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---.---Y DIWEDDAR JOHN PAUL,…
Y DIWEDDAR JOHN PAUL, LANHARAN. [GAN OENIN.] Son am y marw fwriadwn wneyd heddyw, ac er nas gall hyny fod yn destyn llawenydd i neb pwy feynag. eto bydd rhoddi tusw o flodau, gan nad pa mor syml a dirwysg bynag fyddo ar fedd un fu'n gyfaill cywir i lawer, a gelyn i neb, yn ryw fath o fwynhad pruddaidd i ni, ac feallai i ami un arall o'ch darllenwyr adwaenai'r diweddar John Paul, o Lanharan. Un o landmarks Llanharan oedd John Paul a'r neb ddywedai nad adwaenai ino hono ef, ddywedai hefyd ar yr un pryd nad adwaenid mo hono yntau yn Llanharan. Er na adwaenasom ni Paul yn bersonol ond am ychydig flynyddau, eto cof genym glvwpd ei enw yn fynvch er yn blentyn. ClywBom ein hanwyl dad, ac yn ddiweddarach mwya- ber fardd y pathos, DeWl Haran, ac yn ddiwedd- arach wedy'n ein cu fam-ynghyfraith, yn adrodd o bryd i bryd amryw ystoriau doniol, canol-bwynt ae arwr pa rai fyddii John Paul. Un direidua iawn fu Paul yn ei ddydd, ond yn wahanol i lawer cadwai ei ddireidi bob amser o fewn terfynau priodol, ac enillai ei ddireidi gyfeillion yn hytrach na chreu gelynion, ao yn hyny yn sicr bu ei fywyd o'r cryd i'r bodd yn object lesson teilwug o efelychiad i lawer e honom. Collwyd bardd can hyd y bedd, Dewin y gan aeth dan gudd MyJrwr hy, a medr i'w rodd, Gwr cyflawn o ddawn i'w ddydd. Pa fodd, ddynion, y rho'ir digop o hanesion ei bynawsedd ? ? Trwy ei fywyd bu'n wr gwynfryd, Da a diwyd hyd y diwedd. Mab ydoedd gwrthrych hyn o linellau i William a Margaret Paul o'r Waterton. Bil iddo ddwy ehwaer—Mrs Dewi Haran, a Mrs Davies, Llythyrdy, Llanharan, ond lhag-flaenodd y ddwy ef. Hanai o deulu enwog Hopcyn Hopcyn y dwarf, uchder yr hwn ydoedd 2 droedfedd ac 8 modfedd. Mewn corph yn unig yr oedd Hopcyn yn llai na'i gyfoedion o rin cyneddfau meddyliol rhagorai arnynt ages oil. Marw, wrth gwrs, fu diwedd y dwarf; claddwyd ef yn Nglynogwr, a chedwir ei goat yn ofalus fel cywreinbeth hyd heddyw gan ei nitb, set Mrs Morgan, Penypark, ger LIanbaran. Dywedir i Paul etifeddu cryn lawer o'r gallu meddyliol nodweddai'r dwarj, a chafodd gorph Uuni.iidd a nerthol yn y fargen. Cafodd yr ymadawedig oes hirfaith o 75 o flynyddoedd, a threuliodd hwyrlt oil namyn dwy yn Llanharan. Yn mhlith ei gyfoedion a'i gyfeillion flaenasant oawn fod Dewi Haran, a'i frawd Thomas, y Mri. Edward Gronow, Evan Howell, Llwynbarcud, Thomas Miles, Meiros, a Jenkin a Meyrig Morgan, Argoed Edwin. Yn mhlith y rhai sydd eto'n aros ar dir y byw y raue y Mri. Thos Richards, Hendreowen, Jacob Gibbon, Rhys Morgan, Llanharri, Thomas Hopcyn, Penllyn, a Wm Harry, mab y byd glodus Shon yr Heliwr gyflawnodd gynifer a cbymaint gwyrthiau yn ei ddydd ynglyn a chwn hen Yswain Llanharan. Ni eheid neb o'r ymadawedigion, ac ni cheir neb o'r rhai sy'n aros enwyd uchod, i roi anair i John Paul. Tystiolaeth pawb a'i adwaenai ydoedd maicymeriad unplyg oedd Paul. Gwnai gymwyuas i unrhyw un, a gwell fuasai ganddo ddioddef llawer na chyflawnu tro gwael. Bywyd gweddw fu bywyd Paul hyd y talar, a by wyd felly o ddewisiad hefyd. Nis gwyddom ni, ddarllenydd, a wyt ti wedi sylwi ai nad wyt, ond yr ydym ni wedi sylwi, ac yn dyfod yn fwy argy- hoeddig beunydd, mai po fwyaf o elfenau dyngarweh a chyfeillgarwoh fyddo mown dyn ueu ddynes tebycaf oil ydynt i ymgadw allan o'r cylch priodasol. Wrth gwra ni olyga hyn fod pob gwir gyfaill a dyngarwr yn aros yn weddw, ond credwn yn ddiysgog fod mwyafrif mawr dynion a menywod gweddwon yn gyfeillion a dyngarwyr gwirioneddol. Ryw fodd carant baivb gymaint fel y methant ganolbwyntio eu serch yn neillduol ar unrhyw un. Hyn gredwn rydd gyfrif am fywyd gweddw ein hen gyfaill John Paul. Carai ei holl gymdogion gymaint fel na allodd erioed gyfyngu ci serch at ■nrhyw un neillduol. "Ei gymdogion sy'nhiraethlon, O mae'n gyfion am hen gyfaill; A'r beirdd tristion yn ddigalon, Gyda chwynion oerion ereill." Towr a phlasterer oedd Paul wrth ei alwedigaeth, a buaaai rhaid i ddyn gerdded cryn lawer o'r ddaear cyn dod o hyd i ragorach neu onestach crefftwr. Gweithiodd drwy ei oes ar ystad Llanharan ac ystad yr Ewinwy, ao erys ami ddarn o do wnaeth feithion flwyddi'n ol hyd heddyw fel campwaith edmygir gan bawb. Ryw dro gweithiau'n hen gyfaill a Mr Rhys Morgan, y saer, ynghyd, y blaenaf fel plasterer, a'r olaf fel saer pren. Dig- wyddodd i John ddifwyno ychydig ar waith Rhys yr hwn ddyweddodd, John, pe bai chwi'n gweithio gyda chrefftwr, ni oddefid i ohwi ddifwyno'i waith felly.' 