[SERMONS AND SINNERS.]
If the clergy only preached as well as they might, there ought not to be a single sinner in their parishes.
Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Newport,
February 7th, 1889.
[THE OLD PARISH CHURCH.]
"Godfrey Charles Morgan
was baptised here
on May 4th, 1828."
I believe that all classes, including the Nonconformists, have a real love for the old Parish Church and its grey tower, beneath the shade of which so many of their ancestors are laid. Here at Michaelston-y-Vedw we have a fine historic building, erected about 1130. I may tell you that one of its old parish registers contains an interesting entry. It is that "Godfrey Charles Morgan was baptised here on May 4th, 1828."
Eisteddfod, Cefn-Mably,
September 15th, 1897.
I always take more interest in these historical little rural parish churches than I do in a brand new Church erected in some populous district. Of course, the Church is really more necessary there than among the small Communities; still, there is the sentiment, the old association of the old Parish Church and the churchyard in which "the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Those lines of the poet Gray: