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The Bible League. To the Editor of The Weekly News. Sir,—I shall be thankful if you will allow me I to reply to Y Gwir." We do ask for proof of evolution, and it is clearly stated why we do so in the extract from a letter I have just received I from a thorough scientist who writes :— Nobody disputes "evolution" as applied n to thfe solar system, &c. But it is ignorance to confound "species" with "form" and variety." A frog on the jump is not a diff- erent species from the tadpole. Let the writer give from any competent or scientific classification of plants or ani- mals, the scientific or common name of a fixed and permanent species and the name of the lower species with historical proofs of the de- rivation of the higher from the lower. We must have a proper classification first, otherwise a theory formed upon an imperfect aggregation of facts can at the best only be empirical." Scientists are all at sea on this fundamental point. Evolution has therefore no stable foundation. Hypotheses settle no- thing. In respect to the Infallibility of the Word of God, we do contend for the absolute integrity of the Scriptures. We beiieve that man was first created at the time recorded in Genesis. The BIBLE LEAGUE IS PREPARED to de- fend this position. An archaeologist who can read the cuneiform tablets himself is willing to defend" Genesis" as an infallible record of truth. We also believe the Book when it says The dumb ass speaking with man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet." For with God nothing is impossible. Similarly concerning Jonah and the fish for our Lord has put His imprimatur upon that fact. Y Gwir recommends a visit to the South Kensington Museum. Let me suggest one to the British Museum. Marvellous confirmations of the historical accuracy of the Old Testament from the testimony of the Monuments can there be seen. What the Professors called "sheer impossibilities" are there confirmed by the cuneiform tablets. Professor Sayce has said: "We must write our history of Elam over again. We have been wrong, and the tenth chapter of Genesis is right after all." Take Genesis xiv. The story here recorded has been specially ridiculed by Higher Critics." The Babylonian inscriptions show that these events actually occurred. Amraphel is identi- fied as the Hammurabi, whose legal code was recently discovered. Chronology is referred to by Y Gwir." Dr. King, of the British Museum, has discovered indisputable evidence that two of the dynasties were contemporaneous and not consecutative thus making the life of Abraham and Hammurabi to correspond. We can easily multiply facts. I will only mention the Tel-el-Amarna tablets, which were discovered in 1887. Professor Wright, D.D., says The discovery of these Tel-el-Amarna letters came like a flash of lightning upon the schol- arly world. In this case the overturning of a few spadesfuls of earth let in a flood of light upon the darkest portion of ancient history, and in every way confirmed the Bible story. When the Bible League again visits Colwyn Bay, I feel sure much greater interest will be shown in its lectures.—Thanking you for your extreme kindness, yours faithfully, The Vicarage, WILLIAM SYKES. Hillsborough, Sheffield, < July 23rd, 1910. To THE EDITOR OF THE Weekly News. SIR,-In winding up the discussion on the Infallibility of the Bible, which you kindly allowed me to initiate in your columns, I need but be brief. Your readers will esteem Mr. Wm. Sykes wise in making the fact of my writing under a pen name an excuse for not attempting an answer to the dicta of the learned theologians which prac- tically constituted my two letters. Many a million of years have gone to the making of Man as Tennyson says. No man ever lived nine or six hundred years. No deluge ever sub- merged the earth. No donkey ever spoke. The great God of the universe never condemned babes to slaughter or connived at deceit, lust and cruelty, whatever the anthropomorphic god of an unprogressive tribe in a corner of Syria may have done. I have not quoted sceptics. Clerics and Professors of Theology in our Universities tell us that these things are allegories, lolk-lore, legends. But I feel much more on the side of Mr. Wm. Sykes than against him. I wish that, like him, people would but think—would search and see if these things be so. Indifference is the only Infidelity" says Zangwill. Philip Vivian's The Churches and Modern Thought can be got through any bookseller in Colwyn Bay for 6d. Only I would warn these good people that the more they try to bolster up these mythical ad- juncts of true religion the greater will be the fall when the people shake off the age-long habit of thinking that Heaven is impossible unless you believe what you know isn't true." I beg them to open their minds to the light, as Peter did and as Luther did, however much it may go against their preconceived notions to do so. Falsehood is not necessary to goodness. A man can be a good husband and father, friend and citizen without holding that the first woman was made B.C. 4004 out of a rib taken out of the first man, just as a boy can be a good son and brother, schoolfellow and pupil, without believ- ing that a goose ever laid a golden egg.— I am, &c., Y GWIR YN ERBYN Y BYD."