'O'n wir/ ebai John, 'carwn i weitliio gyda chrefftwr am unwaith yn fy oes.' Crefftwr rhagorol yw Mr Morgan, a chwarddodd yn iachus amjokr ddiniwaid Paul. Carai'n hen gyfaill ddau beth a chariad angherddol, set ei Feibl a barddoniaeth ei wlad, a darllcnodd fwy na nemawr ar y naill a'r Hall. Cof genym fod yn ei gwmni ef a Mr Richards, Hendreowen, rai blynyddau yn ol. Llin^llau barddonol rhyw gyfaill oeddynt wedi ymddangos yn JSfghronicl yr wythnos flaenorol oedd gcnym dan sylw. Ceisiwn i eu pwyso a'u mesur, a dywedwn eu bod yn brin mewn gwreidaoldeb. Ar hyn wele'r hen Baul anwyl yn edrych yn syth yn myw fy llygad gan ddyweyd, Gan bwyll, Oenin, peidiweh bod yn rhy gritic; yr wyf fi wedi darllen cymaint ar farddoniaeth, hwyrach, ag un yma ac acw, ond rbyfedd mor ychydig o syniadau welais i eto na Welais yn flaenorol o fewn clorianau'r hen femrwn cysegredig.' Wrth gwrs, rhoddais i fewn i'r hen bersrin llygadgraff ar unwaith. Nid yn unig darllen barddoniaeth wnaeth yr ymadawedig, ond cyfansoddodd lawer hefyd o bryd i bryd. Gresyn iddo gyfyngu cymaint ar ei awen i ganu ar destynau ysgeifn, canys pe dewisasai gallasai ganu ar destynau pwysig. Ni roddai dim fwy o fwynhad i Paul na cblywed am lwyddiant ei gyfeillion a'i gydnabod ar feusydd lien ac awen" ae fel hyn y torodd allan ryw dro pan glywodd fod ein cyfaill galluog, Ap Rhydderch, wedi cipio amryw wobrwyon mewn eisteddfod bwysig:— Dyna hero yw Dan Haran—curwr Y cewri yn mhobman Arwr y dydd, hwre dan Am eu heillio oil allan. Fel hyn y canodd dro arall i'r Wadd Un weddol lan yw'r wadd lwyd,—naturiol Y tyria am abwyd Yn min baW y myn ei bwyd, Er oesi yn ei harswyd. Yr ydym wedi awgrymu'n barod fod Paul yn ddyngarwr i'r earn, ac os mai yn ol dyngarwch gwr yr ydym i fesur ei rinwedd—ac 1Ù8 gwyddom am well safon, canys onid 8wm y cwbl a glybuwyd gan Fab y Saer oedd ar garu o honom ein gilydd—ie, meddwn os mai dyngarweh yw safon rhinwedd i fod, yna dywedwn yn ddibetrus fod Paul yn un o feibion rhi ici Efe, 08 eofiwn yn gywir, oedd aelod hyt a w^»rinfa Iforaidd Llanharri, ac fel hyn y canodd i gist yr Iforiaid :— Rhag lledrith a rhwyg lladron,—y clo da, Clyw di, sydd yn ffyddlon, Er rhwystro'r an was estron, A'i gastiau hy' i'r gist hoa. Gwj-r pawb adwaenai John Paul nad oedd y fath betk a chybydd-dod yn perthyn i'w natur hynaws, etc, er hyn, ac er mai un o deulu'r ffydd farddol ydoedd, yr hwn deulu ystyrir fel rheol yn un didoraeth,' llwyddodd ein hen gyfaill i gynilo digon, a chryn dipyn fwy na digon, i'w gyaal yn y dyddiau blin. Diweddodd ei ddyddiau ar y ddaear ar yr 16eg o Ragfyr diweddaf o dan gronglwyd gysurus Mr John Davioe, Turberville. Yr oedd Mr Davies ac yntau yn kindred spirits i radda. helaeth iawn: carai'r ddau fyw llawer yn myd awen a chan, a chydrhwng hyny a'r ymgeledd tyner gafodd yn ddidor oddiar law hynaws Ml's Dalies, yr hon oedd berthynas iddo, gellir dyweyd i John Paul ddidwyll a diniwaid gael yr hyn haeddai—tynu ei anadliad olaf yn ngbanol pob cysur dichonadwy. Cafodd angladd barchus a lluosog. Claddwyd ef yn mycwent Bethlehem (A), Llanharran, a gwelwyd J Y wlad yn tro ar adwedd j Yn dra blin o fin ei fedd." j Yn iach bellach i'n hen gyfaill cu a pharchus. Pan gwympodd ef, torodd un o danau pereiddiaf Llan- haran, a gwag iawn i ni, ac ami nn arall, yw'r j pentref prydferth heb y tant a dorodd. Syrthied deuparth o'i ysbryd mwyn ac hawdd^ar ar lawer uu sy'n aroa. "Byw mewn heddweh a brawdgarweh, Dyna elwch doniau haelion Mawr yw tegwch cyfeillgarwch, A'i ddiddanwch i daa ddynion. Os a rhinwedd i'r nef geinwedd, Yn hyfrydwedd Naf i rodio, loan fwynwedd a gaiff fawredd, A dwys annedd Da Was yno. Gwr oedd ef am dangnefedd ¡! Geirwr wr, yn garwr bedd. Brawdol brydydd, Un doeth i'n dydd Cyfaill cvfion, Di frad ei fron Gwron gwiredd. O'r byd i'r bedd."
BETHEL, NANTYMOEL.¡
BETHEL, NANTYMOEL. ¡ Sul a'r Llun, 27ain a'r 28ain cyfisol cynhalioddyr eglwys uchod ei eh) farfod blynyddol, pryd y caed i wasanaethu dau o feibion y daran,' a hyny yu mhersonau y Parchedigion R. Rees, Alltwen, ao R. S. Williams, Dowlais. Afreidiol ac ofer ynoin ni fyddai ceisio addurno'r diamond' a phaentio'r • lili.' Ond gellir dyweyd yn ngwir ystyr y gair i mi gael gwyl o'r fath oreu, a gwledd oloyw-win, o basgedigion breision, a gloyw-^rin puredig-' Dywedai un o brif dduwinyddion Cymrll ara y I marwol infarwol Robert Hall, 4 na fedrai neb ar a j wyddai efe am dano arlwyo bwrdd mor fendigedig a I Mr Hall, ond er cystal arlwydd fod un peth yn ddiffygiol ganddo ar y bwrdd wedi'r cyfan, sef alen gras,' ond amy wledd yma, ni theimlid alen, na dim arall yn eisiau canys yr oedd yn gyflawn o bob peth oedd yn angenrheidiol ar bechadur i fyw. marw, a byw wedyn yn y byd a ddaw. Y cenhadau ar en huchel fanau, yn traddodi gyda nerth a dylanwad, ac arwyddion amlwg yn y gweddiau, a'r pregethau eu bod wedi ea gwisgo a north o'rucheider, fel y gellid dyweyd fel y dyvredwyd gan y ddyne8 hono gynt, Onid gweis-ion y Duw goruchaf ydyvr y dyaion hyn ? Yn mynegu i ni ffordd iachawdwr- iaéth." Nid oes ynom y petruyder lleiaf na fydd yr wyl hon yn adloniad i'n gweinidog, yn adgyf- nerthiad i'r saint ac yn gychwyniad i swn traed tyrfa yn cvrchu am noddfa i'w heneidiau. Cafwyd bin ddymunol, cynulliad rhagorol, a chasgliad llawn cystal ag oeddis yn ddysgwyl i gwrdd a'r am can. BBYXFAB RKE3.
