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things, and is as necessary to the life of his neighbourhood. The successful man knew how to amass wealth, but the much harder lesson of how to spend it he has not learnt yet. I know at least one wealthy man in Wales who says that he does not own his money for himself, he holds it in trust for others, and he spends it. He is like a tree planted by the streams of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also doth not wither; and whatsoever he doeth prospers. It is the glorious privilege of these men to make their wealth of eternal value by building colleges and schools for the Welsh generations of the future.

Our bare and poverty-stricken schoolrooms contrast sadly with the bright and promising young beings with whom they are crowded. I always think that a school ought to be as like a child's ideal home as possible, but in Wales it has the appearance of a workhouse or of a prison. A kindly interest taken in the school by people of leisure and of means would end in making it more comfortable for the children and better adapted for their real education. Turn, gentle reader, into any village school. You will find there vile coloured prints, and that disgusting picture of the respective careers of the well-dressed and the badly-dressed,--the one ruining the children's taste and the other ruining their morality. Could you not present the school with a good engraving or a good painting? If it illustrates Welsh history or Welsh life, all the better.

The walls of our intermediate schools are, so far, better than some walls I have seen, they are bare. There are intermediate schools where girls have to learn. geography without wall maps, where boys have to learn chemistry and agriculture without apparatus of any sort, and navigation even without ever seeing a mariner's compass. Embossed maps can be bought for sixpence each, a good telescope or microscope can be bought for three or four pounds, will it not be a pleasure to the friends of each school to present the eager little students with these? A thermometer, samples of seeds and grass, a carpenter's tools, models of ships and

of engines, a school should be full of these.

There is a danger that Wales will become full of clerks and teachers, between whom competition will be so keen that they will be living on the margin of starvation. Such a calamity will be the result of taking a wrong view of education. Our educational system should strengthen our national life in every direction; it should produce good handicraftsmen as well as learned men. If we do not speedily develop the technical side of our schools, our condemnation in the future will be without forgiveness. I see that Mr. Rathbone offers to help Merionethshire and Carnarvonshire to get a travelling technical teacher of experience, to organize the technical teaching necessary to each district. So the quarrymen get another opportunity of leading the way in Welsh education.

The glorious privilege will not be rejected by Wales. It is a It is a happy sign that it is by serving our education that Government tries to please us. In Wales the difference in a Welshman's mind between his own interests and those of his country will gradually lessen. Public institutions, schools especially, will be the pride of the country.

We owe much to the influence of England. Our poets are under the influence of Wordsworth to-day, our men of business are emulating the adventurous spirit of Englishmen. But the belief in personal wealth as against public wealth has come from England also. As compared with continental towns, how despicably poor in public institutions our towns are? If our rich men do what our poor men are doing, the farm labourer gives a day's wage to a missionary society and another towards a school,-we can teach England that it is more important to have a rich people than a collection of rich individuals. At any rate, do not let us neglect the privilege that is offered us of making our children and our country happy and prosperous.

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