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WAR LESSONS.
WAR LESSONS. IMPRESSIVE SERMONS BY WELSH ARMY CHAPLAIN. The annual preaching meetings oFthe Calvinis- tic Methodists at Llangollen, this year, have been rendered memorable by the visit of the Rev. J. Williams, Brynsciencyn, Anglesey, honorary chaplain of the Welsh Army, as one of the appointed preachers. Mr. Williams is a close personal friend to the Chancellor and has taken the keenest interest in the organization of the National forces of the Principality, of which he is now in spiritual command. He arrived at Llangollen, on Saturday, wearing khaki and on Sunday morning occupied the pulpit at Rehoboth Chapel in uniform. He preached an eloquent sermon to a crowded congregation, taking his text from the 19th verse of the 55th Psalm: Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not Go." Alluding to the great war in which this country is now engaged, he said that materialism and nationalism had made great headway in Germany whose people had got into an intellectual rut aDd there had been indications that Britain was following in the same direction. Life had flowed almost as the water of a steady calm canal across the landscape with nothing of the variations of the foaming roaring river with its alternating calm and tur- bulence, and because there was no change they were beginning to fear not God. National blessings often lead if misapplied to spiritual damnation; they had been aroused from their slumber. How many things there had been to discourage. Take the growing disregard of Sabboth observance. The Sabbath had been aptly des- cribed as time bowing its head to eternity and then, as citizens they had been too ready to forget the duty which they owed to the State. Luxuries were all very well in their way but, if they led to vital duties being ignored, they were dangers; and so it was with sports. They served a good purpose but, being abuaed, they were a source of national weakness rather than strength. Football, for example, was all right in its place but how much out of place it was to see young men either kicking a football about themselves or watching others do so when their services were urgently needed else- where. There were dark days and strenuous times abead of the nation and he urged them, in all matters, to practise rigid economy, for there was nothing in their history comparable to th greatness of the task which lay before them an the magnitude of the sacrifices which it would demand from one and all. Let it not be said of them, as of those of old time, "They fear not God." A sermon delivered in Rehoboth Chapel by the Rev. John Williams, on Monday night, was listened to by a crowded congregation with rapt attention. The rev. gentleman selected his text from Hebrews xi. in which the faith of Moses is. so wonderfully and beautifully described. In the course of his remarks Mr. Williams elaborated upon the truth contained in the lines: Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide; In the fight twixt truth and falsehood For the good or evil side. All men, sooner or later, and generally early in life, were inevitably and always called upon to make the great choice; and, upon the way in which they made it, the whole of their future lives and destines might depend. To Moses, living amidst the luxuries of the king's palace, the cull to make the great decision came and they knew how he decided. His life, even in the king's palace, might have been a very full one for it presented endless opportunities of doing good. Yet he never bedtated, but came out as the leader of the Israelites, relinquishing all the splendours attaching to royal favour and environ- ment. Why did he so decide ? Because be saw ever in front of him as a great ideal the deliver- ance of the nation from their bondage. But, like many great leaders of ancient and of modern times, he found that, high as was the ideal he had set before himself, greatly as he desired to help the people, much as they had clamoured for a leader, they were not disposed to follow him they did not want to go. They were witnessing, in some places, something akin to this to-day and it was for the young manhood of the country to decide whether they would follow the chosen leader or not. Then, just as to every man the time came when he must decide, even so was it with nations. They knew what had happened in Belgium. He likened the little state of Belgium to a small homestead amid the mountains. On all sides there were great and powerful neighhous; squires and wealthy magnates whose word, in their own domain, was law. These magnates had agreed amongst themselves that the little homestead must be respected that the rights of the farmer must not be entrenched upon. One day there appeared before the farmer one of the great- est of these territorial magnates, swollen with pride and arrogance, and riding his high horse up to the gate of the little farm. He demanded that the farmer should throw open the gate to him and permit him to ride roughshod over his land; but this the farmer resolutely refused to do. He was pledged to maintain his land inviolate and not all the threatenings of the squire could induce him to budge an inch. The gate was broken down the squire rode over the land, rut hlessly destroying all before him but,at all > points and to all possible extent, he was opposed by the gallant little farmer. Yes, Belgium had made her choice; and when the names of the Kaiser, the Emperor and the Sultan were for- gotten the name of Belgium would be remembered as that of a nation that called upon to decide, elected to follow the path of righteousness and justice and paid, without flinching, the price of: adhering to its high ideal.
