Transcribed from the 1871 W. Spurrell edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Pamphlet Cover] WELSH NATIONALITY, AND HOW ALONE IT IS TO BE SAVED * * * * * A SERMON PREACHED IN THE Chapel of St. David’s College, Lampeter ON THE MORNING AND EVENING OF _SUNDAY_, _OCTOBER_ 30_th_, 1870 * * * * * BY THE REV. W. G. DAVIES, B.D. _Chaplain of the Joint Counties Asylum_, _Abergavenny_ * * * * * PUBLISHED BY REQUEST * * * * * LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL. & CO. CARMARTHEN: W. SPURRELL 1871 * * * * * “The Clergy everywhere should be emphatically ‘the teachers of people,’ and leaders of modern thought.” _The Rector of Merthyr_. A SERMON. I. LUKE x. 42. “_But one thing is needful_, _and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her_.” THE discourses which I have the privilege of delivering in this chapel, are specially addressed to my younger brethren, the undergraduates. I cannot but dwell with pleasure upon the time when I was myself a student in this college. This, together with the fact that I am a native of the lower part of this county, and was brought up among some of the most primitive of the Welsh people, and consequently am familiar with their leading sentiments, manners, and customs, places me, I cannot help feeling, in a state of close sympathy with the greater number of you. Assuming the existence of this fellow feeling, I have chosen, on this occasion, to investigate the social and religious condition of my countrymen in a light which has not yet penetrated into the fastnesses of the popular mind of Wales. I have done this, because the subject is one that elicits ideas of high import, which it is desirable you should know, inasmuch as they ought to prove of signal service to you in your future ministrations.