Welsh Journals

THE TREASURY. No. 45. SEPTEMBER, 1867. Pbige 2d. <§ur Ufclsfr Cljitrtjws antr % intxxn d (ftalfrmistix: ll}£%trbm, jjHE following is a portion of an address spoken by Rev. Owen Thomas, Liverpool, at the Recognition service of , Rev. J. O. .Jones, B.A., Oswestry, as the minister of our English and Welsh Churches in that town. Most heartily do we commend the remarks to the consideration of the members of our Welsh Churches. After expressing his happiness at joining with the friends in their welcome to Mr. Jones, he said, that, " He felt that Mr. Jones had come to a very important field of labour, and, as far as the English part of it was concerned, he was avraid it had been too much neglected by them as a denomination. He had often felt, while living at Newtown, that they were not acting as they ought to act in connection with the monthly meeting, in leaving such an important town as Oswestry without an attempt, at least, to establish an English congregation there. He was very glad to see such a commodious place of worship now erected, and he hoped they would not be satisfied till it was too small for the people who flocked to it. He was exceedingly glad, too, to find that that new movement was commenced, and was being carried out, with the assistance as well as the sympathy of their Welsh friends. In many places it so happened that the idea of such a movement was distaste¬ ful to some of the good old Welsh friends, who were afraid that it would deprive them of the younger, and, perhaps, of the wealthier portions of their own congregations. Here, however, the Welsh friends had had the courage to meet all difficulties, whatever they