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 tokens of the range of popular art, taste, and devotion. Owen M. Edwards, describing one of these in his Tro yn yr Eidal, says:— "Nid oes yno adnod yn y Beibl yn son am fywyd tragwyddol, nad ydyw ei meddwl wedi ei osod allan rywfodd neu gilydd mewn adeiladwaith marmor. Hûn dawel y marw yn Nghrist, pyrth y bedd wedi eu goreuro gan obaith, angau wedi ei lyngcu mewn buddugoliaeth, hiraeth y byw, tymhestloedd amser a thawelwch tragwyddoldeb,— y maent oll wedi eu delwi yn y gwaith marmor hyawdl hwn. Nid oeddym yn holi pwy oedd dan y marmor, athrylith y cerflunydd oedd pob peth,—yn gwneyd angylion fel pe buasent ar ehedeg, a dynion yn cysgu fel pe buasent ar fin deffro."

But we have the climate against us. In our damp atmosphere, marble crumbles and blackens. We do not even shield our monumental tablets by building cloisters round our cemeteries. Our protest against Ritualism has been so vehement that we have banished the cross, even the Celtic cross which is so striking a feature in Irish graveyards, and in our search for emblems of expressions of mourning for the dead or the hope of immortality, we adopt as monumental grave- stones the obelisk which is associated with Egyptian Polytheism, the urn which recalls