Denbighshire Free Press

RHUDDLAN. GRAND CONCERT. A grand concert was held in the spacious Hfcll adjoining the Reading Room, on Thurs- day evening. The chair was taken by Colonel Parry, of Pecgwern Hall, ond the duties of conductor fell to Mr J E Evans, Caerwys, (" Y Llwynog"), who is a most popular favourite with a Rhuddlan audience. His ready wit and humour, characteristic of him- elf, fairly brought down the bouse, and a future entertainment, with his services secured, would be certain to ensure a crowded house. The proceeds were devoted to the maintenance of the excellent Bodrhyddan Fire Brigade, and tSe entertainment arrangements were made by Mr Conwy Bell, and hi eDergetic secretary, Mr J 0 Hughes. The hall was filled to over- flowing, many being unable to get admittance. The programme was gone through in a most creditable manner. The Lay Clerks of St Asaph Cathedral were a treat, and little Miss Conwy Bell sang (although under 5 years of age): in a stylo which betokens a very bright future for her in the musical world. Between part I and II, Mrs Conwy Bell, graciously distributed certificates and badges to tba members of the Brigririe, who had distinguished themselves in ambulance and other duties connected with their calling. Mr Hanlon, of Rbyl, has a fine voice, and rendered his songs in a maserly style. In fact the whole of the artistes acquitted themselves well, and to the great delight of the large audience. We append the programme -Pianoforte solo, Miss L\hb!e Hughes. Solo, "Angus Macdonuld," Miss Nancy Roberts. Part song. The Young The Lay Clerks. Clarionette solo, "The Shepherds Dance," (E German), Miss Parry. Solo, "Sailors grave," Mr Hautan. Solc,, -1 Ttie old fashioned girl," Miss Gladys Hughes. Solo," The dear little Shamrock," Mr Musical sketch, Mr Frank Lloyd. --P,tl-t II: Song, Miss Enid Conwy Bell, who was rapturously encored, and 'responded. Madrigal, Coina let us join." The Lay Clerks Solo, ''Like stars above," Mr Htiulon. Solo, Sunshine ^aod rain," Miss Nancy Roberts. Clarionette solo, Ycito Yivaos," (Yerney) Miss Parry. Solo, Home, Dearie Home," Miss Gladys Hughes. Solo Tell her I lovo her so," (Fay.) Mr Smith. Glee, "Gently sighs the evening breeze," The Lay Clerks. Musical sketch. Mr Frank Lloyd. "God save the King."

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TREMEIRCHION. CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL. On Monday evening the annual distribution of the club money of the above Sunday School took place in the Schoolroom, when the sum of 995 Os. 7d. was paid out to the members by the treasurer, Mr E Morgan, Caegwyn. The juvenile members each received a bonus of 3s., and the senior members each received half-a- crown. The treasurer and secretary were heartily thanked for their efforts in securing the bonus, and also for the trouble taken in making the club such a great success as it has turned out to be. The following ladies and gentlemen were gratefully thanked for their donations towards the bonus:—Mrs Scott- Bankes, 5s. Mrs Mainwaring, 10s.; P P Pen- nant, Esq., 21, and Major E P Salusbury, JS1. The treasurer and secretary also wish to thank most heartily Mrs Ellis, Salusbury arms, and Messrs. Henry Davies, Plas yn cwm; G 0 Griffiths, and J Jones for their kind assistance at the concert held the Friday evening previ- ous, the proceeds of which went towards the club's bonus. GRAND CONCERT. On Friday evening a grand concert was given in the Schoolroom by a party of Sunday School-children, assisted by Miss Parry, (Soprano) Trefnant, Mr Edward Evans, (Tenor) Rhuddlan, and Mr John Edwards, (Baritone) the Grove, Bodfari. The juvenile soloists were very heartily received, and delivered their words so plainly that all were able to follow them easily. The part-songs went with precision and were highly appreciated. The three-part-songs were Welsh Airs arrranged by Mr England, for children, while the two-part song was his own composition. Miss Parry, and Messrs Edward Evans, and John Edwards, by the excellent rendition of their songs and duett, enthusiastically delighted the audience, who gave them a vociferous encore each time. The accompanists were Miss Morgan, Caegwyn, Mr Fred Rees, Trefnant, and Mr England, who discharged their duties in an eminently satisfactory manner. Miss Morgan's Pianoforte Solo was very highly appreciated. The promoters of the concert feel deeply grateful to the ladies and gentlemen who so generously gave their valuable assistance gratuitously, and made the concert such a grand success. Our old friend Llwynog, of Caerwys, (Mr J J Evans), was prevented by the terrible state of the weather from fulfilling the offices of