Welsh Journals

WELSH AND WELSH. ENGLISH June 6th, to a.m. ,, 6 p.m. 13th, 6 p.m. 20th 10 a.m. 20th, 6 p.m. 27th, 6 p.m. Total (Welsh) £6 19 11 RTORIES FOR JUNE, ENGLISH. 1897 s. d. June 6th, 8 a.m. ., ,, 11-30 a.m. >. 6-30 p.m. 3* ,, 13th 8 a.m. ... „ ,, U-30 a.m. 17 ,, ,, 6-30 p.m. ,, 20th, 1 [-30 a.m. 14 „ ,, 6-30 p.m. 10 ,, 27th, 11-30 a.m. ,, ,, 6-30 p.m. *> •- Total (English) £6 oYz Welsh Adults Infants SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE 'DURING JUNE. 101 Tiirael School 87 English School ■^ Total Average. BAPTISMS. June 6th, William Ernest, son of Ernest and Sarah Lighton, 5, Victoria Square, Glanadda. June 13th, Thomas Albert, son of Walter and Elizabeth Alice Potts, 4, Bryn Dinas, Caellepa, Bangor. June 24th, Naomi, daughter of John and Mariah Jones, 2, Brook Row. June 30th, John, son of David and Margaret Ellen Williams, 6, Brook Row. BURIALS. June 2nd, John Harold Hughes, Tan y Fron, Bangor, aged 3 months. June 5th, Mrs. Teresa Mobley, Deanery Cottage, Bangor, aged 62 years. June 5th, Moses Evans, 300, Carnarvon Road, Glanadda, Bangor, aged 42 years. June 11 th, James McCarter, 27, Glanrafon, Bangor, aged 39 years. ... 38 ... 103 329 We made one mistake last month in our remarks on the English Collections for the last five years : we stated "they (the English Collections) were lowest in 1894, when they only amounted to ;&57 i8j. \od.; and highest in 1897, when they reached ,£75 17s. nd., thus showing an increase °f „^17 I9i"- ld- on 1894." Instead of ,£75 175. nd. the total for 1897 should have been ■n h^S ^f"'tnus showing an increase of ^26 165-. 2d. on 1894. The English Collections, you satisfac^ h^' *TQ in l897' -^z6 l6s' 2d' hi§her than they were in l894' The record is very sa is ac ory both as regards the English and Welsh Collections ; and we only hope the improvement A' if a W^S maintain that our Congregations should be taught to give systematically and not spasmodically and grudgingly. We should set apart a certain sum for each Sunday in the year and regard our alms as much a part of our worship as our prayers are. The Angel tells Cornelius in the tenth chapter ol the Acts, " Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God," thus clearly showing that almsgiving is an act of worship. Our readers, if they have not already heard, will learn with no small regret that the Rev. Benjamin Thomas, B.D., has been offered the Chaplaincy of one of the Welsh Churches in London. The value of the Chaplaincy is ^250 a year. Mr. Thomas has now been with us for five years and has by his excellent preaching and indefatigable activity in the parish, endeared himself to every member of our two Congregations. Consequently the parting will be all the more deeply felt. But we hope that he will be prevailed upon to continue his work in this diocese, where bilinguists of his type are so much needed. We hope to have the pleasure of announcing in our next issue that Mr. Thomas has decided to remain with us for the present. The Magazine year closes the end of this month (July), and we hope that subscribers will endeavour to pay up all arrears by the end of July. We venture to hope that those who have kindly extended to us their support and patronage in the past will continue the same for another year. The difficulties of bringing out a Magazine in a bilingual parish like ours are very considerable. If we wnte our remarks in Welsh the English people complain that the Magazine is useless to them; and