Welsh Journals

Archdeacon H. S. Williams. main aim was to chronicle local church events and be a means of commu- nication between clergy and parishioners. Over 800 copies of the Maga- zine were sold every month and the use of advertisements by local businessmen was of great importance to its financial success. Harold Williams used this magazine during his long incumbency as a means of expressing his ideas for furthering parish work and church extension in the parish. From its inception the Oystermouth Church Magazine carried page after page of lists of subscribers year in, year out, who had pro- mised sums of money to fund schemes which Harold Williams had initiated. One of the very first church organisations he established in the parish was the Oystermouth Church Men's Club because he firmly believed in the value of such organisations in the church's daily activities. Many other church organisations were formed in the following months and years, among them the Church Boys' Club, the Church Girls' Club, the Churchmen's Cricket and Football Clubs, the Church Band of Hope and the Church Tennis Club and the Churchmen's Bible Class. Later he founded the Good Samaritan Society to meet the needs of the sick and poor of the parish. During the first twenty years of his life as vicar of Oystermouth he was immersed in church building programmes which he carried through with great determination. He often said "I am afraid my parishioners