CHAPTER XII.

SUMMARY OF GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTMAS EVANS AS A PREACHER. Remarks renewed in Vindication of his Use of Parable 322 in the Pulpit—His Sermons appear to be Born of Solitude—His Imitators—His Probable Acquaintance with “The Sleeping Bard” of Elis Wynn—A Dream—Illustrations—The Gospel Mould—Saul of Tarsus and his Seven Ships—The Misplaced Bone—The Man in the House of Steel—The Parable of the Church as an Ark among the Bulrushes of the Nile—The Handwriting—Death as an Inoculator—Time—The Timepiece—Parable of the Birds—Parable of the Vine-tree, the Thorn, the Bramble, and the Cedar—Illustrations of his more Sustained Style—The Resurrection of Christ—They drank of that Rock which followed them—The Impossibility of Adequate Translation—Closing Remarks on his Place and Claim to Affectionate Regard.

APPENDATORY CHAPTER. SELECTION OF ILLUSTRATIVE SERMONS. Sermon I.—The Time of Reformation 358 „ II.—The Purification of the Conscience 368 „ III.—Finished Redemption 378 „ IV.—The Father and Son Glorified 386 „ V.—The Cedar of God 396 A Sermon on the Welsh Hills 407