William Evans
William Evans
William Evans (1787-1867) was one of the last spiritually living and weighty ministers amidst a greatly divided and quickly vanishing Society of Friends. His journal is remarkable for its deeply personal style, and its valuable and enlightening comments on Scripture, the church, the operation of grace in the soul, ministry, and many other important subjects. Evans witnessed and stood against the two unhappy divisions that greatly crippled the Society in the first half of the 19th century (the Hicksite and Gurneyite separations), contending earnestly for the original principles and practices of Friends. William and his brother Thomas were the editors and publishers of the original Friends’ Library, as well as an updated version of the four-volume work entitled Piety Promoted.
He whom my soul sought above all things suddenly came to His temple, and by His Holy Spirit gave me to see that He alone is the author of that faith which enters within the veil and gives victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil; and that it is not founded merely on what is read, but is really ‘of the operation of God’ on the heart.
- William Evans
Books by William Evans
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The Journal of William Evans
The Journal of William Evans
A journal of the life and Christian labors of William Evans, giving a relation of his growth in truth, his travels in the ministry, and his many labors for the promotion and preservation of the gospel during times of decadence and division in the mid-1800s.
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