ROBERTS, Robert Henry, Rev (1876-1949)
Assembly memorial minute, 1949
Robert Roberts was born on the 31st October, 1876, in the Cavendish district, and in 1910, entered Home Mission service and did his course while in several Home Mission stations. He entered the Theological Hall in 1914 and completed exit in 1916. He was appointed by the Home Mission Committee for exit year to Ulverstone, Tasmania, where he was ordained and inducted on the 17th December, 1917. Resigning Ulverstone in 1919, he returned to Victoria and was inducted, six months later, into the parish of Myrtleford. Having resigned this charge he was inducted into Alexandra on the 14th June, 1922, whence he was translated to Rainbow in 1926. After six years he resigned and eleven months later he was inducted into Buninyong on the 9th November, 1933, whence he was translated to Ballan in 1938, which he resigned after three years.
Mr. Roberts never sought publicity, being content to give of his best in quiet humility. His expression of Christ was one of loving forbearance. He was revered as a servant in whom there was no guile. He leaves a ministry of acts of kindness and love, so very often not noted, but those who knew him marked him as walking in love. The world of glamour passed by his humble labours. The value of his ministry is gauged in high spiritual assessment, for he regarded love as the greatest of all human attainments.
He passed away at his home in Armadale on the 16th March, 1949.
To Mrs. Roberts and her daughters the Assembly tenders sincere sympathy.
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