McMEEKIN, Samuel, Rev. (1858-1923)
Assembly memorial minute 1923
The Rev. Samuel McMeekin was born at Warrnambool in the year 1858. He came of a well-known Western District family, honoured alike as citizens and as Presbyterian Churchmen. After graduating as B.A. at the Melbourne University, he took a full and distinguished course at the Theological Hall.
Thence he was called to Edenhope, one of the largest and most difficult charges in the Church, and discharged a capable, earnest and faithful ministry there for just on 30 years. His journeys were long and his absences many, so that much more than her share of the parish work fell upon the shoulders of Mrs. McMeekin, a lady connected with many ministerial families within the Church.
Mr. McMeekin possessed the pioneering spirit, the tactful personality and the capable horsemanship the charge required. He was a pastor honoured and beloved. He was a welcome visitor, both at the squatter’s mansion and the boundary rider’s hut. To his pulpit work he brought always the “beaten oil.” He had special power and felicity in prayer. He gave conscientious attendance to the courts of the Church, and was seldom absent from Presbytery or Assembly.
As a foundation member of the Presbytery of Penola, he did much to shape Presbyterianism in that district. He retired in 1913 in broken health. He settled first at Thornbury, then at Box Hill, and there, after ten years’ waiting with quiet faith and courage for the call, which he knew was inevitable, he passed away in April at the comparatively early age of 64.
The Assembly expresses its earnest sympathy with his widow and family.
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