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Memoir of the Life, Labors and Extensive Usefulness of the Rev. Christmas Evans; A Distinguished Minister of the Baptist Denomination in Wales
Memoir of the Life Labors and Extensive Usefulness of the Rev Christmas Evans A Distinguished Minister of the Baptist Denomination in Wales Author:David Phillips General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Original Publisher: M. W. Dodd Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. His removal to Caerphilly. -- The state of his mind at the commencement of his journey. -- His striving and covenanting with God on the road. -- His second marriage. -- His exertions for the cause of religion. -- A remarkable dream. -- His success at Caerphilly. Some mysterious dispensation had wisely ordered, before Mr. Evans left Anglesea, that he should be invited to take the charge of the Baptist Church at Caerphilly, in the county of Glamorgan, South Wales. With this invitation he thought it his duty to comply ; hence we see him commencing his journey thither, in about the sixtieth year of his age. In going from Llangevni, his former habitation, to Brynsienkyn, and reflecting upon his afflictive departure from his brethren in Anglesea, he felt his mind excited to great tenderness; and the presence of the Saviour was realized by him to so great a degree, that he gave a loud vent to his feelings, in tears and supplications; and the struggle continued for some hours. He obtained strength to commit himself and the ministry to the care of Jesus Christ; and in doing this he felt such confidence that it raised him above his afflictions, and above his fears. It appears from his Diary that he entered into covenant with God at this time, and resigned all afresh to Christ. This covenant has not been committed to writing, so far as can now be discovered. This is the second particular covenant between him and God in Christ, to which reference is made by him. His feelings and the workings of his mind, as we have seen, were strongly imbued with a sense of the religion...« less