John Daniel Jones CH (13 April 1865 – 19 April 1942) was a Welsh Congregational minister.
He was born in Ruthin, Denbighshire, the son of Joseph David Jones (1827–70), a schoolmaster in the town and a respected musician and composer. The family moved to Tywyn, his mother's home town. In 1877, after the early death of his father, his mother married David Morgan Bynner, a Congregational minister at Chorley. After studying at Manchester University, Lancashire Independent College and St Andrews University, he was ordained at Newland Congregational Church, Lincoln in 1889.[1]
Jones became well known as the minister of Richmond Hill Church, Bournemouth where he was minister from 1898-1937. He was elected chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1909–10, and again in 1925–6. In 1919 he was elected an honorary secretary of the union, a position which he held until his death.[2]
Politically a Liberal, Jones spoke regularly in support of his brother Henry Haydn Jones, MP for Merioneth from 1910-45. Lloyd George was a personal friend and in retirement a near neighbour and visitor.[3]
After his return to Wales to retire, he was the subject of a memorable satirical poem by Saunders Lewis.[4]
Works edit
- The Glorious Company of the Apostles (1885)
- The Model Prayer: A Series of Expositions on “The Lord’s Prayer” (1899)
- Paul’s Certainties and Other Sermons (1900)
- Reasons Why for Congregationalists (1904)
- Elims of Life: and Other Sermons (1904)
- Christ's Pathway to the Cross (1905)
- The Gospel of Grace (1907)
- Things Most Surely Believed (1908)
- Our Life Beyond (1911)
- The Hope of the Gospel (1911)
- The Unfettered Word. A Series of Readings for the Quiet Hour (1912)
- The Gospel According to St. Mark, vol. 1-4 (1913)
- The Gospel of the Sovereignty (1914)
- The Great Hereafter: Questions Raised By the Great War Concerning the Destiny of Our Dead (1915)
- If a Man Die (1917)
- The Lord of Life and Death (1919)
- The King of Love: Meditations on the Twenty-Third Psalm (1922)
- The Greatest of These: Addresses on the Thirteenth Chapter of First Corinthians (1925)
- Watching the Cross (1926)
- The Ideal Church Member (1926) (New edition with new chapters, 1955)
- The Inevitable Christ (1928)
- On Religious Teaching in the Schools (1929, pamphlet)
- Pilate's Three Questions (1931)
- Richmond Hill Sermons (1932)
- Morning and Evening (1934)
- The Way into the Kingdom, or, Thoughts on the Beatitudes (1934)
- Keep Festival: Sermons on the Great Occasions of the Christian Year (1939)
- Three Score Years and Ten: The Autobiography of J. D. Jones (1940)
- The Power to Endure (1940)
- Our Debt to the Reformation (N.D.)
References edit
- ^ Binfield, Clyde; Taylor, John (2007). Who They Were in the Reformed Churches of England and Wales. Shaun Tyas. p. 117. ISBN 978-1900289-825.
- ^ S. M. Berry, ‘Jones, John Daniel (1865–1942)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 12 March 2013.
- ^ Binfield, Clyde; Taylor, John (2007). Who They Were in the Reformed Churches of England and Wales. Shaun Tyas. p. 118. ISBN 978-1900289-825.
- ^ Owen, Richard Griffith. John Daniel Jones, Welsh Biography Online; Gruffydd, R. Geraint. 1992. '"I'r Dr J. D. Jones, CH" Saunders Lewis', in J. E. Caerwyn Williams (ed.), Ysgrifau Beirniadol 18. Dinbych: Gwasg Gee, pp. 240-44.