Vækkelsen Wales 1904 - 05
Ærede debattører og gode borgere.
Jeg vil gerne fortælle den historie som Jehovas Vidner her på debatten besudler. Man forsøger at slå plat på denne kvinde der berettes om i den Protestantiske Kirke i Wales for hendes kærlighed til Jesus (til Gud).
Hun var én blandt mange (om hun var en virkelig person er jo ligegyldigt for det er begivenheden, tanken der betyder noget, men nu er hun altså virkelig) ja, hun var én blandt mange og her er så lidt om hende.
Hun var ikke Jehovas Vidner. Hun var ikke en fordækt person der forsøgte at stifte en sekt eller forestillede sig, at hun skulle fordreje Bibelens ord. Åbenbart havde hun for stor kærlighed til Bibelen til, at ville fordreje den.
Hvad troede hun på? Hun troede åbenbart på den Protestantiske strøm af åbenbaringer af Guds ord som netop på hendes tid strømmede ud, som om nogen havde slået hun på en stor krukke med vand.
Mary Jones blev født d. 16 December 1784 og gik bort til Herren d. 28 December 1866. Som sagt var hun en Protestant fra Wales og således fortæller historien, at hendes kærlighed til Gud fik hende så til at gå de 25 mil tværs over landskabet for at købe denne Bibeloversættelse af Thomas Charles.
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Thomas Charles var sådan set elev af John Henry Newton, tidligere skibskaptajn under slavetiden, men blev genfødt kristen omkring 1750erne.
Først år senere bekendte han (John Henry Newton) de forfærdelige tilstande og forhold der var under hele den periode hvor man handlede med mennesker fra Afrika og bekendte sin personlige andel i det og forsagede det. Det gjorde han i 1788 nogle 34 år efter, at han havde stoppet med, at ha` noget som helst med slave handlen at gøre.
Denne person som havde gennemgået en livsforvandling gav sit hjerte til Jesus og blev én af grundlæggerne af den ”stilart” af Kristne lovsange og tilbedelses salmer som vi kender fra vækkelsesperioderne igennem tiden.
Jeg vil her nævne nogle af de hymner han skrev: "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken", "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds!", "Come, My Soul, Thy Suit Prepare", "Approach, My Soul, the Mercy-seat", and "Faith's Review and Expectation" which came to be known by its opening phrase, "Amazing Grace".
Du kender nok nogle af disse.
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Men denne Bibeloversætter Thomas Charles var altså elev af ovennævnte John Henry Newton og alle disse Kristne dengang er alle sammen nogle (og deres Kirker også) som Jehovas Vidner fordømmer og profetere om, at Jehova vil udslette dem, men nu er disse alligevel så heldige at de er døde før Jehova udsletter deres efterkommere og kirker og alle de andre kristne i verden, så fordi de nu er døde før dette sker (harmagedonslaget) så får de en opstandelse kvækker ftg og de andre Jehovas Vidner.
Denne sekteriske vranglære er medvirkende årsager til, at visse vidner mener om deres slægtninge der ikke vil være Jehovas Vidner, at ”bare de døde” altså før Harmagedonslaget, får så får de med garanti en opstandelse og så ”kan de jo nok forstå, at det var rigtigt hvad Jehovas Vidner Organisation bildte dem ind”, mener de.
Man alle disse Protestantiske mennesker som nu i ftg indlæg bliver ophøjet til skyerne af Vagttårnet Organisation fordi denne Mary (ikke Baker), men Jones af kærlighed til Jesus ønskede en Bibel. Det kalder jeg at skamride historien.
Nu har jeg så fortalt jer historien i et tidligere indlæg og her er så baggrunden for begivenhederne i tiden op til Mary Jones liv.