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Colwyn Bay and District Cottage Hospital. To the Editor of The Weeklv News. Sir,—I have to ask your kind permission to bring under the notice of your readers the Hos- pital Saturday Collections to be made on the 30th instant. The Cottage Hospital (which visitors will find in Hesketh-road, about half way between the Bay and Colwyn) now ministers to the needs of a population of some 16,000 souls, and the street collections to be made on Saturday next constitute an important part of our revenue. The Hospital, which contains ten beds and two cots, will shortly be provided with a thoroughly modern Operating Room, where the most seri- ous operations can be carried out with every guarantee of safety and success that modern appliances can ensure. There will be stands at the corners of Conwav- road and Brompton-avenue, Conway-road and Penrhyn-road, Abergele-road and Sea View- road, Abergele-road and Lawson-road, in Sta- tion-road, on the Promenade, and at Rhos-on- Sea and Old Colwyn. The Board gratefully acknowledges a very generous response to the recent Pound Day appeal, and they trust that the public will be equally kind on Hospital Saturday." Sister Eleanor will, as always, be pleased to show over the Hospital any who have an in- terest in this work, but building operations at present somewhat mar the usual appearance of the place and diminish the number of patients. —I am, &c., FRAS. NUNN, Hon. Secretary.
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St. Asaph (Denbigh) Rural I District Council. LLANDDULAS WATER AGAIN. \VHA T'S IN A NAME?" A meeting of the St. Asaph (Denbigh) Council was held on Friday, when Mr. Morris Jones was in the chair. THE DEVELOPMENT ACT. A circular letter from the Road Board rc the above Act, was read, and it was decided to pur- chase copies of the Act before taking any further steps in the matter. THE WATER SUPPLY OF LLANDDULAS. It was reported that there had been a fracture on the water mains at Llanddulas, and that the pressure had been low in certain places. Canon Roberts said there were continual complaints about the want of pressure at Llan- ddulas. In the schools, one day, there was no water, and at Pennington-terrace people could not get water until after midnight, and the sup- ply ceased at about 9 a.m. A fire had occurred in the district recently, and he wondered what would have happened had there been a serious conflagration there. The Clerk said he had received a telegram from a resident in Llanddulas as to the low pressure, and he communicated with the water office at Rhyl, and in reply was told that the Inspector, on visiting Llanddulas, found the pressure all right. Canon Roberts said things happened that way. (Laughter.) The Clerk added that he had received a re- solution from the Parish Council asking that the District Council would take steps in the matter, as the low pressure was detrimental to the place. He sent on a copy of the letter to Rhyl, and the reply he had was that the state of the meter at Llanddulas had been taken, and it was found that the same quantity of water as usual had passed through. Mr. Hall, the Engineer, suggested that there was leakage in Llanddulas, and that there should be a house to house inspection. The pressures when taken at Abergele, were found to be all right, and at Gwrych Castle Lodge it was 130 feet. Canon Roberts suggested that the valves might be so arranged that on particular occasions there would be pressure at certain points. It was strange that the pressure should always be the same at certain hours. People did not al- ways draw on the mains with the same uni- formity as the low pressures at stated intervals showed. Mr. John Roberts considered that the only remedy would be to have different mains. Canon Roberts asked if there was any remedy for the existing state of things ? The Clerk did not think so. Canon Roberts: Excepting arbitration. The Clerk added that it was often said that the valves were tampered with at Abergele, and it certainly looked like it. Mr. John Roberts said he thought there was too much attention being paid to the supply for Rhyl, Rhuddlan, and other places to the de- triment of Llanddulas. Mr. Davies asked if there was any control over the water in Abergele before it reached Llanddulas ? The Surveyor (Mr. Evans) replied that the Inspector at Abergele could increase or decrease the pressure at Llanddulas as he liked, by alter- ing the valves at Abergele, through which town the water first passed. Mr. John Roberts considered that there should be a separate main for Llanddulas. The Council decided that their Survevor should make an independent inspection of the fittings in Llanddulas, and take the pressures at various points without giving notice to the office at Rhyl, so that an independent report could be laid before the Council. A letter was read from the Llanddulas Quarry Company renewing their application for a water supply for their engines, and stating that they were prepared at any time, when the supply was low for domestic purposes, to go without water. At present it cost them about £ 1 per month to cart water, and yet they had to pay rates, from which they derived but little benefit. The Council regretted that the present condi- tion of things would not permit of their supply- ing water for other than domestic purposes. THE QUARRY AT LLANSANNAN. The view was expressed that the price paid for obtaining stone from the above quarry was excessive, and it was decided to see if arrange- ments could not be arrived at to have the charge reduced. The idea was also expressed that fail- ing a settlement on those lines, land might be purchased suitable for the purpose by the Coun- cil. It was reported that a third Thomas Jones in the employ of the Council, had met with an accident, and one of the members suggested that they should not employ any more men of that name. (Laughter.) THE BELL METAL COMPANY. With reference to the above matter, the Clerk stated that he had written to the Company, but had received no reply. It was decided to write again to the effect that a representative of the Company would be ex- pected to attend at the next meeting of the Council.
