Welsh Journals

flrtopstli Deanerp magazine. Vol. XIII. DECEMBER, 1905. No. 156. LLANIDLOES. Our Annual Rummage Sale will be held this year on Monday, December 18th, at the National School—hour of opening, and entrance, as usual. As the Managers of the Schools have recently been put to very great expense, we trust all our friends will do all they can to enable us to hand over a sub¬ stantial sum from the sale. The monthly service for MEN ONLY, will be held next Sunday, December 3rd, at 3-30 p.m. If each man present last time would bring a friend, we should have a good congregation. Special sermons will be preached during Advent—on December 6th by Rev. J. H. A. Griffiths, Vicar of Newbridge, and on December 13th by the Rev. J. Edwards, Vicar of Carno. We trust these services will be well attended, and that on the other week nights there may be also growing con¬ gregations. On Christmas Day there will be, as usual, four celebrations of the Holy Communion, at 8, 9, 10 (in Welsh), and 12. Monday is perhaps the most awkward day on which this great festival could fall, but still we look forward to seeing the majority of our com¬ municants present. On Sunday, December 10th. the collections will be given to the A.C.S., and the sermons will be preached by the Rev. T. A. Williams, of Portmadoc. The thanks of the Church people are due to Mr. Hart for the bookcase which he has put up in the tower for prayer and hymn books, etc. It will, we are sure, be a great convenience. Books, etc., left in seats are left there at the owners' risks, and must not be taken as establishing any claim to that particular seat, alt the scats in Church being' absolutely free. During December (except on Christmas Day), the Cantate and Deus Misereatur will be sung instead of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, and the first verse of Hymn 26, instead of the vesper hymn, after the blessing. The following balance sheet of the Schools' Trip, which we have had to hold over for lack of space hitherto, shows that in spite of the fact that it was as regards numbers the most successful trip of recent years, we only just cleared expenses. We shall therefore be compelled to reduce our expenditure very considerably, and we do not propose in future giving any whole tickets away, but only halves, and the qualifying rule as to attend¬ ance in Sunday School will be strictly enforced. Receipts. £ s. d. By Subscriptions as per list ... 9 15 6 ,, Bonus from Railway Company 5 17 5 15 12 11 Expenditure. Tickets given away Printing Posters & Billposter Minor Expenses ... Balance to School Account 14 10 6 12 6 8 0 1 11 15 12 11 In Miss Beatrice Bennett, whose wedding we chronicle below, we lose a regular churchgoer and communicant, and she recently attained a seat in the choir. We wish her and her husband all possible happiness. HYMNS FOR DECEMBER. .MATIN'S. Dec. 3.-47, 556. 323, 1S2, 551. „ 10.—53, 362. 226. .. 17.—287. 46. 50. .. 24.—261, 532, 355. Christmas Day—61, 60, 550, 58, Anthem, ''Let us now go" (Freli). EVEXSOXG. 51. 48, 203. 360, 536. 588. 221, 51, 232. 354, 49, Anthem "Sing and rejoice " (Barnby) 59, 62. 60, 63. "With all His Hosts " (West), Carol Anthem, "The first Christmas'" (Barnby). 70, 289, 72. Dec. 31.—73, 165, 2S8. BAPTISMS. Nov. 8.—Hannah Gladys Richards. ,, 24.—Mary Elizabeth Evans. MARRIAGE. Nov. 28.—John Kelly and Beatrice Jane Bennett.