The late Hon. Horatio Gates Jones of Philadelphia was well known and held in the highest esteem by our Welsh-American people throughout the country as a Christian gentleman, an ardent Cambro-American and an active supporter of all movements tending to advance the welfare of his nationality. As it was said, after his death, by the Philadelphia Ledger:

"Few men in Philadelphia were better known or more generally respected. A member of one of the oldest families in Philadelphia, he took a deep interest in matters pertaining to the early history of Phila

delphia, particularly that part of it which is now the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Wards. In this connection he contributed much valuable literature through the Pennsylvania Historical Society, of which he was a member and for years an officer. Of Welsh ancestry, Mr. Jones took a conspicuous part in promoting the welfare of those who came from that country. He was justly proud of his descent, and was an active member of the Welsh Society, of Philadelphia, and for nearly a quarter of a century was its honored President. The last tribute to him in this respect was

paid but a few days ago. A respected citizen, he was honored by his neighbors for several terms with a seat in the State Senate, which he acceptably filled. Of strong religious sentiments, legacies from his father and grandfather, he was known in church circles as an untiring and faithful work er. The poor will have good cause to remember their benefactor, and his friends and associates will also sadly miss him."

Mr. Jones was a life-long resident of Roxborough, where he was born Jan. 9, 1822. He was the youngest son of the late Horatio Gates Jones, D.D., a Baptist clergyman, who was the founder and for 48 years the pastor of Lower Merion Baptist Church. Mr. Jones was a member and deacon of the Lower Merion Church from early life to the time of his death. He was a brother of the late Judge John Richter Jones, Colonel of the 58th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, who was killed at Newberne, N. C., in 1863; the late Charles Thomson Jones, who for many years represented the Twenty-first Ward in Select Council, and the late Nathan Levering Jones, at one time a member of the Gas Trust. His sister, Miss Hetty A. Jones, was one of the noble women who, during the civil war, administered comfort as nurses to the sick and wounded soldiers, and in her memory Post 12 G. A. R., of Roxborough, is named. One sister, Mrs. Anthony D. Levering, survives. Mr. Jones was a grandson of the Rev. David Jones, A. M., of Chester county, who was pastor of the Freehold Baptist Church, N. J., from 1766 to 1775, and later of the Great Valley Baptist Church. He died in 1820.

His great-grandfather, David Jones, emigrated from Cardiganshire, Wales, to America, in 1710, and settled at Welsh Tract, Del., and was known

during the revolutionary war as "the fighting parson." He was a man of great force and learning and a famous speaker and writer. During the war he exercised great influence, especially in and about Philadelphia, in stimulating the zeal of the patriots and in overawing the disaffected. He served as chaplain under General Anthony Wayne, and continued with him during the war. He was present at the Paoli massacre and narrowly escaped being killed. He served as chaplain in the war of 1812, and the last occasion in which he appeared in public was at the dedication of the Paoli monument in 1817. On his maternal side Horatio Gates Jones's ancestry came from Germany. His mother was a descendant of Wigard Levering, who settled in Germantown 1685 and removed to Roxborough in 1691.

Mr. Jones obtained his preliminary education at the public school in Roxborough, and afterwards at Haddington College, finally matriculating at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1841. He studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1847, and continued in the practice of his profession down to the time of his last illness. His practice was chiefly in the Orphans' Court.

In 1874 Mr. Jones was elected to the State Senate from the Fourth District, and was re-elected in 1876, and for a third period of four years in 1878. His representative career was especially marked by his introduction of a bill-known as the Religious Liberty Bill"-to secure freedom from the penalties of the Sunday law of 1794 for all persons who observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath.

Mr. Jones devoted much of his time to historical matters, and was connected with many historical socie ties. He became a member of the

Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1848, and in 1849 was elected its Secretary, a position he held until 1867, when he was made one of its Vice Presidents, and held the office to the time of his death. He was also a member of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, the Moravian Historical Society, the Western Reserve Historical Society of Ohio, the American Antiquarian Society, and of the Historical Societies of Rhode Island, New York, Florida, Delaware, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 1877 Mr. Jones was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain.

