The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-02
NOTES.


Miss Hilda Wilson, the celebrated sing
en-, is niece of Mr.. Hugh Waddle, of
Llanelly.
During the late DR.. Morris principal
ship of the Brecon Memorial college, close
upon 250 ministers sat under his tuition.
The "Cerddor" for December contains,
among other attractions, a character
sketch of Mr.. Harry Evans, the famous
Dowlais choir leader
Dafydd alb Gwilym, the great love poet
of Wales, died 52S years ago, and in calling
attention to the fact writer in one of
the Welsh weeklies remarks: when we
realize that his remains have been lying
buried for the last five and quarter CEN
turies,it is strange that his language is SO
easily understood in the present century"
The Well-knoWn Welsh missionary, the
Rev. Bowen Rees, who has been laboring
under the London Missionary society, a:
hyatt, Matabeleland Central Africa, has
just arrived in Wales. w, H. Reese is at
present staying at the home of his youth
in Glamorganshire. During the last LIata-
belle rebellion the experience of Mr.. and
Mrs. Reese were of exceptional peril and
trial.
One of the mothers appearing before
the Pembrey School Board recently for
the irregularity of her child, scored rath-
er heavily over the members. When she
appeared on the scene. the Board too
hastily concluded that she was a monog-
lot, and presumed, in her hearing, that
she desired to speak in the vernacular.
Just as you please" she answered "eith-
er will do for me. / will take whichever
you like BEST
Mr.. T. H. Thomas, r. C. A., of Cardiff,
is one of the lecturers announced by the
Llanelly Cymmrodorion society for Feb
ruary next. This distinguished Welsh ar
tist takes for his subject "Celf Geltaidd''
(Darluniedig). Among other speakers and
entertainers from the present date to the
end of the session are the Rev. j. II. job
QsaweD, the Rev. Elvet Lewis CElveD,
Watcyn Wyn, Madame Martha Harries,.
the Rev. NJ. Morgans Gross Hands,, and
the Rev. r. Johns (Llanelly).
The Scriptural injunction as to the alb
surdity of hiding ones light under a
bushel is applicable to societies no less
than to individuals. The Pontyprldd
Ladies' choir did well at Llandudno, for
We have the testimony of the adjudica-
tors that they ran the winners very close
indeed. They did better at the Cardi'1
exhibition eisteddfod, for there, under two
of the same adjudicators as otticiated al
Llandudno, they Vanquished the victors
The tables We're entirely reversed, Lon
don taking second, and Pontypridl taking
the premier position. Having thus dem
onstrated their superiority in the COM
petitiVe arena, the Ladies' choir from
Pontypridd are courting success on con
cert platforms, and seem in fair way OF
securing it, Many important engage
ments in English towns have been offered
them, and tours are being arranged
Eynon Davies fears that another ten OF
may be twenty years must elapse before
we shall see in Wales one strong theooGi.
cal college for all the Noncontorpst de.
nominations. This seems a pesSimisti
view to take. Public opinion is surely, II
not very rapidly, ripening in favor OF
such a combination, and the progress
made in this direction during the last
six or eight years has been most remark
able. The Calvinistic Methodists have
long since taken a practical step in throw
ing the doors of Bala to students of al
sects. The amalgamaton of l}ala and
Trefecca is merely question of time. The
resolve of the Carmarthen college au-
thOrlties to coniine the curriculum of that
institution to theology viii help on the
movement among the Congrega ,onalists
while the Baptists find themselves also
face to face with a college question, "
the decision of which is being closely
watched by all who desire to see the
Nonconformist powers in Wales abandon.
ing the policy which dissip ltcs theii
strength on small colleges, and concen-
trating their forces in the establishment
of one strong and influential theological
institute for the whole of the Prncl-
pality.
Considerable disappointment is being ex-
pressed at the prospect of the Chief In
spectorship of Schools in Wales being
handed over to an English chuTchman tC
the exclusion of more than one compet-
| ent official now in the examination OF
Welsh schools