Day 14: Praying for lives to be transformed (1887)

Join with Salvationists of the Wales Division for Day 14 of 150 days of prayer.

‘Only fools say to themselves, “There is no God”’ (Psalm 14:1 EasyEnglish Bible).

1887

Such was the fervour among the Welsh-speaking soldiers of northwest Wales, that a Welsh War Cry was prepared in 1887, called Y Gad Lef.

‘We have now got in North Wales three thoroughly Welsh corps, and are beginning to see in connection with them an altogether Welsh population, scenes that one can hardly hope for’

(War Cry, 26 March 1887).

The same issue of the War Cry reported on ‘Pentecost at Ffestiniog’: ‘Sunday night the 13th March will never be forgotten in the history of the No 2 Welsh Corps of The Salvation Army, nor is it likely to be forgotten in the lifetime of anybody who was present at the meeting that night in the Assembly Halls.

‘Thousands of drunkards have been saved and valley after valley has been made to ring with the shout and song of salvation. But we have always been hindered and crippled by making use, to a large extent, of a language strange to the ears of the people… For the purposes of religion, the people prefer their own beautiful poetic tongue.’