Welsh Journals

be placed at the head, so as to ensure that the impartial spirit of the British Judiciary should pervade all its proceedings. Let two or more high-minded men with practical knowledge of industrial matters be added to the Court. Asses- sors representing both Capital and Labour might be appointed as advisors. There should be no real difficulty in setting up a Court of Appeal in industrial disputes that should gain and retain Wales and Her Colleges. By I.M.I. THIS is most certainly the day of youth. It Is especially the day of youth in revolt, healthily as I believe, against the tyranny of old age and middle age. We arc beginning to respect the wise folly of the young as contrasted with the foolish wisdom of age. It is therefore time for us to think much more seriously of the task of educating our masters, and particularly of the content and temper of their education. If we can, we need to give them a much better chance of educating themselves. Only thus can their education become a spiritual discipline. And it is as one of the means of concentrating the mind of the people of Wales upon this problem that we are anxious that what is called a day of universal prayer for students should become a part of the ordinary organisation of our churches. We can afford to devote one Sunday in the year to remember our schools and colleges. On the initiative and en- couragement of the Student Christian Move- ment, it is indeed becoming the habit in Wales, as in other countries, to set aside the second Sunday in February for this purpose. Some churches make a collection for the S.C.M. or Urdd y Deyrnas, some pray for the students, some talk about their needs and problems, some hold special services for them, and some do all these things. It does not much matter which so long as it leads to some realisation of the place of the students in a community like that of Wales. I really believe that for Wales it .ought to be, first of all, a Thanksgiving Sunday. Of course, quite rightly, we are always bringing our system of education to the bar for judgment. We do well to be critical and to remember how very far we are from anything like an ideal national education. Our boasting cuts no ice. All the same, those of us who remember the earlier days of the colleges and the pre-county school age stand in constant amazement at the revolutionary changes that less than forty years can bring to the whole life of a little country like ours. We have many reasons to thank God for what our schools and colleges have done for us already. And the more the centre, not of gravity (God forbid), but of interest and emphasis moves from the confidence of every unbiased and fair-minded person. Unless some such institution be set up, and that speedily, Ichabod will soon be written across British industrial life. The senseless and inter- minable quarrels in recent years have sorely handicapped us in the industrial race a con- tinuance of the same will inevitable bring about ultimate ruin. age to youth, the greater and more interesting life will become for all. We in Wales have special reason to be thankful for the education of our girls and women and for the place they hold in our schools and colleges. But thanksgiving here, as elsewhere, means a lively sense of benefits still to come. In these days we are anxious that the students in the cofleges-the future preachers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, and the future leaders of Wales in all directions-should play their part effectively and nobly in the moulding of the nation as a whole to meet the increasing needs of the days to come. They have done so already in one direction at least. They have renewed the life of Welsh poetry and of Welsh literature in general. That has certainly come from the colleges. But even that is in grave danger unless it can be welded into the general life of the community and unless our industrial and political life can be brought somehow into spiritual unity with it. At present every aspect of our varied life tends to become an isolated fragment, and our only hope almost is that salvation may come from our student world. We are anxious that our educated youth should realise that our hope is set on them. There is some reason to think that the whole problem of the future of Wales is beginning seriously to worry and to grip them. Those who were present at the Student National Conference in Aberystwyth the other week will know that the youth of our colleges have at least begun to feel the gravity of the national situation, its dangers and its opportunities. And we hope that they will not rest till they have made their full con- tribution to the solution of the really serious and urgent problems which are beginning to stare us in the face. They will certainly never do so without a far greater and deeper faith than ever their fathers had. Those who are trying to strengthen their spiritual stamina have a great work in hand. And when all is said and done, it will be found that the Church of Wales in the large sense is still the finest instrument that has yet been fashioned for that purpose. Special agencies like the S.C.M. will rejoice in its co- operation. That is why they make an appeal to the churches to symbolise that co-operation by setting aside one particular Sunday every year in order to bring home the student-world to the heart of God and the nation.