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EVANS, CHRISTMAS (1766-1838)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 2 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EVANS, CHRISTMAS (1766-1838) , Welsh Nonconformist divine, was born near the
village
  of Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, on the 25th of December 1766. His father, a shoemaker, died early, and the boy grew up as an illiterate farm labourer. At the age of seventeen, becoming servant to a Presbyterian minister,
David
 
Davies
 , he was affected by a religious revival and learned to read and write in English and Welsh. The itinerant Calvinistic Methodist preachers and the members of the Baptist church at Llandyssul further influenced him, and he soon joined the latter denomination. In 1789 he went into North Wales as a preacher and settled for two years in the desolate peninsula of Lleyn, Carnarvonshire, whence he removed to Llangefni in Anglesey. Here, on a stipend of X17 a year, supplemented by a little
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 money being' collected on preaching tours which Evans undertook in
South
  Wales.
In 1826 Evans accepted an invitation to Caerphilly, where he remained for two years, removing in 1828 to Cardiff. In 1832, in response to urgent calls from the north, he settled in Carnarvon and again undertook the old
work
  of building and collecting. He was taken ill on a tour in
South
  Wales, and died at Swansea on the 19th of July 1838. In spite of his early disadvantages and personal disfigurement (he had lost an eye in a
X. 1
youthful brawl), Christmas Evans was a remarkably powerful preacher. To a natural aptitude for this calling he united a nimble mind and an inquiring spirit; his character was simple, his piety humble and his faith fervently evangelical. For a time he came under Sandemanian influence, and when the Wesleyans entered Wales he took the Calvinist side in the bitter controversies that were frequent from 1800 to 1810. His
chief
  characteristic was a vivid and affluent imagination, which absorbed and controlled all his other powers, and earned for him the name of " the Bunyan of Wales."
His works were edited by Owen
Davies
  in 3 vols. (Carnarvon, 1895-1897). See the Lives by D. R. Stephens (1847) and Paxton Hood (1883).


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