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See also: Nonconformist divine, was See also: born in the parish of Llanhadarn Fawr, Cardigan-See also: shire, on the 27th of See also: October 'Roo
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He was educated at See also: Aberystwyth and at Llangeitho, and then himself kept school in both these places
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He had already begun to preach for the Calvinistic Methodists when, in See also: December 1839, he went to See also: London to take See also: advantage of the newly-opened university
.
In 1832 he settled as See also: minister at Laugharne in See also: Carmarthenshire, and the following See also: year went to See also: Edinburgh, where a See also: special See also: resolution of the senate allowed him to graduate at the end of his third session
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He was now better able to further his plans for providing a trained See also: ministry for his See also: church
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Previously, the success of the Methodist preachers had been due mainly to their natural gifts
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See also: Edwards made his home at See also: Bala, and there, in 1837, with See also: David See also: Charles, his
See also: brother-in-See also: law, he opened a school, which ultimately became the denominational See also: college for See also: north See also: Wales
.
He died. on the 19th of See also: July 1887
.
Edwards may fairly be called one of the makers of See also: modern Wales
.
Through his hands there passed generation after genera: tion of preachers, who carried his influence to every corner of the principality
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By fostering competitive meetings and by his writings, especially in Y Traethodydd (" The Essa) ist "), a quarterly See also: magazine which he founded in 1845 and edited for ten years, he did much to inform and educate his countrymen on See also: literary and theological subjects
.
A new college was built at Bala in 1867, for which he raised £io,000
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His chief publication was a noteworthySee also: book on The See also: Doctrine of the See also: Atonement, cast in the See also: form of a See also: dialogue between master and pupil; the treatment is forensic, and emphasis is laid on merit
.
It was due to him that the North and See also: South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Associations See also: united to form an See also: annual General See also: Assembly; he was its moderator in 1866 and again in 1876
.
He was successful in bringing the various churches of the Presbyterian See also: order into closer touch with each other, and unwearying in his efforts to promote See also: education for his countrymen
.
See Bywyd a Llythyrau y Parch
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See also: Life and Letters of the Rev.) See also: Lewis Edwards, D.D., by his son T
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