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Organ Recitals at Porth. On Thursday afternoon and evening last, organ recitals were held at Efben- ezei (Welsh Wesleyan) Church, by Mr. E T. Davies, F.R.C.O., of Merthyr Tyd- vil, assisted by the following eminent artistes: Soprano, Madam Laura: Evans, London bass. Mr. David Hughes, R.A.M. i"h is being Mr. Davies' second visit, the spacious edifice was packed with a very appreciative audience. Mr E. Bevan Thomas, solicitor, Ferndale, presided in the afternoon, IN-ilile Mr. W. R. Davies, Biyn Goleu, Ferndale, officiated in the evening. The concelifc opened with Handel's overture, Samson," and Mr. Davies' rendering of it aroused the musical enthusiasm of the audience at once to a high pitch. Throughout the performance the organist maintained the admiration and enthusiasm of all present and considerably enhanced his great, repu- tation amongst Porth audiences. Mr. David Hughes' rendering of Han- del's "Revenge Timotheus cries," was electrical. He also sang with wonderful effect Granier's Hosanna," and The Lord worketh ivonders" (Handel). But Mr. Hughes's greatest effort, .and which entirely captured all hearts, was his sing- ing of "0 Ruddier than the Cherry." The execution was simply perfect. None the least inferior was the singing, the intonation and expression of Miss Laura Evans, her rendering of How lovely are Thy dwellings" (Little), and the Welsh ai" Suo Gan," being a, ra.re and most magnificent performance. In God's Garden' (Lambert), Meddyliau Plen- tyn" (Morgan), and" In the great Un- known," Miss Evans completely charmed th- audience and made an impression not easily forgotten. The. duet by Miss Evans and Mr. Hughes, "Kissing Time," f was also a great success.

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The Ninth Annual Chair Eisteddfod Will be held at GOSEN, Blaenclydach, Good Friday, April 9th, 1909 Adiudictors of Music—D ROBERTS, Esq., L.T.S C., Bargoed, J. T. JONES, Esq. Dowlais Adjudicator of Violin Solos-HERBERT WARE. Esq., A.C.V., Tonypandy. Adjudicator of Literature-Rev. J. DYFNALLT OWEN, Pontypridd. Adjudicator of Bread -Mrq.,SHEPPAltD, Gelli, Yq trad Adjudicators of Fancy Work—Mrs. TOM THOMAS, 44, Thomas Street, Tonypandy, and Miss M. J .EVANS, Emlyn Cottage, Wern Street, Clydach Vale. Accompanists—D. R. James, Esq., Penl,-raiz, and Gwilym Davies, Esq Tonypandy. CHIEF CHORAL—"Ar lan Iorddonen Ddofn (Deep Jordan's Bank I Tread (Gabriel). Prize -EIOtiid Silver Cup, value 21 ls. Od. to successful conductor (given by Mr. Kiustley, Jeweller, Tonypandy). JUVENILE CHOIRS-"Awn yn mlaen" (On we go) (Rhedynog Price). Prize 23 and an Umbrella, value 6/11 to successful conductor (given by Mr. 1). Melville Davies, Hatter and Hosier, Blaenclydach). PRYDDEST-(Chwe' iigaiii Ilinell). 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Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant. Celebration at Pentre. Speeches by Mi*. Llewelyn Williams, M P,, and Mabon. Never was the commemoration of the Welsh Patron Saint honoured with more enthusiasm and fervour than it was on Monday evening by the Rhondda Young Wales Liberal and Labour League at the Workmen's Hall. The hall was full to overflowing, and the proceedings lasted until a late hour. Dr. W. E. Thomas, Llysygraig, presided, and aniclg the guests were Mr. Llewelyn Williams, M.P., Mr. Wm. Abraham (Mabon), M.P., Mr. W. P. Nicholas, T'realaw, and Dr. if. Morris Tylorstown. The proceed- lnp> which were mainly in Welsh, were Preceded by a sumptuous and well-ordered banquet, not the least interesting portion which was the menu, which was as follows: — GWych Isgell y Gwanwyn. Cawl Cenin. Eog, ynghyd a Bwyd-lysiau a. Chucumerau. Uyw Pobedig a Ffolen Mochyn Caerefrog. Eidon-Gig Pobedig. Marchruddygl. Crawsaig 'Gyfodedig o Gig Llo, gyda Maesrin. Oen-Gig Pobedig. Cyffaith, Mintys. Eidion-Gig Gwasgedig. Ainaethunau1. Cloron. Pastai Afalau ac Hufen. Tammaid Moethus. Ceulfwyd Madeira. Miod. Caws. Ymenvn. Cresdleisenau. Colli. The loyal toasts, were proposed by the resident, who referred to the impend- Princess Louise to the Kh°nC|Cfa) and