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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

The Rev. Edward Drake

The Rev. Edward Drake, Primitive Methodist Minister, Sydney Street Primitive Methodist Church, is a, comparatively new arrival in the Colony. Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, where also he was educated, Mr. Drake studied for four years at the Evangelical Home, Birmingham, and while there engaged heartily in mission work in that large manufacturing town. In 1893 he embarked on board the s.s. “Oratavia” for Sydney, thence taking the s.s. Waihora to Auckland, where he landed in the month of September. For some time Mr. Drake laboured in Auckland, and subsequently for over a year he had charge of the Cheviot circuit in Canterbury. He was appointed to Wellington in March, 1895. The reverend gentleman is highly pleased with what he has seen of New Zealand. He thinks the Colony has a splendid future before it, provided that matters which make for righteousness are not neglected. He believes that in this young country an ideal nation may be evolved if the theories propounded by her leaders can only be brought into practice. Of course Mr. Drake is a total abstainer, as are all his brethren, but he thinks some of the methods of the Prohibitionist leaders somewhat rash. He inclines strongly to Christian Socialism, and advocates the quickening of the churches on all social problems.