Excerpt from Taylor of Down Under: The Life-Story of an Australian Evangelist, With an Account of the Origin and Growth of the Sydney Central Methodist Mission By the votes of my brethren I had been placed in the chair of the New South Wales Conference. The insignia of office were placed in my hands by my predecessor - a distinguished minister of the Church - the Rev. J. E. Carruthers, D.D. Among the numerous newspaper articles that deigned to chronicle the fact was a certain Northern journal that paid a high and much-deserved tribute to the worth and work of the man I was to succeed. Then followed a reference to myself, succinct, all-comprising: 'All that needs to be said of the new occupant of the Conferential Chair is that he is an evangelist.' Even so; otherwise this book would never have been written. 'An evangelist' - that, and nothing more, nothing less. In that fact I this day breathe the atmosphere of a perfect content. Again and again I have been urged to this writing by men whose judgement it were folly to ignore. For long I hesitated, for have not better men written finer records, which have been published and - forgotten? Full well do I realize that pages such as these lay one open to the charge of egotism. Still, in the spirit of a true sincerity, and in the fervent hope that they may prove of interest to ministers and Christian workers who are in the making, I have yielded thus to tell this story of the evangelism of my life. At times the pen has dragged, for it has been difficult to submerge the personal element; at others my soul, and, I trust, my pen have taken fire, and I have revelled in the privilege of magnifying the grace of God seen in the extension of the kingdom of our Divine Redeemer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.