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37 år efter Mary Jones var ”gået bort”, høstede Wales befolkning frugterne af denne kærlighed. 37 år gik der og så pludselig skete det store mirakel Den Walisiske Vækkelse 1904. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1WD5vQQM3A&feature=related
25 miles havde Mary Jones gået for sin Bibel, men disse 25 mil var af profetisk karakter. Jesus sagde; ”Hvis nogen tvinger dig til at gå en mil, så vær villig til at gå to”.
Her var det således Mary Jones kærlighed til Jesus dwer ”tvang” hende. Ikke kun til at gå 2 mil, men 25. Og så, 37 år efter gav disse skridt genlyd, som en hel hær.
Tiden blev berømt og én af de lovsange der blev karakteristisk for det der skete var: ”Here is Love Vast as the Ocean".
Når du nu høre denne musik, så rejs dig op. Det er din Konge der kommer til dig med kærlighed og fred:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yWKXkdDZ-A&feature=related
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Nogle år senere optræder der endnu en Mary Jones, en bondekone på 35 år. Nu vil jeg give jer beretningen og så må I selv om I gider det.
On 26.1.05 a longer article, perhaps more romanticised, had appeared in the British Weekly, written by the Rev. Elvet Lewis, a regular contributor, under the title, ‘A Mystic of the Revival’. This was also published in the excellent local paper, the Barmouth Advertiser, on 2.2.05. While tending to the dramatic, the tale of seeking and conversion rings true. The article, the product of a meeting with Mrs Jones, reports in part -
“I will give the narrative, so far as my memory serves me, in Mrs Jones’ own terms. She has been religious from her childhood. Some several years ago she lost her little boy, and four years later her only sister. The two had been left orphans, so that the elder had been both mother and sister, and her loss was so severely felt by the younger, that her faith in God was over-clouded. She felt herself hardening against Him more and more; ‘I do not believe’, she said simply, ‘that anyone ever had harder thoughts of Him than I did then’. She lost her taste for the services of the Chapel, for the Bible, for prayer. Her husband was not a member, but a faithful attendant, while she who was a member stayed away more and more.
One Sunday evening, a little over a year ago, she met his request to accompany him with the usual reply; it was no use; there was nothing in the chapel for her. So she remained at home alone. After they had gone, something strongly moved her to ask, ‘Is there no book in this house that can help me?’ There was the Bible, but that had become a blank book. Searching among the few odd volumes in the house, she found Sheldon’s ‘In His Steps’. She began to read listlessly at first, and then with growing interest, almost awe. When her husband came home he was struck by the changed face - a face which had been softened by no tears, lighted by no smiles for months, and now it alternated with both. She told him how the light had come. ‘What would Jesus do?’ was from that night her one question . .”
These are the only accounts I have found of Mary Jones’ own conversion, and of her own early life. It is still true that newspapers are only concerned with what is pertinent to what is news, and it would seem that at the time, nobody thought to investigate further.
The first media report of her work, in the Barmouth Advertiser of 15.12.04 is brief. “It is a remarkable thing that at Egryn a lady, who has long been known for her devotion to the cause, has taken the lead, and those who were eye-witnesses admit that no-one could have been better entrusted with it.”
This is slightly expanded the following week. “The Revival at Egryn. At Egryn, the revival has made wonderful strides, close upon 40 converts being enrolled during last week.”
Her remarkable conversion work at the tiny roadside chapel in Egryn, a little dilapidated but still in regular use, is recounted in two sources. Firstly, by the Rev. Elvet Lewis, in the British Weekly article already quoted. The claims and reports of paranormal events are already present -
“She returned to her chapel, and became a most faithful but silent helper, her only public part being the giving out of a hymn. But when the news of the South Wales movement came she was deeply moved, and at last asked her brother, who superintended the mission - or branch chapel - to announce meetings for prayer. She was full of expectation but the first meeting, on a Monday evening, chilled her very heart. However, another was announced for the Thursday. It was better attended, and people took part more readily, she herself making the first attempt.
