Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, In the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New-York. 15 Mm 22 Look Lotge April 1943 G 286.092 E92p ADVERTISEMENT. THE only apology which the compiler offers for the appearance of this volume, is the almost constant inquiry made respecting the extraordinary man whose history it records. This suggested the desirableness of publishing a brief Memoir of his character and labors, that American readers might be made more intimately acquainted with one of whom they had heard so much after all, it is to be regretted that the portraiture here exhibited is but a very faint resemblance of the original. This work is principally taken from the Welsh Memoir, published in the principality soon after the death of Mr. Evans, to which is added a variety of incidents well known to the writer, and which occurred within the limits of his acquaintance of some thirty years with Mr. Evans. The candor of the reader is requested on behalf of the style in which the book is written, and particularly to the translation of those portions of Mr. E.'s writings which occur in the course of the work, for it was thought best to render them in Lockle language as nearly as possible to that which he would have used himself had he written in English. That the Divine blessing may attend this humble attempt to magnify the grace of God, which was so eminently displayed in the subject of these pages, shall be the constant prayer of the compiler. NEW-YORK, Nov. 20, 1843. D. P. CONTENTS. Introduction.-Birth of Christmas Evans.-Parents.- First religious impressions.-Uniting himself to the Arminian Presbyterians.- Beginning to preach.- Seeking after knowledge.-Visit to Herefordshire.— Spiritual declension.-The loss of his eye. - Ad- monitory dream.--Change of his views on baptism.— His baptism. Joining the Baptist church at Aber- Page |