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TOPIC OF THE WEEK,
TOPIC OF THE WEEK, MR. JAMES CLARKE. -I WE are sure we express the sentiments of the people of the town generally when we state the Llangollen public feel the deepest sympathy with Mr. James Clarke in his prolonged indisposition. There are' very special reasons why these senti- ments should be entertained because there are few men-as a matter of fact we cannot, at the time of writing, call to mind another-who have touched the public life of the town at so many points and rendered excellent service in so great a number of directions as Mr. Clarke has. His career has been a long, honourable and eminently useful one. Many years have passed since he presided over the destinies of the old British Schools at Llangollen but the seed he then assisted in sowing is still bearing fruit and those who, under his fostering care and guidance, obtained their elementary training and inspiration to drink deeper" at the spring of knowledge, are a very numerous and by no means an uninfluential body in the community to-day. They are not confined to the town or its immediate surroundings; but, throughout the country generally, and in many of the large towns in England, there are those who look back with pride and affection to their early schooldays at Llangollen, rendered additionally memorable and profitable by the good work Mr. Clarke was able to do on their behalf. Those were relatively days of small things so far as Elementary Education was concerned-at anyrate that is what the superior folk of the pres- ent would have us believe-but they were days when solid foundations were laid upon which the present educational edifice has been, or is being, erected and, for the part he played locally in laying those foundations) Mr. Clarke deserves the lasting gratitude of his fellow townsmen. Many have come, toiled with more mod- ern appliances in the field in which Mr. Clarke broke ground in early days, and gone their way, their services-lavishly renumerated in comparison to payments made to teachers at the old British Schools —invariably having been generously recog- nized on their departure. Without in any way seeking to disparage the quality of the admirable educational work these teachers have done may we say, estimated in the light of the means at his disposal, that achieved by Mr. Clarke, in bygone days, was equal to any and super- ior to most. Apart from Jiisworkas a practical educationist Mr. Clarke has been asso- ciated, in some honorary capacity or other, with most of the movements in- augurated locally for the mental, moral or material improvement of the people of the town. A list of the various offices of this kind he has filled during the long period he has served the public would form instructive and interesting reading. We are not in a position to reproduce it; but this much we may say, it is by far the most impressive individual list of which local annals hold record and bears solid testimony to our fellow-townsman's generous activity in his younger days. The older generation of residents will more thoroughly appreciate what we suggest in this connection; but the younger generation have also had abun- dant reason to appreciate Mr. Clarke's work. And, to pass from what he attempted and achieved in assisting objects whose tendency was always ele- vating and good to the work he has done on various public bodies we open an equally satisfactory and altogether admirable chapter. Mr. Clarke has done excellent service to the town in every possible way in which opportunity pre- sented of his doing good service: the minutes of the proceedings of various local bodies for more than a quarter-of-a- century bear the strongest possible testi- mony on this point. What we should like to emphasise, in this connection, is that all this consistent, unostentatious, but very valuable service has been volun- tarily rendered-if it had not been it might have proved less valuable. It is impossible even to indicate all the direc- tions in which Mr. Clarke has worked to further the interests of Llangollen but a single instance, that may not be generally known, may be quoted to show how con- tinually he has been on the qui vive to promote the good of the town. But for his alertness there is no doubt at all that the National Eisteddfod of 1908 would never have been held at Llangollen. Within a few hours of the time limit up to which applications from places desirous of in- viting the Eisteddfod could be received, Llangollen's name was absent from the list. It was purely on Mr. Clarke's. initiative that the local authority speeded things up and at the last moment sent in the town's invitation, with the result that we all know. This is but a single instance; but it admir- ably illustrates the valuable character of the work which, for half-a-century, Mr. Clarke has been doing for Llangollen. It is questionable if there is any inhabi- tant of, or resident in, the Dee Valley who is quite so well known to Summer Visitorg to Llangollen as Mr- James Clarke is; and we make this statement on the basis of conversations with people who have been coming here, some of them regularly during the season for twenty and thirty years past. To many of these he has been, in truth, a guide, philosopher and friend;" and in a very