Welsh Journals

* %witmu ds^piy np<$raiip. * No. 53. Vol. V. MAY, 1897. Price One Penny. SPEIM CLEANING! All who wish for success in the above important operation should use Our Rummage Depot All those articles for which you have no further use— and which are only littering up your house should at once be stored in that invaluable room lent us for the year by Mr. Robert Hughes, the Post Office. PLEASE REMEMBER NO SPRING CLEANING Can be successful unless you use THE RUMMAGE DEPOT. LLANIDLOES. The announcement of a Lantern Service to be held in Church on Wednesday, April 7th, was received with a certain amount oi doubt if not indignation by several who thought it would partake of the nature of an entertainment. All such fears however proved quite unfounded, and nothing could have been more reverent or devotional than the behaviour of the large congre¬ gation which assembled to see the slides illustrating the last week of our Saviour's life. Our warmest thanks are due to Mr. J. H. Williams who manipu¬ lated the lantern, and in fact procured the slides. There was a delay in the commencement of the service, and the sheet &c. had to be put in position when many had already taken their seats. This will be readily forgiven when it is stated that owing to the slides for the Story of the Cross and the hymns not arriving, Mr. Williams had to photograph these and wialce slides after three o'clock that day ! On Good Friday the Three Hours Service was if anything better attended than usual and excellent addresses were given by the Vicar of Carnarvon. If any fault must be found-~-and we always like to find fault with strangers—it is that he spoke rather too low ? In the evening in spite of a unusually small choir—out of ten men five only were present—the T«usic was quite up to, and we have heard many say above, the high standard of past years. The Yicar desires to return his most grateful and cordial thanks both to the Churchwardens who suggested the idea of giving him the collections on Easter Day, and to the parishioners in general for the generous way in which they responded to the appeal. Not only is such a sum of money most useful at a time when he is faced by mew expenses, but a very practical proof of great kindliness of feeling. The collections at all services on Easter Day were given to the Vicar. They amounted to the sum of £22 2s. The Eas'er Communion was leather disappointing, \4B being present. This is better than last year, but we have had the round number 150 even in our present Vicar's time. We have no record of previous years. If his after addresses during Lent had been given by a good preacher we should certainly have had 200, but we believe he did his best, and they were full of matter. Perhaps they may yet bear fruit—on Whit-Sunday. There have been so many claims on the pockets of Church-people lately that the Choral Society—instead of their usual Grand Concert in the Public Rooms— intend to content themselves with a smaller and Cheaper concert in the National School on Friday, May 7th, when choruses new and old, solos, duetts, &c. will be given. A special feature will be two glees specially written for the Diamond Jubilee, and never before offered to the public. Tickets Is., and 6d. We regret having omitted to include Mrs. Webb's name as a subscriber of five shillings to the childrens' tea.