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English Congregationalism in Flintshire. ANNUAiL MEETINGS AT RHYL. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNION. The annual meetings of the English Congre- gational Union of Flintshire were held; at Rhyl on Friday, Mr P. Mostyn Williamis .presiding. At the conference in the laiternoon the Chair- man introduced the question of t!lie new con- stitution of iiOie Congregational Union of Eng- land and' Wales. The fundamental principle recognisedi by the existing constitution was the o o r?i t o-.L' e?o,ch C?o,ri.-rel-a-tio?n,al Ch?urch to co,nizrol ,,7,, h its own affairs. In the new constitution it was proipcised: to hrillr all the chufahes into lae through it-he county unions, and to 'have each dhurdn represente'd'; aLao to .have a council of 300 m-eimbers, -sub- civ idea1 into e standing committecis deaKing with the whole of the sub- jects CGiilliLlg within Uhe sloope of the Uniicrr. A general discussion followed, in tihecourse of wiiiicih ,the Rev H. Davies Jonies (Rw-ertowm) suggested that they should postpone the coru- sidle-ration' of 'the maUeruntiil the January meet- ing. Many ,of 'them like hmself bad. not had the opportiunity of c!o<n'sid:eTrjg this scneme fully. He would like tio know wiheJner L'he matter had been before iJhe churches andl what they had rec 0 mimemd ed. 1h A. WHite'ford seconded1, the proposal to poistp'one the, consideration off the mat-tet. The Rev R. W. Stevenson (Ffynnongroew) sa:d his church had considered' the scheme, -and ap- proved elf it, subject ho a provision to .arbitrate in cases of dispute in churches-. Mr J. W. Jones -(Rihyl) isiaiidl that the matter wla's mentioned at their last meeting a). Chri-st Churlch, a'nd they post ponied a dee is.on pending diisc'u'3-sion at the me,etinlg in the hope that It would ve, them a lead. So ifax as he lhad relaid it -and understood it, it fell slhlort of Dr Parker's ideal of 'a united CongregaLional Church. The con-servaiiism of independency was far too- ap- p,are-nit in ;tlhe scheme. The churches .wantted to know what practical advantage would accrue from the ntaw scheme. Mr Jones finally submitted the following re- sol.ution: -"Thot no scheme' for ,'he amendment of the- constitution- of the Congretgationall Union of England and:'Wales w.ll lbs satisfadlciry unless 'braces a provision. for the ap,p.o* of it erri 1-n a special Committee to deal effectively with dis- putes arising in the chutidhes." 'Hie Rev Ezra jol-inisont seconded, it, and- aficer cons:der'aibla discussion' it was unanimously carried. Mr J. Wilson read an interesting: paper on "Same' Reasons Ibr Dissent," in which he gave his reasons why he had severed his connection. with :l ie Church of England1 and given up his intention to enter the minÙLry of that Church. Various report's' wei,e, sufcmktedi and1 approved. The Rev Ezra, Johniso-n '(Obesiter) was unanim- ously elF-icted chair mam. for .the ensuing yelar, the Rev Hurdiy R'e'es, Buckley, secretary, and Mr A. Whii;etford treasurer. In the evening the Rev Dr Tci\vnisend:, ex- president of the National Free Church Council, preached (to a large conlgre-gation.

