The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-07
leafy shades. Il was at once agreed that
that tree must he spared.

leafy shades. It was at once agreed that
that tree must he spared!
Lord Rathmore. better known AS Mr..
David Plunket, has a strain of Jewish
blood in his veins His great -gra ndfath.r
was a Jewish banker named Levi. who ear
ried on business at Haverfordwest at the
end of the last centurp under the name
OF Phillips. One of the bankers daugh-
tiers was the grandmother of Lord Rsth.
more and Lord Plunkct, the Protestant
archbishop OF Ireland. From another
daughter the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes IL
directly descended, and from another. Mr..
j. n: Davies, J. p. Cwrtimawr: in the
Welsh Calv!nistic Methodist Connexion.
1t is somewhat curious. as illustrating the
tenacity OF Jewish characteristics that all
Phillips descendants still speak with
slight lisp.
An Irish Pastor" contributes to the
Irish Baptist Magazine" an interesting
account OF a "DeputatiOn tour in the Prin-
cipality.' pleading the needs and merits
of our beloved and richly y-blest work in
the Green. The visit lasted a month. and
tho deputation went home with pleasant
memories Of Welshmen's hospitality. The
writer declares: We are glad to be in
position TO testify that in the hearts OF
baptists In Wales there is a large place
for Ireland, and much sympathy for the
Gospel workers in her borders. They ex-
pressed themselves as delightful with the
success that through Gods grace. had at
tended our work in recent years. 1t Is
pleasing TO note the remarkable hospi-
tality which friends in the different places
were quick to show us. We had not to pay
single penny out for accommodation
throughout the tour This speaks volumes
for the kindness of our fellow Christians
away in that favored land of Noncon-
formity. Our fervent prayer is tina.
Wales may continue to Increase In spiri-
final nriylpva "A
"Yn dyfrOedd mawr ar tonau," one of
the most popular of Welsh hymns. was
composed by old Dafydd William, under
to the story related the other day by Mr..
John Thomas, of Temple-gardens, to a
Camarthen literary society. The old man
had occasionally some differences of opln-
ion with Is better half, and once, when
such an alteration took place, he escaped
from the house and sought shelter from
the storm on the banks Of the river Loug-
hor. While watching the angry waves Of
the lIwchwr, dashed into fury by the pre-
vailng tempest, and the echo OF the storm
ut home still ringing in his ears, the
thoughts Of the bard reverted to the river
of death, and 1t was then that he wrote
the immortal words which have since been
u source Of comfort to thousands Of pill
yOnd. 1t Is conjectured that this was
the incident which Watcyn Wyn had in
mind. when he wrote forhis Can The
lyn:'
Yr awen sydd hyd o hyd
YIN canu ar hyd brynau,
A mae cerddoriaeth yn mhOb ton
o afonydd hon minnau, ...
Macs l.lwchr fel yn canu 'nawr
dyfroedd mawr ar tonau."
Mr.. John Howell, ]. p. of Aberayron.
the chairman of the Cardiga nshire County
council, has not much faith in the ef-
ficacy or the practicability Of the reunion
OF Christendom. In u powerful article IN
the Monthly Treasury he declares tina I
the cry for reunion which is in the air
Is a very empty one, and the shibboleth h
may with profit be allowed to drop into
must, or never will, work out their own
salvation. Ii the inspired genius were
found who could fit the hundred and one
sects into one huge machine designed Tor
the reclamation OF humanity, having OF
necessity the OmnipOtent hand and in
genuity to lift and set the parts together.
II would ny TO pieces at the first go off.
and in doing so would be more likely 10
crush than TO save mankind. Further
more, by the amalgamation of the sects
the advantages derivable from whole
some rivalry would be lost. 1t is time to
drop the enervating cry of reunion and to
adopt that of Emulation and Brother
hood. This means that each sect should
DE comrades to the other in the truest
sense OF the word--that the highest rules
Of chivalry should be deserved. that one
should endeavor to outshine the other only
In serving his Master, and that any signal
victory by the one should be a source
OF genuine rejoicing to the other, as is The
victory of one regiment. in the same cam
paign, under the same general, invariably
TO the other. This indeed would be
union"