Chairman and Conductor. His place was taken by Mr England. Votes of — —— thanks were heartily accorded the performers on the proposition of the Chairman, seconded by Mr T 0 Edwards, Tanybryn. Appended is the programme:- Pianoforte solo, Mi6s Morgan. Three.part song, I Can yr Ehedydd (encored), Party of children. I would'nt leave my little wooden hnt for you' (encored), Louisa Jones. The ivy leaf (encored), Catherine A Roberts. Hearts and Homes' (encored), Miss C A Denman. I Ein hanwyl wlad' (encored), Mr John Edwards. The blind girl and her harp (encored and gave Merch y Mclinydd '), Miss Parry. Island of Dreams (encored and gtave Llwybr Wyddfa'), Mr Edward Evans. Three part song, I blodawr Bedd', Party of children. I G:)od-bye blue bell (encored), Elizabeth A Jones. Comic song, Upidee' (encored and gave They all have a mate but me'), Mr England. Duett, Arwyr Cymru Fydd (encored), Messrs E Evans and J Edwards. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin (encored), Margaret Roberts. Dim ond deilen (encored), Annie Edwards. The storm fiend' (encored), Mr John Edwards. 'Killarney (encored), Mips Parry. Gwlad y Delyn (encored), Mr Edward Evans. Comic song, 'Polly wolly doodle' (encored), Mr England. Two-part song. The merry squirrel' (encored), Party of children. Final, Ged save the King'.

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CAERWYS. THE FAIR. The fair was held on Tuesday last. It was rather sparsely attended, although there was a good show of fat stock. Good prices won realized at Mr Sheffield's sale, notably so for beef and fat pigs. THE PICADILLY INN. Mr John Davies, late landlord of the Pica- dilly Inn, has removed, and is now the licensee of the Blue Lion, at Cwm, near Rhuddlan. At the magistrates' meeting on Tuesday last a temporary license was granted to Mr Rigby, late landlord of White Lion, Denbigh, who took possession of Picadilly the same day. CHRISTMAS CAROLS. We understand that several parties, consist- ing of members of the church choir, and juvenile. members of the Church Sunday School, are busily engaged in learning carols for the great festival of Christmas. Carol singing has been for many years a great feature of our Christmas Day services, and we may confidentally look forward to an equally bright and successful programme as we have enjoyed in previous years, under the able conductorship of Mr Leonard Bell. SMITHFIELD. Mr Chas P Sheffield, conducted his final sale in the above Smithfield for 1906, on Tuesday last. The entry was not a large one, but included some first quality stock, for which the sale is HOW getting famous. Fat cattle, made up to C22 10s 2d., Welsh Wethers, 30s 6d. each; Bacon Pigs, to R5 10s each Calves, LS 2d., whilst there was a great demand for store stock. There was a record clearance in each department. W P Sheffield, has recently received several enquires from Birmimgham, and Liverpool, from big buyers, as to whether it would be worth their while to attend his sale for pigs, and to ensure a good show of pigs each sale-day. W Sheffield, intends giving valuable prizes to sellers of pigs, on and after his first sale in January next. It was plainly proved at the sale on Tuesday, that Farmers made more money of their "pigs under the Auctioneer's hammer, than selling them tby weight, and we can assure Farmers that if they will bring the pigs, the Auctioneer will bring the buyers, and this can be proved by a visit to the Mold Cattle Market, on any sale-day in the year. Mr Sheffield, has also conducted most successful sales within the last few days at Gelligynan farm, Llanarmon, for Mr R G Lewis a record sale of pigs, and his great annual sale of Christmas poultry, in Mold Cattle Market. THE SCHOOL. For the fourth time since the Midsummer holidays, this school has enjoyed the distinc- tion of heading the list of the elementary schools of the county, in point of attendance. During the month of November the percentage of attendances reached 98-3. This extraordinary result, to the uninitiated, is difficult of explana- tion, but the problem is easy of solution to those who are cognisant of the many attractions and inducements held out to the scholars by the head master. The sympathies ar.d encourage- ments extended by the parents also-materially help to attain this enviable distinction. The health of the children also contributes in no small degree to the success, but notwithstand- ing these essential aids, the issue goes far to prove that the machinery is kept pretty well oiled, so that the component parts arel kept moving with as little friction as possible and without alienating the goodwill and support of of the varied interests concerned.