Welsh Methodist September Synod. IMPORTANT MEETINGS. The Septemher Synod! of the North Wales District No. 2 was held at iBarmoukh, under the presidency cif the Rev Dr Hugh J'on'e's, chair- man of the district. The, Rev Is-hrr,,a,el Evan-s vo: ,;oe,d -the welcome of his brethren to the Rev Hugh Jones upon occupying the chair olf the newly-formed dis- ;z,rict at its, 'niau! 1. I ,ural ?meetin- Te Rev P. Jones Roberts (Llanrwist) was also heartily welcomed as tihe first financial secre- tary olf the new district. The folio wing elect Jo-ns were made :—District treasurers: Children's Fundi, Mr W. J. Morris, 13 arm ouch'; ;Worn-out :Iinis'tTs" Fund, Mr T. C. Lewis, Deganwy; foreign missions, Mr T. W. Griffith, Llandudno; htome missions, Mir D. Roberts, Carnarvon; temperance, Mr Hugh Hughes, Conway. District secretaries: Home missions:, the Rev Ishmael Evans, Oa.rnaTvon foreign, missions, -the Rev J. R. Ellis, Pcirt- madoc, and the Rev J. Wesley Hughes, Holy- well temperance, the Rev W. Lloyd-Davies, Diroas Mawdtdlwy; education, the Rev Thomas Davies, Colwyn Bay; probationers' examina- tion, the Rev D. Jones, Llandudno; chap-el affairs, the Rev R. Rowlands, IlolylheadL Resolution. A resolution expressing horror and indigna- tion at the atrocities perpetrated' in Macedonia by the Turks was unanimously passed;, and copies ordered to be sent to the Prime Minister, etc. Strongly worded condemnatory resolu- tions were unanimously a'greed to upon the edu- cation question., and copies ordered 'to be' senst to Mr Balfour, the Education iBoar-d, etc. Passive resistance to the Act was evidently the unanimous ifeelin.g of this- representative gathering. New Building Schemes. Several schemes for the erection of new chapels, schoolcoams, anid niirfistersli houses were under discussion, and1 int :mearly all ca,ses approved of. A scheme was- passed for aug- menting the collections and- subscriptions to- war's thie th,,ec)lo?-,ic.al ins?zitut,*ons of the de,no- a mination. The recommendiatioins of the conference with reference to foreign missions were 'carefully considered, and it was reisolve-dl that the same as far as they aire applicable to fhe district, should be put into operation. The next May Synod -is to be held at Towyn, MericXieth. Special preaching services were 'held at ElberJezer -and Caersalem Chapels, the preachers being the Revs J. Lloydl Hughes, R. M. H-uglbcis, P. Jones Rciberts, W. Caenog Jones-, W. Madcc Roberts, Robert Lewis, Ridhalrd: Morgan, P. Price, and Ishtma,el Evans.

Montgomeryshire Congregational Association. On Thursday the Quarterly Association oiÍ the Montgomeryshire Congregational Union was held at Welshpool, under the presidency of the Rev E. Einion Evans, of Derwemlas. Mr Morgan, of Llanfyllin, and1 the Rev. Wm. Harris, who recently setded; as minister of the Welsh- pool church, were received as* members. A letter was voted transferring the Rev. D. B. Evans, on his removal from Welshpool, tn be- come the- minister of (-he church at Lla-nbrabach, to the Glamorgansihiæ Association. A resolution was unanimously passed reaffirm- ing the protest of the Union against the Educa- tion Ac't of 1902, and emphatically protesting -against the -concordiat proposed iby the Mont- gomeryshire County Council. Copies of the resolution were to be forwarded to the chairman and clerk of tthe County Council. A resolution was unanimously passed1 sympathising, with the sorely tried Christian's of Macedonia, and appealing to the Governimenlt to take action. Mr T. Hum- phreys, of Llanidloes, was appointed county secretary in connection with the Ministers' Widows' Fund. A resolution) was passed congratulating the United) Kingdom Alliance upon its jubi-lee., and wishing that itis efforts in conimec'tion' with the cauise of Iceimperance woulid) be crowned with success. It wais dieciåldI to bold the next Quarterly Ass!ociatio,n. at Llanfyllin. The Revs. Hywel Edwards (Birmingham) and D. Marcus Harries (iBrai-chywaeni) were elected to preach the topical sermons at the nexlt assembly.

