Christmas Evans, the Preacher of Wild Wales: His country, his times, and his contemporariesHood, Edwin Paxton
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Christmas Evans, the Preacher of Wild Wales: His country, his times, and his contemporaries
Hood, Edwin Paxton
Evans, Christmas, 1766-1838
Anecdotes:—Announcement, a singular, 22; Ask him the price of pigs, 258;
Baptism, scene at a, 49; “Beattie on Truth,” 283; Beneath! beneath!
beneath! 239; Better marry, 265; Billy Dawson, 110; Butchers and
minister, 210; Cadwalladr and John Elias, 191; Chests for the dead, 259;
Child in the pulpit, a, 190; Christian, a muscular, 50; Christmas Evans
and his new hat, 118; Christmas Evans and the scholar, 67; Cough away!
233; Cow is worth more, the, 238; Deacon, a blundering, 22; Drunkard
converted by a goat, 218; Earl and John Elias, the, 200; Elizabeth cannot
be alive, 195; Fire and smoke, 185; Flax-dresser and the preacher, the,
189; Forgiving, 319; Gryffyth of Caernarvon, 11; Hope for the son of
Samuel, 47; “I am the Book,” 68; I baptized Christmas Evans, 52; Impudent
minister, an, 288; Knock-down argument, a, 51; Lucre, a lover of, 116;
Make me weep? 212; No marriage in heaven, 235; No oath required, 239; Of
Rowland Hill, 240; Offenders, punishing young, 210; Old sermon, preaching
an, 13; One-eyed lad, the, 57, 59, Paid at the resurrection, 116; Piecer,
a, 42; Plenty of fire in it, put, 186; Preach the Gospel, 224; Preacher,
a Welsh, 60; Preacher, an anonymous, 207; Racecourse, dispersion on a,
196; Raffles, Dr., and Christmas Evans, 92; Raffles, Dr., and the
Graveyard sermon, 82; Richard _bach_, 108; Richardson and John Elias,
190; Sabbath-breaker and the preacher, 193; Sammy Breeze, 245; Scotch
woman and her pastor, 176; Selling a horse, 317; Sheep-stealers, the,
113; “Sit down, David,” 108; Swearer, the, 210; Timothy Thomas and the
clergyman, 49; Two snails, the, 318; Welsh farmer, a, 220; Williams and
the bookworm, 171.
“Ancient Mariner” quoted, the, 232.
Anglesea, island of, Evans’s journey to, 63; Sandemanian schism in, 73;
Evans’s success in, 81; Leaving, 162, 165; Again in, 291.
Announcement, a singular, 22.
Apostle and bishop, treated as, 110.
Apostrophe, a startling, 188.
Arian, a Welsh, 204.
Association meetings, 10; where held, 21; gathering at, 121.
Associations, amongst old, 289.
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BALA, Charles of, 227.
Baptism, scene at a, 49.
Bardic triads, 254.
Bards, Wales the land of, 10, 11.
“Beattie on Truth,” anecdote of, 283.
_Bendigedig_, 17, 59.
“Beneath! beneath! beneath,” 239.
Beginning at Jerusalem, 301.
Bible a stone with seven eyes, 270.
Bibles for Wales, 228.
Birds, parable of the, 343.
Bone, the misplaced, 333.
Bookworm and William Williams, the, 171.
Borrow, George, quoted, 27, 218, 219, 258; Estimate of the “Sleeping
Bard,” 329.
Bradford, vicar of Christ Church, referred to, 196.
Breeze, Sammy, story of, 245.
Breton akin to Welsh, 25.
British and Foreign Bible Society established, 229.
Browning, Robert, quoted, 163.
Bully and preacher, 243.
Bunyan, Christmas Evans compared with, 4; of Wales, 330.
Burney’s, Dr., “History of Music,” referred to, 214.
Butchers and minister, 210.
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