The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-11
WELSH JOTTINGS.


ceived in Wales from Vancouver
Island, on the North Pacific coast, from
the Rev. w. Evans Monwyson, Wes-
leyan minister, of Llandudno, who Is
on a preaching and lecturing tour in the
United States. He states that he has
preached and lectured to the four de-
nominations in the United States. and
has promised to preach at the Welsh
Association of the Calvinistic Method
lists and the Cymanfaoedd of the Con-
gregationalists. Mr.. Evans is not eX-
pected home until the autumn, when
he will have been absent from Wales
for twelve months. He addressed few
meetings in Scranton last summer.
The notices of amendments in COM
mittee given in connection with the Es-
tablished church (Wales) bill number
over hundred, of which no fewer than
siXty-one stand in the name of Mr..
Tomlinson. Viscount Wolmer has given
notice of eleven Mr.. Kenyon of one,
Sir Richard Webster of upwards of
thirty. Mr.. Tomlinson's amendments
provide for among other things, the
commissioners maintaining in proper
repair the cathedral churches, of the
Principality, and that the bishops ana
other ecclesiastical persons shall nave
at all times priority to conduct SER
vices in the cathedrals and adjacent
church properties, and that the cathe-
drals shall be open at all times for the
private devotions of the members or
the church. Another amendment pro-
vides that persons aggrieVed at the Ju-
dicial decisions of the commissioners
under powers conferred by the act, may
apply by summons to the Supreme
court, and the Supreme court shall have
all the powers in reference to any mat
ter complained of as If the commits
sioners formed a court of inferior juris-
diction. Several amendments standing
in Mr.. Tomlinson's name provide for
the church being called In the act the
Church of England" and not tine
Church in Wales" In several places
where the church is styled in the latter
form he seeks to substitute the Words
"four Welsh dioceses.' Provision Is
made in clause Is of the act for the ap-
pointment of diocesan synods for pur-
poses of government, but 1t Is now
sought by amendment to add represen-
tation for ecclesiastical government In
the house of convocation of Canter-
bury or in any council or synod of the
churches in communion with the
church of England. or any general
council of the whole church. 1t is
sought to add that nothing contained in
the act shall prevent the application as
heretofore by the governors of Queen
Anne's Bounty of such portion as they
deem expedient of the funds at their
disposal for the improvement of poor
livings or for relieving the necessities
of parishes impoverished by the act.
A clause Is added in favor of the forma-
tion of parish committees. This clause
Is a peculiar one, as 1t requires the
commissioners, after the passing of the
act to cause list to be made In each
parish of the persons of full age, and
an inquiry is to be made whether these
persons elect to be members of the
church of England or not after discs
tablishment The entries of the an
swers are to be made in the list. This
list is to be suspended at the church
door for a month for corrections to be
made by parishioners. A copy of this
roll is then to be supplied to the in
cumbent and the churchwardens, and
to the bishop, the archdeacons, the
rural deans, and other ecclesiastical
officers. Mr.. Jasper Mores single no.
tice provides for the non-inclusion in
the scope of the act of that part of
Montgomeryshire which Is in the dio-
cese of Hereford. Viscount Wolmer's s
notices are for the most part of a
techinal or verbal character. Mr.. Ken
yon proposes that the act shall not
operate in that detached portion of
the county of Flint commonly called
the Hundred of Maelor. Sir Richard
Websters notices are very numerous.
He seeks to have the clause defining
private benefactions made more ex-
plicit by the insertion of clause pro-
viding that moneys raised by private
subscription or granting by Pyncombe's
or Marshalrs trustees, and moneys vol
UNFAIRLY given out of non-ecclesiastical
funds, and ali grants from Queen
Anne's Bounty, shall be deemed to be
the property given by private person
out of his own resources. Another
clause in the same name enables the
commissioners. In the case of churches
erected at private expense, to vest the
same, under certain conditions. in the
applicant, II the person who erected the
church, or in his representatives.. If the
donor be dead. A clause is also insert
ed in Sir Richards name arranging for
the conveyance OF additional land for
ecclesiastical purposes to the church
body.