Ordination Service. The ordination of Mr W. R. Lewis, Bryn- •hytfryd, Swansea, formerly of the North Wales Baptist College, took place on Tuesday and Wed- nesday last week ai the Baptist Churches, Plan- wyrd'en and Penrhynsidte, wlhen the following ry-ere invited to officiate :—The Revs. S. Morris (Bangor), E. T. Jones (Llanelly),and D. B. Rich- ardis (^rynhy-'nyd, Swansea). In the afternoon, in the presence of a large congregation, Mr Lewis was fully reco-gnised' and installed as minister. :v Le:Uze,r,s an;i t-el6,r-affn,s w,ere rece, ed.- frorm his many frendis, expressing their sincere wishes for the success of the ylo,unig. p-astor and his churches. Mr Lewis gave a, very clear expression of Christian experienctes and of its intention in the miimisltTy.

The Montgomeryshire Concordat. ANOTHER BREAKDOWN AT RHYL. A private meeting of !the represenltal.ives cif the dioceses (Sit. Asaph, Banigor, and Hereford) concerned in the proposed concordat for Mont- gc,inerys,hire met at R,iyl on S,at.U. ,r.dtay, wh,e a after considerable discussion it. was resolvedr— "That inasmuch as it iis inherent in the proposals of the Montgomery County Council that all tihe voluntary schools should 'become provid,ed schools, the mbelin'g regiaids this as an iniit al and insuperable difficulty." A further resolu- tion! was passed acknowlediging the courtesy with, which the County Council had met the manafgers of the voluntary schools, as well as lihe asi-si-sta,nicle which- Mr CIa udl iSehulster, of the Board of Education, had given the managers in the matter.

Bishop Edwards and Clergy Sustentation. DEPRECIATION OF TITHE. The B:shop of St. Asaph, speaking at a draw- ing-room meelcing at Park Hall, Oswestry, on Mond'ay, in aid of the Diocesan Clergy Sustenta- tioni Fund, referred to the number of distressing cases which had come under his notice of clergy in the diocese doing splendid work for what j. he described as a pittance of ^100 a year and leas. Nearly half the livings in the diocese, 'he added, did not reach £200, owing to tine great fall in the value of tithe, which during the pastt 26 years, had fallen from ^69,000 to ^41,000, ttthe result being an unfortunate lack of candidates for the ministry, the support of which should be a prime object witch every Churchman, whether rich or poor. The .Marquis of Salis- bury-, concluded the Bishop, had hoped to be present, but owin?g to obvious circumstances- he was unable to attend: In a leUer which he received not long before his death the late Mar- quis volunteered unasked a subscription- to the fund'. The Hon. Laurence 'Brod'rick, president of the fund, also spoke, and saidl that a sum 0^5,000 was required to raise the incomes of the clergy in the diocese to £ 200 a year.

Presentation to the Vicar of Holywell. At a meeting of the congregation of Holywell Parish Church, on. I-Alond'ay evening, iche Rev. R. D. Willi-ams, M.A., rural dean, was the re- cipient of an album address and a cheque for the purchase of a motor tricycle from the parishion- ers on his resignation of the living and his retire- ment to Sit. Asaph. 7 ?\lr S. L. Revis, North and South Wales, Barvk, presiidied over a large gathering at the old St. Winefred's-hall. The Chairman, in eulogistic terms, spoke of che worth of their worthy vicalr during- the. 36 years he had occupied the living. The presentation was made by Dr. Jas. Wil- liams, Castle-hill who referred to L'he lonf, period the vicarad ministered' to them. He also ad- verted to the work of Mrs Williams, to whom was presented a handsome silver d nin-g-room lamp. The Rev. R. D. Williams, in replying, spoke of the great assistance he had' always received from his parishioners and the freed'om from turmoil and strife within and without the church '¡hat he had enjoyed. Mr H. A. Cope, :lr J. Lloyd-Price, Mr Thos. Thomas, the Rev. Jos. Davies, and others also spoke, and referred to the various work's the v:car had carnied out, the building of Holy Trinity Church, Greenfield, the restoration of the parish church, and the enlargement and1 im- provement of the Church Schools.

