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THE MARKETS. ABERYSTWYTH.—MONDAY Wheat made 5s 6d to 6s per 65 lbs; barley, 4s Od to 46 6d white oats,3s Od to 3, 3d black oats, 3s. Od Eggs, 16 for Is Salt butter, lid to Is. 2d per lb. fresh butter, Is Od to Is 2d per lb. Fowls sold at 3s 6d to 5s Od per couple. Potatoes, 3s 6d per cwt. BUTTER. CARMARTHEN, Saturday.—There was a fair supply of butter in the market to-day, which realised as follows :—Cask butter, Is Od. to Is Old per lb, basket butter, in pounds, Is Id to Is 2d per lb. CORX, Saturday.—Seconds 84s, thirds 74e; fine 93s. In market 62 firkins. POTATOES. LONDON, Saturday.—Supplies in excess of the demand, and prices had a downward tendency. Quotations :-Lincoin Up-to'dates, 70s to 80s ditto Reading Giants and Bruce, 70s to 75: Blackland ditto, 60s to 65s; and Scotch Maincrops kidneys, 70s to 85s per ton. HAY AND gTRAW. LONDON, Saturday.—Fair supplies which met with good demand, and steady trade was done. Quotations Best clover 85s to 100s, inferior 60s to 67s, specially picked hay 87s 6d, good ditto 78s to 80s, inferior 45s to 60s, mixture and sainfoin 50s to 85s, and straw 25s to 36s per load. METAL. Lead steady-English E16 15s, Spanish £16 11s 5d to P,16 12s 6d. Spelter steady-Z21 5s.

Educational ABERYSTWYTH COUNTY SCHOOL HEADMASTER: J^ £ R. DAVID ^AMUEL, M.A. (Cantab). i SENIOR MISTRESS: MISS JUDITH M. EWART, M.A., (Vict) ASSISTANT MASTERS AND MISTRESS MR W. PE4BS0N FULLEV" £ jyjR. rpHOMAS QWENS, M J. H.H^^f' MISS S. E. T HOMAS, DRAWING MR. J. H. APPLETON, Cert. Art Master. School re-opens January 16th, 1900. Pupils requiring Railway Season Tickets will please apply to me forthwith. JOHN EVANS, 6, Portland Street, Clerk Aberystwyth Business Notices. DANIEL, SON, AND MEREDITH, AUCTIONEERS, TENANT-RIGHT, TIMBER, & GENERAL AGRICULTURAL & PROPERTY VALUERS. SURVEYORS, ARBITRATORS, AND FIRE-LOSS ASSESSORS. OFFICES ABERYSTWYTH & TOWYN Dentistry. ESTABLISHED 40 YEAUS. MESSRS MURPHY & ROWLEY, SURGEON DETISTS, lonorary Dentists to the Aberystwyth Infirmary and Cardiganshire General Hospital. ADDRESS— 54 nnERRACETDOAD, ABERYSTWYTH MR. 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The Late Thomas Charles Edwards. Tributes, A correspondent in the Manchester Guaidian savs:-Your columns have amply shown what a great loss the Free Evangelical Churches have sus- tained by the death of the Rev. Dr. T. Charles Edwards, Principal of Bala College, an institution. s, I the foundations of which weralaidby his father and his uncle (Dr. Charles, of Trevecca) in 1837. It .was at Aberystwyth that he rendered his best service to Wales, doing a work tbe far-reaching influences of which can hardly be over estimated. In 1883 overtures were made to Dr. Edwards to undertake the pastorate of Queen-street Congrega- tional Church, Wolverhampton, prior to Dr. Berry being called. And he was very much drawn to that sphere. Among the friends whom he con- sulted was a well-known Presbyterian minister in London, who maintained that no man should J change his denomination after he was forty years of age, and he acted on the advice, though the change would have been more in name than in reality. I remember his saying on one occasion, at Oswestry, when speaking at a Congregational sw I z, Union gathering, that the wall of division was so ]ow between the two denominations that he could easily step over it and be one with them. lvhen the cheers that greeted this remark subsided he continued, 44 Yes, gentlemen, so low that I could quite as easily step back again." On several occasions he was offered the degree of D.D. by American Universities, some of high requte, but he declined them all, and only accepted the honour when, in 1887, it was conferred upon him by Edinbugh University. He was, I believe, the second Welshman to receive the honour, the first being his own father, the Rev. Lewis Edwards. Dr. Edwards had done his life work, and done it well, and in all parts of the world there will be keen regret at the death of such a leader. Rev. T. A. Penry. The Rev. T. A. Penry preaching at the English Congregational Church, Aberystwyth, on the text After he bad served his own generation by the will of God he fell on sleep" said in the course of an eloquent sermon that these words summarised the life story of others than the King of Israel. Every generation served by such