Brian Wibberley

Wibberley preached his first sermon in the newly completed Primitive Methodist Church in Paisley Street, Footscray on 3 October 1886.

During this time he mentored J. Leslie Glasson (1889–1923), an outstanding student from Kadina who did original work in Cambridge and Launceston, then died in a boating accident.

[7] In 1913 he was appointed first Principal of the Theological College, Perth, coinciding with the union of Methodist churches in that State.

In May 1922, while still stationed in Malvern, he visited his son, a medical doctor in Tumby Bay, South Australia and while passing through Adelaide took the opportunity to revisit his old parishioners in Kent Town.

[9] In 1924 he returned to Kent Town, in time for the church's Diamond Jubilee for which his contributions were greatly appreciated.

[14] He was author of several books on religion and music: Wibberley was praised by the Adelaide satirical magazine Quiz and The Lantern for his plain outspokenness.

I believe in Greed Almighty, maker of every thing worth having in heaven and earth, and in "Force" its only begotten Son, born of Jingo-patriotism, suffered under Righteousness, was never dead or buried, but, recently rose under the cant of Imperialism and descended to Parliament, Press and Pulpit, whence it sits to judge the world.

It is not like the clerical profession to preach the truth—on the questions of the day they may assert abstract truths, or what they conceive to be such, but seldom do they grapple with the real issues which daily effect the destiny of the world.