'Morlais Castle is a place where, on fine Sunday mornings, scores of the worst charaters (from the iron-works) meet to drink and fight... You might imagine what a den of wickedness that place is on Sunday morning.
On a fine Sunday morning in June last, about twenty young lads could be seen wending their way thither, and they reached the polluted spot about half past five. One young lad said to them, that they had come to hold a prayer-meeting, at which idea the drunkards scoffed... A testament was opened and a chapter read; a hymn was sung, and most melodius it was in the breeze of the morning.
By this time all had become quite serious. Not a laugh or a jest passed - nothing was heard but prayer and praise... the beer was thrown away. Many swore emphatically that they would never go to Motlais Castle again for such a purpose... and in less than a month hundreds met on the highest summit of Morlais Castle to worship their creator...the hills and woods would echo the praises of God, and the effect was most thrilling.'
The Welsh Revival: Its origin and development
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