On Monday, the Rev. Dr. Garvie, Principal of Hackney College, London, preached at tihe anniversary of the Pe-nybryn 'English Congregational Church, Wrexham. The Rev Dr D. M. Phillips, of Tylorstown, has been appointed joint editor with the Rev Evan Davies, of Trefriw, of the "Lladimerydd," the Welsh Calvmistie Methodist monthly maga- zine. The Car-no and Llanwnog Congregational Churches, Montgomeryshire, have 'sent a unani- roo-u-s invitation- to Mr T. Bowen Evans, a student of the Aiberystwyth University College, to undertake their pastoral charge. Another Liverpool Welsh church., viz., the Parl?-Toad' Cor?- I I ,,re-at',orval Clhurch, has uLn,a.ni?m- ously passed a resolution in favour of passive resistance to the Education Act, and offeirintg to give financial support, if necessary, to those members of Ohe church whose goods are dis- trained upon' for the non-payment of the edu- cation rate. The Rev Dr L'mlyn Evans, having concluded his '.ministry as pastor of the English Congre- gational church at Bangor in order to beocime one of the Sunday School Union! missionaries in India, the Rev T. Gasquoine, formerly of Oswestry, who resides at Banigor., -has consent- ed tb undertake the temporary oversighit of tho church ,anid, to conduct the services two Sundays in each monjih.

After a quarrel wiith his wife Harry Ather- ton, forty-one, St. Helens, committed su'eide by hanging himself with his braces. —— Mr Devlin, .M.P., is in Canada urging the Dominion Government to adopt Galway as a British port for faslt Atlantic steamships.