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"Some qti!2,-t old Chr'irhaas still srr- tive, and ara duly carried ,)"t each rccurring festival of the Nativity, With the increased j reverence for antiquity which now prevails,it is probable that their continued existence for another century or two is now assured. Any- thing virhich could survive the vandalism, irre- verence", and disregard of tradition that characterised the Georgian era is not likely nowadays to fall into disuetude. The old Christ mas ceremony of bringing in the boar's head at Queen's College, Oxford, seems to lose none of its attractions, to judge from the numbers who to be present. The head usuallv weighs about sjventy-five pounds. The procesion is heuded by two of the servants of the College, bearing on their shoulders a mas- sive silver dish, weighing 220 ounces, on which 0 is placed ;'H head, bedecked with bays and rose- mary- They are followed by a taberdar of the C^l'fge, "who sings the solo part in the "Boar's Head Caail," trie College choir, assisted by others, taking up the chorus. The head beirig placed on the high table, the Senior Bursar dis- tributes the dec-urat"01:3 amongst the spectitois, by 1rhf.).ID tbej are orderly struggled for. The orange from the mouth is reserved for the -soloist. <5 Of all the who eat turkey at Christmas, few probably, know that it was first introduced into England in IL:uy VlII.'s time, and that th-e expedition which brouglit the bird to England cost that parsimonious monarch £ 14,QG0L We have hardly been just to the first Tudor king in tha part that he bad in the dis- covery of America. Columbus sent his brother to Henry, wbo gave a favourable reply to his re- quest for aid, but the brother was shipwrecked on his return to Spain, and never delivered his message, and so Christopher was driven to apply again to Ferdinand and Isabella, who gave huu the aid he asked, with the result which all the ■world knows. Henry, on his own account, sent oat an expedition of discovery in 1502. lieutenant of the expedition which Henry sent oat, and which was under the command of Sebastian Cabot, was one William Strickland, who, in consideration of his services, had a grmni of new armorial bearings by the style and title of Strickland of Boynton, on the Wolds of Yorkshire. He it was who introduced the turkev and that bird surmounts the coat of amis'of the Siricklarulj to this day. Why .|,lb bird was called "turkey," when it came from America, 's explained by the fact that Turk waa the ordinary name for all unspeenhed foreign thingi and foreigners at that time. The Praver Book wishing to embra.co all heathens in its prayers, says, "all .TA. Turingjnfidels, And heretics." A4b., But the inobi popular of all birco at the Christmas "• in ancient times was undoufct- edly the peacock..Jeaifreson tells us, in his entertaining book, that Quintus Hortensius is credited with the honour of introducing the peacock to the banquet-hall, possibly attracted by the costly yal ae of the bird and the mag- nificence of its pl:iniige, for these wor.hy Roman voluptuaries allowed Lheir tastes to be governed radier by commercial value than epicurean t;.ste. We are told of a certain Roman orator who, "loving peacock's flesh, liked also pea- ken's eggs to such a degree that when they were scarce he would buy thaxa at twenty pence « piece," a sum that was equal in.those days to almost as many sovereigns of our money. A <3>h of peacock's brains w as about the height of tuis money-eating folly, and was quite as absurd as leaking oyster pattie3 in thi.3 ge of refino- ment which cost five or six shillings a-piece. Peacocks were usually served whole, or wrrn 4b a of wholeness, that is, in their <T "The foo4 of lovers and the meat of jords," p the birii-IFU LSP-.i(Ol atileda ggme times appeared n,t table covered with gold-Icsfl instead of fcath-rs. Stu.T'jd with spices, and [ ser .ed on a lordly charger, often of gold and silver, it held i:; its beak a piece of blazing [ eanmhor, and was generally brought to the j board by a gentlewoman of hic;h decree. At I the banquet, after a jousting in the lists, it j was sometimes borne to the fer-st by trie Queen of the Tournament, who placed it before the I knight of brightest valour and exploits. On such occasions the distinguished kriight, before carving the blrrl. renewed, over its gaudy plum- 1 age or gilt surface, his oath of chivalric cicvo- j tion. To this knightly practice of swearing I y loyalty over the hackle, which in p'Uzabethan I England contained a mince stuffing like that of game pi" more often th^n the flesh of the bird, Justice Shallow was indebted for his oath "By cock and pic!" In the thirteenth cJltary a peacock was Ue:'med an approPriate prize for the victor at quintain, a pecul''ir.game that wc.3 more famous ror its folly tha'i ita skill. Of Christmas drinks, "the Wassail Bowl is bv far the moat ancient. When nt'qc,e with ale it is prepared as fcHows: -Put a pint of good ale or beer in a pan with half a pound of sugar, half a grated nutmtg, a pennyweight of pow. dered ginger, ar.d ra'.her less powdered cinna.. mon bring it all just to the boil, then pour j in (still stirring! abcut one and a if pirits oi ale or beer ,and half a bottle of sherry, to- gether with a good lump of loaf sugar OIl to j which you have rubbed oiT the yellow port a ienf>n; let it all get quite hot, though not actually boiling; tl,, nC:p.ur it into a bow'l, plaOw some baked apples on the top, and serve. In feudal times the bringing home of the Yule log was a ioyous ceremony, and as it was drawn along from the wood, each wayfarer who encoun- ters h -rrj processigu raU§d Ujs tat* £ » -r:¡j Devonshire the Yuldog was called the Aslifon and was composed of a bundle of ash- sii.