Welsh Journals

"Ooreu Hit, Hrf Dps^." &M^GA2)N£. (2/ NO. 2. NOVEMBER, 1893. Price TWOPENCE. OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. There are not many Welsh churches either in England or Wales that take a deeper interest in the young people, and who endeavour to provide for their needs, than our own. The Mutual Im¬ provement Society, the various classes and com¬ mittees, and the special services for young people which have Seen held from time to time, and which have always received the hearty support of our pastor, deacons, and the elder members of the church—are ample proof of this. We have no hesitation in stating that without these institutions our church would not be in its present healthy and prosperous condition. And we sincerely hope that our leaders will support in the future, as they have done in the past, everything that tends towards the intel¬ lectual, moral, and re¬ ligious improvement of the young. But although the ex¬ isting institutions have done good work (and we yield to no one in our appreciation of their use¬ fulness to the church), at the same time we venture to think that there still remains a great work to be done. We therefore wish to call the attention of the church to a new organisation, which we are persuaded will prove a great blessing to many of bur young members, and a new source of strength to the cause, if once started in our midst. We believe that there are many young men and women in the church who feel that they are doing no practical Christian work. They are eager to do so if they could THE CHAPEL, CASTLE STREET EAST, OXFORD CIRCUS, W. find a suitable sphere of usefulness. They attend the services on Sundays, are always present in the Sunday schools, and our Saturday evening meetings ; but the fact remains that they feel they are doing no practical work in the church. They are full of enthusiasm, as nearly all young Chris¬ tians are, but failing to find an appropriate out¬ let, they stand aside, idle, disappointed, and we be¬ lieve sometimes very un¬ happy. Now, the church ought to feel the greatest sympathy for such people, and try to help them by suggesting rcrthefri sttitTc attractive field of church work to which they are best adapted. We want an organisation in the church that will suggest for the different members the work that they can be most usefully engaged in for Christ and the church. We are not all adapted for Sunday school work. Some of us would not f e e 1 c o m f o r t a b 1 y en¬ gaged in doing | the visiting committees' work. We cannot all be elected to sit on the Committee of the Mutual Improvement Society. But we can all do some¬ thing. Therefore, an organisation where all those young people who have the desire to work can be engaged to work for the church in that branch to which they are best adapted, would be sure to prove a great blessing. We believe that .this can best be done bv starting in the church a Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour, and we are glad to hear that a motion to that effect will be moved in our next montftly church meeting. We hope that this meeting will be