Revd Rees Watcyn Rees – transcription of illuminated address 16 April 1896
 
Reverend and Dear Sir
The United Churches of Libanus and Cwmcamlais, Breconshire have heard with profound regret of your intention to leave them.
This severs a most intimate connection extending over a period of nearly fourteen years.
We, being the Representatives of the said churches, have great pleasure in asking you to accept this Address and accompanying tokens as true, though inadequate, expressions of our appreciation of the valuable services rendered by you to the community while in our midst. We cannot review the past without a feeling of grateful satisfaction.

No sooner you settled amongst us than you identified yourself with everything that concerned the life and welfare of the neighbourhood. Each department of Christian work soon exhibited renewed vitality as the result of your wise guidance.

Your unblemished character, your unaffected piety, your genial disposition together with your winning personality made you a welcome visitor in our homes.
Your pulpit ministrations have been characterized with careful preparation, genuine earnestness and constant anxiety to benefit the hearers.
While faithfully denouncing the sins of the age, you have always presented the gospel in all its attractiveness as an expression of Divine Love.
Your pastoral Duties among us you have performed with unswerving diligence. In difficulties you have been our friend, in sorrow our comforter, and in seasons of joy a ready sympathizer.

By the promptness of your attention to the sick and afflicted, and the prudent management of the churches, you have won the affection and confidence of all. In connection with the Sunday School you have done work of far reaching effect. By the establishment of Libraries and the systematic distribution of healthy Literature you have been the means of attracting the young people towards Christian work and of creating in them a taste for good and solid reading.
Your Missionary zeal has awakened our churches to a sense of their duty never experienced before.

By your catholic spirit and your strong faith in the final triumph of Christianity you have led us to take a special interest in the evangelization of the heathen.
Your labours with the Temperance Movement have been most successful. In you the Band of Hope and every other institution for the encouragement of sobriety have found a warm supporter.

The cause of Education in the district you served well by the efficient manner you discharged your duties for many years as chairman of the School Board and your fearless advocacy of nonconformist and liberal principles, which we hold so dear, won for you our warmest approbation.
Not only are we deeply sensible of the loss which we sustain in your removal  but also in that of your beloved wife towards whom we entertain the highest esteem. By her affable manner combined with her active but modest disposition she has endeared herself to us all
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She has been ever ready to devote her musical powers and her other varied gifts to the service of the Master, so we cannot allow this opportunity to pass without giving a tangible proof of the regard in which we hold her.
 
We now bless God for your united efforts in the cause of humanity and the Gospel of the Son of God in these churches, and for the measure of success that has followed your labour of love.

In entering upon your new sphere of labour we unitedly commend you and your dear family to that Divine protection which you have hitherto enjoyed.br /> MMay your life continually grow in spiritual power and usefulness and may your future undertakings be crowned with abundant success, and when the end comes may your reward be that of the good and faithful servant.

SIGNED on behalf of the Churches

Deacons:           William Prosser, John Williams, Evan Thomas, William Morgan,
                         John Thomas, Enoch Williams, David Evans
Secretaries:       David  W Gwilym, Morgan Thomas

16th April 1896