


BILLY BRAY
Cornish Miner, Dancing Preacher
© 2008 Chris Wright
Made by Serif
This is the earliest known photo of Billy, and a sample of Billy’s handwriting from his Journal. The Journal is reproduced by courtesy and permission of the Director and Librarian of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester and the Methodist Church of Great Britain, and may not be reproduced without their written permission.


at that time we had a little pig, and this
was the Wednesday. While in bedroom
looking to heaven with all the powers
of my soul, it appeared to me I had almost
laid hold of the blessing. But the pig
came up to our door and I thought
I never heard a pig cry so in all