Why Are the Welsh People Alienated From the Church a Sermon volume Talbot S
Why Are the Welsh People Alienated From the Church a Sermon volume Talbot S
Henry Thomas Edwards
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— Pall 21 all Gazette on Raven-stein's Paper, 1879. t Within the last 50 years an English Dignitary in a Diocese, which was at the time almost exclusively Welsh-speaking, expressed an opinion that it was not necessary to provide religious ministra- tions for the Welsh people in their own language. The Church, he said, was for the upper classes, while the conventicle was the proper place for the Welsh speaking masses. He was not alone in his opinion. The idea that the Church is not to be the Cii...urch of the Welsh, but practically the Church of England in Wales, is stiU prevalent and influential among some of the anti-national clergy. 42 the work of enlightening the people whose reH- gious endowments they enjoyed. Can it excite surprise that the Welsh people have, to some extent, been alienated from a Church that offered them such a ministry ? No ; the cause for wonder is, that, deep in their hearts, there still survives a love for the Church of their fathers. If it is permitted to the departed spirits to behold the scenes of their former career on earth, the long hne of anti-national pastors under whose influence the Welsh people were driven from the sanctuaries of their ancestors, have had to look down upon churches emptied, a land saddened, and an affectionate people soured and embittered by the divisions that arose out of their ambition, for the chief places of a temple in which they could not effectually minister, and for the short lived advantages, that must now seem to them as dross, while they hear the reproachful voice of the Eternal Spirit of love and sympathy, saying, '^ Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?" "My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill, yea, my flock was scattered.
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