DERBYN IESU.
DERBYN IESU. o adyn annnwiol, arafa dy gamrau, 0 cofia dydd barnu sy'n cyflym neahan Pa Ie y gwnei dreulio dy faith dragwyddoldeb, Mewn gwynfyd a heddwch, nell yute tnewa gwau? 0, diolehfod Iesu a'i freiohiau'n agored, Yn barod i'th derbyn, 0 dos ato Ef, Y tlawd a'r angenus, dewch ataf, medd Iesu, Anturia, fy enaid, fe wrendy dy lef. Fab ieuanc, yn nghanol ystormydd yr anial, Heb geraint na chyfaill i'th garu n un man o cofia fod Un ar ddeheulaw y mltwredd Yn eiriol bob amser yn daer ar dy rem; 0 derbyn Ef heddyw yn (ieidwad i'th enaid, Cyn myned o honut i uno'n y bedd; Q-wnaifl Iesu dy arott ar lan afon angau, I'th arwain mewn i drigfauau yr hedd. Ferch ieuanc sydd wedi dy adael yn nnig, I ymladd yn nghanol croeawyntoedd y byd Ymddiried yn Iesu, mas'n frawd iti'r awrhon, Fo'th gyaal trwy daith yr anialwch i gyd Pan byddi yn rhoddi ff.trwel i'r hen ddaear, 0, hyfryd fydd cwmui yr le-iu pryd hyn, I'th dwyn yn ddiaugol trwy borth oer marwolaeth, A'th arwain i blith v rhai olchwyd ya wyn. Meddylddrych ofnadwy yw marw'n annuwiol, A myned o'r ddaear i utfern i fyw, Lie nad 068 ond gruddfan o fewn i'w gororau, Dros byth i barhau o dan ddigter ein Duw Os gwrthod yr Iesu, colledig a fyddi, o erchyll olygfa yn ngwae'r daraniol nyth, Am byth i ddyoddef heb obaitli ymwared, I Cei medi o tfrwyth dy weithredoodd am byth. 0, Iesu anwylaf, 0, erglyw fy ngweddi, Ar ran y rhai heddyw sy'n rhodio yn dlawd, Tn unig hob Iesu, ffrynd penaf pechadur, Yr hwn a rao-orolid ar gyfaill a brawd Fy enaid cred ynddo, rnaa'n disgwyl am danat, Os brwLt ano^gus a gwelw dy wadd, Cei'th wneuthur yn gymhwys i wisgo y goroa, A rhodio yn nghwaini angelica mewn hedd. I' Bryncethin. DEWI MWYXRAYN.
I ENGLYNION¡
ENGLYNION ¡ A gyfansoddwyd wedi gwrando ar Miss REE3 I (Cranogwen) yn pregathu ar Fyordd Cyntiig yn Nghapel Moriah (T.C). Codi ei lief dros ei chrofy ld-yn hyf Wna Cranogwen gelfydd Meistres lion mun yxplenydd Dynajille cawd dawn y ffydd.* Ei dawn eirian-llawn o dynerwch-ddur Parch yw ei hyfrydwch Hon a'i llais gyfyd o'r llwch, Ddynion i wir ddyddanweh. Un o ofal am'r amddifall-hi fyn Fod yn fam yn wastad,$ A'i dawn dysg, fod Duw yn dod I'w gadw trwy ei Geidwad. JOHN LLOYD (loan Cynffig). Mynydd Cynffig. *Pregeth ar Ft'ydd.' §Mae cartref Cranogwen yn gartref i blant amddifaid.
---I THE LARK.
I THE LARK. 'Tis not enough to raise her crested head, But rises in the sky on wing, To leave her mate in turfted bad awhile, I And her thanksgivings sing. From golden morn till even late, I She doth her lot fulfil, And sings her echoing notes to mate Who sits on nest near rill. I Her cares are but five little ones, To feed and teach to sing, And gives her thanks to God for these, And every trifling thing. ¡ A worm, a grab, a little grain, I Makes gay her little heart, And all for these har voice to strain, Those strains—a rival to the harp G. H. REKAn.
ANERCHIAD PRIODASOL
ANERCHIAD PRIODASOL I'r cyfaill a'r gyfeilles, JOHW EVAWS a ELIZABETH MAEY DAVIES, y dda.u o Maesteg. Dymunaf o galon pob llwydd i'n cjfeillion Wrth gychwyn eu taith briodasol drwy'r byd; Gan fyw mwn dedwyddyd a nofio mewn heddweh, A'u cariad ar gynydd fo'n myned o hyd. Yn mhell boed gofidiau a phoen a chystyddiau, Eu bywyd fo'n hafaidd hyd ddiwedd eu hoes Gan fyw yn rhinweddol a chadw Ei ddeddfau, A ihanlyn yr leeu gan godi y Groes. Maesteg*. lOAN LLYFJTWY.
.tI*r BEDDARGRAFF
.tI*r BEDDARGRAFF I'r diwediar JENKIN LLOYD, Mynydd Cynffig. Gwr astud, diwyd Gristia*,—o boen Mewn bedd—priod tirion Er yn y llwch, rhyw fore a'n lion—cyfyd O'i gwsg o'r gweryd i wisgo'r goron. I CAN CYNFFIG.
