Welsh Journals

No. 13. JANUARY, 1865. . Pjmce 2d. % (Sknre laxkfoaxtr antr #ntoarir. THE year 1864 has finished its course. The months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, moments, lapped up in its circle have passed by. The question may very appropriately be asked, What have they borne with them 1 We know they have not gone as they came. In coming they were full of opportunities which they freely offered to us all wherein we might do good, and get good. Can it be that in leaving us they bore away those opportunities unimproved and des¬ pised by us ? When they meet us on the great day to come, shall they chide us for our neglect, or, what is still worse, for our perver¬ sion of them? In passing, they received impressions from our thoughts, words, and actions, lasting as eternity; what, let us ask, was the character of those impressions ? Does the remembrance of them awaken joy in our heart ? Or, must we in recalling them to mind stand self-accused 1 Be this as it may, they are gone—gone bearing with them the fearfully correct impressions which they recei¬ ved, and bent upon retaining them uneffaced in the least for the eternity to come. What a terrible thought! " The waters wear the stones," but ages will not smooth away even the sharpest edge of a single impression engraved by us on the moments of the past year. Such reflections are most natural at this season, just as the old year has bid us farewell. Our object though, at present, is not so much to write down the thoughts and feelings which become us in regard to ourselves, as to throw a glance at the doings of the English section of our denomination during the past year, and point out one or two things which should receive our particular attention during the New Year, which has just begun to evolve its events. Occasions