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Athenians, especially with the 

 Athenian admiral Conon (q.v.), and 

 it was due to him that Conon was 

 helped by the Persian fleet atCnidus 

 (q.v. ) in 394. Subsequently, in the 

 war between Evagoras and the 

 Persians, the Athenian fleet came 

 to his aid. The war with Persia 

 dragged on for several years, and 

 was eventually ended by a settle- 

 ment which guaranteed Evagoras 

 his kingdom. 



Evagrius (c. 536-600). Byzan- 

 tine eccles. historian. Born at 

 Epiphania, in Coele-Syria, he 

 flourished during the reigns of the 

 emperors Tiberius and Maurice. 

 At first he studied law at Antioch, 

 whence his surname Scholasticus 

 (advocate). One of the contin- 

 uators of Eusebius, his history 

 covers the period from the council 

 of Ephesus, 431, down to 593. It 

 throws light chiefly on the re- 

 ligious controversies of the period, 

 but also on secular affairs. 



Evander. Legendary Italian 

 hero. Some time before the Trojan 

 war he was said to have con- 

 ducted a band of colonists from 

 Pallantium in Arcadia to Italy, 

 where he founded a settlement on 

 the Palatine hill. Writing and other 

 arts and the institution of the 

 Lupercalia in honour of the Arca- 

 dian god, Pan, were ascribed to 

 him. Evander is really the 

 Italian Faunus (the favourable 

 one), to whom the Greek Pan also 

 corresponds, and the story of the 

 Arcadian colony, like much in 

 Roman mythology and legend, is 

 due to Greek influence. 



Evangelical (Gr. evangdikos, 

 of the Gospel). Term applied to 

 the two religious revivals within 

 and without the Anglican Church 

 in the 18th century. The move- 

 ment led by John Wesley (q.v.) 

 became exterior to the Church. 

 The other movement is attributed 

 to the teaching of William Law, 

 author of The Serious Call, and 

 with it are prominently associated 

 the names of Henry Venn, James 

 Hervey, Joseph and Isaac Milner, 

 John Newton, William Cowper, 

 Richard Cecil, Thomas Scott, 

 Henry Martyn the missionary, 

 Charles Simeon, John Thornton, 

 and his fellow members of "the 

 Clapham sect," William Wilber- 

 force, and Selina, Countess of Hunt- 

 tingdon. The movement has left 

 its mark on hymnology, notably 

 in the compositions of Toplady and 

 the hymnal of E. H. Bickersteth. 

 With its views are associated such 

 societies as the C.M.S., Church 

 Association, Church Parochial 

 Mission, Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., and 

 many organizations for bringing 

 the Gospel message to the poor. 



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original sin, the efficacy of the 

 Atonement, the need of personal 

 conversion, justification by faith 

 and veneration for the letter of 

 the Scriptures. What is known to- 

 day as the Low Church party in 

 the Church of England (to be dis- 

 tinguished from the Low Church 

 party of the period preceding the 

 Evangelical revivals) is usually 

 called evangelical ; it holds many 

 things in common with English 

 Nonconformity, and its leaders 

 meet annually at the Keswick Con- 

 vention and the Islington Confer- 

 ence. The term evangelical is ap- 

 plied to the United Church in 

 Germany and to the Jansenists of 

 France. It forms part of the title of 

 the world's Evangelical Alliance; 

 the Evangelical Association of 

 North America, founded early in the 

 19th century by a Lutheran named 

 Jacob Albrecht; and the Evangeli- 

 cal Union, constituted in Scotland 

 in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison, 

 of Kilmarnock. See The Evange- 

 lical Revival in the 18th Century, 

 J. H. Overton, 2nd ed. 1900. 



Evangelical Alliance, WORLD'S. 

 Protestant organization founded in 

 Liverpool in 1845, and incorporated 

 in 1912. Its objects include the 

 maintenance of evangelical prin- 

 ciples, the promotion of Christian 

 unity, the holding annually of a 

 universal week of prayer, the relief 

 of persecuted Christians in all lands, 

 and the defence of religious liberty. 