men ought to acknowledge in them the gifts of God, and every succeeding generation benefited by their service ought to hold them in high esteem for their work's ztl z!1 sake. We honoured ourselves when we cherish the memory and do honour to the good and faith- ful by whom we have been so faithfully and efficiently served. Among such men we claim a place for Principal Edwards, who having very effectively served his generation by the will of God fell on sleep. His fall has left vacant in the life of the Welsh people a large place which will not be soon or easily filled. Though in recent years he was in public, but the shadow of his former self, still he retained to the end the full confidence, admiration and warm affection of all those who had learnt to appreciate the labour of love to which he bad con- secrated the strength of his life. with the enthusiasm and devotion of a man who believed in his appointed mission. The issues of his life have gone forth to all the land his influence has been felt where be was personally unknown, his work lives and prospers. His monument is the quickened life and aspirations of the nation. In him we acknowledge one who manfully stepped out of the narrow groove of private interests and took his stand on the high plane of public devotion indicated by the words. He served his own generation by the will of God." There are grades of public service. Of some who have ren- dered their generation valuable service it may be said that they have been used of God, though they z, have not known Him," I have girded thee, though thou hast not known Me." Others are inspirerl to service because they acknowledge God and believe that it is His will to appoint for them a work and a mission. By their faith the impress of consecra- tion is upon-their service, and their life becomes a dedication. It was to this class of workers that Thomas Charles Edwards belonged. It was in this spirit that he undertook the work with which his name is so closely associated in this town, and it was in this spirit he relinquished it for the prin- cipalship of the Theological College at Bala. He served his own generation by the will of God." ar(I all parties and religious sections of the Welsh nation unite in ungrudgingly acknowledging their indebtedness to him for the noble work be accomplished, and on account of which he is entitled to a place in the annals of our country along side of his great predecessor Thomas Charles, of Bala, as a leader and a benefactor of his people. The changes effected in the educational privileges of the Principality during the past 30 years mark out the period as that of a mnst important reforma- tion, in which Thomas Charles Edwards has occupied a conspicicons place. Other men may have been more learned, or may have been better educationalists, but I doubt whether we could have had another man in every respect better fitted for the requirements of the time. In him the necessary elements were admirably mixed. He belonged to a family widely known and esteemed, he had obtained Universitv honours—being I believe, the first. WPISVI Nonconformist, to avail himself of the opening of the older Universities and he was a minister of repute—a combination which enabled him to win the confidence of all as the right man for the place and the work. His difficulties were many and often extremely trying. It was but natural that his actions and policy should be sometimes severely criticized and that he should often be blamed for faults which were not of his own doing. Had he been a weaker man of less faith in his mission he would have abandoned his work, and the movement for higher education would not have been the success it is to-day. He served his generation nobly and well as an educationalist. He served his genera- tion as a patriot. Patriotism is often vulgarised and made contemptible, but in such men as Edwards, it finds its better meaning and becomes a spiritual force. He loved his country and his people without being narrow and exclusive, and he was willing to spend and be spent for their welfare. He served his generation as a Christian minister and a theologian. For 19 years he served as Principal of the University College-an unsectarian College, but he never ceased to be a Christian minister. The claims of Christ upon him as a preacher he felt to be supreme. Enthusiastic in all his