said that he- trusted the ? .a People would rise to the occasion r_. ffve Her Royal Highness a truly Celtic welcome. The toa,st of The Evergreen Memory M il eW* Sa"t was entrusted to Mr. T. -uxulward, the popular Pentre solicitor. P46r outlining the history of the Welsh ■patron Saint, the speaker said that the three questions which concerned St. David were Existence, Knowledge and Work. Dr. Phillips Brooks, the notable Mei*l?an divine,, had declared that Man's power is his ideal employed by and projected through his personality." if ever that phrase had been illustrated In the life of anyone, it was in the life or Dewi Sant (applause). He gave a uirectiox1 to the life of the nation in vtiich he lived. He elevated its life in ;all its phases. He was a, total abstainer, and had he lived in these days he would not have been found among, the opponents ot the Licensing Bill (applause). What <*Ml }iis iife mean to us to-day, and how had he become the Patron Saint of Wales? It was because that the Welsh nation in iU, best and highest had woven itself around him, because he combined in him- self all thse principles which went to develop the noblest in the nation. He was a Welsh patriot; he loved the nation; he was loyal to its institutions; and for that reason he had become the inspiration timi Qf was good in Welsh life for all mes. St. David was no longer a person but a spirit, and his was not the immor- « ^rTn°f f Pf1'801^ but the immortality of +■ for-.ever elevating and urgin.o- applauir ltS lligl,eSt *,ld bcSt (lon3 P'Onr" ?iaith' Eil> Gvvlad, En Cenecli ( Om Language, Our Country, Our Nation ) was proposed by the Rev. T D. Jones, D. Jones, Bodringallt, in the absence of the Rev. E. Mabon, in responding, said that the welT^ a ^lgUa«e ™ proof Ave SSuttif nV Non? had the rig]lt t0 can Itself a nation unless it also possessed Ln St Welsh tongue, Psaid the member;i had two sides, one which rr51aS r,°"gh as tlie face of the jagged «c fi °ther as smooth and velvety as the Arabic or Italian. Ours was an Ily,rnottal laiignage, enduring from eternity to eternity (loud laughter and cheers). We had also a country, the land of song. It was necessary that we should preserve our language, and he regretted to find •Jhat it M as disappearing from tlie coal- a-°e, and the carpenter's shop, and what Was still sadder, from many of the homes Vf Wales. The celebration of St. David's ay was1 one of the most honoured forms i preserving the Welsh language, and « invited Rhondda. parents to speak the language and teach it to their children. e Eisteddfod was another way to pre- eive it, and so was the pulpit, but the nn i iWay of all was the Sunday School, ur £ €(1 those present to be loyal and raothful to that institution (applause). He q !° learnt his Welsh in tlie Sunday ^oiiool would have no need to be ashamed it anywhere, and thus would the North Rnf+\ai1 a^e to understand the southerner and the South WalTan his 'I1! brother, becawse the language liillilVlf''0 was the language of the thin ,■ int\ Purer Welsh could be found Book I \e covei's of the good old parents +U i therefore urged all S Ld ^\ihe Bible to the»* chil- and thus they would render noble loved so well tifcmg the language they Mr. Ll^Wfe)- <i most- corrlml „ lllams> who received address the gatheriS?10* ■' l°+1 ?TS to very p-!ari +f±e'lng, said that he was appi'eeK] Welshmen everywhere had pvt t Jhe greatest gift Providence triff +i bestowed on them. The greatest lanmio cou"tl'y possessed was its en h0 came from London I Snn^°nling' ^Iie snow was thick on the wSd% fhe sk-y was, overcast, and the tho. <+ ?es were falling steadily upon «trawf^' and h\llad fceen con- iW1,re 1thcm tllat the weather somi^ 1V'U to. eave London. But no tha?, +i C slS^ted the hills of Wales o '16 sun came out in the heavens as «e]f +hUrinl?r ,s da^ and lie said to him- fn-L,, at there was the augury of the realk«+ 01\Wale?- If theyS wanted to thev fi V)pes for the future of Wales, Lo,uW?U! t? tnrn their faces from come I' [G1Ii E"iland and elsewhere, and snri f .Wales where there was 8un of 8Pr"ig and hope (applause).