: LLINELLAU
LLINELLAU Wedi darllen am farwolaoth y Cerddor soniarus AFASLAIS LUWIS. Ei amser byr a ddaeth i ben Uhoed iddo ef gau Dduw, Ac yntau 8Y mewn arch o bren Rhwng muriau'r bedd yn wiw. Machludodd haul ei fywyd bron Cyn cyrhaedd hanner dydd, Symudwyd ef o'n ruysg yn chwai I orphwys yn y pridd. Nid marw ef, ond cysgu inae Dan gwrlid gwyrdd y bedd, Lie nad 008 gofid, poen, na gwae Na dim i ddwyn ei hedd. Y mae'r perorydd 'nawr yn ftd Ni oklywir mwy ei lef, Ei ymdrechion fydd o hyd Yn folawd iddo ef. Ymdrechgar fu y cerddor mad 0 barth cerddoriaeth wiw, Dvwylliod,1 hon er lies ein gwlad Cyn myn'd o blith y byw. Ei enw fydd mewn parch a bri Tra fyddo'r oes yn bod, A'i anrhydeddu gaifI gan lu Adseiniant mwy ei glod. Er rhoi ei farwol ran yn wyw I orwedd yn y pridd, Fe ddaw o'i fedd yn syiwedd byw Ar foreu'r farn a fydd. Y oorff a'r enaid y pryd hyn Gant uno fyth yn nghyd, Ac osgyu fry i Seion fryn I foii'n Prynwr drud. Caerdydd. HWNTW. ¡
LINES
LINES To MB W. F. JOHN (late of Kenng Hill) now master of the Sailors Home, Buenos Ayres. Far away from your home, and the scenes of your childhood, You stand up to-day as a master and friend, To sailora and seamen who steer for their livelihood, And all ths great danger of sailing attend. May you prove quite efficient as master and teacher, Explaining the truths of the. gospel you love, And at last may your labours to your fellow- creatures Be crowned with rich blesaings from Heaven above. When quite a young bey by the family fireside, Your early devotions to God were explained By your dear parents at morning and noontide, Who humbly asked God for all they obtained. As you grew up a youth, just budding to manhood, Your talent for teaching was theu to be seen, The emblem of manhood WAS seen in your boyhood, Forbearing and kind you al ways had been. By practice perfection will shortly bo mastered, Aspiring ambition to you "vviii be gain, The Bible you long have studied and cherished, Is now your guide on a far distant laud. May the Home for the sailors be always a safe guard, Its master, a Christian, a irienrt and a guide, In temperance, discipline, chastity forward A refuge in storms and tempestuous tide. May every success and earthly distinction, Attend your mission so noble, and grand, Continue the work of this institution. And further religion is a far distant land. Will you kindly accept this plain, simple poem, Perhaps you will wonder who wrote it for you A friend of your parents and sisters and brother, Who lives with her son in humble I Sea-view.' S. RiCHABM. Sea-view House, Kenfig Hill.
SETTLEMENT OF THE NEATH STRIKE.-
SETTLEMENT OF THE NEATH STRIKE. The carpenters' strike in the Neath district was amicably settled at a meeting of masters and a deputation from the men at tho Mackworth Hotel, Neath, on Monday night. The masters yielded on the final point of an immediate advauce in wages of £ d an hour. Work will be resumed forthwith upon 2 a wage of 8d an hour. Thero are mutual congra- tulations over the terminaiion of the dispute, and both sides agree to forget all the recent acerbities.
PUBLICATIONS.
PUBLICATIONS. WELDOX'S LABIES' JOURNAL, Juno (3d).—Our lady readers will find all their require/njats in dress, fashion and needlework fully entered upon in this popolar monthly, there are two most useful paper patterns given away, the new coat with boll basque, the most stylish garment of the season for wearing over blouses and vests; ah:) the new circular cape, which makes up remarkably smart in moire, satin, or corded silk, a coloured plate of charming summer styles is also presented. Every- thing that is graceful and can poetise a woman's beauty will be worn this summer. We have done with hard lines, everything is flowing, wavy and soft, save the tailor made gown, which will hold its own for rnani- a day to come. There are many pretty sketches of summer blouses, bodices, capes, wraps, costumes, jackets, mantles, French lingerie, pelisses, clonks, skirts, vests, etc., and very useful lessons in millinery and coat-making. Weldon's is even more than usually attractive aud should be found ou the worktable and in the boudoir of every lady wishing to clrcis rell with cconomy. WELDON'S CRINKLED PAPER WORK, 4th series (2d.) —Notwithstanding having issued three previous numbers on crinkled and crepe tissue paper work the demand comes forth for another edition for which some charming and most artistio designs suitable for home adornment have been selected, with clear and practical instructions for making beautifully illustrated with tine wood engravings.
SUCCESSFUL NEATH DOG FANCIERS.
SUCCESSFUL NEATH DOG FANCIERS. Ac Exeter Dog Show, held on Thursday and Friday, the following local successes were obtained The first prizes in pointer classes by Mr D H Jones, Pencairae; two seconds in setter classes by Mr W. H. David, solicitor: and two seconds and one first in greyhound classes by Mr B. S. Freegard.
LODGERS IN LOCAL PARLIAMENTARY…
LODGERS IN LOCAL PAR- LIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. An official return to tho House of Commons has been made of the number of lodgers on the last Parliamentary register (England and Wales) for each borough and county, showing the number for each division separately. The following are the returns for Glamorganshire :— COUNTIES. Eastern Division 141 Rhondda 12 Westera or Gower 9 I Mid 99 Southern 176 BoBouona. Cardiff District Cardiff 1,180 Cowbridge 16 | Hantrissant — —— 1,195
Advertising
NOTICE TO CYCLISTS.-Come and read for yourselves your RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES and study the riding regulations, and therefore be under no doubt as to what are the PENALTIES. Full information to be had in our windows.—Brown and Williams, official repairer to the Cycle Tourist Club, Wyndham street, Bridgend.—Advt.
THE COMING-OF-AGE OFI LORD…
THE COMING-OF-AGE OF LORD VILLIERS. PREPAltATIONS AT BRITON FERRY. On Wednesday evening in last week a representa- tive meeting was held at the Local Board-room to consider arrangements for locally celebrating the coming-of-age of Lord Villiers. It was resolved that a tea. be given to all the children in the parish, and that a united procession should take place con- sisting of the Briton Ferry Brass Band, Artillery Volunteer corps, the Briton Ferry Fire Brigade, the membeis of the Local and School Boards, I directors of the Vernon industries in tho neigh- bourhood, tradesmen and friendly societies; also that a banquet should be held, and an address presented to Lord Villiers. The chair was occupied by Mr J. Hill. Mr G. V. Perry and Mr R. Roberts were appointed joint secretaries, and Mr M. G. Roberts treasurer of the committee. The meeting was well attended.
I MEDAL FOR VOLUNTEERS.
MEDAL FOR VOLUNTEERS. LONG SERVICE RECOGNISED. The Press Association states that an Army order has been issued that the Queen has been pleased to institute a medal for the Volunteer force, which will be designated 'The Volunteer long- service medal.' The medal will be granted to all Volunteers, including officers who have served in the ranks, but have not qualiiied for Volunteer officers' ¡ decoration, on completion of 20 years' service, pro- vided they were actually serviug on the 1st January, 1893, and recommended by present or former com- manding officers.
.............,.. DEATH OF…
DEATH OF THE OLDEST MINISTER M SOUTH WALES The Rev Thomas Davies, minister of Horeb Welsh Congregational Chapel, Morriston, died on Saturday evening, aged 85 years, after a short illuens. Mr Daviea had been minister at Horeb ol years, having been ordained July 2ith, 1343. He was tho oldest Congregational minister in South Wales. The deceased was a brother to tho Re/ John Davies, Taihirion, near Cardiff.
BRIDGEND HIGHWAY BOARD.!
