SWIFT, Thomas Beecher, Rev (1822-1906)
Assembly memorial minute, 1906
In recording the death of the Rev.Thomas Beecher Swift, which took place at Alexandra on March 4th, ac the ripe age of 84, the Assembly expresses its deep thankfulness to the Head of the Church for the many years of devoted and fruitful service he was enabled to render to the cause of religion and the expansion of our Church.
Admitted to our ministry after middle age, he gave 33 years of earnest work to the resuscitation of two lapsed charges. At Murchison he laboured for 10 years, and left an impression of wonderful energy, self-denial and earnestness Obliged by failing health to resign this charge, after a brief rest he settled at Alexandra, and there re-established the Charge and laboured amid many difficulties till the close of his life.
During his long ministerial career, he laboured in season and out of season. He was a man of prayer, of deep faith, of wide sympathy and boundless charity, adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour by a blameless life and upright character.
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