work, but never more so than in preaching the gospel. Christ possessed him in brain and heart and body, and preaching was to him a passion a fire shut up in his bones," and he could not refrain. As a preacher he was a tower of strength, and his service in this respect will be fragrant for long years to come in the memory of all who heard him. As a theologian too he has rendered distinguished service, and has won for himself the high esteem of those who occupy the foremost place in this department of study. In many spheres of Welsh life he will be sadly missed; but probably most of ail as a theologian. Other men have arisen to carry on the work he beeran, and to carry it on perhaps under present, circumstances more effectively than he could have done, but as a theologian of repute, far beyond the borders of the Principality, he was alone. In this respect Wales is certainly much the poorer by his death. His position is indeed vacant. He has fallen on sleep-after a life of hard and faithful service—honoured and revered by a grateful and appreciative people. The British Weekly. He was the wisest man I have known, a Socrates in Life and in Dearth. There was no one I loved and honoured more." The words came into our mind when we heard of fee said of one for whom to live was Christ, in a quite peculiar way, and for whom, therefore, death was a gain. His passionate personal love for our Lord burned like a hidden flame at the heart of all his thought and speech and action. There can be no hopeless sorrow for one who has passed in his Master s company through the shattered gates of death. It is not for us to attempt anything like a biography of our revered friend. We shall try, however, to give some impressions of an intercourse necessarily limited, but lengthened, and occasion- 1 Master s company through tbe shattered gates of ally most intimate. The present writer cannot but remember with pride that Dr. Edwards was one of those who helped in the establishment of this ionrnal, and was a contributor to its first number. Manv articles from his brilliant pen are scattered through its pages, and his friendly interest was maintained to the very end. We shall always be thankful to remember that one of his last acts was to remind us of a promise to visit him in spring; a promise which had not been forgotten. Evervone who had the friendship of Dr. Edwards must feel that such a friendship was in itself a very great distinction. Of all the men we have ever known he was in many ways the most remark. able, the most individual. Were we compelled to put our impression of him into one sentence we should say he is th2 only man known to us since Spurgeon died, who might have been the founder of a great sect. He had the rare combination of necessary qualities. Absolutely disinterested, completely delivered from wordly ambition, fired with an ardent and constant passion, a great orator, a great thinker, and a born administrator, he was a natural leader of men. On the other hand. the large catholicity of his nature, his peculiar aversion to prominence, and his intense and aff ectionate loyalty to the Church in which he was born. prescribed the course of his li ie and Dr. Edwards' unfeigned faith dwelt in hi- ancestors. He was of the best blood of vYal-is. For hi. father. Dr. Lewis Edwards, a thinker of wide outlook, massive power, and indomitable industry, he had a peculiar and growing reverence. His last task was a pious commemoration of that father's work in 'Wales. In the opinion of most people, the great work ot his life was done at the University College, Aber- ystwyth. He had to face a most arduous task, to secure the establishment of the College. To carry it through its first difficulties, to meet occasionally almost overwhelming obstacles which taxed even the strength of his magnificent youth. We suspect that he was led to this labour partly from his passionate love for Wales, and partly from his zeal for education. His feeling for the Principality was like Burns's devotion to Scotland, when he spoke of the wish that to the end would strongly heave hit breast." That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or beuk might make, Or sing a sang at least." And his zeal far education was inborn. Most competent witnesses have borne their testimony to the enthusiasm and self-sacrifice which carried the effort to