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126:, and was made President of the new Baptist theological college and the tutor of several theological students. The congregation had outgrown the Lefevre Terrace building and services were held in the Temperance Hall, and plans made for a new church building, also on Tynte Street. In December 1869 the foundation stone was laid, and the first service was held in the new North Adelaide Baptist Church on 6 November 1870.
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Few men were more generally esteemed for consistent conduct, for quiet unobtrusiveness of manner, and for liberalness of thought, than Mr. Stonehouse; and his removal will be regretted by his brethren in the ministry, and by all who, as
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Baptist college had been dropped for want of funds, so in 1846 he opened a private school "Angaston Manual Labour College" in Angaston, which he ran for around two years. In 1847 he was called to take over the Ebenezer Chapel in Brougham Place. Then in 1848 Rev. James Allen returned
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Wilton Hack (1 September 1878 â 10 April 1933) married Amelia Ellen Cock (1877 â ) on 30 April 1903. Amelia was a daughter of Robert Andrew Cock and Oceana Cock nÊe
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Stonehouse began suffering a weakness of the throat which so affected his voice that his preaching was almost inaudible, and in 1869 was forced to retire from the pulpit, to be replaced by the Rev.
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