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Sullivan, John
John Sullivan and Richard (Dick) McClure John Sullivan was born in Dunmanway, Co. Cork 1874 and died in Australia 1924 a age 50, For a time he was a school teacher in Co. Tipperary, where he heard and readily embraced the truth. He soon afterwards went forth into the work- in 1900: he is the author hymn No. 13. He is on the 1905 Workers List and pioneered New South Wales, Australia. Richard (Dick) McClure entered work in Ireland in 1906. John Sullivan and Jack Little pioneered Queensland in 1905. The story is told that his sister's husband died died leaving her in distress. John felt he ought to help her, so with the work of his hands he built her a house and put her "on her feet," then he thought, if he could do this for another, he could do it for himself, thus a battle went on in his heart and mind until one day getting under a bush opposite the house to meditate and pray he settled the matter and got the thoughts for the hymn, finally putting them into hymn form on the ship on his way home for a visit to his native shores.
Tom Turner, Jack Annard, Willie Hughes, Robert Blair
Tom Turner, Jack Annand, Willie Hughes, Robt Blair Thomas M. Turner comes from the North of Ireland; he was a school teacher in County Galway, when he heard the truth and also went forth in 1900 for a time in Ireland, and was one of the first to go to Australia. He wrote hymns 202, 236 and 265. Regarding No. 236, at one Convention someone said —"The Approval of God" —would be a good subject for a hymn and within a short time, the next meeting or so, the hymn was produced and sung. Tom was 81 years old when he died April, 1959. *********** Jack Annand was born in 1891 and died 1957. He worked on a farm as a lad, professed when 19 years old, went forth when he was 22, first in N.S. Wales, then Victoria (Aust.) then came to Poland and Scandinavian countries. He wrote wrote hymn Nos. 164, 241, 283, 316, and 321 and No. 319 while at Deb. Convention. *********** Robert Blair, who also laboured in New Zealand, was born at Otokia, near Dunedin N.Z. in 1874 and died in 1942. After selling some property left him in Scotland, he started out in the work in England, remaining two years before going to N.Z.where he was for several years, was for a time in Fiji, Samoa and Norfolk Isles, returning to Queensland where after 11 years he died. He wrote Nos. 185, 195, 235, 274 and 277. ]When he was in Exeter he pulled out a scrap of paper from his waistcoat pocket and asked another worker he met there if the verses he had written on it would do for a hymn. It is now hymn No. 276. *********** Willie Hughes laboured in N.Z. He wrote "Went forth" in 1906 and wrote Nos. 62, 66, 114 and 116
Tom Turner young-& older--300dpi
Tom Turner - younger and older Tom Turner as an older man. Thomas M. Turner comes from the North of Ireland; he was a school teacher in County Galway, when he heard the truth and also went forth in 1900 for a time in Ireland, and was one of the first to go to Australia. He wrote hymns 202, 236 and 265. Regarding No. 236, at one Convention someone said that would be a good subject for a hymn —"The Approval of God" — within a short time, the next meeting or so, the hymn was produced and sung. Tom was 81 years old when he died April, 1959.