Excerpt from Social Religion: Exemplified in an Account of the First Settlement of Christianity in the City of Caerludd This venerable work has a value of its own, as affording a true reflection of much of the ecclesiastical life and religious faith, present as well as past, of the people of Wales. The present edition is issued, not only at the urgent request of many who know the book, but also from the conviction that to allow it to sink into oblivion, would be a serious loss to the churches. The Editor's appreciation of it arises more from its deep and serious religious tone than from its dogmatic teaching. It has also some link of connexion with the memories of early days, when, next to the Pilgrim's Progress, Social Religion was the favourite book. Recent re-perusal, whatever changes time and thought have produced, has found the old book unchanged - the same genial companion - the same loving and faithful monitor. There is a clearness of conception, a simplicity and ease of phraseology, a strength of faith, and a fervour of piety, which make its pages at once entertaining, bracing, and profitable. The book is not a great one; but it is emphatically a good and wise one. It makes no pretension to artistic execution. Nor to splendid pictorial feats of imagination; and yet it combines sufficient of art and fancy to sustain the story and quicken interest. Like all books that live, it is a real image of the author: homely, simple, earnest, positive - tender as a child, yet sturdy and resolute as a giant. Although the day may be said to have passed for some of its phases of Opinion, and though some points of its church polity may be considered peculiar, and too elaborate and complex for practical working, its main substance is, without doubt, genuine as gold, imperishable as truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.