Welsh Journals

WELSH AND ENGLISH OFFERTORIES FOR MAY. ENGLISH. WELSH. s. d. £ »■ d. 1st, 8 a.m. ... ... ,,, May 1st, 10 a. m. . ..... 0 13 ,, 11-30 a.m. ,, ,, 6 p.m. . ..... 1 2 74 ,, 6-30 p.m......... „ 8th 6 p.m. . ..... 1 3 6J 8th, 8 a.m. ........ 5i „ 15*, 6 p.m. . ..... 1 2 44 „ 11-30 a.m. ...... ,, 22nd, 6 p.m. . ..... 0 18 54 ,, 6-30 p.m......... ,, 29th 10 am. . 0 11 15th, 8 a.m. ........ >) i> 6 p.m. . .. ... 12 ,, 11-30 a.m......... i* ,, 6-30 p.m. ........ 22nd, 8 a.m. ,, n-3oa.m......... „ 6-30 p.m......... 6* 29th 8 a.m............ ,, 11.30a.m. ........ io£ „ 6-30 p.m. ........ 8* Total (English) £8 7 84 Total (Welsh) £6 13 5 Welsh Adults „ Infants SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE DURING MAY. 94 Hirael ...... ...... 83 English School 43 Total BAPTISMS. 308 May 19th- „ 20th- ,, 20th- ,, 25th- „ 27th- May 17th- „ 18th May 4th- „ 5th » 23rd" „ 26th- „ 28th- —Sarah, daughter of Griffith and Anne Hughes, 6, Bethel Place. -Augustus Francis, son of George Edmund and Rosa Maud Gough, 3, Infant Lane. -Lydia Amelia, daughter of George Edmund and Rosa Maud Gough, 3, Infant Lane. -Hugh, son of Edward and Ellen Catherine Jones, 21, Mountain Square. -Nellie Isabella, daughter of William Thomas Frederic and Laura Ellen Read, Admiralty Place. MARRIAGES. -John Henry Thomas, 2, Snowdon View, Upper Bangor, to Catherine Mary Jones, California Inn, Llanfair M.E., Anglesey. -Evan Griffith Stanley, 12, Mountain Square, Bangor, to Jane Elizabeth Owen, 242, High Street, Bangor. BURIALS. -Rev. Thomas Robert Ellis, Rector of Gyffin, Conway, aged 83 years. -James O'Donald, 19, Belmont Street, Euston Road, Bangor, aged 18 years. -Elizabeth Elias, The Anchorage, Summer Hill, Upper Bangor, aged 75 years. -Uavid Jones, Vrondirion, Upper Bangor, aged 44 years. -Jane Jones, 2, St. Paul's Terrace, Bangor, aged 25 years. CHURCH OFFICERS OF St. MARY'S FOR 1898-99. ENGLISH. WELSH. Wardens d1/' feh^Wt^&(VicaS Y^K . \Mr. W. Glynn Williams, M.A. (People s Warden) Churchwardens'/Mr. Frank Southwell Sidesmen \Mr. Hall, Green Bank, Garth People's /Mr. Phil. E. Jones Sidesmen \Mr. Macadam, University College w , /Dr. R. Langford Jones (Vicar's Warden) Wardens jMf Wil]iam Parry (People's Warden) Churchwardens'/Mr. W. G. Williams Sidesmen \ Mr. John Hughes (Mr. Richard Chambers People's J Mr. T. Lloyd Hughes Sidemen | Mr. McMichan \.Mr. R. P. Jones The Vicar preaching at St. Mary's on Sunday, May 22nd, referred to Mr. Gladstone's death in the following terms :— " I cannot furnish you with a better illustration of the truth of our text than by referring you to that life of faith and moral earnestness which was so nobly closed in death on Ascension morning. Amidst the many occupations of that many-sided life and the cares of state which at times must have weighed heavily on his mind, occupying much thought and time, he never lost touch with the spiritual and the eternal. Hardly a day was he so engrossed in public or private affairs but that he could spare time to join in the public prayers of the Church, and so to consecrate the day to God. What was it, I ask, that won for him such a lasting hold on the democracy of England ? Was it the genious of his towering intellect, or the glamour of his eloquence, or the fascination of "is person ? No, great as these gifts undoubtedly were in him, it was none of them that took the democracy of England captive. It was rather the moral and religious side of his character, strength¬ ened and intensified by the rare combination in his person of so many intellectual gifts that created