Welsh Journals

OFFERTORIES AND COLLECTIONS AT ST. MARY'S DURING FEBRUARY, 1899. February 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, ENGLISH. 8 a.m. 11-30 a.m. 6-30 p.m. 8 a.m. 11-30 a.m. 6-30 p.m. 8 a.m. H-30 a.m. 6-30 p.m. 8 a.m. II-30 a.m. 6-30 p.m. s. d. 2 7 9 3i 15 10 1 9 0 8J 13 0 1 11 5 ol 12 4 2 11 5 34 9 2i £S 19 io£ February 5th, j> >> „ 12th, i> >) 19th, ,, 26th, WELSH 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. o 11 ioj 7* o* 1 5 o 5 o 17 o 7 o 18 0 7 1 o Total (Welsh) £5 12 7^ Average per Sunday ^3 13J. \\d. The collections on Sexagesima Sunday (February 5th), were devoted to the cleaning and re- colouring of the Church. Total ^£5 4*. jd. SUNDAY SCHOOL Welsh Adults ,, Infants AVERAGE ATTENDANCES 97 English School •■• 57 Total FOR FEBRUARY. 119 273 BAPTISMS. February 1st.—Hannah, daughter of Matthew Henry and Jane Owen, 4, Mountain Square. 5th. —Robert John, son of William John and Mary Ellen Lewis, 2, Back Edmund Street. 8th.—Robert, son of Robert and Elizabeth Ann Parry, 54, Kyffin Square. ,, Emanuel, son ditto ditto ditto ,, Hugh, son of Wm. and Jane Jones, 51, Kyffin Square. ,, Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of Edward and Ellen Ann Pritchard, 9, Panton Street. 12th.—Robert William, son of Hugh and Jane Catherine Davies, II, Hugh Street. 18th.—Muriel Kilvert, daughter of Owen and Edith Harvey, 3, Gambier Terrace. 23rd.—Owen Ambrose, son of Henry Peter and Jane Ann Jones, 17, Dean's Court. 26th.—Annie, daughter of William and Mary Anne Wood, 22, Upper Garth Road. MARRIAGES. February 8th.—Wm. Hulme, 1, Osborne Terrace, Bangor, to Edith Louisa White, Tan-y-Coed, Llanfairfechan. February 7th. }» »» BURIALS. -Wm. Morgan Pattison, 6, Dean's Court, Dean Street, Bangor Margaiet Elizabeth Price Smith, 212, High Street, Bangor. John Williams, The Borough Hospital. Aged 3 years. . Aged 5 months. Aged 2 years. The following Sermon was preached by the Vicar in St. Mary's Church, Bangor, on Sunday, February 19th. A Confirmation Service will shortly be held in this parish by the Lord Bishop of Bangor, The publication therefore of the Sermon in this issue of the Magazine may be of interest to those who intend offering themselves as candidates for the sacred rite of Confirmation. HEBREWS VI.—1, 2. " Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection ; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God. Of the doctrine of Baptisms and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." Of the several doctrines here enumerated, it is my purpose this morning to draw your attention to one only, viz., the doctrine of laying on of hands. If you will turn to your Prayer Book, you will find that this is one of the names given to the rite of Confirmation. But in the New Testament you will find the same title applied to the rite of ordination, which is also called laying on of hands. In the vi. and xiii. Chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, we read that the Apostles when they ordained successors or clergy laid their hands on those ordained. Hence, we have in the New Testament the same name applied to two different ordinances, viz., Ordination and Confirmation. To avoid confusion and in order to distinguish between these two ordinances " of laying on of