3-053-849 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Rev. G. T. Perks, President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, 1873. Engraving from a photograph by James Cooper. 'Few Wesleyan ministers stand higher in the esteem of their brethren than the Rev. George T. Perks...he has laboured successfully as a preacher and pastor for many years. Mr. Perks has gone through a long course of official experience. He has been secretary of the Committee of Privileges, Secretary of the Didsbury and Richmond Theological Institutions, and Assistant Secretary to the Chapel Fund. In the year 1867 he was appointed to the Wesleyan Foreign Mission House, where he is now engaged. Mr. Perks has so applied himself to the history and condition of the Wesleyan Missionary Society that he is acquainted with the work of every missionary and the state of every missionary station belonging to Methodism. "The preaching of President Perks," observes a Wesleyan Methodist correspondent, "is distinctly theological; and the Wesleyan Church contains scarcely any preacher more doctrinal in his sermons. People who go to hear him are sure to have some doctrinal subject well and practically discussed".' From "Illustrated London News", 1873.