TERMS OF THE CAMBRIAN. THE CAMBRIAN is published monthly at the following rates Single subscription for one year,.... To Ministers,.... All money received by mail will be acknowledged by mail. $1.25 1.00 Payment for THE CAMBRIAN should be made in a Post Office Money Order Bank Check, or Draft, Express Money Order, or in a Registered Letter. All correspondence, orders and remittances for THE CAMBRIAN should be REV. E. C. EVANS, REMSEN, ONEIDA Co., N. Y. sent to ESTABLISHED 1871. G. T. MATTHEWS & Co.. IMPORTERS OF TEAS. 93 Water St., (near Wall,) NEW YORK P. S.-The only Welsh Importers of Teas in the United States. Our location in New York is very convenient-right in the centre of the Tea Marke and we shall at all times be glad to have our friends call on us. NOTICE! NEW YORK, March 1, 1893. I have this day associated myself with Mr. WM. SMITH, who for mar years has had charge of the financial and confidential department of my o stantly increasing business. 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Before I had used three bottles of this medicine I was relieved of my intense s ring, and was soon able to attend to my usual avocation. I heartily advise all who are ering from this disease to try this remedy. J. T. EDWAR Mr. John B. Williams is personally known to me, and is a qualified and expeienced Dr gist, and as a man perfectly honest and reliable. E. C. EVAN Sold for $1 a bottle. For $3, three bottles will be sent to any address, postage free. Address-JOHN B. WILLIAMS, Druggist, 44 South St., Utica, N. E Send letter in Welsh or English describing your ailments. THE CAMBRIAN. Now go write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for all time to come for ever and ever REV. DAVID HARRIES, D.D. In the ministry of the Welsh Presbyterian Church in this country Rev. David Harries D.D.. has for many years occupied a prominent and an honored position, both as minister and pastor of several large and flourishing churches. His preaching has always been earnest, sympathetic, clear, practical and evangelical; and these characteristics, no doubt, together with his active and faithful service as pastor have been the chief sources of his power and influence among the people of his charge, and the secret of his success in the gospel ministry. On Thursday evening, March 23, 1893, on retiring from the pastoral charge of the Chicago church, owing chiefly to his advanced years and feeble health, Dr. Harries and his beloved wife were honored with a farewell meeting, for the presentation of an illuminated address and a purse of $400 as a token of respect and effection on the part of the church and congregation and of the Welsh people of Chicago. A large congregation had assembled on the occasion. Mr. John Jones being chairman, the exercises consisted of music, under the leadership of Prof. John P. Jones and others, addresses by Revs. R. Trogwy Evans, D. J. Davies, (Bismark), Ellis Roberts, H O. Rowlands, D.D., Chi cago; Revs. J. E. Jones, Milwaukee; L. T. Roberts, M.A., Racine, Wis, John C. Jones, Mankato; Messrs. D. V. Samuel, E. P. Roberts, D. R. Williams, D. R. Jones, (Dafydd Rhisiart), Prof. Apmadoc and several others. After the presentation by Mrs. David Jones, Rev. Dr. Harries, in a brief address, on behalf of himself and of his beloved wife, expressed his grateful appreciation of the gifts presented to them and of the cordial and affectionate sentiments cherished toward them after nearly 18 years of sacred associations in the ministry of the church. The committee of arrangements were Messrs. John Jones, E. P. Rob erts, E. G. Lloyd, D. E. Pritchard, R. W. Owen, D. Edward Jones, J. Harry Jones, Oscar Jones, D. R. Williams, W. P. Hughes, Hugh Evans, Griffith Jones, D. R. Jones, also Mrs. D. R. Jones, Mrs. Griffith Jones, Mrs. Hugh Williams, Mrs. R. W. Thomas, Mrs. E. P. Roberts and Misses Jennie Evans and M. G. Jones. Rev. Dr. Harries is a native of Llangendeyrn, Carmarthenshire, S. W. His father's name was Henry Harris, an elder and chorister of the C. M. church in that village. His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Jones a sister of Rev. John Jones, Llandeyrn, S. W. He received a common school education in his native village, and received early religious instruction and training at home by pious parents. He was converted early in life under the ministry of the late venerable William Evans, Ton-yr efail, S. W., and some years afterward felt strongly impelled to devote his future life to the gospel ministry. On June 6th, 1ff46 he was married to Miss Margaret E. Lewis, a daughter of William and Esther Lewis, Cruddbin, S. W. Soon afterward they emigrated to America, arriving in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 9th, 1849, where they united with the C. M. cnurch. In 1851 Mr. Harries was elected a deacon in the church, and in two years afterward, 1853, he was admitted to the gospel ministry. Moving in April 1854 to Ironton, O., where a C. M. church had just been organized, he was invited to preach for