Day 27: Praying for Bible Society in Wales (1900)

Join with Salvationists of the Wales Division for day 27 of 150 days of prayer.

• ‘There is one thing that I have asked the Lord to do for me. This is the one thing that I really want: I want to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life’ (Psalm 27:4, EasyEnglish Bible). 

1900

One hundred years earlier a Welsh teenager, Mary Jones, walked barefoot for more than 25 miles from a village near Dolgellau to Bala. She made this journey to buy a Welsh Bible from the Rev Thomas Charles. The story of her commitment to obtain a Bible travelled with Charles from Bala to a London meeting of the Religious Tract Society. As a result, Mary Jones and her Bible inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society. 

The hunger that Mary Jones had for the word of God was felt by many people throughout the 19th century. Now in the 21st century we live in a society that has little time for the Bible and even less time for organised religion. However, people still have hiraeth, a hunger for a spiritual homecoming. The early Salvation Army was brilliant at adapting to meet the spiritual hunger of ordinary people.

Prayer

• Pray for the work of Bible Society in Wales, which is the main publisher of the Bible in Welsh.