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Shall I read you what the Christian Minerva had achieved under the shadow of our Parnassus up to the year 1848? Here is a little account of a Welsh school, from page 261 of the Report on Wales, published by the Committee of Council on Education. This is a school close to a town containing 5,000 persons: "I then called up a larger class, most of whom had recently come to the school.
At the ending of the long session of Parliament in 1914 there was a curious scene in the House of Commons, where members were crowded to assist at the formal passing of the Irish and Welsh Bills. On the adjournment, Mr. Will Crooks, from his seat on the front bench below the gangway, called out, "Mr.
God laughed in His heart as He replied to Satan: "Tell the Trumpeter to take his horn and the laborers their spades and bring to me the Welsh." The laborers digged, and at the sound of the horn the dead breathed and heaved.
As I was bound for the south I strode forward briskly in that direction. The road was between romantic hills; heard Welsh songs proceeding from the hill fields on my right, and the murmur of a brook rushing down a deep nant on my left.
The August sun was warm; the calm of the Abbey was ten times secular; not a discordant sound hardly a sound of any sort except the cawing of the ancient rookery at sunset broke the stillness; and, after the excitement of the last month, one felt a palpable haze of peace brooding over the Edge and the Welsh Marches.
Undeterred by the weather, Miss Jessie set off this morning on the longest ride she had yet undertaken. She had heard through one of my brother's laborers, I believe of the actual existence, in this nineteenth century, of no less a personage than a Welsh Bard, who was to be found at a distant farmhouse far beyond the limits of Owen's property.
'If you must teach me languages, why not teach me French or Chinese? 'I know nothing of Chinese; and as for French, none but a Frenchman is clever enough to speak it to say nothing of teaching; no, we will stick to Armenian, unless, indeed, you would prefer Welsh!
Geoffrey then says that he hands over the matter of writing about the later Welsh and Saxon kings to others, "Whom I bid be silent as to the kings of the Britons, seeing that they have not that book in the British speech which Walter, Archdeacon of Oxford, did convey hither out of Brittany, the which I have in this wise been at the pains of translating into the Latin speech."
The Batavians, slower to be moved but more steadfast, retained the impulse which they received from the same source which was already agitating their "Welsh" compatriots. There were already French preachers at Valenciennes and Tournay, to be followed, as we shall have occasion to see, by many others.
The moon shone with a clear brilliance which betokened rain in the near future. The road was clean and dry, and there was no dust in the air except the thin cloud which floated behind us. We passed the Welsh Harp without a check, and not until we reached Edgeware did Winter revert to his second speed.
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