Known to Anne Steele as Fidelio, Caleb Evans was baptised at Little Wild Street in London in 1758, He assisted Josiah Thompson at Unicorn Yard, Southwark, for a year, before coming to Broadmead in Bristol in 1759. He served first as assistant and then later as co-pastor to his father, Hugh Evans. After his father’s death, Caleb served as senior pastor at Broadmead 1781-1791. He became involved with the work of the Academy as well, helping to found the Bristol Education Society in 1770. In 1779 he was named Principal of the Academy, a post he held until his death.
Evans read widely in the Puritans and the classics and was an evangelical Calvinist (like his friend Robert Hall Sr), passing that tradition on to the young preachers he trained at Bristol. He also had a keen interest in itinerant preaching and evangelism. His writings include numerous sermons, as well as some controversial political tracts, such as A Letter to Mr Wesley (1776), concerning the American war; also a Collection of Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (1769), with John Ash ofPershore.
Kirk Wellum, “Caleb Evans (1737-1791),” ed. Haykin, in The British Particular Baptists, 1:213-233; Hayden, Continuity and Change, 123-141.
In 1780 he published a third volume Anne Steele's work along with the previous two, with an introduction. He paid tribute to her unfailing cheerfulness even amid the great pain of her closing years. There were 150 hymns and 52 versified psalms.
In 1780 he published a third volume Anne Steele's work along with the previous two, with an introduction. He paid tribute to her unfailing cheerfulness even amid the great pain of her closing years. There were 150 hymns and 52 versified psalms.
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