words for a sort of Nationalist Welsh sacerdotal Church, the ideal, perhaps, of the ancient pre—Norman Bishops of St. David's and of Giraldus Cambrensis, but one hardly suited to his own time. He was at the same time strongly hostile to the Church of Rome and somewhat suspicious of the Church of England. Still, like most contemporary Welsh clergymen, he was strongly opposed to Welsh Disestablishment and at the end of the contest expressed his disgust that the English voters had not rallied more enthusiastically to the cause of the Church in Wales. But after Disestablishment was an accomplished fact his opinion' changed. The Church, especially that section of the Church to which he belonged, had, he freely admitted, gained by the change, and he had the kindness to tell me that in advocating Disestablishment I had realised the true interests of the Church in Wales more correctly than he had done. In spite of his Nationalism and High Church theories William Williams had something in common with the Evangelical movement. He was a total abstainer, a strong advocate of temperance and in his general attitude to social life he was something of a Puritan." Yr oedd John Arthur Price wrth ei fodd pan yn dadansoddi cymeriadau yn y dull yna a cholled i'r Eglwys yng Nghymru ac i Gymru gyfan oedd na buasai wedi ysgrifennu llyfr ar hanes diweddar yr Eglwys.
Bu adeg pan obeithiai yn aiddgar am weled Cymru yn ei mynegi ei hun yn wleidyddol ac yn mynnu ymreolaeth, ond credai fod pob gobaith am hynny wedi diflannu am genedlaethau o'r dydd y cymerodd Tom Ellis swydd yng Ngweinyddiaeth Gladstone. Ar yr un pryd, gwyliai bob tuedd tuagat annibyniaeth wleidyddol yng Nghymru gyda'r diddordeb mwyaf a chyda graddau o obaith. Cymerai ddiddordeb mawr yn Mr. Saunders Lewis ac yr oedd ganddo feddwl uchel iawn ohono. Credaf ei fod yn parhau hyd y diwedd yn gwbl
