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Now, go write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for th time to come for ever and ever

REV. LLYWELYN J. EVANS, D. D., LL. D.

PROFESSOR OF HEBREW AND OLD TESTAMENT EXEGESIS AT BALA THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE,

NORTH WALES.

Late Professor at Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio.

We present to the readers of the CAMBRIAN for this month the portrait

and profound biblical scholar, a successful religious instructor, and as a preacher of rare ability and eloquence. His fame is not confined to the limits of his own nationality, nor to that of the Presbyterian church of America, but is well known also through a large section of the Christian world; and wherever he is known, he is highly esteened both for his varied attainments and for his estimable personal qualities. In a short sketch in the CAMBRIAN we can only briefly refer to some of the most prominent features and events of a career which has been remarkably successful.

his service was in great demand during the campaign, and he distinguished himself by his able and telling speeches. Consequently in the following year, he was nominated and elected a member of the Wisconsin Legislature for the city of Racine, where he was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Education. In the autumn of 1857 he moved to Cincinnati, O.. and soon afterward entered Lane Seminary to study for the ministry. During this period he took great interest in literary and educational movements among the Welsh people. The literary society of Racine was organized chiefly through his efforts, also the first Eisteddfod of Ricine in 1856, and he became an active worker in connection with temperance, music and the Sabbath school. He competed successfully at a noted and cessfully at Eisteddfodau for the chief prizes for compositions in prose and poetry. Many of these compositions being adjudged by the best critics to be of great merit and excellence. Several of his poems and essays on various subjects and also sermons have been published from time to time in Welsh periodicals and pamphlets, and have been read with interest and profit by a large circle of Welsh readers.

Dr. Evans is the son of the late Rev. Edward T. Evans, Newark, O., and formerly of Caerwys, Ruabon and Bangor, North Wales. His father was the son of Mr. Thomas Evans, Maesycoed, near Caerwys, Flintshire, who was a noted and honored elder in the C. M. Church; and his mother was the daughter of the famous minister, Rev. Robert Roberts, Tanyclawdd, near Ruabon, North Wales. Having thus inherited strong natural faculties, he received excellent training in his boyhood at home and in some of the best schools in Wales, and for the last three years before leaving Wales he studied at Bala College, under the instruction of the late renowned Dr. Lewis Edwards, Bala. His parents and the whole family emigrating to America in 1850, he came with them when he was 16 or 17 years of age. They settled first at Racine, Wis., where his father became pastor of the C. M. Church. After his arrival in America, he continued his studies at Racine College, where he obtained his degree and then became professor of Greek for a time in the same institution. In 1856 he took an active and prominent part in politics, supporting General Freemont for the presidency. Being a ready and fluent speaker,

On graduating from the seminary he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church, on Walnut Hills, and in 1862 he was elected lecturer in Church History. Filling both positions for some time with great satisfaction, he at length, gave up his pastoral charge and devoted all his time and energies to his work in the seminary. In 1867 Dr. Evans was transferred to the chair of Hebrew, and in 1873 he became professor of New Testament, Greek and Exegesis. And in each department his great and varied attainments enabled him to render invaluable service to the seminary and

THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE WELSH CHURCH.

through the students to the ministry of the church at large. Each successive class of studeets in leaving the seminary have carried with them into the ministry deep and lasting impressions of his instructive teaching, his personal influence and also of his kind and friendly interest in their welfare. In addition to his work in the seminary and preaching on the Sabbath, he has also attained an honorable position by his writings, as associate editor of the Princeton Review, also as the author of able and valuable articles on biblical subjects in the press, and especially by his translation of Lange's "Commentary on Job," with supplementary notes by himself.

We greatly regret his departure from among us in America, but rejoice that he has been called to occupy so responsible a position among the Welsh people in his native land of Wales, where we hope he and Mrs. Evans and their dear son may enjoy many years of happy and useful service in the cause of our Divine Lord

and Master.

The following testimony to the personal qualities and service of Dr. Evans; we gladly insert from the New York Evangelist for April 28th,

1892:

A LOSS TO AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP.

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nized as a man of very brilliant intellect. Among scholars there is as much difference as in the several professions, or among men in public life. The highest type of scholars are, like poets, "born, not made;" that is, they have a genius in art; the knowledge that others acquire by infinite labor, they grasp by a sort of intuition. Of this class of scholars was Professor Evans. No plodding for years over grammars and lexicons could have made him what he is. quickness of his mind apprehended with ease what others attained by years of plodding. And what he was as a student, he was also as a teacher the dryest subjects were "clothed upon" by his immagination with new interest, and hisrory that was centuries old became fresh and living as the events of to-day. The removal of such a man from the country is a loss to American scholarship. He carries with him the respect of all American scholars and the warmest affection of those who know him intimately, for he is most lovable in private life.

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So we bid good bye to this dear, beloved and honored friend-but not, we trust forever! After a few years in his native land, we hope he will return to us, when he will find all arms and all hearts wide open to receive him.

BY MR.

WELSH CHURCH.

WILLIS-BUND, LINCOLN'S INN,

LONDON.

America has lost one of its first THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE scholars in the removal of Professor Evans, of Lane seminary to Wales. As all know, he is a Welshman by birth, and has a very tender affection for his native land; yet he has lived so long in this country that, as Irishman would say, "he is as good as a native." Indeed he has the strongest ties to America. If he was not born here, he has been educated here, and here he found God's best gift to man in a noble American wife; and here at an early day he was recog

[A paper read before the Cymmrodorion
Society, London, in January, 1892.]
At the outset Mr. Willis-Bund
observed that the title of his paper,
"The Early History of the Welsh
Church," called for an apology.
There are few points connected
with ecclesiastical matters in Wales
on which every one is agreed, but