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See also:LEWIS See also:EDWARDS (1806–1887 )
, Welsh See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born in the See also:parish of Llanhadarn Fawr, See also: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
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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 See also:senate allowed him to See also: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: His See also:chief publication was a noteworthy See also:book on The See also:Doctrine of the See also:Atonement, See also:cast in the See also:form of a See also:dialogue between See also:master and See also: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 See also:General See also:Assembly; he was its See also:moderator in 1866 and again in 1876 . He was successful in bringing the various churches of the Presbyterian See also:order into closer See also:touch with each other, and unwearying in his efforts to promote See also:education for his countrymen . See Bywyd a Llythyrau y Parch . (i.e . See also:Life and Letters of the Rev.) See also:Lewis Edwards, D.D., by his son T . C . Edwards . |
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