EVANS. 993 visiting the sick. He was zealous and fervent, circumspect and wise, and always deeply affected with the worth of souls. " His excellent ministerial endowments were manifest to all What he delivered to the people was first deeply im- printed on his memory by an easy method, and deeply engraven on his own heart by serious meditation. He ex- pressed himself with great power and plainness, and enforced the great truths of the gospel with strong arguments and pathetical affections. In his daily conversation he was cour- teous and affable to all men, whether his superiors, inferiors, or equals. He was meek and grave, holy and exemplary, as was obvious to all who knew him.". He was the author of " Select Sermons," 1657. HUGH EVANS was born in Radnorshire, but removed in his youth to the city of Worcester, where he lived some years. About the commencement of the civil wars, he left that city and went to reside at Coventry. There he found a society of baptists, when he soon embraced their sentiments, and was admitted a member of their church. This was about the year 1643. He approved himself a very pious, sensible, and hopeful young man. His brethren soon perceived that he was endowed with promising gifts for the ministry, and encouraged him to cultivate and exercise them; which he did to their abundant satisfaction. He now began to pity the state of his native country ; and, considering its deplor- able condition as overspread with gross darkness, and desti- tute of the means of knowledge and salvation,he felt a strong desire to devote himself to the laudable, but arduous work of enlightening and converting his countrymen. There were then not above one or two gathered churches in all Wales, and very few preachers of the gospel. His friends approved and countenanced his benevolent inclination, but judged it advisable that he should first have some further literary advantage and instruction. Accordingly, he was placed for some time under the care and tuition of Mr. Jeremiah Ives, a baptist minister of considerable respectability. Having con- tinued with Mr. Ives, and enjoyed the benefit of his instruc- tions for a considerable time, he, according to his original intention, returned into Wales. This, it appears, was about the year 1647. * Crofton's Funeral Sermbn and Life of Mr. Frost.
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