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by only one other, that upon a boat when with 

 many other people I stood in imminent danger of 

 shipwreck. 



The meeting, timed to begin in the early evening, 

 was taken in hand by a Welsh minister who acted 

 as director of the mission, supported on the platform 

 by about fifty men of respectable, but not very 

 intelligent appearance, who were called "'stewards," 

 and wore white rosettes in their buttonholes in token 

 thereof. 



The revivalist had a habit, which upon these 

 occasions he practised to the full, of allowing the 

 meeting to be wrought up into a state of fervour by 

 his coadjutors, ere he appeared with somewhat 

 dramatic timeliness to gather the harvest of their 

 labours. 



Before his arrival there was much singing, with 

 the fervour and fine musical balance one may 

 demand of the Welshman ; for music is largely born 

 in him. Then followed the repetition of the Lord's 

 Prayer, phrase for phrase, not with the apologetic 

 whisperings of the Saxon churches, but with some- 

 thing like the roar with which I have heard prayers 

 recited in Jewish synagogues, when the rafters also 

 perforce made declaration of the faith. 



Then that spirit of excitement which before the 

 meeting had manifested itself on the roads con- 

 verging upon Beaumaris in the set, heated faces of 

 pedestrians coming in from the outlying districts, in 

 the spring-cart bringing down the farmer with his 

 family from the hills, and in cyclists racing along the 

 high-road strangely clad in black broadcloth 

 whitened with dust, at last found full vent. Single 



