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See also: EVANS, See also:CHRISTMAS (1766-1838) , Welsh See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born near the See also:village of Llandyssul, See also:Cardiganshire, on the 25th of See also:December 1766. His See also:father, a shoemaker, died See also:early, and the boy See also:grew up as an illiterate See also:farm labourer. At the See also:age of seventeen, becoming servant to a Presbyterian See also:minister, See also:David See also:Davies, he was affected by a religious revival and learned to read and write in See also:English and Welsh. The itinerant Calvinistic Methodist preachers and the members of the Baptist 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 at Llandyssul further influenced him, and he soon joined the latter See also:denomination. In 1789 he went into See also:North See also:Wales as a preacher and settled for two years in the desolate See also:peninsula of Lleyn, See also:Carnarvonshire, whence he removed to Llangefni in See also:Anglesey. Here, on a See also:stipend of X17 a See also:year, supplemented by a little See also:tract-selling, he built up a strong Baptist community, modelling his organization to some extent on that of the Calvinistic Methodists. Many new chapels were built, the See also:money being' collected on See also:preaching See also:tours which Evans undertook in See also:South Wales.
In 1826 Evans accepted an invitation to See also:Caerphilly, where he remained for two years, removing in 1828 to See also:Cardiff. In 1832, in response to urgent calls from the north, he settled in See also:Carnarvon and again undertook the old See also:work of See also:building and See also:collecting. He was taken See also:ill on a tour in South Wales, and died at See also:Swansea on the 19th of See also:July 1838. In spite of his early disadvantages and See also:personal disfigurement (he had lost an See also:eye in a
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youthful brawl), Christmas Evans was a remarkably powerful preacher. To a natural aptitude for this calling he See also: united a nimble mind and an inquiring spirit; his See also:character was See also:simple, his piety humble and his faith fervently evangelical. For a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he came under Sandemanian See also:influence, and when the Wesleyans entered Wales he took the Calvinist See also:side in the See also:bitter controversies that were frequent from 1800 to 1810. His See also:chief characteristic was a vivid and affluent See also:imagination, which absorbed and controlled all his other See also:powers, and earned for him the name of " the See also:Bunyan of Wales."
His See also:works were edited by See also:Owen Davies in 3 vols. (Carnarvon, 1895-1897). See the Lives by D. R. See also:Stephens (1847) and See also:Paxton See also:Hood (1883).
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