A prolific writer, especially in the province of history, Mr Jones was the author of "Ebenezer Kinnersly, and his Discovery in Electricity," "Memoir of Henry Bond, M. D.," "Report of the Committee of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on the Bradford Bicentary," "Life of Andrew Bradford, the Founder of the Newspaper Press in the Middle States of America," "The Bradford Prayer-book of 1710," "Diary of S. J., or Journal of a Country Baptist Minister;" "Memoir of the Rev. Abel Morgan, of Pennypeck Church," "History of the Great Valley Baptist Church," "History of the Brandywine Baptist Church," "Biographical Sketch of the Rev. David Jones, A. M.," "History of the Pennypeck, or Lower Dublin Baptist Church." "History of the Roxborough Baptist Church, 1889," "History of Roxborough and Manayunk," "History of the Levering Family of Roxborough," "Sketches of Johannes Kelpius, the Hermit of the Wissahickon," "An Account of the Early Paper Manufacture in Pennsylvania." His last publication was the "History of Low. er Merion Baptist Church, Bryn Mawr." In addition to the works mentioned, Mr. Jones contributed

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numerous articles to Baptist periodicals and newspapers.

Mr. Jones always retained an ancestral interest in the Welsh people and language, and in everything relating to the Welsh in the United States. He spoke the language. In 1875 he induced the State Senate to authorize the printing of the Governor's message in Welsh. He was a member of the St. David's Welsh Society, and filled the office of President for 31 years, and possessed a valuable Welsh library.

In religion Mr. Jones was a Baptist, and zealously sustained the proclivities of his family for that church, and furthering its interests at all times. He succeeded at one time to the Presidency of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, a position held by his father, and for a number of years acted as clerk.

In 1863 Brown University conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1880 he was honored by Judson University with the degree of Doctor of Civil Law.

Mr. Jones was married May 27, 1852, to Caroline Elizabeth Vassar Babcock, daughter of the Rev. Rufus Babcock, D.D., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mrs. Jones died suddenly, March 7, 1889, in Roxborough. The union was a most happy one, but they had no children. Since her death, which proved a severe shock to Mr. Jones, he failed rapidly. In his death, Roxborough loses its most prominent and honored resident.

Mr. Jones died March 14th, 1893, at his home, "The Pines," Roxbo rough, as the result of paralysis, with which he was stricken February 24th at his law office. Mr. Jones's condition was pronounced critical from the beginning, and continued so with but slight abatement up to the time of his death. The funeral took place on March 17th, which was attended by

a large number of friends from the city and of the residents of Roxborough. The services were conducted by Rev. James W. Wilmarth, assisted by several other ministers. In accordance with Mr. Jones's oft repeated request, a Welsh hymn was also sung by Prof. Henry E. Jones, Philadelphia.

The remains were taken to Leverington Cemetery, adjoining the church, where they were interred in the family lot, close to the graves of other members of the distinguished family. Among those present at the services were the following representatives of the St. David's Society of Philadelphia:

David T. Davies, Vice President; James Jones Levick, M. D., Horace Y. Evans, M. D., George Mintzer, M. D., Warren G. Griffiths, Esq., William R. Williams, John M. Hughes, Rev. Frank Evans, William Lloyd, John Williams, Rev. David Jones, Rev. Richard T. Jones, Prof. H. E. Jones, Howard Jenkins, John Howell, Thos. R. Davies, John Phillips and David Jones.

To the Welsh Society of which he had been President for 31 years, Mr. Jones, in his will, bequeathed twenty shares of the capital stock of the Ridge Avenue Passenger Railway, to be devoted to the support and relief of needy and deserving Welshmen. The Society is also to receive all the Welsh books in his library, or books relating to the Welsh, excepting two copies of the Rev. Abel Morgan's "Cyd Gordiad." These volumes are bequeathed one to the Crozer Theological Seminary and the other to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

WALES IN HISTORY. BY PROF. W. GEORGE POWELL, SCRANTON,

PENN.

