In the 19th century Billy Bray, a humble miner, became the most famous man in Cornwall!
Despite a Christian upbringing he said, "I became the companion of drunkards." His wife suffered because his wages went on beer.
Through reading John Bunyan's 'Visions of Heaven and Hell' he stopped drinking and began crying to God for mercy. Eventually it came. "In an instant the Lord made me so happy that I cannot express what I felt."
Billy the miner now spent his spare time building chapels with his own hands and preaching Christ to thousands. When the doctor said he was dying he replied, “When I get up there, shall I give them your compliments and tell them you’ll be coming too?!”