The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-06

the love of money, the miserliness, the
narrowness and the selfish ambition of
some ministers of the Word" And SO we
fear it will continue while ministers are
merely men, human, every day men.
Forty-hve years service is a rare rec
ord. 1t was in 1S52-when the duke of
wellington was still alive-that Mr. Will
lam Powell took on duty as organist of st.
Marys Roman Catholic church in Mon
mouth-a post which he has just resigned
to the regret of all.
We are going to have a series of Welsh
territorial names. One of the best-kno Wn
ministers in Bradford is the Rev. r.
Rhondda Williams. This departure, no
doubt, will be followed by the Rev. John
Ogmore Jones, the Rev. Evan CadoXton-
juxtaNeath Evans. or the Rev. Jenkin
Caerphilly-Higher jenkins, d. d.
One of the most humorous lecturers who
have toured America was a Welshman
named Robert Jones' -Burdett. He was a
native of Brynmawr, and always com
manded good fee for his lecture. Never
heard of him. He must have been lectur-
ing to the Indians,
No one at Swansea was surprised to find
Miss Dilwyn smoking a cigar at the COM
mercial banquet recently. Miss DillWyn
has long been a devotee to Sublime to-
bacco." The story goes that her father
the late NJ P.) used TO say to guests with
whom the family were on intimate terms,
IF you care for cigar you had better
join my daughter in the smoking room"
1t is stated that about ESQ have so far
been collected among the London Welsh
for ha n q iona ma - n
Prince Llewelyn, and it is hoped to get the
sum up to fl00 one of the London secre-
taries has received a note from the sec
retary of the lord chancellor, in which
Lord Halsbury promises his support for
the movement for commemorating the
last native Prince of Wales.'
Referring 20 the treaty of arbitration
between England and America, the Liver
pool Mercury says with sigh: "One can
only regret that the late Mr.. Henry Rich
ard, NJ. p, and other tried friends of the
policy of arbitration are not alive to wit
ness this triumph of their principles
Here is a true story of the dead Bishop
of St. David's which has not yet seen the
light. Between fifteen and twenty years
ago very worthy Carmarther shire cur
ate, who had worked hard for his church
against adVersities and reverses. was nomi-
mated informally by Bishop Basil Jones
to a curacy betwiXt Cardiff and Brecon.
But counter influences were at work, and
the incumbent now gone, like the bishop,
to the great majority'D took a stand
against the curate, whose life became en-
bittered by exceeding parochal bitter
ness. He was mastery preacher, and
his sermons We're attluent of thought and
inspiration. The wonder was that so gift
ed a mind contented itself with so lowly
and obscure a position. The vicar, how
ever, ignored all these considerations, ana
this gentle but of msfortune's buhets
was pretty nearly brolIen-hearted. In his
previous curacy he had been the means
of building parsonage. But the vicar
had died, and the next vicar had his own
curate, and so Mr.. Blank had to shift.
| Whilst he was on probation at - his
| wife and family We're actually domiciled
| down West in a building which had been
| an clubhouse or attached to one, and then
! the youngsters We're laid low with typhoid.
| The facts reached the bishops ears, and
| evidently his heart burnt hot within him.
He did not, as far as the writer knows, ray
anything. But the curate was immediate
| ly nominated to rectory in the diocese,
and there he probably still ives-a noble
man. whose life has been one of high, but
| unostentatious excellence.
"All honor to Mr.. Harry Evans, of Dow
! lais, on his gaining the diploma of f. r.
| c. o." writes a Brecon correspondent,
but it is a mistake to say that he is the
! first Welshman who has attained that
| distinction. Mr.. a. H. Edwards, Mrs
| Bach, Oxon, and F.. r. c. o.. of Holy
Trinity, Doncaster, late organist of ST
! Marys Brecon, is a Welshman-nay, don
| bly, Welsh by his marriage to Miss Ed
wards, of the latter town. What of MIR
| LeeW Williams, Mus. Bach, OXon. and T.
r. C. o., of Penisarpentre, Llanspy ddid
| Brecknock, late organist of LANDAU and
! Glouchester cathedrals? What, also, o.
| DR., Greenish, f. r. C. o.. born at Ha.
verfordwest, and Mr. Middleton, f. r. c.
| o., born at Welshpool, in 1871? DR.. Hubert
Parry, T. r. C. o., is of Welsh extraction
and DR.. Narley Roberts, f. r. C. o., AM
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