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Conway Corporation and the Parish Church Service. To the Editor of The Weekly News. Sir,—Allow me to express my disapproval of the intention of the Conway Corporation to attend the Parish Church next Sunday morn- ing in state. I understand that this is done at the invitation of the Vicar. It is difficult to know why they are invited. The alternatives that suggest themselves are, that the Bishop of J arrow has a special message to them, or that their presence will add to the impressiveness of the service. This is extremely unfair to the Nonconformist members of the Council. Their duty is to be present at their own places of wor- ship. Not forsaking the assembling of our- selves together." They cannot attend both services well, for no service in the town con- cludes before LL.LO a.m., and some much later than that. May I point out that at the same hour an anniversary service will be held in St. John's Church, where a special preacher is announc- ed to preach. The minister at the Wesleyan Church has exactly the same claim, if there be any claim, upon the attendance of the Corpora- tion, as the Bishop at the Established Church. In October a minister of national repute will conduct a mission on behalf of the Free Church Council. The Mayor and Corporation will not be invited to inaugurate the mission by attend- ing in state, and if they were, how unnecessary and awkward it would appear to us all. After all, is not the so-called attending in state but a mere display, ministering to a worldly vanity and pomp ? The danger of these processions is to reduce religion to a mere spectacular dis- play. For the Corporation, which is a com- posite body, to present themselves in state in one particular Church, when services equally as important, are held in every other church in the town, is a practice which every fair-minded Christian will at once condemn. It is not only unfair to the members of the Corporation, but humiliating to the religious service. When a request similar to this is presented to the Coun- cil again, it is to be sincerely hoped that it will be refused without hesitation.-I am, &c., FREE CHURCHMAN.
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History of St. Asaph. The Rural Deaneries comprised in the fifth part of this most important work are the fol- lowing :—Holywell, Llanfyllin, Llangollen, and Llanrwst. The venerable and scholarly author moves leisurely, but with unique knowledge and infinite care, from parish to parish, and gleans into his treasury of recorded historic lore from every available field and source. Ecclesiastical matters necessarily claim the corpus of the work yet the volumes are replete with rare and valu- able material of antiquarian and archaeological interest. It is a most happy coincidence that this standard work is published at a time of quickened literary activity and historic research the student of biography will find in its pages much trustworthy information, and the student of place-names and geography will revel in the wealth of reference, explanation and suggestion offered, whilst the general reader will be charmed by a fine and succinct literary style and method. The section dealing with the Deanery of Llan- rwst and its ancient Churches is of immediate local value and interest. The Gwydir Chapel, for instance, receives full and reliable treatment; the Churches of the Eastern banks of the Conwy River are described with loving care and de- tailed accuracy, whilst the frequent quotations from, and references to, the MSS, reveal a vast amount of patient research and consummate scholarship. The parts, I.—V., may he had, if immediately applied for, from the author or the publishers. M. J. H. HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF ST. ASAI-H, by the Yen. D. R. Thomas, M.A., F.S.A.. Archdeacon of Montgomery, Cannon of St. Asaph, and Rector of D. R. Thomas, M.A., F.S.A.. Archdeacon of Montgomery, Cannon of St. Asaph. and Rector of Llandrinio. (In seven parts.) Part V. Woodhall, Minshall & Co., Oswestry 7s. 6d.
