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to ] , and the following lines "were written for his tombstone : "Sculptor ! foibear—nor seek the chissel's aid To add a mole-hill to a mount of fame . Say , humble stone ! here Henderson is laid , And bear the best of epitaphs—his name . "
An ingenious correspondent has supplied No . XXX . " On the Origin of Chivalry . " A cultivated i in agination appears in No . XXXI . " On the Sources of the Pleasure derived from Ecclesiastical Architecture / ' Mr , Evans strongly fecommends to the students or
admirers of the Gothic or pointed style , the Essays on Gothic Architecture , " published by Taylor and selected from the writings of Warton , Bentham , Grose and Milner . We extract , as a specimen of the author ' s manner , the " Memoir of Dr . Caleb Evans" No . XXXII .
" Caleb Erans , D . D . the eldest son of the Rev . Hugh Evans , was born in Bristol , in 1737 . He acquired a knowledge of tlie classics , and was instructed in the various branches of a general and liberal education , under the superintendence and direction of his father ; and as he had early resolved to devote himself to the Christian
ministry , it was determined that he should complete his studies in the dissenting- academy at Mile-End , and for this purpose he was removed to London about the year 1754 . The academy was at that time conducted with distinguished reputation by J > rs . Walker and Jennings , of whom the last is well known in the republic of letters , as the author of " Lectures on the Jewish
Antiquities , " a work which combines extensive erudition , with profound research After an application , during- the usual period , to the several studies which ought invariably to form a preparation for the exercise of the important office of a public instructor , Dr . Evans continued during *
a short time in the metropolis , and preached to a congregation of dissenters , which then met for divine worship in Unicorn-yard , Southwark . In 1759 , however , ho returned to Bristol , and on the decease of the Rev . Bernard Foskett , was chosen assistant preacher to his father union" * the
congregation of Particular Baptists , assembling' at Broadmoad Meeting , in that city , But his ordination did not take place till 1707 , when lie had nearly attained the thirtieth year of his ago , at which period it was conducted by the excellent I ) i \ Samuel Stennett , assisted by other ministers of the Baptist denomination . " An endowment has for many years been annexed to the salary of the pastor of Broad-
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mead Meeting , held on condition of K '« being * a man well-skilled in the Hebre and Greek languages , and of devoting * portion of his time to the education of $ fa youjig * men designed for the Christian mi . nistry . In the discharge of the important duties resulting" from the connexion of pastor and tutor , Dr . Evans had assisted liis father ever since his return from the
metropolis in 1759 . But even these exertions appeared too contracted to his ardent and active mind , and he dete rmined to attempt their extension . With this design he projected , ancl finally succeeded in establishing * the Bristol Education Society , which by means of its funds and annual subscriptions , has supported a dissenting- academy in Bristol for nearly half a century , with considerable reputation .
"The first tutors in this academy were the Rev . Hug'h Evans , the Rev . James Newton , * and the subject of this essay . The institution itself has been recently removed from North-Street to a building of considerable extent in Stoke ' s Croft , and promises to rival every similar establishment , even the most celebrated , in the history of dissenters .
u Upon the death of his father in 1781 , Dr . Evans succeeded him in the office of pastor to the ' Baptist congregation in Broadmead , and at the same time was elected president of the Education Society . He discharged the duties resulting * from both these important relations , with distinguished ability and zeal , during * a period often
years , and in August , 1791 , terminated a career fuJI of activity ^ usefulness , and honour , in the fifty-fourth year of his age Dr . Samuel Stennett preached his funeral sermon to a numerous , and deeply affected audience , which was afterwards
published , together with the funeral oration delivered at his grave , by the Rev . JolanTommas of thePithay . The preacher well observes of Dr . Evans , that ' he died at an age when , in the course of nature , his continuance for ten or fifteen y ears
longer might have been expected . In & sense , however , he might be said to have attained this last term , if we measure his life , not by the efflux of time , but by the variety aud multiplicity of his active exertions for the glory of God , in the good of mankind !' " I ) r . Evans e productions as an author
* " 1 lie 'Reverend James Newton wa > a particular friend of John Henderson , and forms one of many instances , where superior learning- and exalted virtues sink down to the g-rave unknown to the won , and wept only by that confined circle who knew how to appreciate excellence ; whose praise , with its object , is soon caried away by the " onward-rolling" war of time . Poenis * &c . "
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180 Review . —Evans e s Ponderer .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/52/
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