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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH
*1938.
If Saint David
HAVE been asked toʻstate what,
in my opinion, St. David would think of the Wales of 1937 If he were allowed to revisit the field of his missionary labours.
Neither I nor anyone else can even make a guess at the answer unless wo are first of all told which of the two Bt. Davida is meant. Whether the rough and simple Briton, who lacked almost every quality valued by the successful Welshman of to- day (and whose virtues would be regarded by our extremely well- behaved generation na rather em- barrassing if not positively unbecoming), or that other st. David, who has been evolved from our modern consciousness by annual relays of First of March patriots.
Walco is indeed unfortunate in not possessing a secular figuro as its national here, such as Scotland has in Bobble Burns or England in Shakespeare or perhaps one ought to say, Mr. Baldwin.
It has not had a good effect on our national character to try, on St. David's Day, to fit our
at our modern unyielding socularity into the frame of primitive Christianity.
How much batter would it have been if we could openly extol a rather naughty boy like Robert Burns as our ideal, and have, once a year at least, a real Saturnalian orgy of national honesty!
But then onc remembers England, and finds that this line of speculation is rather unpront- able....
T
HERE is, I suppose, come- thing to be sald for having a saint like Bt., David rather
than a sinner like Burns as a national ideal, and one can at least be thankful that among the many
monstrosities which English
domination imposed upon Wales in the nineteenth century it did not quite succeed in substituting a politician for a religious reformer as the person to be toasted on the first, of March.
It very ere only were
mate calamity by the fortunate fact that Mr. Lloyd George was vigorous enough to survive the wear and tear of the Great War.
nearly succeeded: we saved from that uitl-
If he had died in 1918, we might have borrowed oven our national
saint from English politics.
But supposing for a moment
that our St. David is really that
CAME
BACK
-by
W. J. Gruffydd
PROFESSOR OF CELTIC, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SOUTH WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE, CARDIFF.
early ascotic who thought that ho had converted Wales to Christian- ity, what would such a one think and feel if he could visit the Wales of to-day?
He would, I believe, be pro- foundly shocked, and would prob- ably use his gift of thaumaturgy to blast away from his land and from his people a good many of their leading physical and mental characteristics.
What would he have done about the bombing school in Lleyn, for the burning of which three of his modern followers are in an Eng- Jish prison?
In all seriousness, I am compelled to say
that he, too, would have done what the vast majority of comfortable Welshmen like myself would not have the courage or the conviction to do. In his misplaced zeal he would have burned it to the ground, and would have cursed the people who had allowed it to be erected in their midst.
AM thoroughly familiar with Rhygyvarch's spirited "Life " of St..David, and I challenge any one of the imperial patriots who, on innumerable. feasts in honour of this ascetic, will wax
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eloquent in co demnation of the three patriols how in Worm-... wood Scrubs, to.
deny the correctness of my cónciu- sions.
It. further. St. David had learned that
the allen-tongued dwellers beyond the Severn had haled these three from their own courts in Wales into London in order to secure a trial by an alien jury, and Itad refused to allow them to speak their own language, he would have thought that the history of Sami- son driven in bonds to Gaza to toll at the mill with slaves, would be too weak an analogy.
The possibility of such hap- penings would be beyond his simple understanding. and he would
therefore refuse to believe that itro In Wales had become so complex that it was possible for a body of Welshmen like the Council of Swansea University College, to de prive one of Wales' ablest and“ inost devoted sons of his livelihood and the country of his services. just because his
duty
had called on him to suffer imprisonment for its. sake.
It is quite certain that he would have found the whole tangle in- comprehensible, and would prob→ ably set nut on a new mission to try to rekindle one little spark of self-respect in his own flesh and blood,
I imagine that what would most painfully surprise him would be the attitude of that section of the Church which claims to be in the direct succession of the Chrls- tianity which he had first intro- duced into Wales, and which is to-day the legal guardian of the Menevian shrine where his bones are laid.
ITH what incredulity would he learn that the Church in Wales, far from leading and encouraging the Welsh people, fighting with their backs to the wall to preserve their own cul- ture and their own language
that the only Janguage
St. David himself know-were (with the exception of ono great- hearted bishop and a mere handful of country parsons) determined to hasten the day when the Saxon yoke should be fixed in complete finality on our native land, and the inst vestige of our immemorial cul- ture should have vanished!
Ile would be told that the Welsh
IMPRESSION BY GLAN WILLIAMS OF HOW ST. DAVID
WOULD VIEW THE WALES OF TO-DAY.
clerics who are careful that their children should not know the
of the contamination
Welsh tongue, that these very renegades hold services in Welsh on the first of March in churches where not a word of Welsh is allowed to be heard on the other three hundred and sixty-four days; and would he weep or laugh?
H
E would weep, I think, be- cause he would feel that God had sent a plague of universal madness to punish his people. It would not occur to him to laugh at them as hypocrites, because he would be utterly incapable of thinking that n basic quality like national integrity could be a sub- ject for hypocrisy.
This is no mere fancy, and I will put the question to the leaders of the Welsh Church in its simplest and barest form.
If St. David is in reality, as he is symbolically, the guardian saint of Welshmen, do they seriously think that he would for one moment acknowledge them as his succes- sors, and not rather as open and avowed enemies of all that he loved and valued?
The more one thinks of the pre- sent condition of Wales, the more surprising It becomes that we should pretend to honour the memory of this saintly monk, while comfortably acquiescing in many of the horrors of that heathen inhumanity which it was his mission to destroy.
This simple Christian would to- day bow his head in shame at the sight of the distressed areas in Wales, and would most certainly start a campaign of prayer and fasting against the cynical and stony-hearted Government which allows such things be, A Government which, even excuses its unconcern by the pica that its first duty is to equip, the nation
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While still in the grasp of his
would
hear. bewilderment he hymned in fervid unison, a great national pœan to a new delty, the god of National Fitness; a psalm of praise to Physical Health rising from the ranks of obese plutocrats to drown the cries of the under- fed, the under-clothed, the tuber- cle-riddled masses of the Welsh Black Areas.
He would look for protests from the accredited leaders of Wales, and would find only self-satisfac- tion and smugness.
He would be driven to conclude that his great work of Afteen cen- turies ago had been in vain and that God was at last chastising the Welsh nation for its hard-hearted- ness and its obstinate hypocrisy.
S
T. DAVID was on austere and a bitter man; if he revisited his native land in 1037, lils bitter- ness would certainly land him in an English prison, and the cathe- dral church of St. David's would re-echo with denunciations of him.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the toast of St. David "to his immortal memory!
-To-day's Thought ANGER olshes all manking!
had only one necht lure that it had only one heart.
-RICHARD.
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