two new sermons every week, and do pastoral work besides! Too much is demanded of our ministers. The man is not yet born who can compose two new, good, solid sermons every week. And the man who is expected to do such tremendous work, is he not entitled to all the help the best College in the land can give him? There is a great difference between the Welsh congregations of today and those of a hundred years ago. And while the people themselves advance in knowledge, ought not the leaders of the people advance also? Away with the old- fashioned notion that a preacher does not need the best education. If there is any man on earth who needs the highest educational advantages, it is the minister of the gospel of Christ. After an experience of nearly forty years in the ministry, we are more and more convinced of the value of the best training for a preacher. Only a few of those who have had no regular training have been successful in the ministry.
We remember a fellow student of ours at Bala, who was a very popular young preacher. He had been hardly a year in College when he received and accepted a call from a large church that had more impulse than judgment. After he was ordained there, he was away so much preaching at the annual meetings of other churches, that he had no time to prepare spiritual food for his own people. He had no resources to fall back upon—worked too hard, and died suddenly. We well remember Principal Michael D. Jones saying that he was glad that that young pastor died just then before his popularity waned. We were surprised to hear him then, but the experienced, far-seeing Professor knew that the young man could not last long, because he took no time to
