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See also:ELIAS, See also:JOHN (1774-1841) , Welsh See also:Nonconformist preacher and reformer, was See also:born on the 2nd of May 1774, in the See also:parish of Abererch, See also:Carnarvonshire. In his youth he came under the See also:influence of the Calvinistic Methodist revival and became a preacher at nineteen. In 1799 he married and settled at Llanfechell in See also:Anglesey, giving up his See also:trade as a See also:weaver to become a small shopkeeper. His fame as a preacher increased, and under the direction of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Charles of See also:Bala he established numerous See also:Sunday See also:schools, and gave and secured considerable Welsh support to the See also:founding of the See also:London Missionary Society, the See also:British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible Society and the Religious See also:Tract Society. On Charles's See also:death in 1814 he became the recognized See also:leader of the Calvinistic Methodist See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, and the See also:story of his See also:life is simply a See also:record of marvellously successful See also:preaching See also:tours. He died on the 8th of See also:June 1841; ten thousand See also:people attended his funeral.
1 On the old views See also:relating to the See also:succession of the priests, according to which the high-priesthood was diverted from the See also:line of Eleazar and Phinehas into that of Ithamar, see See also:Robertson See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, Old Test. in Jewish Church, 2nd ed., p. 266.
His eloquence was so remarkable that he was known as " the Welsh See also:Demosthenes." His strength See also:lay in his intense conviction of an intimate connexion between See also:sin and See also:punishment and in his See also:power of dramatic presentation. As an ecclesiastic he was not so successful; he helped to compile his church's See also:Confession of Faith in 1823, and laid See also:great stress on a clause which limited the See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope of the See also:atonement to the elect. He was a stout Tory in politics and had many See also:friends among the See also:Anglican See also:clergy; he opposed the See also:movement for See also:Roman See also:Catholic emancipation. Several of his sermons were published in Welsh.
End of Article: ELIAS, JOHN (1774-1841)
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