The Welsh Methodist revival was an evangelical revival that revitalised Christianity in Wales during the 18th century. Methodist preachers such as Griffith Jones, William Williams and Howell Harris were such powerful speakers that they converted thousands of people back to the church. The revival ended in the late 1790s after the deaths of Williams, John Wesley and Daniel Rowland; though its influence on Wales was immense as it led to the establishment of the Calvinistic Methodists and revitalised old dissenting churches.
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