Day 78: Praying for the valleys (1951)

Join with Salvationists of the Wales Division for day 78 of 150 days of prayer.

• ‘We will tell our children and our grandchildren why they should praise the Lord. We will tell them about his strength, and about the great things that he has done’ (Psalm 78:4, EasyEnglish Bible). 

1951

In The Old Glory Shop (1951) Thomas Cadwaladr Parry wrote about Army corps in the Rhondda Valley:

‘I feel that it is hardly necessary to write an introduction to such a small book, because the book itself is only an introduction from beginning to end of what could be said about the Old Glory Shop and the activities of the Salvation Army in Williamstown and Penycraig for the last 54 years.

‘Every corps in the valley has always been out to help each other – and why not? We are in the same Army, aiming for the same victory and preaching the same gospel. It has been the custom for many years to have united gatherings at each corps in the spring every year. Easter Monday at Trealaw, and the Tuesday at Gelli; the first Monday in May at Porth; Whit-Monday at Williamstown, and the Tuesday at Treherbert. The meetings at each centre used to be a great success, but in recent years there has been a decline owing to so many people at work and so unable to attend.

‘I would like to make it known that the great need of the present day is prayer, and let the call be a prayer for a mighty revival, because only a revival of religion can stem the flowing tide of evil in our midst and bring the world in repentance and faith to the cross of Christ.’

Prayer

• The plea of Thomas Cadwaladr Parry is the plea for today. Join all those who are reading in praying for revival in the Welsh valleys.