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Originally Posted by Ohio
Have you read that JP-L was instrumental to debilitate Evan Roberts and his evangelical work during the Welch Revival?
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Originally Posted by Friedel
This is not true. On the contrary.
Evan Roberts was emotionally unbalanced and was physically very weak. This took a heavy toll on his body and mental state and he had numerous nervous breakdowns. Jessie Penn-Lewis and her husband took him in and he stayed with them for several years. I would rather suggest that she and her husband helped him to recover and they allowed him to stay with them until he felt he was ready to resume his preaching. This simply did not materialize any time soon.
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Of course we can't know what really went on between Roberts and JP-L. Some claim that Roberts fell under "Jezzie's" spell.
But does that really concern US? What concerns us is Nee and Lee. They're much closer to us. Lee came down from Nee. Nee came down from Penn-Lewis.
And after being acquainted with both sides of Nee -- his ministry and private life -- it's no surprise Nee was drawn to demonology.
Why? Because he was struggling with his own demons. At the same time he was delivering a unbelievable ministry, he was also falling for the forbidden fruit of women. And. In "The Latent Power of the Soul," he speaks of the latent power of the soul .. no dah. His ministry proves he was no stranger to that power. In his early days, when he was falling weak to the flesh, the saints looked up to him like he was a deity. Talk about fighting demons.
And of course, much closer up, we have come to be acquainted with Lee's demons.
What roll did Penn-Lewis play in all this, and by the way, G.H. Pember? We'll never fully know.
But there's enough there to smell a rat.