(The following is an after-dinner speech that was delivered at the Cym

mrodorion Banquet at Scranton, Pa., on March 1, 1893.)

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen-An inquiry into the relation of the Welsh people towards civilization forms an historical study that ought to be interesting, not only to persons directly interested, but to all students of civilization. I propose, therefore, to discuss in plain, unprejudiced language, the position of Wales and the Welsh among the countries and nations of the world.

To begin with, the fact that the Welsh language is spoken to-day by even one person, is an historical paradox. In all the books, you will not find another case like it. It was old when Greek was young, and Latin was not born, yet both those languages, which were once the mightiest voices in the world, are dead a thousand years, while Welsh still lives, as vigorous as in its youth. This is still the more remarkable when we remember that Wales is a conquered nation. Now, all history shows, if it shows anything, that when one nation conquers another, the first thing that happens is that the conquered nation loses its language, adopting that of its conquerors To take up one instance, the Romans, who were the greatest conquering nation, next to the English, in all history, overcame Gaul, and the people dropped their old Celtic, and spoke a Latin which became French; they over-ran Spain, and that Celtic people became Spanish; they conquered Germany, and that Teutonic people became German; they conquered Britain, and for 400 years held complete sway from Dover Strait to Severn river-but they could not change Welsh into Latin. Still more significant, however, is the extraor dinary relation of Wales to England. For 600 years it has been under the dominion of the Saesneg, and during

that time has seen the British power extend its arms like an octopus over the globe, taking in Australia, Canada, South Africa and India; it has seen die successively the Cornish, the Irish and the Scotch; and yet at the very hearthstone of England, within one hundred miles of London, the Welsh people and language flourish as vigorously to day as they did thousandsof of years ago on their native plains in Asia. The truth is, Wales has never been conquered. It never surrendered to the Romans nor to the English any rights except that of having a ruler of its own, but has gone on quietly ruling itself.

It follows that to-day, Wales is unique among modern nations, and to account for her situation is a facinating problem in the universities of Germany. To a Welshman the reasons are simple and easy to find. I will state them briefly.

The life of a nation, like that of an individual, to be perfect must have three active elements-physical, intellectual and spiritual. If these three needs of a nation can be satisfied, it can live unto itself alone. The Welsh people live a natural life, near to the heart of nature; they are all concerned in the fostering of two arts, music and poetry; and religion is part of the very fibre of their souls. This threefold development is what has saved Wales for the Welsh.

The physical features of rocky little Wales are well adapted to the nurture of a thrifty, contented, independent population. The great nations of Europe have gone on for centuries, struggling with each other for mastery, borrowing each other's ideas, and developing together, while this ittle nation, unseen, was blossoming in perfection like a wild violet in a cranny by the seashore. What had she to borrow from Europe? Not literature-for she had a literature

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tin Luther was born.

Of all the influences which have

worked toward perpetuating the Welsh language, I would place most stress upon the singular felicitous choice of her chief arts. The art of a nation is the expression of the intellectual life of that nation. The art of painting is a sign-language of the fingers; sculpture, the moulding of clay into forms of still creation, man heroically approaches deity to the edge of producing the animate; but poetry is the art of all arts, which uses for its material the very nerve matter of a nation, its language; and music is poetry adorned with the magic of the human voice. Painting and sculpture do not perpetuate language, and it seems to have been an instinct of self-preservation which prevented the Welsh from embracing these arts. Cambrian Raphaels and Michael Angelos might have benefited the world more than Taliesins and Aneurins, but they certainly would not have helped their own nation so

much.

The Cymric mind concentrated itself upon these two arts and they have become the conservators of themselves. They have built for themselves an institution called the eisteddfod, the crowning glory of the Welsh people. There is no institution among any people so worthy of honor and respect as this. It is not alone for its antiquity that it should be regarded with respect, but for what it signifies to-day. It is said that one of the best ways to judge the character of a people is by 'studying its amusements. According to this standard, Wales is at the top of all nations. The Greeks had their Olympic games; the Romans their gladitorial fights; the Spaniards of