Welsh Journals

with black and yellow men, and seldom do they escape an unhappy end, but that is only the beginning of the problem. The problem is what of the children? Very soon 500 half castes will become a 1,000, a 1,000 half-caste Welsh citizens seeking to be ab- sorbed into the white community, and then what after? It depends on the individual whether he thinks Wales has a colour problem. The Cardiff Docks missionary and welfare workers, the police, the Chief Constable, view the problem very seriously. Once there was only a handful of niggers in New York, occupying one street; now they are a black army, invading street after street, block after block. Harlem has been compared to a black mushroom expanding inside the heart of Uncle Sam. Maybe the colour problem in Wales is only beginning, maybe it will not grow, but maybe t will! — Yours, etc., A.B. C.M. BILL Sir,-In your issue for April you say I state that the "Denomination ought to secure complete free- "dom in matters of creed and should dispense "entirely with the Confession of Faith." May I make one or two points clear ? The Bill provides that any modification of the Articles of Faith must be "consistently with the "fundamentalist truths contained in the Holy "Scriptures and in the Confession of Faith." It is essential that we should realize what those truths are. HE MEETS HIS FRIENDS AT RHIWBINA NO farther away than Rhiwbina it was, Where the air is half clear, That the Lords of Light, the Beautiful That are so kind and dear, Shone down and shone through me As they can't shine here. Night had made the dark hills Her proud, aloof abode And over Cardiff southward The night-glare glowed And the lights of the automobiles streamed Along Caerphilly Road. The doctrines of our Confession of Faith include the complete corruption of man's nature, pre- destination, election, and the everlasting and in- describable torture of the damned, who, according to Calvin, never had any chance of being saved. Are these doctrines included in those "funda- mental truths" which cannot be interfered with under the Bill? Do we believe such doctrine? If not, why not honestly repudiate them, and, as suggested by the Reconstruction Commission, keep the Confession of Faith as an "historic document?" Are we wholly to ignore the con- sidered opinions of such men as the late Revs. J. Puleston Jones and T. C. Williams as expressed in that report? The substitute for the Confession of Faith must be left to our leaders, but let it be in harmony with the spirit of that Report, and such as to make impossible the exclusion of any Christian who loves and serves Christ. On these lines re-union with other Christian Churches might be possible. My position is perfectly clear. I say--either draft the Bill following the wise and courageous principles expounded in the Reconstruction Re- port, or scrap it entirely. Are we to do nothing for that large and increas- ing body of young men and women who (as Sir H. Reichel says in his article, "Why study theo- logy?") "are being estranged from religion by "intellectual difficulties inherited from the worn- "out theological systems of the past?" Yours, etc., J. GLYNNE Jones- Glyndyl, Bangor. And Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia, Then I beheld you shine And Regulus his stateliness Through the gnarled bougl s of the pine And I beheld divinity, And the world and men, divine And you, Capella Wonderful, On your pure silver throne, Rebuked all but the god in me, And left me there alone With only the holy universe For wealth to call my own. For your sakes, 0 Beautiful, That revealed me godhood there, When I walked through Cardiff streets to-night, And the fouled and murky air, The loud streets were crowded With godhood eve ywhere! KENNETH MORRIS.