special sense has done splendid service, by popularising the town and indicating its outstanding attractions. A regular visitor remarked recently Mr. Clarke must be one of the chief commercial assets of Llangollen," and there is no doubt this view is com- pletely correct. It is, therefore, in our opinion and we feel sure the idea only requires to be expressed to meet with widespread approval, "up to Llangollen, now that Mr. Clarke is, we all hope it may be only temporarily, unable to do all that he has, in the past so ungrudgingly done, to mark, in some appreciable manner, its appreciation of the fine record of public service to which our best efforts must, necessarily, do far less than complete justice. Llangollen has not, in the past, been slow to mark, in a tangible way, appreciation of good work done for a section of the people or for the community as a whole. Those who, for a period of years, even when they have been liberally paid for what they have done, have laboured amongst us and gone elsewhere have rarely been permitted to depart without some tangible mark of the appreciation in which their services are held by the public at large. Here is a record of half-a-century of consistent good work, that speaks so eloquently for itself that the duty of recognizing it in the manner we have suggested needs no emphasising; it only requires, or only should require, to be indicated. There is we know a tendency to-day, even as there was of old time, to give honour to a prophet anywhere save in his own country. This is altogether regrettable when it happens and it is a failing from which we should like to think Llangollen is exempt. It is a very human weak- ness to disparage that which is fam- iliar and to regard as magnificent the unknown. Here, however, is opportuni- ty for Llangollen people to mark their appreciation of the good work which a Llangollen man has done for the town; and, we are confident, this will be done in no half-hearted or ungrudging manner.
LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS.
LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS. We are compelled, this week, to hold over an interesting interview with the representative of the Leroi-Carpentier Fountain Pen Com- pany, recently of Liverpool, who are contem- plating opening branch works at Llangollen. On Tuesday next, May 25th, Messrs. Jones and Son will hold their great Whitsuntide Sale in the Llangollen Smithfield, and invite farmers to send in stock guaranteeing that the highest prices will be obtained. At 1 30 p.m. on the same day, Messrs. Jones will oonduct a sale of a large quantity of sawn timber-particulars of which are duly advertised—in the same enclosure. From an advertisement appealing elsewhere it will be seen that the annual Tea Party and Com- petitive Meeting (under the auspices of the Wesleyan Chapel Trustees) will be held at Glyndyfrdwy, on Whtt Monday. This will, without question, be one of the most attractive al fresco gatherings held dur- ing the holidays and all desiring a full day's en- joyment should visit Glyndfrdwy on Monday next. Popular prices will prevail.
I AN INTERESTING PRESENTATION.I
I AN INTERESTING PRESENTATION. I TWENTY-ONE YEARS A "REFUGEE." f On Wednesday afternoon the Ruabon Staff of the Refuge Assurance Co., Ltd., met at Mr. Ivor Rowlands's Restaurant, Llangollen, to make a presentation to Mr. Lewis Roberts, Dee View, Princess-street, Llangollen, on the completion of 21 years faithful service as agent to the above company. The presentation took the form of an illuminated address worded as follows We the undermentioned have infinite pleasure in commemorating the completion of 21 years faithful service to the above company by Mr. Lewis Roberts. His unblemished character, straightforward work, genial disposition and worthy spirit have won the greatest esteem of the Officials and Staff with whom he has laboured. Wishing him the success he so well deserves, coupled with continued health and happiness during the remainder of his life (signa- tures of Offioials and staff follow). Mrs. Roberts was also presented with a beautiful rose bowl. The meeting was presided over by the district Superintendent, Mr. D. Davies, Ruabon and speeches were delivered by the divisional Inspectors, Messrs. E. Lloyd Jones and R. Jones, Warrington, who spoke in glowing terms of Mr. Roberta's character. Several letters were read from Officials and friends regretting their inability to be present. A splendid repast had been prepared by Mrs. Rowlands to which the party did fall justice. The Superintendent in well chosen words on behalf of the Officials, Staff and friends made the presentation to Mr. Roberts, while Mr. E. J. Jones, Assistant Superintendent, made the presentation to Mrs. Roberts. The speakers had pleasure in reviewing the splendid work which Mr. Roberta had done for the Company in Llangollen and district, parti- cularly in the Ordinary Branch, although he has done his share in the Industrial Branch. He is one of the best agents in the Warrington division and has won several prizes for increases made. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts suitably responded. After the usual vote of thanks to the president and speakers, a most enjoyable gathering was brought to a close.
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