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ABEROARIAN'S APPOINTMENT IN AMERICA. "Unity." an American weeky jour- nal, records the appointment of the Rev. John Morris Evans as successor to the late Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, minister of All Souls Unitarian Church, Chicago, and Director of the Abraham Lincoln Centre. Mr. Jones died about 12 months ago. He was a native of Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, and was a prominent personality on the American Continent. A few years ago the State of Wisconsin published his diary, deal- ing with the American Civil War. He served in that war as an artilleryman. The Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones was a member of the Ford Peace Mission who came to Europe 4 years ago with the object of stopping the war. "Unity" goes on to say of his successor:— Mr. Evans was born in Aberdare. Glamorganshire. in 1877. Like Mr. Jones, therefore. Mr Evans is a Welsh- man, and has all the virile energy, and -genius characteristic of his race. His parents came to the United States when he was three years of age. and settled in Seraiiton, Pa. He received his early education in the night schools of this city and later on attended the Scranton Business College, Qiad Buck- nell University. Lewisburg, Pa. lie then wont to Engçl and studied suc- cessively at Oxford fnivefSity _nd Paris. He began his work as a Clirist- iau minister in an English Church in Wales,* the Memorial Baptist Church, Builth Wells, where he was ordained in 1903. Shortly thereafter he was called to the ministry of the King Street Bap- tist Church, Abertillerv, where he re- mained five years. While here he was closely associated with radical social re- ami Active in the early work leading to the organization of the British Labour Party. In his parish he gave much of his energy to the building up of institutional work along progres- sive lines, which remains to-dav as a .vital factor in the community life. One of the young laymen, who co-oper- ated with Mr. Evans in this work, is now a member of the British .Com- mission on Industrial Relations and another is a leading influence in the Council of the Miners' Federation. Mr. Evans's classes in economics, psychology, ethics, civics, trade union- ism, literature, and world religions, gave to the church a remarkable influ- ence in Abertillerv, and prepared many young men for study at the Labour Colleges in Oxford and in London. Already at this time also he was turn- ing to the more liberal aspects of Christian thought and was known as radical in his theology." We are informed by Mr. John Grif- fiths, Brynhyfryd. that the Rev. John Morris Evans is the son of Mr. Thomas Evans and Mrs. Esther Evans, of Llwydcoed, and grandson to Mr. John Evans, Penydrift. Llwydcoed. A brother to Mr. Thomas Evans—Mr. Richard Evans—is an engine-driver on the G.W.R., residing at the Old Star and Gai ter, opposite-Mount Pleasant Hotel, Trecynon. Mr. Thomas Evans j had a cousin in the ministry, the late Rev. Henry Evans, Penrhyncoch, near Aberystwyth, and a sister who was a teacher at Park School, Miss Elizabeth Evans,' who has been dead many years.

ENGLISH WESLEYAN, ABERDARE.

WEDDING AT ABERDARE.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

LABOUE-SAVING AND LABOUR-MAKING…

DISCHARGED S. AND S. AND FREEI…

BWLLFA CO.'S EXTENSION. ----=-

--------------.—i NERVE COLLAPSE…

INQUEST AT MOUNTAIN ASH. i

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