Charles Alfred WHITE

WHITE, CHARLES ALFRED (h. Myall Creek, NSW, 27 July 1869; d. Sydney, NSW, 4 Jan 1954). Presbyterian minister and historian.

Licensed by the Presbytery of Sydney in 1895, and ordained and inducted to the charge of Windsor in 1896, C A White subsequently served in pastorates in Wollongong, Stanmore, Auburn, South Brisbane, Bowenfels and North Strathfield. A convenor of the General Assembly's Foreign Missions Committee (191620) and the Church Life and Work Committee (1936-44), White was elected moderator of the NSW General Assembly in 1930. In 1944, he retired from church committees in order to devote himself more fully to the work of compiling the history of the Presbyterian Church in NSW. The Challenge of the Years was published in 1951. The story of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales, he declared, was 'not one of dates or names, but a chronicle of Faith unfeigned, and finally Hope triumphant, with Love as the directing force'.

C A White, The Challenge of the Years. A History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of New South Wales (Sydney, 1951)

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