Welsh Journals

What opportunities for leisure and the enjoyable use of it have we generously accorded them ? Our Ellen Marys now appear anxious to be unfair to us We must endure our punishment patiently, determining that we will retrieve our error. Ellen Mary is bound to get her additional leisure. The only course left is to help her to get the best out of it. I was recently informed that the Woman's Institute in a rich, agricultural district, collapsed through lack of funds to pay the lecturers' travelling expenses. The moneyed fanners there seem to be as selfish and as short-sighted as they are wealthy. When will we learn that There is no wealth but life ? WALES AT WORK: A SOCIAL DIARY In full loyalty to my own Church, with an inborn love of Catholic unity and with some sense of the weight which my words might carry, I offer to the Archbishop a solemn pledge that we are willing, at any time, to co-operate with him in his endeavour to broaden and to strengthen, to unite and to sanctify the religious life of the Welsh people.The Rev. Thomas Chailes Williams, M.A., in the Western Mail, April 7th, 1920. May we not say that we see evidence of the same spirit, of the consecrated aim and service, in a remarkable utterance which we have read this week I do not wish to exaggerate or to speak prematurely of these things, but in all the yearning for re-union I hear the footfall of the Coming of our Lord.The Archbishop of Wales in his first speech as Metiopolitan at Uantirindcd Wells, April 8th, 1920. Movements. (1) Dr. John Jones, at the eleventh annual meeting of the North Wales Nursing Association at Blaenau Festiniog, had no hesitation in telling the large audience that no county in Wales was now better supplied with nurses than his own county of Merioneth. This was mainly due to the activity of the North Wales Nursing Association. According to the report given by Miss Davies, Treborth, the excellent work of the Association could be still improved by a greater supply of nurses. A grant of £ 5,500 had recently been given to the Association by the Red Cross Society, but another £ 10,000 was needed. The aim of the Committee is to supply nurses at a ratio of one for every 1,500 of the population. To attain this ideal sixteen additional nurses are required in Anglesey, 38 in Carnarvonshire, 62 in Denbeighshire, 33 in Flintshire, and 16 in Merionethshire-making 165 additional nurses in all. The Association is affiliated to the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute of Nurses and it undertakes the training, supplying and the supervising of village nurses in North Wales. It has now 106 affiliated associations. The Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvonshire, Mr. J. E. Greaves, described the success attained as most gratifying, and the institution as "being firmly established and indispensable." (2) (a) It is not generally known that at Ynyshir in the Rhondda, a Bible Training School has been established-the first of its kind on Welsh soil. The movement was initiated towards the end of 1918 by the Rev. R. B. Jones and the Rev. Sidney Evans, B.A., but the first session of the Bible School itself began on September 23rd, 1919, with ten students. Since then there has been an increase both in the number of students and in the tutorial staff, which now consists of seven ministers, amongst whom are included the Revs. Keri Evans and W. S. Jones. (b) Another hopeful Rhondda enterprise is the Police Court Mission. It began with a conference held at Ton-Pentre in January, 1917, presided over by Mr. D. Lleufer Thomas, and of which Mr. D. M. Williams was the convener. At that conference it was decided to form an organisation for the purpose of joint action on the part of the Churches in support of the Probation Officers and Police Court Missioners. Local Councils were formed and a Central Committee which meets every quarter. Much excellent work, of which an account will be given later, has been done under this scheme. EVENTS. I.: — Religious. (i) The Welsh Church Act became operative on April 1st. Our Ellen Marys have been hungering for it-sane, healthy, leisured life such as youth loves. Are they to get a cinema substitute 'for it ? May I plead with all educated Welshwomen to avert such a catastrophe by doing their utmost to help such organisations as that of the Village Clubs. (Contributiolls-unsigned if preferr d-dealing with matters of interest to Welshwomen, will be welcomed. Address M. M., c/oThe Welsh Outlook, 43, Penarth Road, Cardiff. Two letters, received after going to pr, ss, will be dealt with in our nexi issue.] By the Rev. Gwilym Davies, M.A. (ii) The governing body of the Church in Wales met at Llandrindod Wells in Easter week. On the Wednes- day morning at 8, a Communion Service, profoundly moving in its simplicity, was held at the old Parish Church on the hill beside the lake. There were less than 30 persons in the little Church, but the atten- dance included the Bishops, the Archdeacons and the Chaplains of the four dioceses. Before the blessing was pronounced the Bishop of St. David's said It is now my privilege by divine permission to propose that we, the bishops of the dioceses of Wales, do proceed now and here to elect to have first place and precedence among us, and to be first Archbishop of Wales, my brother, Alfred George, who, as you have heard certified, was duly con- secrated Bishop of St. Asaph. I propose he be elected Archbishop of Wales and hereby give my vote for his election." As he said this the Bishop raised his right hand. So did the Bishop of Bangor and likewise the Bishop of Llandaff. The Bishop of St. Asaph said assent" and, trembling with emotion, he brought the service to a close by pronouncing the Benedic- tion. The result of the election was confirmed by the members of the Governing Body on Friday morning by the lifting of the right hand and the saying with one voice, Yr ydym," to the Bishop of St. David's question, A ydych yn cydsynio ? The scene will never be forgotten by those of us who had the good fortune to witness it. The en- thronement of the first Archbishop of Wales will take place at St. Asaph Cathedral on the first of June. (iii) The South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association met in Easter week at Lampeter., (1) Mr. Timothy Davies of London advocated a minimum salary of £ 200 per annum for pastors-" the biggest and most formidable financial scheme that the connexion had ever embarked upon." (2) Disappointment was expressed at the discouraging speech on the Welsh Temperance Bill, delivered by the Minister for Education. The Rev. John Thomas of Cardiff said that the moral condition of the country had never been so terrible as it was to-day. Young girls came down to South Wales sea-port towns from the industrial districts in dozens}