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 seat of his pew, asking God to repent of His intention of spoiling Capel Sion as He had done with Sodom and Gomorrah.

“Don’t you now, little Big Man," he prayed, “be influenced either this way or that way by their talk. Think you to yourself, they do not know what they do.” To this day the hour that remark was uttered is a memorial to the occurrence, for the congregation turned their faces to the clock, whose hands they did not think would move again.

“Brethren”Mishtir Bryn-Bevan’s voice rose above the noises“Brethren, at this moment Twm Tybach may be passing into the Pool.”

The First Men saw that Bryn-Bevan’s counsel was good, and they discussed and disputed, and it came to be that Old Shemmi’s scheme was adopted.

This field belonged to the squire, who regarded any one trading under the name of Nonconformist as a thief and a