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Rev. Leonard Small SOUGHT BY KNOX CHURCH i The Selection Committee of Knox Church wrote to the Rev. Leonard Small asking if he would be willing to receive a call to Knox Church and received a cablegram in reply from him yesterday saying that he felt compelled to decline. Minister of Cramond Church in Edinburgh for the past six years, Mr Small came to Knox Church in April last to occupy the pulpit for a few months after the retirement of the Very Rev. Dr D. C. Herron. A pressing engagement this month in the form of a big evangelistic campaign in Edinburgh curtailed Mr Small's stay in Dunedin.
His engaging personality, fluent speech, ready wit and learned argument made Mr Small a tremendously popular minister at Knox Church, and often were the occasions when, with a capacity congregation seated and standing in the church, many could not gain admission to hear him. His public lectures too drew capacity houses and his celebrated lecture on Burns had to be given a second time but still there was only standing room for many.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27518, 12 October 1950, Page 6
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