I am glad to find that the Welsh Church movement has been such a
success. I was asked on one occasion if there were many Welsh people
in Cardiff, and I confessed there were. When further asked if there
was a Welsh Church there I had to admit with shame that there was not.
From that moment I resolved to back up as much as I could the movement
for providing a Church for the Welsh-speaking inhabitants of Cardiff.
No one could walk the streets of Cardiff without being impressed with
the number of Welsh people one met and heard talking in their own
language. Probably a great number of those simply came into the town
for the day, but a considerable number must be residents of the town.
I see a great many ladies present, and I would urge them to do what
they can, for, in the words of a Church magnate, who was, if not an
archbishop or a bishop, certainly an archdeacon--"mendicity is good,
but women-dicity is better."
_Laying of the Foundation Stone of a Welsh Church at Cardiff,
July 2nd, 1890._