nobody, and prayed that He would baptise me with His Holy Spirit. Day after day I uttered that petition. The heavens seemed as brass and there was no answer. But the eighth day the fire descended and my joy knew no bounds. Oh what a change has come over me, and not only me but the whole family since then.”12”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...

“Kate’s age, her lack of education, her poverty and her gender were no disqualification to an outbreak of revival.”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...

“I believe that her prayers and actions prepared the way for a Revival led by a self educated miner, young people and women. Her action was a realignment towards the heart of the gospel; ordinary, uneducated people transformed by the love of Jesus, confounding the wisdom of the day through sheer obedience. This was to be the story of the many ordinary women who followed. Small realignments were preparing a way for revival streams to break through.”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...

“Mary David Mary David was an uneducated elderly lady who insisted on teaching the children of Loughor about Jesus, although she said she knew very little herself. She did this in the first years of the 19th Century. Out of this Sunday school “it became essential to have a Meeting House”1 This Meeting House developed to become Moriah Chapel. It was in the schoolroom of Moriah Chapel, Loughor that the Revival broke out when Evan Roberts met with a group of 17 young people including a little girl.”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...

“They were grappling with the strange logic that it was acceptable to send women to lead and die on the mission field, yet it was not acceptable for male sensibilities to be upset by women taking an active role within sight of the chapel doors. The cause of world mission may have been gloriously but “accidentally” advanced by the prejudice of the church. Yet, it also raised the question of whether the home nation was a suitable mission field for women. The Forward Movement were at least grappling with the issues when others were simply hoping that the women would go away!”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...

“A great number of young people have been inspired to such an extent as to make them courageous enough to speak to sinners every chance they get...prayer meetings are held in the trains and many converts are made. The public houses and beer clubs are empty; old debts are paid, jealousy vanishes, church and family feuds are healed; great drunkards, prize fighters and gamblers pray in the services and give their testimony; the chapels throughout the populous valleys of Glamorganshire are full every night, all denominations have sunk their small differences to co-operate as one body and the huge processions along the streets send a thrill of terror through the vilest sinners. Owing to these things the attention of the whole of South Wales is entirely captivated, the revival is the topic in all spheres and amongst all sections of society; and strong people are overwhelmed by reading the newspaper accounts of it. People begin to pour in from all parts of England, Scotland, Ireland to see and judge for themselves of the nature and characteristics of the movement and most of them say - “This is truly the work of the Holy Spirit and it is wonderful”2”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...

“Radical obedience to the Holy Spirit was opening up new pathways and new connections for men and women alike. Open doors ignited further passion to see the lost saved as the church yielded across the nation. As the church yielded and the lost were saved, the teams provided a new shape as to how the Body of Christ might act and move.”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...

“Teams and team ministry were prominent throughout the time of the Revival, and very quickly developed to the place where women were taking meetings on their own in Wales and in other parts of Britain.”
― Karen Lowe, Carriers of the Fire: The Women of the Welsh Revival 1904/5 their impact then, their challenge now...