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 pray you earnestly unto the Lord—when you come to know what prayer is—for this." His pathetic prayer was not made hi vain. The true light of the Gospel shone when Griffith Jones of Llanddowror consecrated the pence of the Holy Communion to the work of educating Wales. By his zeal for education, by his single-minded devotion, by his insight into the possibilities and true value of the Welsh language, by his talent for organisation, and by the results of his work, Griffith Jones was a true Welsh Nationalist. To him and to John Penry, Wales owes a deep debt. That debt is unpaid.

Great as is the host of those who in Wales have borne witness of man to God, and proud as we are in the possession of them, yet our pride is hardly less in the memory of those who have interpreted and expressed in song, in colour, and in stone, the relations of man to nature. A very sane and sure critic of poetry, Professor Palgrave, speaking of Henry Vaughan the Silurist, says he had "a peculiarly quick perception of the charm of nature, of the most delicate beauty, the inner meaning of