ary War from its beginning to its close. Rev. David Jones was de scended from the ancient and honorable family of Morgan ap Rhydderch, who was born in 1625 in the parish of Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, S. W. An elder brother, Rhys ap Rbydderch, was a military officer in the army of Oliver Cromwell. This latter gentleman, Rhys ap Rhydderch, came to this country in 1701, with his family and about twenty other families from the counties of Cardigan, Pembroke and Carmarthen, and settled near Philadelphia. They sailed in the spring from Milford Haven in the ship William and Mary, and they arrived at Philadelphia in the summer. Rev. Enoch Morgan, the author of the Welsh Concordance published in Philadelphia in 1730, was one of the company. Nearly a year afterward they went to settle in the Welsh Tract in the State of Delaware. At the time they acquired the land from William Penn. it was intended to establish a Welsh settlement; but it retained its Welsh character only for about 75 years. A Welsh church was built in the Welsh Tract by the Baptists, which was the first Welsh

church built in America by the denomination, Rhys ap Rhydderch died in 1707, at the Welsh Tract, at the age of 87 years.

Rev. David Jones's grandmother was Esther, a daughter of Morgan ap Rhydderch, who emigrated from Llanwenog Parish to the Welsh Tract in 1710. The son of the above, Rev. Horatio Gates Jones, the subject of this sketch, and father

of the late well known Horatio

Gates Jones, Esq., of Philadelphia, was born in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pa., Feb. 11, 1777, and was educated at Dr. Allison's Academy in Bordentown, N. J., and worked on his father's farm in Easton Township. He was baptized June 25,

1798, at the Great Valley Church, by Rev. John Boggs, who was co-pastor of the Great Valley Baptist Church with the Rev. David Jones. He studied divinity with his father, and was licensed to preach Sept. 26, 1801, but had preached about one year prior to that date. Having received a call to the Baptist Church at Salem, N. J., he was there ordained Feb. 13, 1802, and remained until April, 1805, when he resigned, the climate not agreeing with his health. He then removed to Roxborough, Philadelphia Co., and began his labors as a preacher in Lower Merion and other places.

In 1829 he was chosen President of the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, and so continued until the day of his death, Dec. 12, 1853.

He filled various offices of trust

and honor in Roxborough, and was an active promoter of ministerial education and one of the prime movers in Haddington College, which was finally established at Germantown.

In 1812 he received the degree of 1851 the University of Lewisburgh, A. M. from Brown University, and in Pa., conferred on him their first degree of D.D. Although food of lite

rature he wrote but little for the press. His most extensive work was tist Association," which appeared in "A History of the Philadelphia BapThe World, a religious newspaper published in Philadelphia.

Dr. Jones died at Roxborough, Dec. 11, 1853, and was buried in the Roxborough Baptist grave-yard, but is now in the Leverington Cemetery, his memory was placed in the eastern near the old grave-yard. A tablet to wall of the Merion Church the year after his death.

*It is with great regret that we have learned, just before going to press, of the death of Mr. Horatio Gates Jones, Phila, which occurred on March 14th, 1893. He

was the son of the above Rev. Horatio Gates -Jones, and widely known and highly respected among the Welsh-American people throughout the country. His death is deeply mourned by a large circle of relatives and friends. In a future number we expect to furnish the readers of THE CAMBRIAN with a portrait of him, with a brief sketch of his life.-ED.

SOME OF THE OLD WELSH PREACHERS.

BY REV. D. BURFORD HOOKE.

OWEN THOMAS, D. D. -JOHN THOMAS, D. D.— JOHN ELIAS, ANGLESEA.

(Continued from page 31.)

To do justice to Dr. John Thomas's character some reference should be made to his position as political leader. Men might dif

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fer from him, but his leadership they readily acknowledged. But his politics he subordinated to that which is far higher and more important. The writer well remembers him saying in the presence of several members of Parliament, that Welsh Nonconformists "existed not for political, but for religious purposes-not as a political but as a religious power. That power had made Wales what it was, and that power alone could help it in the future."

A few months ago the jubilee of his ministry was celebrated. Men of all denominations gathered, and abundant proof was borne that he had not lived in vain. Though allowed to attend the celebration he was forbidden to take part, one of his sons, therefore, read the reply which he had prepared. One sentence which he had penned referred to the thousands whom he had received into Christian fellowship, and in it there occurred these words, "with this hand," Instinctively as the sentence was read he raised the thin worn hand, which so many of his church members had grasped in that solemn moment of

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their spiritual history, and as they rerealized that perhaps they might never more grasp it, they bowed their heads and wept. It was a pathetic incident in a memorable gathering. Dr. Herber Evans has more than once referred to that hand-grasp which welcomed him to Christian fellowship, when a stranger in Liverpool. Now that hand, which was so often uplifted on behalf of truth and righteousness-that hand which penned so much that sought to elevate and bless mankind-that hand which pointed men to the Cross as the answer to their sin and sorrow-is still in death.

Dr. Thomas died on July 14, at Colwyn Bay, among the hills of his

native land and in sight of the sea he so much loved. The name of the house in which he passed away was

"Uwch-y-don." which signifies "above

the wave," a fitting omen of his triumph as he passed to the other shore. where they so long lived and labored. Both brothers were buried in the city In life and in death they were not

divided:

Two hands upon the breast the work is

over

The warfare oe'r;
And they who have toiled and striven in faith,
Shall fight no more.

Two hands upon the breast the work is over;
And then the promised rest
Which yet remaineth for the Lord's own
people

Who have His name confessed
Two hands upon the breast, the work is over;
And then that shore,
Where we shall meet the loved ones whom
God took before.

These imperfect references to Welsh preachers cannot better end than with the mention of the name of John Elias, who for many years occupied a foremost place among the preachers at the great open-air services. His greatest victory was won at Rhuddlan, a quiet village, beauti