KNOX CHURCH

Evening Star, Issue 17333, 22 April 1920, Page 3

KNOX CHURCH

CALL TO REV. TULLOCH YUILLE. A largely-attended meeting of members and adherents of Knox Church was held m the Sunday School Hall last .evening, when it was unanimously decided to extend a call to the Row Tulloch Yuille, who has been supplying at Knox Church tor several weeks. The meeting, which was presided over by the Rev. John Miller, interim moderator, was moat enthusiastic, Mr Dunca.i Wright (bv request of the Kirk Session) moved and Mr David Todd seconded that the name of the Rev. Tulloch \uille be inserted in the call, and this was carried unanimously. The Rev. Tulloch Yuille, M.A., 8.P., who is 54 years of age, was born in Kilmarnock in 1885, and was educated at Kilmarnock Academy, where he developed especially the study of classics. He ultimately left the academy as dux in classics. He entered Glasgow University in 1903, winning the Buvn-Paton bursarv in open competition. He specialised in philosophv, and, after gaining first class certificates in all the classes of philosophv. ordinary and advanced, he graduated in" 1907 with first class honors in mental philosophy, having put forward as his honors thesis a study on 'The Debt of Kant to Leibnitz.' In 1908 he entered the Glasgow United Free Church College, being sixth bursar in the constitution for the bursaries open for all theological students in the United Free Church. During his four years' training his-professors were Lindsay," Orr, Denney. Adam Smith, M'Fadyon, Clow, and Simpi. son. Besides studying under the United Free Church curriculum, Mr Yuille also followed out the course of studies prescribed in the Established Church Hall as essential for graduating B.D. In April, 1912, he completed the course of study for the United Free Church, and was licensed as a probationer of that Church by the Presbytery of Irvine and Kilmarnock" In the same month he graduated' B.D. at Glasgow University. During 1911 and 1913 he acted as congregational assistant to Roy. Professor Adam 0. Welch, Ph.D., then in Claremont Church, Glasgow, now Professor of Hebrew in New College. Edinburgh. Mr Yuille was brought out to Australia by the. Presbyterian Church of >,ew South Wales, under n. commission froin the United Free Church. After a years bush experience in the north-west of New South Wales lie was ordained and inducted at Kiama. in March, 1913. From there he was called to Flemington, Melbourne, early in 1916, where he 'is still the minister of a large congregation in one of Melbourne's crowded areas. Mr Yuille has always identified himself with the work of _ the Church at large, and among other things he is at present convener of the Summer School of Theology, and also of a committee to establish "closer relationships between the Church and the Pre=s. He is evnrmner in Greek for entrance to the Theological Halls, and lectures tr> t]]r> home missionaries in loiric. and to the deaconesses in a department of theology.