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a man of generous impulse, ever ready to open his purse for the good of his fellow men and the spread of Christ's truth-he was enabled to send out a young student from Horton College, Bradford, to preach the Gospel, and in every way promote the spiritual interests of the seafaring community trading to that wellknown port. And from this effort of Dr. Evans, sprang the present large, and flourishing Baptist Church in that important town of the

German Empire. His health soon after broke down, from his overtaxed mental exertions, and he was completely laid aside from all public work; change of air and scene, with perfect quiet of mind, were recommended, and to gain this he visited Brussels.

Here he only partly obeyed his medical adviser's injunctions; change of air and scene he enjoyed, but from neither literary nor evangelizing efforts did he refrain. In the former department he set about collecting materials for a sketch of the religious condition of the country, which on his return he published; and in the latter he was most successful. Shortly after his arrival in this city, he became acquainted with a number of Christian people. After repeated interviews with them, and much prayer, they expressed a wish. that he should baptize them by immersion, and form them into a Baptist Church. For some time, by the partial aid of friends, he supported a Scripture-reader in connection with them, and was, under God, the means of founding and sustaining the first Baptist church in the priest-ridden kingdom of Belgium.

On his return to England, he did not profit from the warning his health, shattered by over-mental exertion, had given him, but at once resumed his many laborious but loved pursuits, and, as a natural

consequence, at a subsequent period. his health failed and that still more seriously. His medical advisers recommended travel, and the relinquishment of all mental effort, even reading and writing. He followed this advice for weeks, but with no improvement, till he visited Ben Rhydding, from which he returned, after about six weeks trial of hydropathy, as practised in that establishment, with greatly improved health. During this three months' absence, as well as the former one, his people kindly found supplies for the pulpit, and paid his salary. For more than twenty years it was only £100 per annum, and was ultimately raised to £150, during his absence, in the prospect of a visit to the Metropolis, as a probationer for the pastorate of a church, over which a late tutor of one of our colleges had presided.

In spite of the low state of Dissent and the paramount influence of the Established Church in the town-Dr. Evans had not been long in Scarborough before-under his able leadership, Nonconformity boldly raised its head. All the Evangelical sections of Christ's Church were banded together in Christian intercourse, and during the whole. period of his pastorate this harmony was unbroken, a frequent interchange of pulpits taking place, and the Baptists, elevated by his powerful hand from their hitherto insignificant position, took a high rank in Scarborough. This unsectarian Christian spirit Dr. Evans strove by every means to cherish. An interchange of pulpits for the Mission took place every year. The Wesleyans allowed him the use of their chapel on a week evening for a sermon for our Mission, and continued the practice till his own place was finished. Up to a late period one of the deputation for the London Mission occupied his pulpit once on

the Sabbath, and one of ours did the same in the Old Meeting House (Independent). His church had, at an early period, connected itself with this new mode of Christian benevolence, in accordance with the spirit of the Gospel and of its Divine Founder.

The late Robert Hall visited him more than once, and was enraptured with the magnificent scenery of Scarborough. Andrew Fuller was on his way to pay a similar visit, when he was taken ill at Newark of the affliction from which he died.

The visits of Knibb, and his powerful denunciation of slavery; and of Eustace Carey, with his attractive eloquence, will be remembered with. pleasure and gratitude to him who brought such men amongst his flock. Year after year Mr. Carey visited Scarborough with undiminished popularity.

The combat with Episcopacy in the town was watched and sustained by Mr. Evans alone; it was severe and somewhat protracted. Thrice the attempt to levy a church-rate was made-twice in regard to Christ Church, once with reference to a new burial-ground; thrice he defeated it, and to him belongs the honour that a church-rate has never, since he came to the town, been inflicted on the inhabitants of Scarborough,-and now, never will be.

When Christ Church was opened they tried to levy a rate; but they were beaten twice, and their power has been paralysed from that time and for ever. But he was far from manifesting any hostility to the Church. After thwarting them in the endeavour to levy a rate, he produced in their minds a feeling of intense astonishment by voluntarily associating himself with a curate, and enabling him to collect subscriptions for surrounding this very church with an iron railing.

