Welsh Journals

ADDRESS AT THE UNVEILING OF THE MEMORIAL TO THE LATE C. T. VACHELL, M.D., ON APRIL 14TH, 1917. By C. ST. D. SPENCER. You must, please, understand that I am only going to do the best I can to fill a place which others might have much better occupied-someone more learned in stained glass might better describe the beauties of the window which we are met to dedicate, and some older friend could do more justice to him in whose memory it has been erected. I wish in the first place to thank every subscriber to the memorial fund, from the largest to the smallest, for the liberality which has enabled the memorial to Dr. Charles Vachell to take so noble and adequate a form-when the first meeting to consider the form of a memorial was called, the world was at peace, and even then it was only with some hesitation that the East window of this Church was suggested as a possible form of commemoration-while the appeal for funds was in the post, the World-war broke upon us, and the response to the first circular was in itself as great a testimony to the worth of our old friend as the stained glass behind me. It is easier to understand in oneself the readiness of this response than it is to give expression to the reason of it in words before a gathering, many of whom were in closer touch with Dr. Vachell than I have been, but I think that it was the enthusiasm which he brought to every matter in which he was concerned which appealed most strongly to his friends there were no half-measures with him-if a thing was worth touching at all, it was worth not only doing well, but worth doing with all his heart and soul, and he was a many-sided man; there were such varied objects which he found worth