BRIDGEND HIGHWAY BOARD. THE APPROACH TO MAESTEG. ¡ The ordinary monthly meeting of the Bridgend District Highway Board was held on Saturday, Mr J. Blandy Jenkins presiding. There were also present: Mr W. Howells (Wick), vice-chairman Messrs T. Rees, Richard Williams, Howel Williams, W. Howell (Pencoed), and W Hopkin. SURVEYOR'S EXTENDITUBE. j The Surveyor whs certified to have expended fl32 4s ad during the past month, and he estimated his expenditure for the ensuing mouth at £118, of which £16 was for labour ou the main roads. PAYMENTS TO CONTEACTOES. An account was received from Mr Morgan Morgan, the contractors for the improvement of the I Blackmill-road, for £ 105 Is IOd, £882s being due on the contract, and the rest for extras. A cheque was ordered to bo drawn for the amount. Mr Thomas Daviss, the contractor for the Bryn- cethin road, applied for a further instalment on account of £220, making a total payment of £1,200 on the contract sum of £1,583, The amount was ordered to bo paid, and also £50 on account of the Ogmore road contract. THE MAESTEO APPROACH. A deputation from the Bridgand Chamber Trade, consisting of the President, Mr D. H. Lloyd, Mr W. Powell, and the secretary, Mr W Wellington, waited on the board to urge the car- rying out of the scheme for the improvement of the road communication between Tondu and Maesteg. Mr Lloyd referred to the very unsatisfactory nature of the present approach, over which the traffic had greatly increased of late years, and said the provision of an improved route would be of con- siderable benefit to the Bridgend traders as well as to the other inhabitants of the district. In reply to a remark, he stated the reason why the Bridgend Local Board were not represented on the deputation I was inexplicable to him. The Chairman, in reply, stated that the two schemos the board had had before them were stand- ing over for the present, the chief difficulty in the way being the very great cost. The bulk of the cost, moreover, would have to ba borne by a district which derived comparatively small benefit from the work, while Maesteg and Bridgend, being outside the district, would pay nothing except what they might voluntarily contribute. Local authorities. he believed, might legally contribute to the cost of works in such circumstances, and he had hoped that the deputation would have been in a position to inform them that tiie Bridgend Local Board pro- posed contributing handsomely to the scheme. Mr Lloyd asked why the Maesteg Local Board had not been asked to contribute. The Chairman replied because the board had not yet decided upon a scheme. Mr Lloyd ventured to suggest that when a scheme was decided upon the Local Board should be asked to contribute, and that an effort should be made to obtain public subscriptions. The Chairman promised that the matter should have the full consideration of the board, if they remained in office. They expected the Bridgend Local B )ard to comi out handsomely, and no doubt the Maesteg Board would follow suit. Mr Lloyd We should expect Maesteg to take the lead (laughter). The Clerk asked whether Mr Lloyd could give any assurance as to the Bridgend Board con- tributing. Mr Lloyd I cannot speak for the Bridgend Local Board. They have not the interests of the town at heart (' Oh and laughter). The deputation then left. I Mr R Williams: If they knew the Maesteg people as well as I do they would never have thought of their contributing for e. moment (laughter), and I he added he thought it was equally vain looking to the Bridgend authority. He complained that the board was only snirkiug tho matter, and moved the appointment of a committee with the view of the early execution of the work. Mr T. Rees seconded the motion. The Chairman, in reply to Mr Williams' com- plaining, stated that in view of the impending alterations in the district under the new Local Government Act it was improbabe that the Local I Government Board would sanction the loan about £ 3,600 or £ 4,000—which the scheme would involve, and they had therefore better wait a bit. The motion was defeated by four to two, and the matter then dropped. GARW WATER COMPANY. The Clerk was directed to take out a summon8 against the Garw Water Company in respect of the alleged interference with the Blackmill road by the company's works. WICKFACH EOAD. With regard to the repair of the rood between Carr and Wick Fach in Tythegstono parish, which the Rev C. R. Knight had been urging upon the board, the Chairman said he now believed there was prima facie evidence of its having been repaired by the parish, but this only imposed upon the board the duty of simply making it passable. The Surveyor estimated the cost of metalling it at JECO, of which Mr Knight had intimated he was prepared to con- tribute £ 20. It was pointed out. however, that the metalling of this section of the road would render tho board liable to metal the whole of it, and instructions were given to have it put in a passable condition only. A COMPLAINT FBOM TYTHJEGSTOXB HIGHER. A complaint was received from the vestry of Tythegstone Higher as to the impassable state of the roadway near the Plough Inn, and the Surveyor promised to give the matter his attention. Other matters of minor interest having been dis- posed of, the meeting terminated.
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- RCHURCH DEFENCE AT BRIDGEND.
R CHURCH DEFENCE AT BRIDGEND. ADDRESSES BY MR BYRON REED AND DEAN OWEN. On Friday evening, in last week, the Town Hall at Bridgend was crowded with an enthusiastic audience to henr addresses from Mr Byron Reed, and Dean Owen, Principal of Lampeter College, in connection with the Disestablishment question. Mr W. Riley presided. Among those on the plat- form were Messrs J. D. Nicholl, R. K. Pritchard, Tamplin Lewis, J. C, Coath, S. H. Stoekwood, O. Sheppard, G. F. Lambert, W. Williams (The Rhyl), S. Llewellyn, J. Herdman, Edward Jenkins, Ll. David, Robert Evans, R. C. Srimths, R. South, A. J. Laurence, W. Jenkins (Park-street), W. M. Richards, W. McGaul, J Hughes (Natienal Pro- vincial Bank), J. Williams (Merthvrmawr), the Revs C. R. Knight, F. W. Edmondfb, D. Davies, and R. Morris. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, appealed to the audierce to assist in preventing tht dismemberment of a Church which they allljL much loved and venerated, a Church which for 16 cen- turies long had pointed the way heavenward, anu had taught them charity and righteousness. (, A.pplause). During those long centuries it had conferred inestimable benefits on mankind, and it was to be earnestly hoped that future generations would be! able to enjoy the priceless bl^a.-iu^ of its ministrations. He appealed to their Nonconformist friends—against whom he had not a word to say, and whom he would as wiidngly support as hi.- own Church—to entertain charitable VitJWd towards Churchpeuple, and to remember that they were all Protestants, and all engaged in the same grand and go ioas work. (Applause). He asked these who m ght dissent from tile speakers to give them f..ir play, and pro i.ised that questions might be put at the end ot tne meting. Mr Byron Reed, who on rising to speak was well received, said he proposed to address them on the question of Disestablishment from the point of view ot an Englishman. He would not consent to degrade the higher cause of the Church to the lower level of the merely political secular platform by making a political speeoh, because he held that Churchmen, however widely they might dilltr about matters oi ecclesiastical concern, might be as brothers in defence of their ancient religion. He was a Churchman first, and a politician afterwards. (Hea: hear). They were assembled there that night as Protestant men and Protectant women to protest against the Bili now before the House of Commons, a Bill which was only generated by political ex- pediency, which was intended like the pedlar's razor in the story not to shave, but to sell, not to pass. but to act è.8 a kind of temporary sop to the gallant four.' (Cheers and laughter), it was a Bill which they believed to be unjust, to be unfair, and which they believed if carried into law would inflict a very grievous wrong upou hundreds of thousands of their fellow-countrymen, and as Christian men and women they were there to protest against it, and to show