New
York, 1903-1904), edited by W. H. Squires, of which only four parts
appeared, all devoted to Edwards and all written by Squires.
(H. N. G.; R. WE.)

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Edwards recognized the abuse of impulses and impressions, opposed
itinerant and lay preachers, and defended a well-ordered and
well-educated clergy.

[2] These were probably not fiction like _Pamela_, as Sir Leslie
Stephen suggested, for Edwards listed several of Richardson's novels
for his own reading, and considered _Sir Charles Grandison_ a very
moral and excellent work.

[3] Besides the younger Jonathan many of Edwards's descendants were
great, brilliant or versatile men. Among them were: his son
Pierrepont (1750-1826), a brilliant but erratic member of the
Connecticut bar, tolerant in religious matters and bitterly hated by
stern Calvinists, a man whose personal morality resembled greatly
that of Aaron Burr; his grandsons, William Edwards (1770-1851), an
inventor of important leather rolling machinery; Aaron Burr the son
of Esther Edwards; Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), son of Mary Edwards,
and his brother Theodore Dwight, a Federalist politician, a member,
the secretary and the historian of the Hartford Convention; his
great-grandsons, Tryon Edwards (1809-1894) and Sereno Edwards Dwight,
theologian, educationalist and author; and his great-great-grandsons,
Theodore William Dwight, the jurist, and Timothy Dwight, second of
that name to be president of Yale.

EDWARDS, LEWIS (1809-1887), Welsh Nonconformist divine, was born in the
parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, on the 27th of October 1809.
He was educated at Aberystwyth and at Llangeitho, and then himself kept
school in both these places. He had already begun to preach for the
Calvinistic Methodists when, in December 1830, he went to London to take
advantage of the newly-opened university. In 1832 he settled as minister
at Laugharne in Carmarthenshire, and the following year went to
Edinburgh, where a special resolution of the senate allowed him to
graduate at the end of his third session. He was now better able to
further his plans for providing a trained ministry for his church.
Previously, the success of the Methodist preachers had been due mainly
to their natural gifts. Edwards made his home at Bala, and there, in
1837, with David Charles, his brother-in-law, he opened a school, which
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