_Seventy-fifth Anniversary of St. David's College, Lampeter October 9th, 1902._ [Illustration: "_There is not one whose character, and whose powers of speech exceeded those of the present Archbishop (Dr. Temple)._"] THE TRIALS OF THE CLERGY. Bishops and Clergy have to deal with all sorts of communications from parishioners. I remember one case where a clergyman received a letter telling him he would never do for St. Phillip's because he was altogether too quiet in his preaching, and not half sensational enough, but that if he would preach in a red coat in the morning, and with no coat at all at night, he would be just the man for the job. As to the Bishops, they have so much to do that one of them--Bishop Magee, of Peterborough, I believe--summed up the situation by saying that people seemed to have an idea that a Bishop had nothing to do but sit in his library with the windows open, so that every jackass might put in his head and bray. _Church Luncheon, Newport, May 16th, 1900._ SERMONS AND SINNERS. If the clergy only preached as well as they might, there ought not to be a single sinner in their parishes. _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Newport, February 7th, 1889._ THE OLD PARISH CHURCH. I believe that all classes, including the Nonconformists, have a real love for the old Parish Church and its grey tower, beneath the shade of which so many of their ancestors are laid. Here at Michaelston-y-Vedw we have a fine historic building, erected about 1130. I may tell you that one of its old parish registers contains an interesting entry. It is that "Godfrey Charles Morgan was baptised here on May 4th, 1828." _Eisteddfod, Cefn-Mably, September 15th, 1897._ [Illustration: "_Godfrey Charles Morgan was baptised here on May 4th, 1828._"] I always take more interest in these historical little rural parish churches than I do in a brand new Church erected in some populous district. Of course, the Church is really more necessary there than among the small Communities; still, there is the sentiment, the old association of the old Parish Church and the churchyard in which "the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Those lines of the poet Gray: "The cock's shrill clarion, nor the echoing horn, No more shall raise him from his lonely bed," often strike me, because the little Church is so closely connected with the Llangibby family. The Llangibby and Morgan families have been associated very often before in the long vista of history, but you have amongst you now a relation of mine, come to live amongst you, and who will look after this little Church. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.