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EDWARDS, LEWIS (1806–1887 )

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EDWARDS, See also:LEWIS (1806–1887 ) , Welsh See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born in the See also:parish of Llanhadarn Fawr, See also:Cardigan-See also:shire, on the 27th of See also:October 'Roo. He was educated at See also:Aberystwyth and at Llangeitho, and then himself kept school in both these places. He had already begun to preach for the Calvinistic Methodists when, in See also:December 1839, he went to See also:London to take See also:advantage of the newly-opened university. In 1832 he settled as See also:minister at Laugharne in See also:Carmarthenshire, and the following See also:year went to See also:Edinburgh, where a See also:special See also:resolution of the See also:senate allowed him to See also:graduate at the end of his third session. He was now better able to further his plans for providing a trained See also:ministry for his See also:church. Previously, the success of the Methodist preachers had been due mainly to their natural gifts. Edwards made his See also:home at See also:Bala, and there, in 1837, with See also:David See also:Charles, his See also:brother-in-See also:law, he opened a school, which ultimately became the denominational See also:college for See also:north See also:Wales. He died. on the 19th of See also:July 1887. Edwards may fairly be called one of the makers of See also:modern Wales. Through his hands there passed See also:generation after genera: tion of preachers, who carried his See also:influence to every corner of the principality.. By fostering competitive meetings and by his writings, especially in Y Traethodydd (" The Essa) ist "), a quarterly See also:magazine which he founded in 1845 and edited for ten years, he did much to inform and educate his countrymen on See also:literary and theological subjects. A new college was built at Bala in 1867, for which he raised £io,000.

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chief publication was a noteworthy See also:book on The See also:Doctrine of the See also:Atonement, See also:cast in the See also:form of a See also:dialogue between See also:master and See also:pupil; the treatment is forensic, and emphasis is laid on merit. It was due to him that the North and See also:South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Associations See also:united to form an See also:annual See also:General See also:Assembly; he was its See also:moderator in 1866 and again in 1876. He was successful in bringing the various churches of the Presbyterian See also:order into closer See also:touch with each other, and unwearying in his efforts to promote See also:education for his countrymen. See Bywyd a Llythyrau y Parch. (i.e. See also:Life and Letters of the Rev.) Lewis Edwards, D.D., by his son T. C. Edwards.

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