their Statesmen that, God helpiug them, they would not have this Bill, or anything like iL (Cheers). After protesting against the separate legislative treatment of tne Church in VVales apart from the Church in England, and eloquently Jp- pealing to her great historic claims, Mr Heed, addressing himself to the minority argument, said he Was led to point out in the first plaoe that no poll of the Welsh c< nstituencies had as yet been taken I directly upon the question of Disestablishment and secondly, that the proportion of Unionist candidates in Wales at the last election had increased from three to at least nine or ten, as against 27 on the other side. But he entirely declined to discuss the question on statistical grounds, firstly, because the Juiberationists had strongly resisted all efforts to secure an official religious census, which M'as the ouly fair test, and secondly, he declined to argue a moral question by the mere counting of noses. Because a. thing was either right or wrong. If it was wrong in itself, and if hundreds of thousands ot people wanted it done, that did not make it right. The ten commandments remained the ten command- ments, whether people obeyed them or not.. Thou hhalt not steal,' (cheers) remained, and if they told him that the great majority of the population wanted to steal, that nine people out of every ten wanted to take goods away from the tenth, he said they might do it of course by the right of might, by the big battalions, by brute force, but that did not make it morally right. Proceeding, Mr Reed continued I want as a Christian also to argue it upon Christian grounds. Is it right ? now, I say to my Nonconformist friends, I would like them to put themselesv in our place and let them assume that we Church people had formed a society in London to disestablish and disendow their chapels, and that we sent people about the country declarini; that their ministers were paid by the State, were doing harm to the poor, and were a public nuisance and disgrace, and supposing that we got an unscrupulous minister in tho House of Commons to bring in a Bill to declare that the chapels should be handed over to Parish Councils or County Councils, or to some other representative bodies *s the case might be, that their principal buildings should be handed over to local bodies, that their endowments should be taken possession of by the County Council for libraries or wash-houses, baths, or technical education, and that their organized ministry should be broken up and cut adrift. I venture to think that my Noncomformist friends would say we were very uncharatable, un-Christian-like pesple to propose any such thing. Why do they propose it to us ? But they may say the case is different, circum- stances alter cases. They may say that the difference is that you in the Church are established and endowed,and we in the Chapels are non-endowed bodies. Put no one cheers that (applause). They know better because the chapel is established by law as well as the Churoh is established by law. That may be news to some of our friends, but it is legally true. The law that protects the church protects the chapel. The same law that gives exemptive privileges to the clergy gives exemptive privileges to the Nonconformists. The same law that prevents turbulence and disturbance in the church presents turbulence in the chapels. The property of the church is protected by law not created by law. The law establishes the church property and establishes, that is, protects, the chapel property. Say it is the Church is so many hundreds of years older than the Chapel, and by the laws of seniority, which the Church cannot help,—she is not to be blamed for it—the Church has done more than the junior religious organization. The State never gave our endowments, never gave tithes, never gave glebe-lands, the State never built the Cathedrals, the State never built the ancient parish Churches, the State never built the Chapels. He went on to say that the State never endowed Nonconformist ministers except at one time from the year 1710 to 18f0, a period ot about 130 years, when something like £ 2,000 a year was voted out of the taxes by Parliament to the pay of Dissenting ministers. That was not generally known, but he had seen the Parliamentary return, which showed it. It only amounted in the aggregate to about a quarter of a million, and for 11 or 13 years the Church received JE100,000 a year in augmentation of Queen Anne's Bounty for the relief of the poorer clergy, but the prinoiple was the same. Continuing, Mr Reed said Now, supposing for the sake of argument, that the Bill became law, and, supposing that on the 1st January, next year, this Bill was an Act of Parlia- ment, and Disestablishment and DiBendowment were complete in Wales and Monmouthshire, I put it to every man, woman, and child in this room, svho would be the better of it ? Is there any man here who could say, t tking it frcm the lowest utilitarian point of view of pounds, shillings, and pence, that he would be one six pence half-penny the better off r Because aftfr the Bill is passed, tithes will still have to be paid. It does not abolish tithes. It declares tithes will still be paid, but not to the clergy, who, by every right of legal succession, hold them by the highest title, a higher title than the proudest lay Peer in the country holds his possessions. They will be paid in lieu of the clergy to public officials, Welsh Commi.-biouers, to be created by the Bill. These Commissioners would apply them through, I believe, the County or Parish Councils, for the pur- poses of education, or of free libraries (applause), or of baths and washhouses. (Applause).—I am glad to hear that oheer on that point. (Laughter). I tell you what would happen. The money would go through so many hands, and some of it would stick to each pair of hands. (Cheers and laughter). The revenues, which are only poor and slender at the best, would be taken away from deserving men, and applied to the payment of two highly-salaried officers, one of whom is to have J61,500 and another 61,000, and they are to have the power to appoint secretaries, and clerks, and agents and collectors, and a whole army to be let loose upon Wales. I will tell you what would happen. Tho people in Wales weuld lose the parochial organization of the Church, they would lose in many a poor and remote country place the services and the ministrations, and the good neighbourship of an honourable man. They would lose him, and they would get nothing. They would merely be paying their revenues into the pockets of an army of State officials but in addition to these highly-paid officials, who, like a swarm of locusts, would be let loose upon Wales, Wales would lose £40,000 in solid cash that it receives from England to-day. The ecclesiastical corumi- sioners get so much a year out of Wal«s, and they give so much back, giving back £10,000 more than they receive, a payment which Mr Asquith de- clared could not be treated as part of the property of the Welsh Church. Who would be benefited by this Bill ? Did the Nonconformists say it woald j benefit the Church ? If there was siich a man, let f him point out to him that it would be advisable for j him and his friends to try the experiment upon th?ir own religious institutions let them go in for Discs- tablishment and Disendowment, and they had plenty | of endowments. If they said a Christian man could j do his work better if be was poorer, and that he was more holy if he was more naked (a laugh) if they could show him that in order that a man should be j religious he should be starved, he pointed out to ) them they had better try the experiment on their own corporations (applause), and when they had done that, and told them how they liked the opera- tion, they might conscientiously come and advise them to try the experiment for themselves. (Applause). Wculd the Disendovrment of the I Church benefit the poor ? Why, the Church was 3>iabled by her endowed system to provide religious ministrations for the people who needed them the I most—the poor, because he held that the efforts of religion were needed more by those who had too little to cheer them in worldly goods :han by those who had worldly possessions to 3oinf> rt them. Putting the case at its worst, in those parishes where the Church had