-ks bounds together with nine bands, no more and no lec-s. The farm labourers and a couple of hortos dragged it home in triumph, and then l.ei-r.n all kinds of sports. While the noble Asht/;>n faggot burned on the great hearth, there jumping in sacks ai d ducking the head in a tub of water for apples that bobbed out of j« aoh in n most provoking manner. There was also a sticky game which consisted of jumping, your hands t-eliind your back, for a cake spread wi:h trfaeie. The competitor had to this delicacy with his mouth. Every now tit( -,Ii ti iou,.it was heard, followed by r. shout. One of tac nine bands that bound the Lzsot had snapped, and every time this hr.ppened the master was called upon to furnish 1 a bowl of egg-flip. No one needs to be t-o!d what the mistletoe is, for is it not used with holly and other ever- greens to decorate innumerable rooms at Christ- inas? It is generally supposed to grow only upon the oak. but though it is found upon that tree it is much more common upon the apple and other trees. The cutting of the mistletoe wa3 a ceren.ony of crest solemnity with our ancient ancesto- s. The people went, in procession to the saTed groves, the bards walking first, sing- ing canticles IInd hy:-»ua. followed by a herald who preceded thiee Druids with implements for the purpose. Then followed the chief of the Druids nee em ponied by all the people. He mounted ii:e oak. and, cutting the mistletoe with a golden sickle, presented it to the other Druids, who received it with great respect, and distri- buted it to the people as a sacred and holy plant, crying, "The mistletoe for the New Year." The Custom kissing under the mistletoe is ? sur- vival of the ancient respect for the ever- ,ree bough with its berries of white. The superstition attached to it is that the maid who is not kissed under it will not be married during the next twelve months. j At the Inner Temple on Christmas Dav there! were anciently great doings. Early in the morn-1 ing the gentlemen of the Inn went, to church, and after the service they did then "presently repair into the Hall to breakfast with brawn, mustard, and malmsey." At the first course at dinner there was served a f -'r and large, boar's head upon a silver platter with minstrelsie." In the fourth year of the reign of Queen Eliza- beth a magnificent Christmas was kept at the Inner Temple, in which Lord Robert Dudley, afterwards Earl of Leicester, was chief, under the title of Palaphitos, Prince of Sophie, Hiph Constable Marshal of the Knights Templars, and Patron of the Honourable Order of Pegasus, Christopher Hatton, afterwards Lord Chancellor of England, was master of the m e, with four masters of the revels, besides other officers to conduct the burlesoue, and fourscore persons! forming a. guard. Gerard Leigh, who was pre-1 sent,, and was created a Knight of Pegasus, de- scribes in his "Accidence of Armorie'Mhe mock solemnity within the Hall, and the public firing] of double cannons "in so great number and so j terrible that it darkened the whole air." Dug-1 dale sets forth the orders for making a Lord of Misrule, with feasting and dancing round about the coal fire, and hunting in the Hall with nine or ten couples of hounds, a fox and a cat, both tied at the end of a pole, until they were killed beneath the fire. The practice of "mumming" is not yet quite extinct. In some parts of Scotland, and also in Berk.-hire and other places, a sort of pby is enacted from house to house by boys dressed up iri garb. The principal character throws down a challenge, saying:- "Onloshans, Goioshans, Goloshans is my name! With sword and pistol by my side I hope to win the game." To wine!) his adversary retorts r — "The game, sir, the game, sir, it's not within vour power, rIi cut you up in inches in less than half-an- hour!" A fierce broad-sword combat then ensues, and one of the combatants falls dead. A doctor is then summoned, who says: — "Here ecme I, old Doctor Brown, The best old Doctor in the town I have pills to cure all ills— The itch, the stitch, the palsy and the gout." He administers a pill to the fallen victim, whe is immediately restored to life, and the butth is renewed with great vigour. Other characters are Jack Dinny, a jester; Molly, a boy disguised as a woman and "Happy Jack," who goe3 round with the hat.