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St. Asaph Board of Guardians. THE INSPECTOR'S REPORT. SOME STRONG STATEMENTS. SERVANT'S OBJECTION TO HOT-WATER PEOPLE." The fortnightly meeting of the St. Asaph Board of Guardians was held on Friday, Mr. T. Frimston, of Rhyl, presiding over a good attend- ance. The Chairman reported that the number of paupers in the Union that day amounted to 132, a decrease of 22 as compared with the corres- ponding period of last year. In respect of vag- rants relieved, there was a decrease of 90. The Chairman said the report was very satis- factory in both instances. RHYL FATHER RECUPERATING. The Chairman also reported that a Rhyl man, who had his sons in the house, as well as himself, was anxious to leave the house that day in order to look for work. He (the Chairman) had seen the man that morning, and he did not think that he was fit to go out. He wished to leave his children in the house for a time, but he had tried to persuade the father to stay a fortnight longer, seeing that he was not in a fit state to start work. He was under the impression that the man had consented to stay. The man appeared before the Committee, and decided to stay another fortnight in the house, until he had quite recovered. WHY SHE LEFT. In the case of a girl who had left her place at Rhyl, the Board decided to allow her to go to Prestatyn. Asked why she left the former place, the girl replied that the situation had become a very hard one, because those who employed her had commenced to take visitors, as well as hot- water people." (Laughter.) THE INSPECTOR'S REPORT. The report of Mr. H. R. Williams, the Govern- ment Inspector, relative to the Union was read as follows As the children's quarters are nearly always full, the Guardians would do well to consider the advisability of providing Homes for all children who are old enough to leave their mothers and not eligible to be boarded out, either in Cottage Homes or Scattered Homes. During the winter months there has been great pressure on the existing accommodation in the old part of the Workhouse. If the child- dren are removed from the Workhouse alto- gether, their quarters can be utilized for adults. The vagrant wards are totally inadequate to accommodate the large number of vagrants who frequent this Workhouse. Often as many as 30 sleep in places intended to accommodate only 17. There are no suitable day-rooms, no separ- ate working and sleeping cells, and no bath- room, hence the impossibility of observing the orders of the Local Government Board as to task, detention, bathing, &c. "There is no alternative exit from the old lying-in ward, which is now used as a dormitory for women." It was decided to refer the report to the Visit- ing Committee. ARREARS OF RATES. The following parishes were stated to be in arrears to the amount stated below :-—Bettws, £ 56 Bodfari, /38 Bylchau, £ 43 Cwm, £ 49 Dyserth, £100; Henllan, ^158 Llansannan, /80 Meliden, £ 56 Prestatyn, £ 256 Rhudd- lan, £ 219; Rhyl, il,223 Trefnant, £ 71. On the first call also Bodfari was in arrear to the extent of £ 38. and Henllan a balance of £28. TEACHING THE BLIND. A communication was received from the Local Government Board consenting to the contri- bution by the Union of £ 5 towards the funds of the North Wales Home Teaching Society for the Blind, Bangor. It was stated that a boy at present in the Union was eligible for service.
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Carnarvon Board of Guardians. CONSUMPTIVES IN THE UNION. At Saturday's meeting of the Carnarvon Board of Guardians, the Chairman (Mr. Thomas Jones) presiding, it was resolved to convene a special meeting for the consideration of cases of consumption in the Union. In his report to the Boarding-out Committee, the infant Pro- tection Officer spoke favourably on the whole of the conditions which obtained in the Homes to which pauper children had been entrusted, though the capacities of the foster parents differed materially in certain cases. In some an immediate change was desirable. Accord- ing to a return which was being prepared by the Relieving Officers, there were in the Union 340 persons above seventy years of age in receipt of relief, representing a total relief of £78 per week.
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I Week by Week. I On the occasion of the appointment of a new Bishop of St. David's many years ago a Car- I marthen bard broke out in verse in this fashion: Let valleys sing and mountains hop, To welcome home our new bish-op < t A gentleman with a handbag entered a West Wales shop on Saturday. The shopkeeper thought it an odd time for a commercial traveller to call; still, he asked to see the samples. Oh said the visitor, I am a Congregational minister." I see," ruminated the shopkeeper, you belong to an independent firm, then." • Two business men were conversing over their luncheon of coffee and pie. The older man had iust been married. He was telling his friend how happy he was. And he wound up with the ecstatic cry And, George, what puts me in the seventh heaven is that her first husband's clothes fit me like the paper on the wall." A lady writer-young, and therefore cynical- send us the following :—" I don't read papers as a rule, except of course the twiddly bits, but I did wade through the long—oh so long—reports of the House of Commons debate on the vote for women question. I was simply disgusted with the speeches on both sides. They talked all round the subject, but never came near the real point. The whole case for our sex can be put in a nutshell. If a woman is fit to vote for an Urban District Councillor, isn't she fit to vote for a mere M.P. ? » It is not infrequent to see in the newspapers circulating in this part of the country advertise- ments to the effect that "I, A. B., will not be responsible for any debts