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"Sectarian Jobbery."

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"Sectarian Jobbery." MINISTER'S FIERY INDICTMENT OF WELSH PUBLIC LIFE. A remarkably outspoken indictment of the "sectarian jobbery which, he declares, corrupts the public life of Wales is made by the Rev. R. Silyn Roberts, M.A., a popular Methodist minister, of Festiniog, in the current number of Y Geninen (Welsh Quarterly Review). Speaking from inside knowledge, he charges Welsh county councils, education committees, and other public bodies in the Principality with subordinating public interests to sectarian or personal considera- tions, and the political and religious leaders of the people with the rankest hypocrisy. "It would be difficult," he says, "to find any country where corruption in the appointment of public servants prevails more largely than in Wales. The question asked is not which is the best candidate on the list, but rather whose influence is behind him. What is important is not the possession of scholarships and sterling character, but that he should be a vote-collecting mendicant." Mr. Roberts gives a number of illustrative instances, adding, I have the names and parti- culars at hand if necessary." Only one of two possible explanations of these remarkable actions can," he says, "be offered. Either the members of these committees must be dull and ignorant or else the whole thing is corrupt jobbery. And yet people say that our cultured youth are weakening in their attachment to our country and our churches, and express surprise that they should do so. The real won- der is that so many remain faithful when com- pelled to witness the hypocrisy and jobbery of public life on every hand, and the heroes of this jobbery posing as religious leaders on the Sab- bath. "The alleged agnosticism and absence of religious sympathy in the educated classes in Wales should not trouble us one-fourth as much as the blighting hypocrisy of our public life. Honest agnostics would make better leaders for Honest agnostics would make better leaders for our land than those who, professing to be Christians, permit favouritism to betray the trust reposed in them by the masses. Unless these things be reformed our best men will be driven to other lands, our children will be left to the mercy of the weaklings who remain, and the brightest hopes of young Wales will be sacrificed on the altar of selfishness."

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