South Yorkshire Times, December 23rd, 1932
A Happy Christian
Religious Revival
Veteran Peter Sees it Coming
A Wonderful Record
Mr Edwin Carr
He has been preaching for 63 years in the Wath Methodist circuit, and now hopes to preach many more years, though now hard on 84.
That is the record of Mr. Edwin Carr, “Woodholm,” Upper Haugh, who preached his first sermon in 1869, when he was on trial in the Wesleyan Methodist denomination. The following year he passed the examination for local preachers, and his name appeared on the Wath Circuit plan. For the last ten years or so, that name has headed the list of local preachers. Mr. Carr became associated with the Wesleyan Church at Upper Haugh when he was 16 years old, and became interested. He had the desire to preach the Gospel, but thought himself unit., Many friends sought to persuade him, and then the late Mr. Jacob Jackson, of Rawmarsh, the most prominent lay preacher the Wath Circuit at that time, took Mr. Carr in hand. With Mr. Jackson, Mr. Carr went round the various churches of the district reading the lessons, while Mr. Jackson preached. That was Mr. Carr’s early training as a local preacher.
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