ARCHER, Ernest Wallace, Rev, M.A. (1899-1971)
Assembly memorial minute 1971
The Rev. E. Wallace Archer after graduating Master of Arts at Melbourne University and completing his Theological Hall course at Ormond College, went overseas to do post graduate studies at Knox College Montreal, Yale and Edinburgh Universities, specialising in religious education and Presbyterian History.
He served as minister of a Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick Canada and as an assistant in the parish of Inveresk, Musselburgh, Edinburgh. On returning to Australia he served at Port Fairy and Inverleigh. From Inverleigh he was appointed by the Assembly to undertake a revision of the Code Book.
The Assembly gives thanks to God for the life, witness and service of the Rev. E. Wallace Archer, especially for his valued contribution to the administration of the Church and the ordering of its life through his painstaking care in the revision of the Code Book.
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