A letter addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P.: explanatory of the object and design of the Chester Cambrian SocietyEvans, Evan, active 1832
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A letter addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P.: explanatory of the object and design of the Chester Cambrian Society
Evans, Evan, active 1832
Chester Cambrian Society (Chester, England); Societies -- England -- Chester; Welsh -- England -- Chester
either to raise him to the regions of bliss ineffable, or to sink him
down to the gulph of interminable woe. Can we contemplate the
possibility of the latter alternative, without using every means in our
power to prevent it?
And, my Lord, I must be allowed to remind the friends of the Established
Church, that they are more backward in attending to the wants of their
countrymen, in this respect, than any other denomination of Christians.
Let them look to the metropolis; there they will find several places of
Divine worship for the accommodation of the natives of Wales, without any
belonging to the Establishment. The case is the same with respect to
Birmingham, Shrewsbury, and Manchester; and at Liverpool there are many
Chapels belonging to different denominations of Dissenters, with only one
Church, and that of a very recent date.—In Chester, my Lord, we found the
ground pre-occupied.—Two Societies had most laudably raised their
respective standards, around which was collected a considerable number of
devotional worshippers; and the manner in which many of them have since
joined our standard, proves, that they flocked around the others, not
because they displayed the colours of their favourite party, but because
they had the word “CYMRAEG” inscribed on their banners.
The last consideration which I shall submit to your Lordship, in order to
shew the great usefulness of the Cambrian Society, is, that by securing
the residence of a Welsh Clergyman, it provides the means of religious
consolation for the poor Welsh at the _Chester Infirmary_. It is
universally acknowledged that one-third of the patients received at this
Institution, are natives of the Principality. But I need not enlarge on
this point, as your Lordship’s noble brother, EARL GROSVENOR, from the
kind and active part which he has taken in the proceedings of this
excellent charity, is fully enabled to judge how far the visits of a
Welsh Pastor are necessary to the welfare of the Institution.
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