UNDER THE MISTLETOE.—The story runt that kissing was introduced into England by Ilowena, the daughter of Hengist, the Saxon. At a banquet which was given by the British monarch in honour of his allies, the princess, after pressing the brimming beaker to her lips, saluted the astonished and delighted V urtigem with a little kiss after the manner of her own people. So well did the kiss thrive in the genial climate of England that, from being an occasional luxury, it became, an everyday enjoy- ment, and the English soon became celebrated far and near as a kissing people. In fact, so far had their celebrity spread in this respect that when Cavendish, the biographer cf the great "child of honour, Cardinal Wolsey," visited a French nobleman at his chateau, the lady of the on entering the room with her train of attendant maidens for the purpose, of welcoming the guest of her husband, thus accosted him'! "Forasmuch as ye be an Englishman, whose cus tom it is in your country to kiss all ladies leri and gentlewomen without offence, and although it be not so here in this realm, yet will I be so hold as to kiss you, and so shall ail my maidens." Whereupon the rafters of the chateau rang with the heartiness of tho osculation. Q

The Bishop of St. Asaph's Visitation. THE BISHOP ON THE ORIGIN OF WELSH NONCONFORMITY. The Bishop of St Asaph delivered at St Asaph Cathedral, on Monday, the lasb of the series of charges which he has made to the clergy in connection with the triennial visitation. With few exceptions the clergy of the arch-deanery of St Asaph were present. Morning service took place, and at the close of it the Bishop took his seat in the Fanctuary while the roll of the clergy was called ovec by the Diocesan Registrar, Mr H A Cleaver. INCOMES OF THE CLERGY. Dr Edwards referred to the losses by death in the ranks of the clergy since the last visitation, and went on to say that the Clergy Sustentation Fund, started in 1896, had made steady and solid progress. This year the grants distributed to over 40 parishes formed a very substantial increase to the incomes of the clergy. To this new call upon their generosity the laity of the diocese bad one and all responded with a generosity which grew as the urgency of the need was realised. It had been given to one man, with an industry which bad been absolutely untir- ing and with a devotion and a courage which nothing could daunt, to organise, to promote, and to, establish this vital department in the work of the Church— he alluded to Mr Lawrence Brodrick. The Bishop went on to quote two views about the Church. The first was the view of a great Nonconformist:—" I wish to show that Christ's spirit, Christ's virtue, is the only essential thing. I begia < with the remark that in the Kermon on the Mount Jesus said nothing about the Church. Of that metaphysical abstraction which is called by some The Church' Nonconformists find no record in Scripture. The Church, according to its true idea and purpose, is an association of sincere genuine followers of Christ." In the course of a sermon the late Archbishop Temple said We are sometimes I asked to think that the Church only exists in the union of believers and has no m reality of its own. Now it,is perfectly clear that in the New Testament the idea j of the Church i8 not that. Men talk sometimes as if a Church could be co»sti- 1 tuted simply by Christians coming together and uniting themselves in one body i for the purpose. Men speak as if Christians came first and the Church after. In the New Testament, on the contrary, the kingdom of heaven is already in existence, and men are invited into it. Everywhere men are called in. They do not come in and make the Church by coming. They are called in co that whish already exists. They He recognised as members when they are within. The two principles which I have ventured to put before, you (continued the Bishop) are widely and profoundly separated. There is a great and it would seem an impassable gulf fixed between them. It is misleading to minimise the fact that we cannot accept what I may call the Nonconformist principle without a sacrifice of our own. To me the request to make any such attempt is unreason- able because it asks us to ignore the teachings of history. Such a consideration had a special weight for us in Wales. ORIGIN OF WELSH NONCONFORMITY. It is a fact beyond all question that Nonconformity in Wales is not of native growth. The independency of Wroth, Erbury, and Cradook was English in its source, inspiration, and influence. The Broadtneacl Records show that Bristol was its home. The same applies to Methodism The first president, I believe, of the Methodist Association was Whitefield, from whom Howel Harris, after his three days'residence at Oxford, derived his inspiration, his instruction and bia policy and Harris himself states that the idea of the society which was to be the foundation of his system was borrowed from Woodward's book on religious societies, and if was Whitefield that conducted in Wales the Methodist revival movement in 1739. This and his subsequent revival pilgrimage through South Wales in 1743 and his sermonswero in English. It is best to stale the historical