The nearness of death made him fear for his eternal welfare and, having recovered, he went to live in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, where a converted Jew, Maurice Reuben, was conducting an evangelistic campaign.

Suddenly, at the age of 23, Rees was struck down with a near fatal dose of typhoid fever. So much so, that he moved to MartinвЂ™s Ferry, about 100 miles away. Rees was a good churchgoer вЂ“ in fact, he never missed the prayer meeting вЂ“ but his cousinвЂ™s question flummoxed him. However, he was startled one day when Evan Lewis asked him if he was вЂborn againвЂ™. He got a job in a tin mine and began to make very good money. His grandparents had been converted in the famous 1859 revival, but Rees himself, although religious, knew nothing of the new birth.ДЄfter leaving school at the tender age of twelve, Rees worked in the iron works for ten years before leaving Wales to join his cousin, Evan Lewis, in America. Rees Howells was born the sixth of a family of three girls and eight boys in the mining village of Brynamman, South Wales. It was from this position of power that Rees became a channel of revival in Southern Africa, and, on returning to Britain, a mighty spiritual force which many believe changed the course of World War II. As he came to know the redeeming power of his Lord and Saviour, he faced the implications of an entire surrender, learned to love the unlovely and discovered the key to praying with power. Rees Howells was a man of little worldly fame, yet through Norman GrubbвЂ™s best-selling biography, вЂRees Howells вЂ“ IntercessorвЂ™, his life story is known to millions.

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