man, "a romantic figure in the religious history of Wales. Her hymns leave upon the reader an undefinable impression both of sublimity and mysticism. Her brief life-history is most worthy of study both from a literary and a religious point of view."

A suggestive chapter of her short earthly career is compressed in a sentence by the author of "Sweet Singers of Wales:"

"She had a Christian life of eight years and a married life of ten months."

She died at the age of twenty-nine. In 1904, near the centennial of her death, amid the echoes of her own hymns, and the rising waves of the great Refreshing over her native land, the people of Dolwar Fechan dedicated the new "Ann Griffiths Memorial Chapel" to her name and to the glory of God

Although the Welsh were not slow to adopt the revival tones of other lands, it was the native, and what might be called the national, lyrics of that emotional race that were sung with the richest unction and hwyl (as the Cymric word is) during the recent reformation, and that evinced the strongest hold on the common heart. Needless to say that with them was the world-famous song of William Williams,

Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah;

Arglwydd ar wain truy'r anialoch;

--and that of Dr. Heber Evans,

Keep me very near to Jesus,

Though beneath His Cross it be,
In this world of evil-doing

'Tis the Cross that cleanseth me;

-and also that native hymn of expectation, high and sweet, whose writer we have been unable to identify

The glory is coming! God said it on high,

When light in the evening will break from the sky;
The North and South and the East and the West,
With joy of salvation and peace will be bless'd.

*

O summer of holiness, hasten along!

The purpose of glory is constant and strong;
The winter will vanish, the clouds pass away;

O South wind of Heaven, breath softly today!

Of the almost countless hymns that voiced the spirit of the great revival, the nine following are selected because they are representative, and all favorites-and because there is no room for a larger number. The first line of each is given in the original Welsh:

"DWY ADEN COLOMEN PE CAWN."

O had I the wings of a dove

Το

How soon would I wander away

gaze from Mount Nebo I'd love
On realms that are fairer than day.
My vision, not clouded nor dim,

Beyond the dark river should run;
I'd sing, with my thoughts upon Him,
The sinless, the crucified one.

This is another of Thomas Williams' hymns. One of the tunes suitable to its feeling and its measure was "Edom," by Thomas Evans. It was in 1859, as well as in 1904.

much sung

"CAELBOD YN FORSEC DAN YR IAN."

Early to bear the yoke excels

By far the joy in sin that dwells;
The paths of wisdom still are found
In peace and solace to abound.

The young

who serve Him here below

The wrath to come shall never know;

Of such in heaven are pearls that shine
Unnumbered in the crown divine.

Written for children and youth by Rev. Thomas Jones, of Denbigh, born 1756; died 1820,-a Calvinistic Methodist preacher, author of a biography of Thomas Charles of Bala, and various theological works.

"DYMA GARIAD FEL Y MOROEDD,

TOSTURIASTHAN FEL Y LLI."

Love unfathomed as the ocean

Mercies boundless as the wave!
Lo the King of Life, the guiltless,
Dies my guilty soul to save;
Who can choose but think upon it,

Who can choose but praise and sing?

Here is love, while heaven endureth,

Nought can to oblivion bring.

This is called "The great Welsh love-song." It was written by Rev. William Rees, D. D., eminent as a preacher, poet, politician and essayist. One of the greatest names of nineteenth century Wales. He died in 1883.

The tune, "Cwynfan Prydian," sung to this hymn is one of the old Welsh minors that would sound almost weird to our ears, but Welsh voices can sing with strange sweetness the Saviour's passion on which Christian hearts of that nation love so well to dwell, and the shadow of it, with His love shining through, creates the paradox of a joyful lament in many of their chorals. We cannot imitate it.

"RHYFEDDODAU DYDD YR ADGYFODIDD."

Unnumbered are the marvels

The Last Great Day shall see,
With earth's poor storm-tossed children
From tribulation free,

All in their shining raiment

Transfigured, bright and brave,
Like to their Lord ascending

In triumph from the grave.

The author of this Easter hymn is unknown.

The most popular Welsh hymns would be named variously by different witnesses according to the breadth and length of their observation. Two of them, as a Wrexham music publisher testifies, are certainly the following; "Heaven and Home," and "Lo, a Saviour for the Fallen." The

first of these was sung in the late revival with

The heights of fair Salem ascended,
Each wilderness path we shall see;
Now thoughts of each difficult journey
A sweet meditation shall be.

On death, on the grave and its terrors

And storms we shall gaze from above
And freed from all cares we shall revel (?)
In transports of heavenly love.

According to the mood of the meeting this was pitched in three sharps to Evelyn Evans' tune of "Eirinwg" or with equal Welsh enthusiasm in the C minor of old "Darby."

The author of the hymn was the Rev. David Charles, of Carmarthen, born 1762; died 1834. He was a heavenly-minded man who loved to dwell on the divine and eternal wonders of redemption. A volume of his sermons was spoken of as "Apples of gold in pictures of silver," and the beautiful piety of all his writings made them strings of pearls. He understood English as well as Welsh, and enjoyed the hymns not only of William and Thomas Williams but of Watts, Wesley, Cowper, and Newton*.

*The following verses were written by him in English:

Spirit of grace and love divine,

Help me to sing that Christ is mine;
And while the theme my tongue employs
Fill Thou my soul with living joys.