He was ordained minister in September 1908 at Seion, Pontypridd, and from there moved to Addoldy, Glynneath, where he was inducted in January 1911.
During the severe Post WWI economic depression and the Great Slump that began in 1929, poverty and unemployment in Ammenford was so extreme that childhood malnutrition and lack of clothing except for remnant coal sacks became commonplace; Davies became chairman of the local 'Distress Committee' and was able to "twin" the town with a parish in Merseyside, Liverpool, that provided sufficient funds to prevent actual starvation.
[2] An unusually high proportion of young people from Ammanford went on to academic research careers, a fact that several of them later credited to Davies' influence.
[5] His writings include, Cyn Dringo'r Mynydd Du, O Ganol Shir Gâr, and Rhamantwr y De and Cyffro'r Hen Goffrau, which telling of old Carmarthenshire beliefs and rural amusements, reveal his vivid imagination.
[1] In 1965 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in acknowledgement of his humanitarian acts and for his bravery on many occasions in rescuing persons in danger of drowning.