DISTINGUISHED CONGREGATIONALISTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 9

DISTINGUISHED CONGREGATIONALISTS.

TWO, UNION CHAIRMEN. The chairman.of the English Congregation- ' al Union, which ; :met in London recently, a . Rev. J. O.'Jpnos, M.A., 8.D., whose church .-■ is at Bournemouth, where he has been since 1898. His father; was tho cotepikr of the ' Welsh Independent Hymn Book. A chatao-. ter sketch:of him.by' Rev. R. J- Wells ap- : pears in.tho '.'Homo Mossonger" :— "During a ■ four years' brilliant 000x80 at Owens CJollego,' Manchester, ho swept.the board, talcing every classical scholarship and prize open to him.. His special training for the Congregational ministry was , under tho auspices of Lancashire Independent College. . In addition to graduating as M.A. of Victoria University, Mr., Jones .holds' tho' B.D; . degree of St. Andrews.. His church at Rich- ; mond Hill, Bournemouth, has become one of . the Moccas of Congregationalism, and visitors and' travellers from far . and near include Bournemouth, in their itinerary .that they may.liave the opportunity to hear Mr. Jones in his' own pulpit. The crowded church on a Sunday attests, his popularity as, a preacher.", ''.:'. -■" ... Tho Rev. DrL W;. Adamson; Glasgow, hat' been elected the new chairman of tho.Congregational Union of Scotland, in succession to the Rev. Alfred Gardner, Dundee. Dr. Adamson, who was. born in New Galloway in 1830, was ordaindd, at Perth' in 1857, and from 1868 to 1896 was pastor of the Buoclcuch Evangelical. Union Church in' Edinburgh. On resigning his' charge in the capi- ' tal ho had the".largest membership of'any : . local chnrch in that denomination. Dr. Adamson waß induced some' months later to accept tho pastorate of tho' Carver' Memorial Church at Windermere, and there heromained till he. completed • his jubilee. Dine* retiring two years, ago: ho has resided for the most part in Glasgow. His writings Dray* been varied, and for the past half century h« has been a strong advocate of tcmpcr»«» reform. ... '.'.',{■'-