There was no doubt now about continuing, night after night. She became, without knowing how, the leading worker in these meetings, speaking little, except in prayer and hymn, but possessing an influence that would be almost strange, in winning others to take part, and leading others to Christ. In the daytime she visted and invited - in the evening she had her reward. When the fortnight’s meetings were completed, to the day, fifty-one had been brought to Christ in that rural, thinly populated neighbourhood.”
She gave many a striking incident of this fortnight’s meetings, which I need not chronicle here. She made no reference to the signs, until my friend and I asked her. She answered as simply as if she were speaking about the fire on the hearth that she had seen, almost from the first, each evening, a fire or light, between her and the hills which rise from the marshy shore - a quickly vibrating light, ‘as though full of eyes’ so another described it. It had revealed to her what to expect at the meetings? Yes, without fail. One evening, she had interpreted the sign to mean four converts. But only three responded when the test was made in the crowded little chapel. ‘But there must be four’, she said. No, there could not be: all the rest, except the three who had declared themselves that evening, were already members. ‘But there ought to be four tonight’, she repeated. No fourth could be found till the door of the little vestibule was opened, and one stood there halting between two opinions. The opening of the door, and a kindly word of invitation brought the inquirer inside. The four were completed . . .
She had seen the light hovering over some houses on the hill-tops; she was puzzled, for she thought there was no one in those houses unconverted, or at least out of church membership. But one day she was told by the Wesleyan minister at Barmouth and another friend, who visited her, that there was one old woman in one of the houses, not now on Christ’s side. ‘Ah, that must be it’, she said. The two friends went up, found the woman in concern for her son. Mrs Jones visited her; she became one of the fifty-one in that marvellous fortnight.”
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http://skygaze.com/content/strange/GhostLights.shtml
Kærligheden fra ”dengang” lever stadig. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liWYLxitHkU&feature=related
Nu venter vi så på den næste store vækkelse. Mary Jones i dag? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FObjd5wrgZ8&feature=rela ted
Sådan går det når mennesker møder Jesus. Det er sikkerheden for, at det kommer direkte fra Gud.
Venlig hilsen
Ven af Sandheden.
Jeg vil gerne fortælle den historie som Jehovas Vidner her på debatten besudler. Man forsøger at slå plat på denne kvinde der berettes om i den Protestantiske Kirke i Wales for hendes kærlighed til Jesus (til Gud).
Hun var én blandt mange (om hun var en virkelig person er jo ligegyldigt for det er begivenheden, tanken der betyder noget, men nu er hun altså virkelig) ja, hun var én blandt mange og her er så lidt om hende.
Hun var ikke Jehovas Vidner. Hun var ikke en fordækt person der forsøgte at stifte en sekt eller forestillede sig, at hun skulle fordreje Bibelens ord. Åbenbart havde hun for stor kærlighed til Bibelen til, at ville fordreje den.
Hvad troede hun på? Hun troede åbenbart på den Protestantiske strøm af åbenbaringer af Guds ord som netop på hendes tid strømmede ud, som om nogen havde slået hun på en stor krukke med vand.
Mary Jones blev født d. 16 December 1784 og gik bort til Herren d. 28 December 1866. Som sagt var hun en Protestant fra Wales og således fortæller historien, at hendes kærlighed til Gud fik hende så til at gå de 25 mil tværs over landskabet for at købe denne Bibeloversættelse af Thomas Charles.
-------------------------------
Thomas Charles var sådan set elev af John Henry Newton, tidligere skibskaptajn under slavetiden, men blev genfødt kristen omkring 1750erne.
Først år senere bekendte han (John Henry Newton) de forfærdelige tilstande og forhold der var under hele den periode hvor man handlede med mennesker fra Afrika og bekendte sin personlige andel i det og forsagede det. Det gjorde han i 1788 nogle 34 år efter, at han havde stoppet med, at ha` noget som helst med slave handlen at gøre.
Denne person som havde gennemgået en livsforvandling gav sit hjerte til Jesus og blev én af grundlæggerne af den ”stilart” af Kristne lovsange og tilbedelses salmer som vi kender fra vækkelsesperioderne igennem tiden.