 Its work is carried on by means of 

 international conferences in differ- 

 ent countries, by bringing influence 

 to bear on governments, and by the 

 formation of public opinion. Its 

 organ is Evangelical Christendom, 

 published bi-monthly in London, 

 and its central office is 19, Russell 

 Square, London, W.C. 



Evangelical Union OR MOR- 

 ISONIANS. Scottish Presbyterian 

 body. It was founded by the Rev. 

 James Morison, 1816-93, of Kilmar- 

 nock, and other seceders from the 

 United Secession Church in 1843. 

 Soon afterwards they were joined 

 by ministers expelled from the 

 Congregationalist Union. They re- 

 jected the doctrine of predestina- 

 tion, and maintained universal re- 

 demption and the freedom of the 

 will. The churches were independent 

 and free to adopt Presbyterian or 

 Congregationalist forms of govern- 

 ment. All ministers had to be total 

 abstainers. The bulk of the congre- 

 gations joined the Congregational 

 Union (of Scotland) in 1896. 



Evangeline. Narrative idyllic 

 poem by H. W. Longfellow. First 

 published hi 1847, the story is a 

 romantic account of the deport- 

 ations in 1755 of the French Aca- 

 dians from Acadie (Nova Scotia), 

 owing to their lack of sympathy 



Evangeline. the 

 Acadian heroine 



From a statue by Saral 

 Terry 



EVANS 



with their 

 British and 

 P ro testant 

 rulers. It is a 

 tender, tragic 

 romance, beau - 

 tifully told,and 

 one of the most 

 successful in- 

 stances in Eng- 

 lish of the sus- 

 tained use of 

 hexameters. 

 The poem is 

 named from 

 the heroine, 

 who was first to 

 have been Ga- 

 brielle, a name 

 later adapted 

 as Gabriel for 

 the hero. A 

 monument to 

 her was un- 

 veiled at Grand 

 P r e, Nova 

 Scotia (q.v.), 

 Aug., 1920. 

 Evangelist (Gr. evangeUstes, 

 proclaimer of glad tidings). Origi- 

 nally one chosen by the apostles 

 to preach the Gospel where it was 

 unknown. Theodoret first re- 

 stricted the name to travelling 

 preachers ; Oecumenius first ap- 

 plied it to the authors of the 

 four Gospels ; to-day it is also 

 used for missionaries and revivalist 

 preachers. (See Eph. 4 ; Acts 8 

 and 21 ; 2 Tim. 4.) The four living 

 creatures referred to in Ezek. 1 

 and 10, and Rev. 4, were regarded 

 by Jerome as symbols of the four 

 evangelists the man, Matthew ; 

 the lion, Mark ; the ox, Luke ; the 

 eagle, John. Irenaeus assigned the 

 lion to John and the eagle to Mark ; 

 Augustine and Bede, the lion to 

 Matthew and the man to Mark. 

 See Apostle ; Gospel ; Preaching. 



Evan Harrington. Novel by 

 George Meredith. After serial 

 appearance in Once a Week, as 

 Evan Harrington, or He Would be 

 a Gentleman, it was published in 

 volume form in 1861. It is one of 

 the author's best stories, including 

 in Evan's sister, the Countess de 

 Saldar, one of his triumphs of por- 

 traiture. Evan is the son of a tailor, 

 the great Mel, and the whole Har- 

 rington family is founded on mem- 

 bers of Meredith's paternal family. 

 Evans, SIR ARTHUR JOHN (b. 

 1851). British archaeologist and 

 numismatist. Born at Hemel 

 Hempstead, the eldest son of Sir 

 John Evans (q.v.), he studied at 

 Harrow, Oxford, and Gottingen. 

 He travelled in Finland and 

 Russian Lapland, 1873-74, and was 

 engaged in researches in the Balkan 

 peninsula between 1875-82. From 

 1884-1908 he was keeper of the 



