Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. Sketches of ministers--Robert Roberts--John Elias--Ebenezer Morris--Ebenezer Richard--Conclusion. Before laying aside our pen, we should like to enable our readers to form an idea of some of those men whom God raised at the most critical period of the history of Welsh Methodism, and whose ministry was blessed by His Spirit to make such a wide and lasting impression upon the Principality. And here there is a serious difficulty meeting us at the very outset. They are so many, that it would require a large volume to give even a brief sketch of their history. A list of the names of those who have occupied an important place in the Connexion, and have done a great work in its behalf, would itself fill several pages. We will select a few of the most prominent, and our readers will please understand that they represent a great many more whose names we are compelled to leave unmentioned. Our purpose will be answered better by giving a comparatively lengthened account of three or four, than by devoting half-a-dozen lines each to forty or fifty. There was one in North Wales who had died nine years before the Connexion ordained its own ministers, and who, if he had lived, would have been among the first to be selected for that purpose. This was Robert Roberts of Clynog, in Carnarvonshire. He was originally a slate-quarryman, and afterwards a farm-servant, before he became a preacher of the Gospel. When sixteen years of age he was brought to know the truth under the ministry of Mr. Jones of Llangan, and began to preach when he was five-andtwenty. In his youth he contracted a severe cold, and this brought on a disease which so affected his spine as to make him quite deformed; but his face continued a thing of beauty and power. His course...