Media: NOOK - Orignal 1935 edition, 300 pages
Author: J. Heyer
Year: 1935

Written in 1935 to celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the Presbytery of Van Diemans Land, the Rev J Heyer has recorded "many interesting facts and incidents" of the development of the Presbyterian church in Tasmania.

An Appendix lists the ministers, where they served and their years of service as well as short biographies for more than 30 of them.

THE REV. ALEXANDER HARDIE, M.A.

The Rev. Alexander Hardie, M.A., was born in Stirling, Scotland, in 1856 ; graduated at the University of Glasgow ; arrived in Australia in 1886. In the following year he accepted the joint charges of Moulamein and Balranald in New South Wales. In 1889, he came to Tasmania, to Oatlands and Hagley as recorded, serving the Tasmanian Church with great helpfulness until 1897 when he was called Kilmore. Ten years later he was translated to Heidelberg, where he was in office for 18 years. He retired from the active ministry in 1925, but continued to serve the Church in various useful ways until his death early in January of this year.

Contents

• Introduction
• Preface
• Greetings from the Mother Church
• Church of Scotland General Assembly, 25th July 1935
• Part I. Presbyterial History
1. The Historical Background
2. Our First Ministers
3. The Presbytery
4. Church and State
5. The Church and Education
6. The Presbytery at Work
7. Church Crisis
8. The Free Church
9. Church Union
10. Union and Afterwards
11. Foreign Missions
• Part II. Congregational History
• 1823—St. Andrew's, Hobart
• 1829—Bothwell, Green Ponds and Apsley
• 1829—Kirklands-Campbell Town
• 1831—St. Andrew's, Launceston
• 1837—Oatlands
• 1839—Evandale
• 1839—Sorell
• 1839—O'Brien's Bridge (Glenorchy)
• 1840—St. John's, Hobart
• 1842—West Tamar
• 1844—Swansea and Gala Kirk
• 1850—Chalmers', Launceston
• 1851—Chalmers', Hobart
• 1854—Hagley-Deloraine-Longford
• 1855—Stanley
• 1878—Scottsdale-Lilydale and Derby
• 1879—Fingal
• 1885—Devonport, Ulverstone, North-West Coast
• 1892—Zeehan
• 1898—Queenstown
• 1907—New Town
• 1908—Burnie
• 1912—Waratah
  Conclusion
• Appendix
  • Register of Ministers
  • Historical Notes