the power, copious tears, speaking in unknown tongues, and an unusual revival of an old language, as many young people, who knew nothing of the Old Welsh, would during times of spiritual ecstasy speak fluently in that ancient language.4 The revival soon spread beyond the meetings led by Roberts, though he was the universally proclaimed leader of the movement from beginning to end. Newspapers spread word of the growing revival far and wide, and people from other parts of Great Britain, as well as from
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