triumphant success. To the very last his whole energies were absorbed. He had to act as Professor of Greek, to conduct the government of the College, and to raise funds. Nothing could divert him from preaching and theology, and he went through the country on Sundays like a flame of fire, throwing himself on the warm heart of the Welsh people. He found, of course, that they responded eagerly, and though influential men were against him the people were true, and carried him to victory. We shall not easily forget our experiences of his life there. It seemed as if the bell never ceased to ring. He would come in and tell you how an anxious parent had called, how some visitor had asked assistance, how some little trouble bad arisen that needed to be settled. And so it went on for hours and hours of the day, the Principal taking all with nearly unruffled calmness. It was not till the night wore on, and till silence had fallen upon the street, that you could enter into real communion with him. Then he opened up his heart. Or he would drive you far into the beautiful country round Aberystwyth, and there, among the pleasant fields, be would rest and talk freely.-Dr. I?obertson Nichol, The Editor. Rev. Elvet Lewis. Once more has The Bala" become, for Wales, a place of weeping." Less than twelve months ago, it was the removal of the Nationalist leader, at forty, that made the nation bow in fear and sorrow and look with bereaved eyes through the showery sunshine of April towards the quiet little town beside the lake. And though he who passed away last Thursday was further removed from the mid- journey of our life," we had, as far as the marked limit of the journey is concered, the possibility of many years of service. The Dala is associated with some of the most inspiring episodes of religious re- vival in past days; but with two such funerals within a year, it may well come to be known as the mourning of Hadad- rimmon in the Valley of Megiddon." Probably the name of Dr. Edwards, apart from his commentaries, will be mostly connected with his work at Aberystwyth College. He was its first Prin- cipal and his strong personality did more than anything else to nationalise it. It is pre-eminently the College of the people their courage, their enthusiasm, their loyalty, saved it during the long course of its early trials. He, as a preacher of the first rank, helped to interpret its significance to the people, and at the same time to win their hearts to support it with men and means. He entered upon his work there in 1872. and remained until 1891. He resigned, in order to accept the Principalship of the Calvinistic Methodist College at Bala, founded and made by his father. He made the brave sacrifice of an idealist. He hoped to make it an inter-denominational theological college. In this he was, unfortunately, disappointed. And yet it may be that his dream is to be fu Iled- after many days," perhaps or even before this generation has passed away. In any case, it was a noble dream and for all nobleness there is a morning, in God's good time. It is not likely that anyone who was present at the inauguration services, nine years ago, will ever forget them, or lose the impression of a great, charitable hope.— Rev. H. ELYBT LEWIS, in the British Weekly. t

Geiriau Olaf Thomas Charles Edwards. Nos Sabbath diweddaf, yn nghapel Salem, Aber- ystwyth, traddododd y Parch. Ellis Edwards, M.A., yr athraw ffyddlawn ac adnabyddus o Golegy Bala, bregeth angladdol i'r diweddar Thomas Charles Edwards, y tywysog a'r gwr mawr a gasglwyd at ei dadau y dydd Mawrth blaenorol. Hynod 9 daraw- iadol ydoedd testyn y pregethwr ar yr achlysur hwn. Dygai geiriau olaf y ddenddegfed adnod, yn y drydedd benod o'r Epistol at y Philippiaid, bortread byw o'r Prifathraw Edwards i gof a meddwl pawb a'i hadwaenai. Gosodent allan yn dra amlwg brif nodwedd ei gymeriad, cynwysent ddirgelwch ei fawredd, ac ynddynt y ceir cyweir- nod ei fywyd— bywyd a wnai i bob peth israddol gydgordio i'w gwirionedd—" fel y gallwyf ymaflyd yn y peth hwn befyd yr ymaflwyd ynof gan Grist IeAu "-dyna eiriau y testyn, ae y maent yn esbon- iad llwyr ar awyddfryd godidog holl fywyd Thomas Charles Edwards. Darfu i ddiwygiad David Morgan, fel ei gelwir, ddal Thomas Charles Edwards, meddai y pregethwr, mor wired ag i Saul gael ei ddal erioed. Dyn ieuanc myfyrgar, hoff o astudiaeth, ac o