fact quite frankly. Nonconformity in Wales is English in origin and of recenb growth. Calvinistic Methodism as a separate body is not yet a hundred years old. The Welsh nation, who set great store by antiquity, cianob, after an accurate historical investigation, regard these movements as either native or national. The practical bearing of all these facts is realised when we come to discuss the question of CO-OPERATION. Very much has been said lately about the co-operation of Churchmen and Non- conformists. It is best then in the cause of truth and honesty to recognise what) is a fundamental difference. Churchmen and Nonconformists start from totally different and, I fear it must be added, mutually exclusive definitions of the visible Church. To the one it is a divine institution which is one in idea and ought to be so in fact. To the other it is a voluntary association or an aggrega- tion of such associations. I leave this with the wise words of a great Welshman: Until each party can see the question for one moment with the other's eyes they will not cease to attribute to each other pride and uncharitableness on the one hand or ambitious rivalry on the other. The best security for peace and charity will be for each frankly to confess to the other and to itself that the two are proceeding on different theories of the Church's nature, and that they had better carry out their respective theories to their legitimate consequenmi with- out interfering with each other's vsork." I ask you to weigh carefully those words. I will only add that nothing can be morally moie deteriorating or enfeebling than yielding to the temptation to sacrifice your principles io aa atmosphere of coippliment and compromise. THE PATH OF CONVICTION. We believe that separation and division are evil and of the Fall. But if there ever is to be reunion and visible unity it can only be obtained along the path of conviction. Certainly it can never come by any external, mechanical process. The man who sits lightly to his principles obviously finds tobration easv to preach and to practise. But playing fast and loose with principle is dangerous. The easy tolerance with which modern society regards base betrayals of the sanctity and the purity of the home supplies an illustration and a warning. While, then, we stand firm in allegiance to our own priDWples W3 bhall respecb all the more sincerely those who differ from us upon principle, There is a. neutral zone of social and philanthropic work In which all good men and true can conscientiously co-operate. But in all matters where we are divided by principle we must rest content with mutual toleration tnd Work on in quietness and confidence, awaiting patiently for God's good time when, if In so please Him, there shall again be one fold and one Shepherd..

WELSH CHURCH DEFENCE. H q Meeting at St. Asaph. A meeting in connection with the Church Defene movement was held at Bfa Asapb on Monday, Bishop Edwards presiding. His Lordship said the meeting was called also b consider the qucau. schools, but he thought it would be unprofitable od even inopportune to diSo— that question a' thftt moment. The Education Sill was in what in medical language would be called a very serious conditon, and they did not know bub that the next bulletin would announce that it "8 dead (hear, hear). With regard to Church defence, he desired to warn them aganst a feeling of security that tie found was prevalent. He did not tfant to raia the cry of Wolf" unduly, buD anyone who reflected upon the position would see it was a very real one (bear, hear). It Was not the 1892 Government tlat was in office, with a majority ot only 40 or 42, and dependent for cohesion won the magical, if not the magic power of one man—Mr Gladstone. They bai a majority to-day willing to under- take anything, and say they had a mandate or to act without a mandate at ail- Therefore they should not rest in the securiy of a belief that they would not at- tempt with all their might and will the disetablishtnent and the disendowment of the Church in Wales. The imminent attack on the Church would be very formidable, hut there was a great latent f<rce that would come to the defence of I the Church if it was evoked-not only nany CJhiitcbtnen, but many thoughtful and highminded Nonconformists. Wherthe thing came to bo voted upon they would think twice before voting agarnst he old Cburch. The campaign of 1894, he said, alienated a considerable arnounf of sympathy by the excessive violence, but while he did not want to impute motives, tLe noticed that those who were carrying on the present agitation were caretul not to use language at variance ¡ with the facts of the case, and that msde the attack all the more formidable. The Rev LI Nicholas (rector of Flint), Rev D Davies (rector of Denbigh), the Rector of Caerwys, and the Rector of Llangemiew were elected-tlerical repre- sentatives, and the Hon Lawrence Brodrick aod Messrs W J P Storey, W Davies (Plas Llanychan), and Col T A Wynne Edwards, lay members for the arcb- deaconry of a central committee, to control the work of Church defence for the diocese, and select witnesses to give evidence before the Walsh church Com- mission, j