Welsh Journals

WELSH AND ENGLISH OFFERTORIES FOR DECEMBER. WELSH. ENGLISH, s. d. £ s. d. Dec. 5th, 10 a.m. 12 Dec. 5th, 8 a.m. 0 2 4^: „ ,, 6 p.m. , „ 11-30 a.m. 120 „ 12th, 6 p.m. , „ 6-30 p.m. 0 10 4 „ 19th, 6 p.m. , 12th, 8 a.m. 009 ,, 25th, 10 a.m. , ,, 11-30 a.m. 1 3 6 „ i» 6 p.m. ... , „ 6-30 p.m. 092 ,, 26th, 6 p.m. , 19th, 8 a.m. , ,, 11-30 a.m. , ,, 6-30 p.m. , 25th, 8 a.m. ,, 11-30 a.m. , 28th, 11-30 a.m. , ,, 6-30 p.m. 028 I 0 1 0 11 1 077 1 11 5 1 8 3 089 Total (Welsh) £7 Total (English DECEMBER. ) £8 7 "'A SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE DURING I Welsh Adults ... ... 100 1 Hirael -• ... ••• ... 36 „ Infants 93 1 English School ... 99 Total BAPTISMS. 328 Dec. Nov. Dec. 5th—Anne, daughter of John and Ruth Thomas, 43, Fountain Street. 5th—Jane, daughter of Owen and Sarah Hughes, 21, Foundry Street. 20th—Twenty-eight Boys from the " Clio " Training Ship. 29th—John, son of John and Mary Owen, 37, Well Street. 5th—Fred Pettifer, son of Fred and Edith Letitia Goode, 18, Dean's Court. MARRIAGES. c1^-P?arles Wilbraham Smith, Vaynol Park, to Mary Jane Harding, Brynllwyd Farm. 28th—John Hughes, 21, Salem Street, Amlwch, to Sarah Hughes Tanyffynon, Llanberis. Dec. 8th- DEATH^ -Albert Prince, 21, Belmont Street, aged 33 years. jfitu__p i- ~ ' *> ■Dcimoni sireei, ageu 33 years. t^v, mpmeuus Gertrude Read, Admiralty Place, Garth, aged 7 years. 8±=Mb !uenMCrOSSby' S' H*h Street' ^d 6l yearS" Izt r?v 1 T Morns, 12, Berllan Bach, aged 60 years. 26th-Charles James Cairington, 32, West End, agedI 34 years. 27-Ann Jones Evans, 34, Kyffin Square, aged 7 months THE BISHOP OF BANGOR'S NEW HYMN BOOK. Emyniadur yr Eglwys yng Nghymru, edited by the Right Rev. D. Lewis Lloyd, D.D., Lord Bishop ot Bangor Bangor: Jarvis & Foster. 8vo. pp. xxxii, 250. Reviewed by an eminent Nonconformist Scholar. Following closely in the wake of the new hymn books officially published in quick succession by the three leading Nonconformist bodies, a collection of hymns intended for the use of the Church in Wales has just made its appearance under the sponsorship of the Bishop of Bangor. Bishop Lloyd's nymn-book possesses one advantage over those of the denominations. It bears the impress of a Personality, and individual preference in such things engages one's interest and curiosity much more fffectively than the somewhat colourless result of a committee's labours. Not, indeed, that the Bishop ?as in this matter chosen to be "a committee of one "—an arrangement that has much to commend « even in the compiling of a hymn-book. He tells us in his preface that he called into his counsel "*ee men above all others, viz. : Chancellor Silvan Evans, the Rev. W. L. Richards, and Dr. Roland Rogers. Dr. Rogers is responsible for the accuracy of the music, and for the harmonies of the old