THE CAMBRIAN, A NATIONAL MONTHLY MAGAZINE, PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF The Welsh American People and their Children, DEVOTED TO History, Biography, Literature, RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND General Celtic Intelligence, EDITED BY REV. E. C. EVANS, REMSEN. N. Y. VOLUME XIII. UTICA, N. Y. T. J. GRIFFITHS, PRINTER, EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, 1893. PREFACE. On the completion of another volume of THE CAMBRIAN We desire again to gratefully express our obligations to its friends and readers for their kind support and encouragement during the past year, and we earnestly hope that the support and favor so kindly accorded to THE CAMBRIAN in the past will be continued for the coming year. We shall endeavor in the future, as in the past, to make THE CAMBRIAN & repository of healthy and useful information, containing short articles on a great variety of subjects of permanent value and interest and worthy of being a welcome visitor in the homes of our Welsh-American people. In accordance with the features which already distinguish it, we have made arrangements to publish in THE CAMBRIAN for 1894, sketches and portraits of some of the most prominent Welshmen, a selection of some of the Welsh airs, words and music, and also valuable articles on Welsh historical subjects. The January and February numbers will contain sketches and excellent portraits of Rev. D. Parker Morgan, D.D., of New York, and of R. T. Mor gan, Esq., Oshkosh, Wis. We would also call attention to the valuable premium Picture offered in this number, to new and old subscribers. The Premium Picture— THE GREAT DECISION--DIANA or CHRIST. The pictures "Diana or Christ" carries us back in a most vivid way to the struggle which the early Christians had to preserve their lives while obeying Christian laws. In the great arena at Ephesus is collected a host of idle Ephesians. It had been noised abroad that a beautiful Christian maiden would that day be torn in pieces by the lions, unless she repudiates her religion and consents to worship Diana, the patron deity of Ephesus. The people have taken more than an ordinary interest in this event, as the girl, it seems, has a lover who, since her conviction of being a Christian, has been trying to persuade her to adopt the popular religion. The central figure is that of the girl, her beautiful face upturned imploring help, and by her side is her lover holding in his hand the incense which she has but to cast upon the altar in order to be free. To the right is iv the goddess with the priest and the host of vestal virgins, whose duty it was to keep the fire constantly burning on the altar and to repeat, day and night, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians," while to the right sits the Roman governor awaiting the decision of the prisoner. On the other side of the prisoner, standing close to the prisoner, is the court official reading the death warrant, while on his left stands the black eunuch, robed in skins, waiting to execute the master's orders. Behind these are the Roman soldiers keeping back the throng; in the distance may be seen the arena with the crowds waiting to witness the bloody sacrifice. The beautiful light of faith on the face of the prisoner tells that, rather than become a pagan and worship an image, she will stand all the tortures and cruelties of her relentless persecutors. This picture is reproduced by a new process of photo-etching, size 21 x 28 inches. OUR OFFER. Seldom, if ever, has a magazine offered such a really beautiful and engrossingly interesting picture as a premium, and the terms on which THE CAMBRIAN offers this picture to its subscribers are more than liberal. We will send by mail, free of cost, the above Popular Picture 1. TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS paying $1.25 in advance for 1894. 2. TO OLD Subscribers SENDING BY MAIL $1.25 in advance for 1894. 3. TO OLD Subscribers SENDING BY MAIL the amount of arrears due up to the end of 1893 and CONTINUING THEIR SUBSCRIPTION for 1894. The above premiums are offered to those sending their full subscriptions by mail and who continue to take THE CAMBRIAN for 1894. |