| Description | Of great interest - Sir John being a life-long Congregationalist, with very pronounced Wesleyen forebears on the mother's side (cp. pedigree tables 1-2, and his address at the Mynydd Seion watchnight in 1890 paper 111).
Amongst this group are addresses on Welsh religious history - on John Penry in 1893 (LLOYD/113), on the coming of the Christian faith to Wales (1893, paper LLOYD/114), on the Puritan movement (1905, paper LLOYD/115), and on the Ancient British Church in 1924 (paper LLOYD/119).
LLOYD/117 is a harvest festival address at Menei Bridge; LLOYD/120 and LLOYD/121 are Sunday addresses to the Old Students' Association at the U.C.N.W. in 1931 and 1938 respectively. He was a veritable pillar, the chiefest member, of the English Cong. church on Glan'rafon Hill: his address the Centenary of this cause (LLOYD/124) on June 24, 1946, is an important historical document, telling of its vicissitudes, its outstanding characters, and the limitations upon its progress. Naturally, he was a prominent member of the North Wales Cong. Union [English], which invests his address from the Chair on April 5, 1939 (LLOYD/122), with more than ordinary interest, with its eloquent tribute to the organising abilities of the founder, the Rev D. Burford Hooke of Mold, who became Chairman of the greater Union of England and Wales in 1916. LLOYD/123 is a single sheet of rough notes, made in July 3, 1940, and must be carefully collated with the Adgofion of paper 25: famous figures he heard in Liverpool; famous preachers [which did not include Spurgeon] he heard elsewhere; more about Burford Hooke and the beginnings of the North Wales Union; his own record as lay preacher for 38 years, from 1879 to 1917.
Religious topics predominate in LLOYD/125, a large note-book, ledger size, upon which he seemed to have entered careful notes of the books he read (apart from the books and periodicals of his more special studies). The ancient prophets figure prominantly, and so do books on the personality of Jesus Christ, and on the various schools of civilisation that formed the environment of the Early Church. Nor did he disregard the Classics and Dante; in his latter years he found time for Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Bridges. He wes particularly prone to find Welsh references in the works of English writers - this accounts for the citing of the Rev Henry Hughes' article in the Drysorfa about de Quincy's visit to Glanllynnau near Afonwen (p.6, left), and for the light thrown on the Wandering Willia of Scott's Redgauntlet by Mr Ernest Roberts's recent article in Lleufer (iii, 10-12) - this on p.8, left. References to his reading of Welsh authors, special pagination about the middle of the book, pp. 1 - 9 |