variety and multiplicity of his active exertions for the glory of God, in the good of mankind."

Dr. Evans' productions, as an author, were Sermons on the Scripture-Doctrine of the Son and Holy Spirit-An Address to the serious and candid Professors of Christianity-Christ Crucified, or the Scripture-Doctrine of the Atonement; and several single discourses, which were preached upon public occasions. The Address was the most popular of his productions, and was composed in reply to a publication of Dr. Priestley, who is known to have declared, upon its perusal, that it was written as became " a gentleman and a Christian." It is a circumstance, indeed, which reflects honour upon the memory of Dr. Evans, that his writings were generally free from that acrimony of controversy, which has so much disgraced the publications of theological disputants. He diffused, even over the thorny mazes of controversy, the candour of a Christian, and the liberality of a scholar; and uniformly preserved a sacred regard to that philanthropy which is the noblest characteristic of the Christian religion.

The exertions of Dr. Evans, as a tutor, are entitled to the highest encomiums; and the Bristol Education-Society, over which he had so long

presided with indefatigable industry, united to distinguished talents, were so sensible of his various merits, that they ordered a medallion of him, executed by Bacon, with an inscription commemorating the services he had rendered the institution, to be preserved in their museum, as a testimany of his excellencies, and a tribute of their gratitude.

As a preacher, Dr. Evans is described to have been peculiarly impressive; and while his publica tions were principally controversial, his exertions in the pulpit were chiefly practical. He knew that the judgment might be correct, while the conduct was erroneous; and he deemed it of little importance, if men became wiser without growing better. He employed the persuasive powers of his eloquence, principally to induce men to the practice of the several moral duties; and as these duties were enforced by the animating hope of immortality, it may be truly said of him that he

"Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way."

Here rest, in hope of a glorious resurrection to eternal life, the honoured remains of the Rev. JOHN TOMMAS; who sustained with unblemished dignity, the character of Pastor of the Baptist Church in the Pithay, for forty-eight years. His abilities as a preacher, his faithful discharge of the duties of his sacred office, his tender and affectionate concern for the souls of his flock, and his zeal in publishing the truths

of the gospel, need no eulogium: they are engraven on the hearts of all who knew him. His pure spirit was removed from this state of sin and sorrow, to the holy and happy regions of immortality, on the 27th of August 1800, aged 76 years.

On a stone inscribed to the memory of the

Rev. JOSEPH HOSKINS,

who died September 28th, 1788,

is a long inscription which terminates thus

This stone, too mean and humble for his worth,
Is placed by his church

As a grateful testimony

Of the blessings received under his ministry.

In the Moravian Burying-ground, in Lower Maudlin-Lane, was buried John Dawes Worgan, a young man of superior abilities, who fell a victim to consumption in the 19th year of his age. On entering this burying-ground, the neatness of its preservation and the simplicity of the inscriptions are impressive. Here all the distinctions are levelled which genius can confer or wealth can purchase; and "to be born and die" literally "make up all the history" of the tenants of these humble graves. We observed only two deviations from this arrangement: one stone was inscribed to "The honourable and reverend," and on another was written "Re

surget" She shall arise. The grave-stone of Worgan is inscribed," John Dawes Worgan, aged

19, died 1810," and similar inscriptions mark all the other stones.

The dissenters of the Baptist denomination support an Academy in Bristol, for the education of young men designed for the ministry. This academy owes its origin to an endowment which has for many years been annexed to the salary of the pastor of Broadmead-Meeting, held on condition of his being a man well skilled in the Hebrew and Greek languages, and that he shall devote a portion of his time to the education of young men intended for the ministerial profession. From this endowment sprung the Bristol Education-Society, which during some years supported an academy in North-Street; and which, assisted by contributions from the dissenting body in general, and more particularly from those of the Baptist denomination, has recently erected a building in Stoke's Croft, exclusively appropriated to the purposes of education.

The library of the academy is said to be extensive, and to contain almost every production of importance upon subjects in theology. In the museum are several objects of curiosity and interest, particularly a collection of Hindoo idols, or models of such, which have been sent hither at different times by the Baptist Missionaries in India.

Of the progressive advances of the academy from the time of its establishment, of the biography of its tutors, and of the pupils which have received their education in the institution, the limits assigned to our work compel us to be silent. It is only permitted us to notice that the first tutors in the academy were the Rev. Hugh and Caleb Evans and the Rev. James Newton. Of the Evans' we have already spoken; and of Newton it only remains to add, that he was the particular friend of John Henderson, and "forms one of the many instances where superior learning and exalted virtues sink down to the grave unknown to the world, and wept only by that confined circle who knew how to appreciate excellence, but whose praise with its object is soon carried away by the onward rolling waves of time."*

VOL. II.

See The Ponderer, p. 186.
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