bringing Williams's irregularity in preaching in unconsecrated places to the notice of the Bishop, cannot now be definitely ascertained, but all his writings, especially some of those to be noticed below, shew him to be no advocate of what would seem to him unconstitutional methods of reform, and the probability is that he would not hesitate to bring his recalcitrant curate to the notice of his diocesan.
In 1739, the great English revivalist, George Whitfield, crossed from Bristol to Cardiff, and preached in the Town Hall there. A little later in the same year he held a series of revival meetings in Monmouthshire.
In 1740, besides bringing out a second edition of "Drych y Prif Oesoedd," our author published also:
"Llythyr Addysg Esgob Llundain at y Bobl o'i Esgobaeth; yn eu rhybuddio yn erbyn Claiarwch o'r naill du; a zel danbaid nid ar ol Gwybodaeth o'r tu arall. A gyfieithwyd i'r Gymraeg gan Theophilus Evans, Vicar Llangamarch. A brintiwyd yn Nghaerloyw gan R. Raikes yn y flwyddyn 1740."[1] This letter was written against Whitfield and the Wesleyan Methodists. An answer to it was published in the same year in Welsh, issued from Pontypool.
According to Charles Ashton, this translation was probably the only Welsh book published by Robert Raikes, the reputed founder of the system of Sunday Schools.
In 1747, he published a small book of 22 pages, entitled,
"Drych y Dyn Maleisus. Pregeth. Mwythig, T. Durston."
- ↑ Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, p. 147.