With the vicar a long contest had to be sustained alone. The passing of the Marriage and Regis tration Bills troubled him sorely. He warned his parishioners, in a circular, that he had examined the register-book, and could find therein no evidence that the children had been made Christians, and that, in case of death, he should refuse them Christian burial. To this absurd document six of the local clergy attached their signatures. Dr. Evans published a letter to the vicar, and this was subsequently followed by two others with remarkable effect. These pamphlets were, by request of the Member for Finsbury, circulated in the House of Commons, and produced a great impression on the minds of many honourable members, resulting in a request that a petition, calling the attention of the Government to the spirit of the clergy, might be presented. This was done, and the conduct of "the Seven Champions of Yorkshire went the round of the press. On the Baptismcontroversy, Dr. Evans published three letters to the vicar, in reply to a tract widely circulated by him; and another, rebuking him for having prevented the incumbent of Christ Church obtaining as his curate, an eminent Saxon scholar.

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Dr. Evans attended in 1844 the first Conference of the Society for liberating Religion from State Patronage and Control, and always remained one of its most active members of Council. In connection with his brother-in-law, the late M.P. for Shetland and Orkney, Dr. Evans assisted at the Anti-Corn Law League demonstrations held in Covent Garden Theatre in the spring of 1845, and was an earnest worker in that cause. To the Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association he likewise gave his support, and also to the British Anti-State-Church Association.

From his extensive library he enriched some of our colleges, especially the institutions at Bury and Rawdon. To the Baptist Historical Society of Philadelphia, in the United States of America, whose aim is to collect copies of all the works written by Baptist authors, he was a generous friend, enriching its shelves with many volumes which they had failed otherwise, to obtain. To his generosity in giving them the original, the Hanserd Knollys Society owes a reprint, of at least one very rare and valuable work.

Of the Peace Society he was a warm advocate, and not only by his purse and influence, but by his literary labours, did he effectually advance the advent of that time "when men shall beat their spears into pruning hooks, and their swords into ploughshares, and shall learn

war no more.

In the welfare of his poorer ministerial brethren and their families, he felt an absorbing interest, and did all in his power to ameliorate their condition. In an effort to support a society formed for assisting to apprentice the children of Dissenting ministers of evangelical sentiments, he lent a helping hand.

To the National Society for Aged and Infirm Baptist Ministers he was one of the largest subscribers, though not a beneficiary member, and in 1866, when it was languishing for want of funds, he, although forbidden by his medical adviser to engage in any exertion; by one strenuous, personal effort, placed it in a satisfactory financial position. So accustomed to self-denial had he become, that it was no unusual thing for him to throw the risk of his life into the scale when he had a work to do for his Master; and often his family, knowing that in a moment his life might be seriously imperilled, have trembled for the result. To the Yorkshire Baptist Aged Ministers'

Society he was a generous friend, latterly contributing £10 per annum to its funds. His papers show that in one month alone, he gratuitously collected £141 to enable some of his poorer ministerial brethren who, in early life, had not become members, to meet the premium necessary to enable them to share in its advantages.

The letters of thanks, couched in the warmest gratitude, that he received from ministerial brethren would fill a volume; and this knowledge of the good he was enabled to render, well repaid him for his arduous labours, and he now knows that his belief was true, that "whosoever giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord;" and he enjoys his exceeding great reward. To his zealous efforts, in raising subscriptions for the purchase of annuities, many of our poorer Yorkshire ministers are indebted for the means of subsistence, when age or infirmity has unfitted them for longer discharging the duties of the pastorate. Many a brother's heart has he cheered by the timely advocacy of a testimonial, thus giving new zeal and life to earnest workers in Christ's vineyard!

In Scarborough there are public mementoes of his usefulness and love for his fellow-men that will never die. Of the Mechanics' Institute he was the founder and its first secretary, having frequently held the office of its president; he delivered the first lecture there, and bore for many years, before it was established on its present firm footing, nearly the whole weight of its affairs. The establishment of the Building and Investment Society, to which many are so much indebted, was owing, in a great measure, to his efforts. Of the Archæological Society, with its museum, renowned for its perfect and simple geological collection, admitted to be one of the

best of its kind in that part of England, he, in conjunction with the late Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart., M.P., was one of the principal founders, and for twenty years its honorary secretary. Of the local branch of the Religious Tract Society he filled the office of secretary forty years, but when freshly formed, through his efforts, he was not only secretary, but treasurer, committee, and depositary, using his own vestry for the latter purpose. In the Temperance Society he filled the office of president, and in it, and the Lancastrian, and Infant schools, he was an earnest and able officer.

Of the "Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals" he was a member, and most zealous partizan.

The moral condition of the seafaring population excited his sympathy, and he commenced a series of "Bethel" meetings, preaching an annual sermon, in addition to week-day services, with such benefit and profit, that many of his ministerial brethren adopted the same

course.

