Mr. Byron Reed, M.P. for East Bradford, moved an amend-
ment declining to entertain Mr. Dillwyn's resolution, in con..
sidemtion of the "great and growing influence and work of the National Church, especially in the Principality of Wales," and made a great point of the 'extrenie political violence of the Welsh Dissenters and their organs, maintaining that the pastors of Dissenting congregations often neglect entirely the spiritual interests of their people to attend to political agitation, and that they frequently alienate their congregations by this course of action. He quoted a Baptist organ to show that, in its opinion, Wales is only to be regenerated on revo- lutionary principles, and that the writer looks forward to an alliance of four Republics. A writer in the Celt, in December of last year, had said, "There is an angel standing in the sun (Revelation xix., 17), and that angel is William Ewart Glad- stone," and he had begun "to cry with a loud voice to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come to the supper of the great God ;' and the end will be that all the fowls will have their fill of the flesh by the wealth of the State Church being used for national purposes." That is indeed a highly figura- tive interpretation of the angel and fowls of prophecy, and one not likely, we imagine, to be very pleasing to the antitype of the angel in question. Mr. Dillwyn's resolution was re- jected by 284 against 231 votes,—majority, 53.