neglected her duties hey had at least the shell of the organisation of the 3„u-ch, and the Church at least had done for those parishes what Nonconformists had been unable to do. She had provided places of worship and resident ninisters, and they knew well enough that Non- I conformists had failed to do that iu Wales (K o.! I His friend said 'No.' He thought the Bishop of it Asaph who knew this qu. s'i:Æ,-(Derj,i,-e laugh- t n c ee:-s). lhe Bish. p of ht Asaph, who served II ior many years as vicar of Oarmartheu, and who was 1 Welshman by birth and iustinct, knew at any rate, Lhe affairs of his own diocese better than his friend who raised a laugh at the mention of his name. The Bishop pointed out that in his diocese there were no .ess than 90 parishes where there were was absolutely uo resident minister of religion except a clergyman uf ths Church. Are you, asked the speaker, going i to hand over these places to paganism ? r au have I not been able to supply them you have net put I fosident ministers in their midst. You are depend- ing ulon hand to moath voluntaryism which makes the well-to-do man the master of the meeting- house and makes the miniifter his vassal (lvud j 1pplaus8.) Their endowed system, he proceeded, enabled them to hold their own in the poor, remrte. } isolated places of the country side, aud in the slums or tie great towns both inLngland and Wales were j found the Church's strongholds, lhey knew that J Lu Swansea aud Cardiff, those two great centres of population, that during the last twenty years the t Church had advanced by leaps and buunds(applause). j The Church in Wales was an active church and a iiving church, and distinctly advancing fromeieva- tion to elevation. Again he would quote Mr Glad- i stone, whose testimony was always valuable upon these matters. It was these days, when, according f to the testimony of such a statesman, the Church was advancing, which were selected for attack and assault. If years and years ago when the Church, unhappily, in Wales was not living up to her high responsibilities—although he was one of those who believed that the t hurch had been very unjustly accused of neglecting Wales. Neglect was not peculiar to the 'Jhurch. It had been uommon to all religious bodies, because the religious revival sprang from the loins of the Chureh in Wales, as in England. Tho men who quickened the dry bones of Christianity were loyal sons of the Church of ngland and Wales (applause). But if a century ago or less the attack had been made it might be more difficult than it was that night for him to j defend the Church. But what had happened during t-,e last twenty years, in particular s nee the ho.din^ of the Church Congress at Swansea in 1879. • ruaged by every available set of statistics the Cnurch had increased in a greater ratio than in the most favoured of the Lnglish dioceses. He believed j he WUS correct in saying that in the Diocese of Llandatl the Church, as guaged by the number of communicants, by the number of daily bap- tisms, by the numbers of children iu the Sunday Schools, and by the candidates for confirmation, by all these tests the Church was piogrcs^ing largely iu excess of the mo"t favoured of the English gees. These are no cays for assaulting such an institution as this these are days when Christian men should thank God for the revival, when Christian men should praise God that I the poor have the Gospel preached to them, and that the old Mother Church of the land is gathering her children beneath her wings, and there is this revival, and activity and life and hope and holiness i amongst the priests and people. I end as I began, i We are going to see the fight through together. To J my Non-coaformist friends I would say, pause and reflect, unless you do an unjust, an uncharitable, an uu-Christian thing.. Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.' Do unto us Church- people as you would like us to do to you chapel people. To those who belong to neither Church nor chapel I would appeal upon the ordinary moral grounds that prevail as between man and man in worldly concerns not to be parties to a system of tyranny, false witness to a system of covetousne^s, and a system of plunder and destruction. To my Church friends I would say, be strong and of good courage. Depend upon it that tho great Head of the Church, who has promised that against the Church the gates of hell shall not prevail, will be with us. See that you conduet the fight with all Christian charity and uprightness. Let there be ro bitter words, and let there be no bitter thoughts, but let us so comport ourselves that our Non-oonformist friends may see that we are in very earnest about the question that we may win friends to our ranks. Let there be no mistake about it. Let us make up our miuds this is a serious question; and while we io England will do our part you in Wales must do your part. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury, speai;- lug about a year ago: said I am here to tell you that wo in England and you in Wales stand or fall together.' We do not stand or fall together. We stand together (loud cheers), and standing together, with a united Church, the loyalty of the people, and her energetic, zealous, spiritually-minded clergy, you may depend upon it that the weapon is not yet forged, the statesman is not yet born, the party is not yet created, which will witness the Disestablishment and Disendowment of the old National Church whether in Britain, in the counties j of England, or in the Principality of Wales J (cheers). ) Dean Owen then addressed the meeting; dealing with the q estion, as he said, from a Welsh point of view. The Bill, by making it impossible for the Church to carry on her National Schools would inflict a loss upon the ratepayers of Giainorinin, to take an example, of £ 19.000, there being 1G,737 children receiving education at National Schools, at a total cost cf £2ï ,000, against which the rate- j payers wouid only receiv9 as a Bet-off in tithes } £ 8,335. The Bili attacked two great principles which were as vital to Nonconformity as to the Church, nimely, the formal recognition of Chris- tianity and the conservation of religious endow- meuts for nli:,i)us purposes. The Church, he claimed, was in full accord with Welsh national sentiment and was the most ancient institution of the most ancient nation in Europe. Mr J. D. Nicholl then moved the following reso- lution :—' That the inhabitants of the town of Bridgend and the neighbourhood in public meeting i assembled consider the Bill for the Dieestablishment and Disendowment of the Church iu Wales and, Monmouthshire unjust in principle, altogether uu- j called.f*r at the present tixe, when the Church is j undeniably living and progressive, and a grievous | wrong to the poor, to whom she alone ministers, and hereby record their emphatic protest against the attempt to pass the Bill. That copies of this reso- lution be tent to the Archbishop of Canterbury, j Lord Rosebery, Mr Asquith, Mr Balfour, and Mr j Arthur J. VVilliams.' Mr Nicholl contended J that the Bill had only been brought in by the Government for the sole reason of keeping in office by retaining the votes of the Welsh members, and I that the movement was prompted by political Dis- ¡ senters from a feeling of envy at the growing influence of the Church in Wales. Mr McGaul seconded the resolution, as a Wes- I leyau. The endowments, he considered,were at the bottom of the whole bag of tricks' (laughter and applause). The denomination to which he belonged also owned considerable endowments, and it was for the protection of that property, which he considered to be endangered by the Bill, that he seconded the motion (applause). '] hi resolution was then put and carried, with some dissentients, amid applause. A vote of thanks was passed to the speakers on the motion of Mr W. Williams (Rhyl), and the meeting shortly afterwards terminated.
KILN FIG- HILL.
KILN FIG- HILL. Miss REES (Cranogwen) visited the above place on the 20th and 21st instant. She preached twice at Moriah on Sunday, and cnoe at Penybryn. and on Monday evening at Comelly. The ability of Cranogwen in her preaching and lecturing is well known throughout the district. It is worthy to mention that her efficient preaching brought together a large congregation on each occasion.