them. They built a small church, which was dedicated free of debt. Soon, however, owing to the rapid increase of the Welsh population at Ironton, the church found it necessary to build a larger edifice in a better and more convenient location. After preaching for five years, he was ordained in October, 1858 to the full work of the gospel ministry, by a synod held at Palmyra, O. Having been pastor of the church at Ironton for 16 years and his ministry having proved a great blessing to his people. He visited Wales in 1868 after an absence of 19 years. On his returu he supplied the pulpits of the C. M. churches at Ironton and Portsmouth, O., for two years. Accepting a call to take charge of the C. M. church at Columbus. Õ., he moved there in March, 1870, where he proved a faithful pastor of the church and labored in the ministry with acceptance and with a steadily widening influence. In 1875 he was called to the important pastorate of the C. M. church at Chicago. Since that time the membership has largely increased, the church edifice has been repaired, a parsonage secured and in other ways the condition of the church has been greatly improved. While in Ohio, Dr. Harries served as stated clerk of the synod for years, was chosen moderator of t general assembly in 1876, was & pointed a delegate to the Presbyteri General Assembly held in Chicag 1887, and was a delegate to the Pr byterian Alliance held in 1880 in Pt adelphia. In 1878 Dr. Harries vis ed Wales a second time and preach in most churches throughout t CENSUS REPORTS OF THE WELSH POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. Principality and in Liverpool, Manchester and London and was kindly received by the people in general. Dr. Harries's family consists of his beloved wife, three daughters and one son, Mr. D. C. Harries, who holds a responsible position in the establish 131 ment of Marshall, Field & Co., Chicago. By reason of his prominent position and long and faithful service Dr. Harries is well-known and highly respected among the Welsh churches of Wales and America, who hope he may enjoy many years more of usefulness in the Master's vineyard. CENSUS REPORTS OF THE WELSH POPULATION IN THE COMPILED BY REV. E. C. EVANS, M. A., EDITOR OF THE CAMBRIAN. The Welsh people since early colonial times have been emigrating to America, incited thereto by industrial oppression, religious persecution or by the spirit of adventure. References are made to them among the early settlers in New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. During the colonial and revolutionary periods a large number of them took an active and prominent part in the affairs of the country. Many of them came direct from Wales, while many others, having Emigrated first from Wales to England, afterward for various reasons came to America. This stream of Welsh immigration, increasing or diminishing in volume at different periods and under special influences, has steadily continued up to the present time. We have no data, however, to form any numerical estimate of the Welsh population prior to the census of 1850, when the first enumeration was made of the foreign born population distributed according to country of birth. There are also no records of arrivals at the various seaports before the year 1820. From that date, however, the number of arrivals from foreign countries at American seaports may be obtained from the Reports of the Bureau of Statistics or from the rec ords of the Commissioners of Emigra- IMMIGRATION FROM WALES 1821-1890 Decades. 1851-1860... 1861-1870... 170 185 1261 6319 4642 6779 ..11990 These figures, however, as we said before, are entirely untrustworthy and although of late years their reports show more care and improvement, we know for certain from other sources that a much larger number of Welsh people came to this country during those decades, so that the of ficials or the Welsh immigrants must have been very careless about making a correct record of their nationality. We may add here the following statement for which we are indebted to Mr. B. F. Lewis, editor of Y Drych, Utica, N. Y. The figures were taken from the records of the Commissioners of Emigration, and published in Y Cenhadur for January 1857. They cover the decade from May, 1847, to December, 1856, and it will be observed that they are far more correct than the figures of the Bureau of Statistics. Immigrants Year. from Wales, Year. 1847 472 1852 1848 1054 1853 1849 1782 1854 1850 1520 1855 2189 1856 1851 Immigrants These figures make a total of about 14520 Welsh people who came to this country in that decade by way of New York, for they do not include those who entered the United States through other ports. These figures nearly correspond with those in the CENSUS REPORTS ON THE WELSH POPULATION OF THE The following is a tabulated statement of the number of Welsh people born in Wales who were residents of the various States and Territories of the United States, according to the Census reports for each Decade since 1850. |