MINISTER-ELECT OF KNOX CHURCH

Evening Star, Issue 14184, 8 October 1909, Page 7

MINISTER-ELECT OF KNOX CHURCH

The Rev. R. E. Davies, M.A., who has accepted the call to the pastorate of Knox Church, is a Welshman by birth, and a graduate of the University ot Wales. After completing his course of study in Wales, he spent four years at the Cambridge University, and took the theological tripos. He has specialised in Hebrew and historical theology. He won the warm commendation of his tutors, some of whom are men of scholarly fame, for his character as a man, his ability as a student, and Iris capacity for professorial work. He found scope recently for tho exercise of his gifts of scholarship during one or two sessions as the lecturer on the Greek "New Testament and on Exegesis in St. Andrew’s College, Sydney. During the seven years of his pastorate, in Petersham (Sydney) his congregation has grown in numbers, and the life and work of the church has consolidated. Mr Davies has the reputation among his friends of being a man of refined and gracious personality and ho-has succeeded in attaching to himself and to his church a good body of young men and women. Mrs Davies is a daughter of Sir John Harris (who has tilled the mayoral chair of Sydney throe or four times), and has proved a faithful helper to her husband in all his ministerial duties.