Welsh Journals

MSffmiL D6?P?Y EQ^pip + No. 101. Vol. IX. MAY, 1901. Price One Penny. MOTHER'S UNION. It is proposed according to the wish of the Bishop to form a Branch of the above Union in this Rural Deanery, and a meeting in furtherance of that object will be held in the Llanidloes National Schools on Wednesday, June 5th, at 3-30, when an address will be given by Mrs. De Winton, of Maes Derwen, Brecon, and it is also hoped that Mrs. Williams, of Glyn Garth Palace, will be able to attend. Further particulars will appear in our next issue. A. D. S. S. A. There will be a meeting of the Arwystli Deanery Sunday School Association at Carno on May 17th, when a paper will be read by the Rev. Canon Trevor, Rector of Machynlleth. Further particulars as to hour, (he, will be announced in Church and School. LLANIDLOES. At a Vestry meeting held in the Parish Church on Thursday, April 11th, at 11 a.m., Mr. David Kinsey and Mr. Daniel Davies were re-appointed Wardens for the parishioners, and the Vicar re-appointed Mrs. Webb and nominated Mr. Evan Powell as his new Wardens. Mr. Powell raised the question of a quar¬ terly meeting of Church members, and it is likely that steps will soon be taken to set such an institution going. The usual votes of thanks to the retiring Warden, Col. Davies-Jenkins, and the Chairman terminated the proceedings. We are ?orry to record the departure of a large family of Church-people —the Shones, who have always been regular in attendance at Church and School. We wish them all success and prosperity in their new home at Aberystwith. •The attention of the married women of our congre¬ gation is directed to the notice above, respecting the Mother's Union The object of the meeting is to explain the nature of the Society, and to enrole members, and we hope it will be largely attended. Leaflets will be distributed among all those eligible between this and then. The Vicar desires to thank his parishioners very much for the generous manner in which they contri¬ buted to the Easter offerings. The Vicar's message re-calls the fact—really quite hard to realise, so quickly does time fly now-a-days, and so mixed up (atmospherically) are the seasons, that Lent and Easter once more lie behind us. On the whole, we can look back at them this year with greater satisfaction than on most occasions : the services during Holy Week were regularly attended, although there were no especial attractions suoh as those held out by the prospect of strange preachers or continuous courses, those on Good Friday were observed by larger congregations than we remember to have seen for years, and even the Three Hours' Service of which it is sometimes said, that it loses its attraction when it loses its novelty brought on its old attendants, and a good many besides, the attendances reaching three figures we believe for the first time ; a very good proportion stayed all through or nearly so. The record of Easter Day is equally satisfactorily, the congregations throughout being excellent, and the communicants being much more numerous than usual, 182 in all, a number which has not been reached on Easter Day within man's memory, though there have been as many as 194 on a Confirmation Day in Canon Williams' time. Curiously in a return dated 1776, we have John Jones, Curate of Llanidloes and Llan- gurig, reporting that he has " about 200 Communi¬ cants generally, there might be near that number at Easter last." In that same year Carno and Trefeglwys had each 180, and Llangurig 150. The Easter Offer¬ ings also beat the record, reaching the handsome sum of £22 9s, 94. The Church as usual was prettily decorated by the following ladies :—Font, Miss Marshall; South Win¬ dows, Miss Ikin ; North Windows, Miss Davies