"Eu gwlad a gollant," said Taliesin Ben Beirdd. Hereford, Shropshire, parts of Cheshire, Cornwall and Devon had been lost to the Welsh tongue. He did not know whether they had lost Monmouth- shire or not. In the time of Henry VIII, Monmouthshire was made a part of the Oxford Circuit. In the time of that monarch there were established in Wales for the first time the Courts known as the Court of Great Sessions, which were con- cerned not with making the law, but in administering it, In 1831, Wales was made a part of the English judicature, but he was sanguine that the time would come when Wales would have again a judicial administration of its own, and when every judge would be a Welshman I (applause). The nation had been com- plaining in the past because monoglot English judges were coming into the country to insult Welshmen. He had lived the greatest part of his life in Eng- land, and he would dare to say that it was the experience of every man who had lived in England and in Wales that there was as much perjury being committed in England as there was in Wales. There was as much respect to truth in Welsh witnesses, and as much respect to justice among Welsh juries as there was among English witnesses and juries. He would like to see Monmouthshire being again made part of Welsh judicature, and thus would Wales have a good part of its territory returned (applause). Continuing, the speaker said that the greatest question of Wales was the pre- servation and the proper use to be made of the Welsh language (applause). He did not think it possible for a moment that a nation could live its own life after losing its language. The English had lost their language. To-day it was a mixture of several tongues, including French, Anglo-Saxon, &c. He was not one of those people who believed that every word they used should be Welsh. It was too late in the day for that, and his advice to them would be to assimilate words from other languages, but at the same time preserve the idioms and peculiar characteristics of the Welsh tongue so as to make it a living and a strong language. On the proper use of the Welsh language the future of the nation depended. In what country of the world could be seen what M as "seen in Wales to-day? Their literature was small, it was true. They had not pro- duced a Shakespeare or a Milton, but their1 literature had struck a. note which ""T" .1-J, ..L.l- J-L (>1. nets d-uoenu m ine iiceraxure or all other countries. The great names in Welsh literature were Eben Fardd, Hiraethog, who learned the rules of poetry whilst tending his father's sheep Watcyn "T yn, who studied the laws of alliteration whilst hewing coal in the mine; and Ben Bowen, the young seer of the Rhondda (applause). These Avere the great names in Welsh literature, men who rose from the democracy, and who sang like the birds because there was that in their hearts which made them sing. Scotsmen sang the praises of Burns, but he was only one. Scotland had only one Burns but in Wales there was not a single parish which had not produced men who had given expression to thoughts in lan- guage that would live for ever (applause). What was true in the literature of Wales was also, true in its education. TJAU was AVlien Scotland was held up as an educa- tional model, but to-day Scotland had been thrust on one side, and the country that was in the very van of educational progress was Wales (applause). Who were the men responsible for this? Not the an d aristocracy, but the democracv. Roberts, of Aberystwyth, was +]in °f a policeman; Viriamu Jones (>' m 11 °f a Congregational preacher; r.f +i M ards the son of a. farmer. Some r the sons of democracy had gone into Parliament like Mabon; some like Sir namuiel Evans had been covered with titles, others were members of the King's Pi'ivy Council, but they still remained the same democratic Welshmen as did their forefathers. He did not know of anything that weighed upon his heart so much as the sacrifice of men who spilled their heart's blood to give their children, their brothers and sistera the best of education. Some of the latter had raised a, wall like Offa's Dyke between them and those who had helped them on, but he hoped that the day was far distant when an educated Welshman would raise a barrier between him and his less fortu- nate brotner (applause). The speaker then went on to deal with the great names in English art and literature. The men who had been the. greatest power in moulding English life in the last half-century were G. F. Watts Burne Jones, and William Morris. The greatest prose writer in England to-day was Geo. Meredyth. The only authoress who had struck isruch a. sublime ii(4,te since the time of Shakespeare was a Welsh- woman, Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot >. He believed that particular nations had. been given special missions. The little country of Judea. had made its impres- sion on the life of every nation through it. reliigion; Greece had given to the world its fine a.rts; Rome had bequeathed its code of laws; and England its Par- liament. What had Wales to give to the would: ? It was that uni(vrer(<tl; culture which had made its sons famous in the literature of the world. Englishmen believed that culture was the monopoly of the rich and highly placed, but Wales had shown it could also be the property of the simple democrat. If that had been tr'uie of the nation in the past, it would be truer still in the future (applause). Mr. Williams concluded with the fol- lowing lines: Cenedloedd meistrolgar y cynfyd, Pa le erbyn hyn y ma,ent oll.P Eu llynges a'u mihvyr rhodresgar ? Eiu lianes a'u hiaith aeth ar goll. I-a, Ic, niae y Norddman balch, creuiawn Ormesodd ein cenedl ni? Ond erys gogoniant hen Gymru, Gwlad awen, gwlad canu, gwlad lien ydyw hi! The Chairman, in calling upon Mr. W. P. Nicholas to propose "Our Welsh Institutions," said: lie had had the greatest difficulty in restraining him from speaking in Welsh, but inasmuch as they had some English friends present, it was only fair that Mr. Nicholas should speak in the English language. Mr. Nicholas said he had to thank the Chairman for having in the first place J apologised in the neat way h-.