In this address delivered at the 1973 Puritan and Westminster Conference in London, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones commemorates the bicentenary of the death of Howell Harris — the great Welsh evangelist and one of the chief instruments of the eighteenth-century evangelical awakening. Dr. Lloyd-Jones traces the remarkable story of a simple schoolmaster who, through a sovereign work of God, was arrested by conviction of sin, brought to the assurance of forgiveness, and then transformed into a tireless evangelist whose labours shook Wales and reached into England. The address recovers a neglected figure from the annals of church history and sets his story before a generation equally in need of the Spirit's work.<br><br>Yet Dr. Lloyd-Jones is not content merely to recount the facts. He draws from the life and diaries of Harris a series of searching applications for the contemporary church: the sovereignty of God in revival, the distinction between conversion and the baptism of the Spirit, the necessity of fresh experiences of divine power, the primacy of evangelistic concern as the true test of any claim to spiritual fullness, and the sobering question of whether the church's greatest sin today is that of quenching the Spirit. The address closes with a direct challenge — is not our greatest need an outpouring of the Spirit of God, individually and upon the churches?