Want of space forbids more on local matters, and compels attention to more wide-spread efforts. To all the Baptist Institutions he was a good friend, and it may safely be asserted that there is not one society in the denomination which he has not aided by his purse or his pen; most have received benefit from both. Until seized with paralysis, he was never known to be absent from the County Association annual meetings; to London he journeyed four times a year, and that when coach travelling made it a somewhat formidable journey. To the Baptist Missionary Society he rendered great service, acting, till his death, on the committee-lately as an honorary member-and organizing the annual services in his part of the country, getting in and remitting subscriptions, and often

forming part of, or accompanying, the deputations to other towns. On these, and similar errands, he has travelled thousands of miles, sometimes by coach, but frequently in an open gig, and that often in the depth of winter-indeed, to the neighbouring towns such a conveyance was the only means of transit, and in his journeys, the writer very often accompanied him.

To the Yorkshire Baptist Itinerant Society and to the British and Irish Home Mission, he rendered similar services. The Baptist Tract Society, the Baptist Irish Society, the Bible Translation Society, also owe much to his disinterested services. He filled the post of President of the Baptist Union in 1858, and in delivering the Inaugural Address, very graphically sketched out the history, practice, and tenets of the Baptist denomination.

Of" Psalms and Hymns" he was one of the trustees; some of his own hymns are published, others remain still in manuscript. As a member of the Committee, and Theological Examiner of Rawdon College, he for very many years rendered essential service to the best interests of that institution.

In 1862 Dr. Evans's health, from overwork, was so shattered, that he was compelled to resign the pastorate; he did not do this because dissatisfied with it, nor that his mental faculties were failing him, but because he thought he could serve his Master better in the study than in the pulpit, and the responsibility and anxiety connected with it, were too much for him at his advanced period of life.

Twelve years previously he had sent in his resignation, with the intention of accepting a Metropolitan charge; he was prevailed on to remain, and it was then arranged that as this was his first, so it should be his last pastorate. During

this period he several times intimated to the Church his wish that they should select another minister, but never enforced his wishes. Perhaps, as on four previous occasions, the remonstrances of his people would have prevailed, had not his medical adviser pointed out that, not only health, but possibly life, hung on his firmness. Hence, memorials signed by many of the members, letters of remonstrance, and the proposal of an assistant from others, all failed to influence his mind.

He felt and the truth of his belief has since been abundantly proved that when free from the anxieties of the pastorate, he could preach, and be as useful as ever,

As he approached sixty years of age he began to feel the effect of a working man's life. Symptoms of a startling nature for a year or two had manifested themselves. He felt now, that a younger man was needed. The state of ecclesiastical things had changed, and he had not physical energy as before. The chapel was free from debt; a number of active young people were around him; and the Church had, a year or two before, received a large accession to its membership; and on calm and prayerful deliberation, he submitted his resignation of the pastorate.

Dr. Evans records the following fact:-"We had now and then a more prosperous year at Ebenezer' than usual, and this we designated a revival. In one of these more successful years, I added to my Church, by baptism, about sixty members."

The average increase to the Church, during his thirty-eight years' pastorate, was about fourteen, and in that period five young men were called to the ministry, and sent to college. Three of them are still engaged in the work. One

has retired from the failure of health, and another to enter into business. One is usefully engaged in Canada, and the others in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Dr. Evans's last recorded words to the Church he had made what it then was, and which he loved so well, were as follows:

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"Beloved brethren, pastors may die; useful officers of the Church will be called home. Members may leave you, and others may make shipwreck of faith; but never forget -the Great Master lives. His interest never weakens-His presence is never absent from your holy gatherings. He is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.' 'Seeing you have obtained help of God, you continue to this day.' "Be not weary in well-doing, for in due season ye shall reap if ye faint not.' Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.' 'Now the God of Peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever.' 'Finally, brethren, farewell! Be perfect, be of good comfort. Be of one mind. Live in peace, and the God of Peace shall be with you.' Amen."

An annuity of £50 was voted him by the Church; but when informed of this he peremptorily refused to accept it; and finding him determined to abide by this decision, a testimonial was proposed and presented to him. It consisted of a magnificent solid silver tea and coffee service, a sum in gold of about £100, and other small articles, the gifts of individual members. This was the third testimonial Dr. Evans had received since he came to Scarborough; the first being a silver inkstand, and

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