Jeg vil her nævne nogle af de hymner han skrev: "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken", "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds!", "Come, My Soul, Thy Suit Prepare", "Approach, My Soul, the Mercy-seat", and "Faith's Review and Expectation" which came to be known by its opening phrase, "Amazing Grace".
Du kender nok nogle af disse.
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Men denne Bibeloversætter Thomas Charles var altså elev af ovennævnte John Henry Newton og alle disse Kristne dengang er alle sammen nogle (og deres Kirker også) som Jehovas Vidner fordømmer og profetere om, at Jehova vil udslette dem, men nu er disse alligevel så heldige at de er døde før Jehova udsletter deres efterkommere og kirker og alle de andre kristne i verden, så fordi de nu er døde før dette sker (harmagedonslaget) så får de en opstandelse kvækker ftg og de andre Jehovas Vidner.
Denne sekteriske vranglære er medvirkende årsager til, at visse vidner mener om deres slægtninge der ikke vil være Jehovas Vidner, at ”bare de døde” altså før Harmagedonslaget, får så får de med garanti en opstandelse og så ”kan de jo nok forstå, at det var rigtigt hvad Jehovas Vidner Organisation bildte dem ind”, mener de.
Man alle disse Protestantiske mennesker som nu i ftg indlæg bliver ophøjet til skyerne af Vagttårnet Organisation fordi denne Mary (ikke Baker), men Jones af kærlighed til Jesus ønskede en Bibel. Det kalder jeg at skamride historien.
Nu har jeg så fortalt jer historien i et tidligere indlæg og her er så baggrunden for begivenhederne i tiden op til Mary Jones liv.
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37 år efter Mary Jones var ”gået bort”, høstede Wales befolkning frugterne af denne kærlighed. 37 år gik der og så pludselig skete det store mirakel Den Walisiske Vækkelse 1904. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1WD5vQQM3A&feature=related
25 miles havde Mary Jones gået for sin Bibel, men disse 25 mil var af profetisk karakter. Jesus sagde; ”Hvis nogen tvinger dig til at gå en mil, så vær villig til at gå to”.
Her var det således Mary Jones kærlighed til Jesus dwer ”tvang” hende. Ikke kun til at gå 2 mil, men 25. Og så, 37 år efter gav disse skridt genlyd, som en hel hær.
Tiden blev berømt og én af de lovsange der blev karakteristisk for det der skete var: ”Here is Love Vast as the Ocean".
Når du nu høre denne musik, så rejs dig op. Det er din Konge der kommer til dig med kærlighed og fred:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yWKXkdDZ-A&feature=related
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Nogle år senere optræder der endnu en Mary Jones, en bondekone på 35 år. Nu vil jeg give jer beretningen og så må I selv om I gider det.
On 26.1.05 a longer article, perhaps more romanticised, had appeared in the British Weekly, written by the Rev. Elvet Lewis, a regular contributor, under the title, ‘A Mystic of the Revival’. This was also published in the excellent local paper, the Barmouth Advertiser, on 2.2.05. While tending to the dramatic, the tale of seeking and conversion rings true. The article, the product of a meeting with Mrs Jones, reports in part -
“I will give the narrative, so far as my memory serves me, in Mrs Jones’ own terms. She has been religious from her childhood. Some several years ago she lost her little boy, and four years later her only sister. The two had been left orphans, so that the elder had been both mother and sister, and her loss was so severely felt by the younger, that her faith in God was over-clouded. She felt herself hardening against Him more and more; ‘I do not believe’, she said simply, ‘that anyone ever had harder thoughts of Him than I did then’. She lost her taste for the services of the Chapel, for the Bible, for prayer. Her husband was not a member, but a faithful attendant, while she who was a member stayed away more and more.