rodiad di- rodres ydoedd ef yn y dyddiau hyny ond o hyny allan yr oedd yn rhagor-yr oedd yn ddyn a rhyw- beth wedi ymaflyd ynddo ac yr oedd y rhywbeth hwnw oedd wedi ymaflyd ynddo yn rheoleiddio ei boll fywyd, yn gwresogi ei galon, ac yn llanw ei enaid. Yr oedd yn hoff o efrydu Plato ac Aristotle -yn neillduol Plato; ond agwedd grefyddol yr hen athronwyr hyn oedd yn apelio ato yn arbenigol. A pha ryfedd, oberwydd yr oedd wedi ei ymaflyd vnddo gan Grist Iesu. Nid oedd dim," meddai ef ei hun unwaith, nid oedd dim yn cynvrchu teimlad fel cenadwri Crist." Yr oedd yn hynod hoff o'r iaith Roeg. Yn ei ddosbarth Groeg y Testament Newydd, yn Ngholeg Aberystwyth, y gosododd ef seiliau ac y gwnaeth ef ei Esboniad— gwaith clasurol liyrld wedi enill iddo deyrnged oddiwrth brif dduwinyddion yr oes. Ymbyfrydai yn Ngroeg y Testament Newydd—vno yr oedd ei enaid ef a'i gartref. Gwych gen i feddwl," meddai Mr. Ellis Edwards, na hudwyd me hono gan arian, ac na syrthiodd yn gaethwas i urddasolion y ddaear. Gwell fydclai ganddo ef fod yn gweinyddu i braidd y Bugail Da mewn capel bach ar ben mynydd na bod yn Llys y Frenhines ei hun i dder- byn ffafrau bvdol." Diameu mai y nodwedd fwyaf neillduol o hono ydoedd—ei angerdd. Y fath swm o rym oedd ynddo! Ei angerddoldeb a'i rym, a'r efengyl yn deffro y rheiny! Fel y codai ei waed i'w ben gan yr angerdd tanllyd hwn. nes gwneyd i bob gwythien i ymehwyddo yn ddu-las. Yr an- gerdd hwu a'i lladdodd ef. Gweithiai gyda chyf- lymdra gwyrthiol. Pe bae'eh ond ei weled yn darllen llythyr-mor gyflym. O'r angerdd eto Bvddai wedi myned dros dair tudalen cyn bod arall wedi myn'd dros un. Am y rheswm hyn yr oedd anaml :yn gydymaith gwael. Ni chae'ch fawr o gyfnewidiad meddwl ganddo. Unwaith y dechreuai ef siarad ni chai arall fawr gyfle—hedai ei feddwl mawr ef fel march adeiniog yn nerth ei angerddoldeb. Yr oedd yr angerdd hwn yn rban o'i natur fel ei rhoddwyd gan Dduw. Yr oedd yn weithiwr caled, yn weithiwr mawr. Nis gellid dyweyd ei fod yn (hIyn gwreiddiol; ond nid yw dyweyd fod dyn yn ddyn gwreiddiol yn golygu ei fod yn ddyn mawr. Nid oes neb yn dyweyd fod Virgil a Milton, Plato, a Bacon yn ddynion gwr- eiddiol-alllgytfrediad y rhai hyn ydoedd fawr, ac yr oedd Thomas Charles Edwards yn meddu ar am- gyffrediad mawr—ac v mae yn rhaid cael hyn er casglu yn gyfangorff yr hyn sydd ar wasgar, a'u gwnevd yn gyfundrefn ddealladwy. Hyn sydd wedi anfarwoli Homer, a Ilawer bardd ac athron- ydd. If you want to create you must borrow," meddai un awdwr, ac felly y gwnai Thomas Charles Edwards. Nid oedd ef yn ymddiried yn ei hyd- reiddiweh ei hun, ond yn hytrach cyfoethogai ef ei bun trwy ymostwng i fenthvea. id oedd byth yn edrvch fel pe yn pwyso, mesur, a chydmaru. Yr oedd yn meddwl mwy am y mater nag am y dull— gydag ef, yr oedd y grym ei hun yn penderfynu y dull. Yr oedd ei angerdd yn deffro y meddyliau dyfnaf-ac ymddangosai yn ami fel pe ar fin ym- ddryllio. Yr oedd ei holl fywyd wedi ei lefeinio gan ddylanwad duwinyddiaeth. Yr oedd Thomas Charles Edwards wedi ei gynysgaeddu ag amryw ddoniau. Tra yn pregetliu yr oedd yr angerdd eedd ynddo yn ei gyffroi i'w waelodion, fel rhuthr mynvdd tanllyd—ond yr oedd yn ddyn hynod o ymarferol, ac heb ymrcsymu fawr ddim, canfyddai vn hynod fuan y cvnllun goreu neu y penderfyniad doethaf. Rhodd Duw i'r genedl ydoedd Thomas Charles Edwards. Hir g-ofir ei waith ar ran Coleg Aberystwyth. Nid oedd un gwr arall yn Nghymru a wnai y gwaith a wnaeth efe. Gwyddai ef am angen y wlad, a chyfarfyddodd a gofynion ei gyd- wladwvr. Ymladdodd lawer dros y Coleg; do, vmladdodd hyd angau. Yr oedd yn meddu ar galon hael a meddwl rhyddfrydig. Dywedodd y diweddar Esgob Hughes 0 Lanelwy wrtho unwaith y bvddai iddo dderbyn ac ocdeinio myfvrwyr o Coleg Aberystwyth i Eglwys Loegr os gwnelid ychydig gyfnewirliarlau yn y cwrs addysg. Gwnaeth y Prifathraw ei oreu, ond ni lwvddodd. Trueniot-dd ei weled wedi ei daro—daeth yr ergyd mewn eiliad. Pan ddaeth y rhybudd cyntaf yr oedd yn rhy ddi- weddar. Felly hefyd y bu gyda Dr. Arnold o Rugbv. Ond v mae yn hvfrvd meddwl ei fod yn vstc)(i-("i boll gystudd"yn berffaith dawel a siriol. Y dydd cyn iddo farw gofynai fel pc gyda math o ddirmyg—" Ai hyn ydi angau, ai hyn ydi angau Y nefoedd a roddo i ni etc ddynion o fath Thomas Charles Edwards. Gwareder ein gwlad rhag dyfod yn fagwrfa cribddeiliaid. Llanwer Cymry a dynian 1 a, thragwyddoldebyn eu henaid.