Page:Speeches and addresses by the late Thomas E Ellis M P.pdf/22

 is a reproachful sadness in Pennant's words:— "There is no monument nor any memorial of the spot that contains his remains." We shall not realise to the full our ideal and hope of Cymru yn Un, so long as Wales is without fitting memorials to those who lived and died in the struggle for its attainment.

The intensity of the religious life of Wales during the last three half centuries has planted deep in our being a sense of our debt to the great Welshmen who have, in various ways, borne witness to the Welsh people of the ways of God. The statue of Thomas Charles of Bala, the scene of his labours and the centre of so much of the religious life of Wales, the statue of Daniel Rowland at Llangeitho, whence issued the passionate tide of the Welsh Reformation and whither trod so many pilgrims panting for the waters of life, and the memorial to Dr. Morgan, the translator of the Scriptures to Welsh, in St. Asaph, these are the first-fruits of our loving remembrance of the builders of our religious life. But they are, I trust, only the first-fruits. I shall here only mention two, from among a noble host of