The Trickle That Revived a Nation

In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before seventeen people in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales. His message was simple, his voice unpolished. By every outward measure, it was an unremarkable evening — a trickle of water from beneath the threshold. But that trickle refused to stay small. Within days, the chapel overflowed.…