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"For that I have fixed a long space of time"; and the Clerk showed God eleven heavy books, on the outside of each of which was written: "William Hughes-Jones, One and All Drapery Store, Hammersmith.
Hughes-Jones rose from the arm-chair which is under the pulpit, and thrust out his bristled chin and rested his palms on the communion table; and he said not one word. "Mister Hughes-Jones," the preacher urged. "I am too full of grace," said Hughes-Jones; he spoke quickly, as one who is on the verge of tears, and his big nostrils widened and narrowed as those of one who is short of breath.
We sacrificed for them quite a lot, and if they have any Christianity left in them they will not forget what Capel Kingsend has done and will repay same with interest. Happier still we are to welcome Mister Hughes-Jones to the Big Seat. In the valley of the shadow has Mister Hughes-Jones been. Earnestly we prayed for our dear religious leader.
To-morrow at seven we shall hold a prayer meeting for his cure. At seven at night. Will everybody remember? On Monday to-morrow at seven at night a prayer meeting for Mister Hughes-Jones will be held in Capel Kingsend. The duty of every one is to attend. Will you please say something now, zer?"
Then he arose, shook himself, and set to number the ears of wheat which were in his field. God grants prayers gladly. In the moment that Death was aiming at him a missile of down, Hughes-Jones prayed: "Bad I've been. Don't let me fall into the Fiery Pool. Give me a brief while and a grand one I'll be for the religion."
I will now sit and pray for you one and all." In the morning Llew went to the One and All and in English that is the tongue of the high Welsh did he address Hughes-Jones. "I've come to start, zer," he said. "Why wassn't you in the chapel yezterday?" "I wass there, zer." "Ho-ho. For me there are two people in the chapel me and Him." "Yez, indeed. Shall I gommence now?" "Gommence what?"
"Go and be merry." Paul's face being well turned, God moved backward into the Record Office, and of the Clerk of the Records He demanded: "Who is he that prayed unto me?" "William Hughes-Jones," replied the Clerk. "Has the Forgiving Angel blotted out his sins?"
"The Welsh; the Welsh Nonconformists." "Put before me their good deeds." "There is none. William Hughes-Jones is the first of them that has prayed. Are not the builders making a chamber for the accounts of their disobedience?"
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