:SMALL-POX AND VAC-I CINATSON.…
SMALL-POX AND VAC- I CINATSON. I ——— TO THE EDITOR. SIE.—I do not approve of noticing an anonymoaa letter, and it is as difficult to answer ycur corres- pondent Humanity' as it would be to explain a sum in compound proportion to a boy who had not learned the first four rules of arithmetic. It is evident that he or she has not read the Blue Book containing the fourth interim report of the Royal Commission on Vaccination. If hit ignorance is (as I hope) honest he has read nothing except the writings in favour of vaccination, and mtv be glad of further information, I therefore mention a few facts. Statistics of vaccination are very misleading, for the following reasons :— 1- The law forbids the vaccination of very sickly babes, so if they die, as they are very likely to do, they necessarily die uuvaccinated. 2.-The certificate of succcssiul vaccination is not given till the eighth day after the operation, so all the babies who die of the vaccination or any- thing else within a veek, are; registered as unvac- cinated. 3.-Confluent small-pox generally effaces the vaccination scars, so as a rule all who die of con- fluent small-pox are registered as unvaccinated. Even when conclusive evidence of successful vaccination has been brought forward the names have seldom been transferred from the unvaccinated register to the vaccinated, e.g., at Biiitiingham in ilay, 1892, George Weake was thus transferred, but four patients in the recent epidemic who were found out and nsited by General Phelps still figure in the Birmingham returns as unvaccinateu, though one had been twic? successfully vaccinated and the others once. Many more such cases might be found, or why should the authorities so steadily refuse to give the iwme and address of the persoms whom they reckon all unvaccinatod. At Halifax, Lr Ainley's report gave only eight deaths occurring among the vaccinated fjuail-pox patients; on which Mr Walsham writes in the Coitrvr, I can find him 17 cases, and all these I have visited. I do not reckon the cases which were only vaccinated a few days previous to the attack.' 4 Humanity '.speaks of Dr Priestley's icport with regard to the mortality last ) ear at Leicester as a proof of the bmcjiu of primary vaccination. It does not seem that the faots known to the inhabitants agree with his report; for on April 3rd of this year Mr Maskell, the Leicester VEceination officer, sent in his report to the board for the quarter ending March 31st, The children suc- cessfully vaccinated during that quarter numbered only 34, though 1,301 A' notices had been sent out.* There is no proof at all that more people died before inoculation aud vaccination were used at all than die now. A curious fact is. that of all the zymotic or fiith diseases, small-pox is the only one which has not decreased with the increase ot cleanliness and sanitary measures in Great Britain. Is this because it has been fostered by vaccination ? A certain and terrible fact is that since the Vaccination Act of 1871 deaths from cancer have steadiiy increased from 429 per million in 1872 to Gi)2 per million in 1891 in ihis country. In Australia three medical men have not been afraid to testily to vaccination being a came of cancer, and Ernest Meyer, B.A., Ph.D., writes in the Ecic Mercury for .Nov. 9:— Quite apart from their testimony, and that of others, I conceive there is good phy.-io.o^icai and pa thoiogical reason for judgingthe introduction into the human system of the particular kind of lymph now so much recommended to usior its safety,' viz, calf lymph, to be a likely means of exciting caucerons conuitions. It takes 21 years to complete the growth of a human being, but tour or five year* is the period representing the growth of a cow. The cells 01 which the cow s fksii is constituted grow very much more rapidly than those composing human flesh. Now, in introducing into a human being's body the protoplasm of the calf (or cow) we are rsetting In muLÍou c01I.<1uiontS that almost neces- sarily predispose to cancerous growths lor when once this bovine protoplasm is intro-uceu, the cells formed by it since they grow at a g:cater rate than those formed of human protoplasm xapiuly ont- grow and, in Ii sense, kill the latter, inequality, (uspa.rity,disintegration, and destruction thus ensue, ana, in a WVrù., caneor is engendered.' i have net time to hunt out the name 01 the imich doctor whe attributes the great increase of contuniption among the conscripts to their re-vaccination wuh calf lymph-nor the names of the Cierman doctors who maintain that the influenza (which has been such a scourge of iate yeais) is simpiy the rinderpest or cattle plague convened into a numan uisease by means of vaccination with calf or cow 'yniph. £ think I have written enough to prove 10 Humanity' that 1 have not b.sed my opinions cn poor and scanty medical authority.' lie probabiy knows by this time that the ^rerwheiining vicignt ot scientific ard nieuical authority on the other siue las repre- sented by Sir J. fcunon, bir U. Buchanan, Lord Playfair, Mr Ernest Hart, DrE.iialiard, ana others, who gave eviaence in favour 01 vaeciuaiion to the Royal Commission) has entirely collapsed. None of these gentlemen h.¡,V<o ventured to appear (as they we:e almost pledged to do) to disprove the asser- tions cf Drs Creighton, Crooksn^nK., Cord went, Messrs iieurle, llopwood, Biggs. <!cc, uud. to under- go cross-examination by them. ,UW1 can hardly doubt that they ieel as completely bea-eu as .Dr Kerr was at Bradioid. 1 beueve 1 navo noticed every point in Humanity's' letter but bUe-the ditó- figuring marks of pre-vaccinai smaii-pcx. They were never so commonly seen as he supposes, and they were caused not by the disease, out by the medical treatment of the day, which was just the reverse of that in vogue now. In hospitals were hot water baths are freely used the patients come out withnotraceofsmali-poxin their face. looping I have not taken up too much of your tune and space, —1 am, &c, E. WARLOW. Acton, London, *V.
DEATH OF A NEATH MINISTER.
DEATH OF A NEATH MINISTER. The Rev C. H. Coinbis, a young Bible Christian minister, who latterly had been in failing health, was found dead in his bed at Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, on Friday morning. He laboured at Nu.atk and Aberavon for nine years, and was held iu very high esteem for his earnestness and devotion.
DEATH OF THE REV P. NEVILLE…
DEATH OF THE REV P. NEVILLE ANDREWS. The Rev P. Neville Andrews, minister of Wesley Chapel, Swansea, formerly of Cardiff, and chairman of the district, died on Monday afternoon suddenly at his residence. He was taken ill, and a medical man was immediately sent for, but on his arrival the reverend gentleman expired from spasm of the heart. He preached twice on Sunday.
BRIDGEND LOCAL BOARD DISTRICT.
BRIDGEND LOCAL BOARD DISTRICT. AN EXTRAORDINARY PROPOSAL. A committee of the County Council will sit at the Town Hall, Bridgend, to-morrow (Saturday) after- noon to hear evidence both for and against a proposal for adding the following: parishes to the Bridgend Local Board District, namely,—the out- lying portions of Coicy Lower and Newcastle Lower, the whole of the parishes of Tythegstone Higher, Newcastle, Ynisawdre, Llaugynwydd Lower, Llan- gynwyd Middle, and part of the parish of Pyle. The committee will also consider the question of dividing the remainder of the district of the Rural Sanitary Authority into two parts, either on the basis of the Highway Districts as recommended by the Board of Guardians, or of tbe oi.-mcts as altered by the transfer of 8t Brides Minor and Wick into the Cowbridge division HJll of Lis" harran and Peterstone into the Bridgend divisi-