Welsh Journals

♦ toys™ wwqebp nwpnp ♦ No. 106. Vol. IX, OCTOBER, 1901. Price One Penny. LLANIDLOES. For three or four montha in succession we have had to chronicle the death of a member of oar congrega¬ tion, and this month we have with great regret to record the death of Elizabeth Owen, wife of Mr. Chas. Owen of Bethel Street, which took place quite sud¬ denly—like nearly all oor recent losses—and just when all were hoping that she was recovering from her brief illness She was a devoted Church-woman, and will be missed by many out-side that family circle in which she was so much loved. She was laid to rest in the Parish Churchyard on September 13th, with whatever of special honour the Church can give her dead. Our Harvest Festival Services were held on Sep¬ tember 17th and 18th, the special preachers being those whose names were announced in our last issue. We had excellent sermons on all three occasions, but the services were on the whole somewhat below the Llanidloes standard. The Welsh congregation was smaller than the average, and the experiment of hav¬ ing the celebration at 8 instead of 8-30 was not attended with success, the communicants falling from 28, the number (not a very large one) last year, to nineteen. At the 11 o'clock service on Wednesday, the congregation was for the most part conspicuous by its absence, and the collection.was abnormally small. In the evening the Church was well-filled, and we had a bright and happy service for the most part, but we would suggest to the Vicar that it would be wiser to choose hymns which are universally known on such occasions as those when the attendance in¬ cludes many who are not regular Churchgoers : one of those chosen this year was quite unknown to the congregation and apparently somewhat unfamiliar also to the choir, who however, in other respects sustained their high reputation, the rendering of the anthem "Great and Marvellous" being especially excellent. We regret to note that the offerings of fruit, bread <fcc, are growing fewer every year. The decorations were quite np to the usual standard, for which we have to thank the following ladies:—Miss Marshall, font; Miss Grant and Miss Powell, South windows; Miss Maysmor and Miss Griffiths, North windows; Miss Davies. Bryndwr, lectern; Misses Webb, pulpit; altar rails Ac., Miss Agnes Kerr; altar Mrs- Jones, Vicarage, and Miss Webb. The following are those who kindly sent frnit Ac.:—Grapes for the Altar Cross Mrs. Jones, Vicarage, Mrs. Cornforth, Mrs. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Grant, Mr. and Mrs. U. P. Jones, Manledd, Mrs. Kerr, Mrs. Griffiths, Commerce House, Misses C- and B. Roberts, Unicorn, Mrs. Hughes, Church Street, Miss Maud Morgan, Mr E. D. Davies, Miss Agnes Kerr, Miss Louie Ingram, Misses Ethel Morforwyn and Sybil Vaughan Owen, Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. Derry, Miss Ada Elsie Derry and Master George Arthur Derry, Master J. E. Lewis, Brodawel, Miss Polly Owen, Idloes Terrace, Miss Lena Davies, Severn View, Miss Webb. Miss Phillips, Misses Jones, The Close, Mrs. Audrewarthew, Mr. Lemuel Jones, Red House, Naut- yrhebog, Mr. and Mrs. Kinsey, Brynllys, Mr. Thomas Jones, Cincoed, Mr. Evan Jones, High Street, Mrs. Evans, Dollys Farm, Mr. Baxter Owen, Glandulas, Col. and Mrs. Lea Jones. There was a very good attendance at the Mothers' Unioti Service, although of course there were sever! I absent, the hour being a somewhat awkward one f r mothers' who had to get their children's tea. N-. \t time we hope to have the meeting either earlier when the children are in School, or later-^-when they ought to be in bed. The Rector of Llandudno gave a comT mon-sense practical address, but we heard some Mothers' thought him somewhat too hard on the women folk. Some new members were enrolled after the service by Mrs. Morgan Jones. The Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis will be snng at evening service this month, and until further notice,