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ft^lMOAft UT2YV/JI/L i: ? h Vol, £]UL .... OCTOBER, 1905, -No, j 154, 3SS GENERAL. Thb request contained in the following letter to the Rural Dean is best carried out by inserting it in the Magazine, where it will, we hope, catch the eye of all the clergy and Stallholders. Glyngarth Palace, • " - Menai Bridge, Sept. 30thf 1905. Dear Mr. Jones, Will you be so very kind as to convey to your Ruridecanal Chapter my most heartfelt thanks for the exertions that pro¬ duced so excellent a result. I should be so glad if you would somehow thank the Stall¬ holders for me also. I do think it was quite wonderful; How they must all have worked ! and the room was so charming. ' ' ~ */"* Yours very sincerely, .,..''.,. Alice Williams. " L.LANIDLOES. The, Harvest Festival this year had an added importance as it conicided with the return visit of the Missioneivand it has been, A-e trust, and believe, a * time of refreshing ' to us all. There was a larger attendance than usual—but still not a large one—at the early celebration on Friday, September 29. At 11 a m.i Mr. Jacson took as his subject " All tilings come of Thee," and in the even¬ ing the thought that thanks-living is the best form of thanks-giving. Thanks-living demon¬ strated by obedience to God's demand for confession of sin, unceasing prayer, study of His word, and ' doing this '—i e. attendance at Holy communion. On Saturday evening he based his remarks on the peculiar passage in Phil. III., and insisted on the need of progress,.and went oil to- emphasize the im¬ portance of tlie almost forgotten need of fasting, which he took up again in the after- meeting. .On Sunday morning he urged the necessity of .thoroughness,, especially in Communicants, and urged regularity, based on a belief in the real presence of Christ. In the evening, going back to Phil. ML, he dwelt on the blessedness of forgetfulness, in the sense of forgetting past failures and disappointments, and in the after-meeting recalled the story of Elijah, urged on to new work and fresh efforts, in the hour of despond¬ ency by God's reproachful question, "■ What doest thou here, Elijah"? On Thursday evening the Vicar of Llangurig had preached in Welsh, to a good congregation, a remark¬ ably able sermon on Roman xii., 1, full of original and stimulating thoughts. The Church was packed on Friday and Sunday night, and the attendance on Saturday was remarkably good considering th(e claims of the day. The services for women on Friday, and for men on Saturday afternoon were of course not so well attended, but those who came were well repaid. The anthems at the Harvest Festival were " Great is the Lord" by Bruce Steane and Charles Vincent, in the morning and evening respectively. We do not remember ever having heard anthems better rendered.—The Church looked lovelier than usual, as the autumn-tinted leaves this year were exceptionally beautiful. The decorators were as follows :—East end, Mrs. Jones, Vicarage, and Miss Kerr; Choir Stalls, Miss Griffiths, Commerce House ; Pulpit and Window, Miss Webb ; Lectern, Miss Davies, Llwyn ; South Windows, Miss Jones, Close: North Windows, Mrs. Herbert Roberts, Miss Phillips, and Miss Annie Davies, School House; Font, Mrs. Dr. Owen, Offerings were sent by: Mrs. Parker, Miss Emma Jones, Mrs. Derry, Mr. Wm. Edward Evans, Miss Florrie Carter, xMr. and Mrs. D. Pugh Jones, Manledd, Miss Lilian Roberts, Mr. Edward Williams (engine driver), Miss Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Chandler, Cwmbellan, Miss Criss Kerr, Mrs. Gibson, Miss Palmer, Mr. Charles Jones, Master J. Ewart Lewis, Miss Ingram, New Inn, Mrs. ^D. A. Lewis, Miss S. E. Evans, Commercial Hotel, Misses Lena and Cecilia Roberts, Miss Evelyn Davies, Miss Annie E. Owen, Miss Polly Owen, Misses Ettie, Morfydd and Sybil Owen, Miss Lucy Palmer, Mrs. Grant-, Mrs. Lewis, Eithiniog, Mrs. Herbert Roberts, Mrs. William Owen, Highgate, Mrs.