GRAND MASTER OF THE ORDER,
and we have watched with a large amount of anxiety your carrying out the wishes of the Order, and more especially the wishes of your Welsh Brethren. The time will soon arrive when you will give up the government of this immense machinery into some other hands. but with what feelings of pleasure do we welcome you, being the only Welshman who ever had the honor of filling the Presidential Chair of the Largest Friendly Society in the World, and justly may we say, 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.'
"How gratifying it must be to your fellow-countrymen to hear of the distinguished honors you have had, and of being an instrument in spreading the wings of this Society, and of wafting its beneficent winds where no other Societies have as yet unstrung their influence; of sending the aid so often desired to sick and distressed brethren, but more of being, as it were, a father to the fatherless and a husband to the widow-cheering them in their wilderness of despair, drying their tears with the hand of charity, consoling them with the tongue of truth, and guiding them in the way they should go; these traits, we are happy to say, are fully exemplified in you. It is men of such sterling worth as it is our happy lot to have amongst us, that will cause this and all other kindred societies to shine more brilliant, and be crowned with a complete success.
Hoping that God in His Providence will spare you for a very long time that you may go on working, firstly, in His vineyard, and, secondly, in the great cause of Oddfellowship, may your family cluster around you as the ivy clings to the oak, assisting you to enable you to assist others, giving you strength when weakness may come, and when this mortal coil shall be shaken off, may your reward be eternal bliss and a happy Lodge, where no tears will be shed, and where there are no distressed to be relieved.
"We subscribe ourselves on behalf of the District,
- Dated Merthyr, March 13th, 1866
Dydd Llun, Hydref 29ain, 1866, cynnaliwyd cyfarfod arbenig i dalu parch i Dr. Price yn Aberdar, pan yr ymgasglodd nifer o foneddigion o Gaerdydd, Merthyr, a Chastellnedd, &c., i gynnrychioli teimlad y frawdoliaeth Gymreig. Cymmerwyd y gadair gan lywydd y dosparth am y flwyddyn, Mr. Phillip John, yr hwn a ddywedai—