unless personally con- tracted," These are, of course, inserted with the object of preventing tradesmen giving credit to the advertiser's wife. But one good dame from Wigan, whose husband had inserted such a notice, left her home in high dudgeon, and next day there appeared in the local papers this ad- vertisement: "I, C. D., beg to notify that I am able to pay all my debts now that I am shut of Tommy." Marriage contracts written on ostraca or pot- sherds have been unearthed at Luxor, Egypt, which convict the experimental union man of unoriginality. They are two thousand years old. Thus, one of them t; I take thee, Taminis, daughter of Pamonthis, into my house to be my lawful wife for the term of five months. Accord- ingly I deposit for you in the Temple of Hathor the sum of four silver stater, which will be for- feited to you if I dismiss you before the con- clusion of the five months, and besides this m\r banker shall do something for you but if vou leave me on your own account before the end of the five months the above sum which I have de- posited shall be refunded to me." Towyn ought to be devoutly thankful to Lord Hugh Cecil for the splendid advertisement he gave it. It is not the first time that Towyn has been associated with unorthodox matters. Was not St. Cadfan's Church there founded by Cadfan, a holy man, of Armorica, who came to Wales in the sixth century to refute the Pela- gian heresy." Cadfan was one of the founders and the first abbot of the monastery on Bardsev. One of the greatest treasures of Towyn is St. Cadfan's Stone," now in the church, over which antiquaries have long disputed. Some of them thought it was part of the tomb of the saint him- self, and translated the inscription accordingly. Others—base iconoclasts-have failed to find the name of Cadfan on his own pillar. They have found Adgan," but that, as Mr. Kipling would say, is another story, which Lord Hugh Cecil, with all his learning, is hardly likely to relate. Some more or less apocryphal old chestnuts about the electric telegraph are floating about. Here, however, is a true story told in Notes and Queries by the late Mr. J. Pavin Phillips, of Haverfordwest. He was at Bangor in 1853, and was going on to Holyhead by the mail train, which passed a slow train at that station, the latter being shunted for that purpose. A pas- senger by the slow train had left his umbrella at a station some way back, and the railway people wired for it to be sent on by the mail, which was done, the passenger to which it belonged follow- ing in the slow train (unaware that his property had preceded him). At Holyhead a waggish porter hung the umbrella on a telegraph wire, and when the man inquired for it replied, Yes, sir, it has just arrived, by telegraph." As he moved away with his mush the astonished passenger declared, "Well, I'm blest if that 'ere telegraph don't beat everything!" The story is often told in other forms, but the above version happens to be true. The modern fashionable crazes in female dress are nothing new. Here is a paragrapgh which appeared in the aptly-named Observer exactly one hundred years ago :— Lady L- E-- is the most dashing of the fashionable belles at Tunbridge Wells. In the morning she appears with purple stoc;- ings and gown at noon she wears pink stock- ings with crimson clocks, and changes again in the evening for white the coats on each occasion being shortened sufficiently to show the symmetry of her ankles. When the future historian comes to describe some of the hobble skirts, picture hats, &c., now in vogue, what will posteriry say ? Rhyl's Welsh population, who have good reason for being indignant at the manner in which their native language is being trampled under foot in the sacred name of Economy," the Anti-Nationists' Mesopotamia," will be interested in the following paragraph from the Conservative Western Mail It looks as if Barry will have to be made the capital of Wales. In order to ascertain the feel- ing of Barry parents with regard to the teaching of Welsh in the schools, the local Education Authority sent out 6,617 plebiscite papers. Of these 4,002 were returned in favour of the teach- ing of Welsh; against, 2,372; not returned, 243; majority in favour, 1,630. The percen- tage in favour of Welsh is thus shown to be 60.48; against, 35.84 neutral, 3.68. These figures bear unmistakeable testimony to the popularity of Welsh even amongst the cosmo- politan population of Barry." Many of the relics of bygone Wales are gradu- ally coming under the hammer The other day, in the Vale of Clwyd, it was an abbey with a bishop's tombstone and a knight in armour thrown in. Last week it was Plas Newydd, the home of the famous Ladies of Llangollen." Plas Newydd is a treasure house of rare and quaint carvings and panellings, and great care has been taken to maintain it in its original antique and wonderful style. The "Ladies of Llangollen," Lady Eleanor Butler and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby, left the gaities of London in 1778, and retired to the seclusion of Plas Newydd, where they resided together for over fifty years. The former died in 1829, at the age of 90, and the latter in 1831, at the age of 76. Perhaps the most curious remedy for sea sick- ness (says the Daily Chronicle) was that pre- scribed by Sir Theodore Mayern for the Prin- cess Roval when she crossed to Belgium in 1642. Cinnamon, coriander, anise, ambergris, musk, and sugar were to be made up into long tubes for her to munch on the voyage a plaster of balsam of Peru, gum mastich and laudanum was to be applied to the pit of the stomach and, in addition, she was to inhale the comfort- ing vapours arising from a hash of toast, orange and citron peel, roses, lavender, and cloves, mingled with wine, cinnamon water, and elder- flower vinegar.
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