> did that lie, a. son of Welsh parent's and a nephew of Thomas Stephens, the writer of the history of Wales, had to address such a large audience in the English language. If he had understood his learned friend, Mr. Llewelyn Williams, rightly, the Eng- lish people scarcely knew the" source of their own language. He was speaking in English, and he was sorry he| had to make a confesision that, whilst claiming a little knowledge of English, he hardly knew what thoughts he was going to clothe in that language. The toast he had been honoured in asking to propose was the toast of the Welsh Institutions. They had as Welshmen institutions of which they were justly proud. Like most of the previous speakers, he had three heads, and he was going to refer in the first place to that institution of which they possibly were more proud of than all the others—the Eisteddfod, .dlieh had done much for the ndvancement and the education of the people, not only of the present day, but in ages gone by (ap- plause). He trusted that the Eisteddfod would continue to exercise that great influence which it had hitherto exercised. They had only to read the biograplfies of great Welshmen to. find what a great part, the Eisteddfod had played in them. The, EistNldfocl brought into prominence his late uncle, Thomas Stephens, and amongst the most precious possessions of his widow were those trophies he had carried off in the early days' of his career—prizes won av the Eisteddfod (applause). He hoped that the time would come when these would be handed over to' some national institution as a source of encouragement to young men availing themselves of the opportunity which the Eisteddfod affords. In the art of music lie could justly say that the Welsh people were amongst the most musical nations of the earth. This was due to the Eisteddfod, and he trusted that its influence would not go down so long as they prided themselves as being Welshmen. Dealing with the University of Wales, Mr. Williams had just said that it had only commenced work, and now that he was on his feet. he had a bone to pick with the, Welsh members in connection with the Welsh University, and although Mr. Llewelyn Williams was a personal friend of his, and Mabon was his guest, lie desired to take this oppor- tunity of saying that the time had come when the Welsh University should have that measure of financial support- (applause)—which would place them on the same ground of equality as Scotland and Ireland. They knew that tlfeir fore- fathers in the past had struggled for the establishment of the University, and they knew what the result of their labours hail been. They did not want better evidence than that at the present day, for the first time in the. history of the country, three men who were bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh were members of His Majesty's Government (loud ap- plause). He had the honour of being for some time associated with the Solicitor- General, and he knew that a part of his education had been derived from the Aberystwyth University at a time when the history of that institution with its prosperity was not what it was to-day. If the universities were afforded a proper measure of support, they would afford an opportunity for doing much greater work lur we language ot Wales in the future than they had been able to in the past (applause). He would not be doing his duty if he sat down without referring to one institution which, he thought, had done more to mould the character of the Welsh people than almost any other agency. He referred, and referred sin- cerely, to the Welsh pulpit. They were proud of the Welsh pulpit. Most of them knew that his allegiance was owed to the Established Church, and he rejoiced to think that the Established Church, in common with the distinguished ornaments of Nonconformity, had not fallen down to the new-fangled doctrines which they were hearing so much of and which was so consistently preached in some of the pulpits of the land. The main theme of the Welsh pulpit, as it was with the fore- fathers who had gone before, was founded on the old doctrine which had come down through the ages, and which he sincerely trusted and believed would- be the theme for generations yet unborn (applause). If there was one thing he was proud of, it Mas that on this subject, at any rate, Church and Nonconformity in Wales had stood firm, and lie hoped that that point of union Avould be the foundation for a superstructure calculated to be of immense benefit to the Welsh peopte (loud (ap- plause). Our Guests "■ was proposed by the Rev. J. W. Matthews, to which Mr. Llewelyn Williams, Mabon, and Dr. T. H. Morris responded. Councillor Walter Williams proposed "The Welsh Platform," and the Revs. T. D. Jones and T. Lloyd, Ystrad, re- sponded. J The speeches were interspersed with a capital selection of musical items bv Miss Nana Jones, Mr. Ben Dtevonald, Mr. J. Devonald, accompanied on a. pedal harp by Telynwr Glandar." Miss- Edith Jones was also responsible for a-capital recitation, entitled "Cymraeg." The proceedings closed with the Welsh National Anthem.