One Sunday evening, a little over a year ago, she met his request to accompany him with the usual reply; it was no use; there was nothing in the chapel for her. So she remained at home alone. After they had gone, something strongly moved her to ask, ‘Is there no book in this house that can help me?’ There was the Bible, but that had become a blank book. Searching among the few odd volumes in the house, she found Sheldon’s ‘In His Steps’. She began to read listlessly at first, and then with growing interest, almost awe. When her husband came home he was struck by the changed face - a face which had been softened by no tears, lighted by no smiles for months, and now it alternated with both. She told him how the light had come. ‘What would Jesus do?’ was from that night her one question . .”
These are the only accounts I have found of Mary Jones’ own conversion, and of her own early life. It is still true that newspapers are only concerned with what is pertinent to what is news, and it would seem that at the time, nobody thought to investigate further.
The first media report of her work, in the Barmouth Advertiser of 15.12.04 is brief. “It is a remarkable thing that at Egryn a lady, who has long been known for her devotion to the cause, has taken the lead, and those who were eye-witnesses admit that no-one could have been better entrusted with it.”
This is slightly expanded the following week. “The Revival at Egryn. At Egryn, the revival has made wonderful strides, close upon 40 converts being enrolled during last week.”
Her remarkable conversion work at the tiny roadside chapel in Egryn, a little dilapidated but still in regular use, is recounted in two sources. Firstly, by the Rev. Elvet Lewis, in the British Weekly article already quoted. The claims and reports of paranormal events are already present -
“She returned to her chapel, and became a most faithful but silent helper, her only public part being the giving out of a hymn. But when the news of the South Wales movement came she was deeply moved, and at last asked her brother, who superintended the mission - or branch chapel - to announce meetings for prayer. She was full of expectation but the first meeting, on a Monday evening, chilled her very heart. However, another was announced for the Thursday. It was better attended, and people took part more readily, she herself making the first attempt.
There was no doubt now about continuing, night after night. She became, without knowing how, the leading worker in these meetings, speaking little, except in prayer and hymn, but possessing an influence that would be almost strange, in winning others to take part, and leading others to Christ. In the daytime she visted and invited - in the evening she had her reward. When the fortnight’s meetings were completed, to the day, fifty-one had been brought to Christ in that rural, thinly populated neighbourhood.”
She gave many a striking incident of this fortnight’s meetings, which I need not chronicle here. She made no reference to the signs, until my friend and I asked her. She answered as simply as if she were speaking about the fire on the hearth that she had seen, almost from the first, each evening, a fire or light, between her and the hills which rise from the marshy shore - a quickly vibrating light, ‘as though full of eyes’ so another described it. It had revealed to her what to expect at the meetings? Yes, without fail. One evening, she had interpreted the sign to mean four converts. But only three responded when the test was made in the crowded little chapel. ‘But there must be four’, she said. No, there could not be: all the rest, except the three who had declared themselves that evening, were already members. ‘But there ought to be four tonight’, she repeated. No fourth could be found till the door of the little vestibule was opened, and one stood there halting between two opinions. The opening of the door, and a kindly word of invitation brought the inquirer inside. The four were completed . . .
She had seen the light hovering over some houses on the hill-tops; she was puzzled, for she thought there was no one in those houses unconverted, or at least out of church membership. But one day she was told by the Wesleyan minister at Barmouth and another friend, who visited her, that there was one old woman in one of the houses, not now on Christ’s side. ‘Ah, that must be it’, she said. The two friends went up, found the woman in concern for her son. Mrs Jones visited her; she became one of the fifty-one in that marvellous fortnight.”
------------------------------------------------
http://skygaze.com/content/strange/GhostLights.shtml
Kærligheden fra ”dengang” lever stadig. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liWYLxitHkU&feature=related
Nu venter vi så på den næste store vækkelse. Mary Jones i dag? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FObjd5wrgZ8&feature=rela ted
Sådan går det når mennesker møder Jesus. Det er sikkerheden for, at det kommer direkte fra Gud.
Venlig hilsen
Ven af Sandheden.