Colwyn Bay Petty Sessions. The National Provincial Bank Assessment. Case Again Adjourned. An Extraordinary Couple. SATURDAY Before Mr T. G. Osiborn (in the chair), Mr J. W. Lurnley, Mr J. W. Rayn-es, Mr Jas. Wood, Mr W. D. Hough-ton, Dr. Venables Will'iaims, 'Mr WiITl. Jones, Mr D. Gamble (junir.), Rev. Thoma,s Parry with the Clerk (Mr Oliver George). Licensing. On the application of Mr Amphlett (Messrs Porter and Amphlett) the licence of the Liver- pool House., Abergele-r-oad, Colwyn -'Bay, was temporarily transferred from the gre'Senf; 1 censee to J. Cyffin William's. Rate Cases. A number of rate castes 'occupied the attention, of the' court for a considerable tiim-e. Serving a Demand Note. In one instance, (the collector for the Colwyn Bay Urban District Council (Mr Roberts) applied for an order 'against 'a ratepayer. A witness was called upon to- give evidence a's to the serving of the demand nolte upon the man: in queskion. In reply to the clerk, t'he. witness said he: could not recollecit upon, whom the demand note was served. The Clerk therefore held it would; note be equitable tio proceed in the usual' way with the case. Mr Roberts contended that according to the Act all t'hat was required, of him was to serve a notice in the dlebtor's place of .abode. The Clerk held that that was not enough. The Chairman observed that whatever m ight have been; the ld;te-r of the law on the point it was- hardly fair to deal with any man in that fashion-. For instance, the gentleman refetreld to might have been away on his- holidays at the time, the notice was served. Consequently, he might know niotih, n, -about it. The' collelc't'or eventually consented- to the withdrawal of the case, aflte-r pretesting again,st the ruling of the clerk. An Interruption. Meanwhile, a lady who was1 a party in one of the cases yet tOo come forward created- a 1-ttle commotion. Eventually, P.S. Tippet't called the aittenitioni of the Bench to the raclt t-hail the woman wlai9 trying to intimidate certain- witnesses c,onceri-ied in the case. The Chairman remarked tbajt unless silence was at once- restored the woman would be re- moved in custody. Thenceforward' "silence" reigned s-upreme. The Bank Assessment Case. Mr A-mphldtt mentioned the case of the National Provincial Bank, Ltd., v. fjtoe Ass.ess>- ment Committee of the Conway Un-on and the overseers of Llandrillo parish. It will be recollected thiat tlheBank Company ait a rece-nt court sittinlg appealed, against the ratinig of itheir new building's at Colwyn Bay at £280, -andi the case was adjourned. No relSpondents now appeared in lanswer to the clerk's call, and ilt eventually trainsipiredf thai: there bad been an oversight somewhere, as a result of which 'Messrs GharnfD-erlain and John- son, solicitors for the respondents, -did not put in am appearance. In due course Mr Amphlett was summoned1 to the telephone1, and, on his, reiiiurn., he iniforr,-Ied the count that the advocates for ithe other sidle were undter the impression- thajc the case had beeo adjourned; until the November court. Tihey suggested that a further adjournment be now granted. He would, however, apply to their worships to grant the expenses of the three expert witnesses whom he had been forced to summon in support of his own case. After adjourning' to consider their decision, the Bench eventually dlecidedl 1:'0 adjourn, the hearing until the court to be held on December i,t prom;,s,nr, to make l?-rn;o-wn \lr -A,,mp!blc. that decision to Messrs Chamberlain and John- son. An Unruly Couple. A plasterer, named Edward Evans, and his wife, Mary Jane, residinig at Whitfield House', I Colwyn Bay, pleaded guilty- to charges: of drunkenness, evidence being given by P.C. Rog-ers. Inspector Jones, of the N.S.P.C.C., p-reiferte,d a further charge a,gainst ,t!he parties of havinig neglected their children, John Evalns (aged 12) and Susannah Goosey (aged 8). Mr Franc's Nunn- appeared for the pro sec u- tion. The ddend'ant's,J.whb were evideritly under the influence of driink in. the court, (behaved in an extraordinary manner, Mary Jane being espe- cially unruly. Repeatedly she cried ex-cibedly "We are, willing1 to go to. gaol for .being -drunk, but not for be:ng cruel to the children, because we have never been. cruel to them." Time andi again Mr N'unn's, opEning remarks were interrupted! by the woman, despibe an the efforts, made by the police and the. clerk to secure order. '\Ir Nunn, expl-a,*ntetil'th?at the, clh-il,d., j?ob,-i, 'wa,,s L the son of the male defendant by a former wife, while Susannah was the female's' illegitimate offspring'. Inspector Jones's evidence appeared! ito give Mary Jane considerable anxiety, because her cries: of "That's a big lie," etc., interlarded his whole, statement. Witness- saidl he had visited Mrs Goosey's house at Grove, i-a-rk, and: hiadi found the children' without flood. They de- clinedl to gto to Conlllalb,"s Quay to join the;r parents, and preferred to go. 'to' (the workhouse. Healftenvarols sa'w the defenidiants at Connah's Quay. At this poinjt a sharp bout of wordy warfare took place IbeJiween Edward' and, his wife. The Chairman said, th-ey could not proceed unless quietness was restored, as- it was reduc- ing the proceedings' to an absurdity. The Bench wo!uld p-nly ad] udicalte upon the cases of drunk- enness, and they imposed fines of 5s each and cdslis on those charges. Defendant's stated they could not pay, as they wanted to get their children ouit of the work- house-, where- aJi present they were detained1. Edward ;and Mary Jane were, therefore, senlt to prison for seven days, the parties being bound over to appear at another court on tihe ch-a-rfges .of cruelty.

—— Sarah Swan, dressmaker, in the employ of the 'Haslin'gden Co-operative Society, at Ac- crington County Court, gained a verdiict of £ 20 for personal injuries against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. Plaintiff, while making for a third-class carriage at Hasiingden Station, fell over a parcel.

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