On another occasion he was badly injured and spent considerable time in hospital recovering, nursed by a Roman Catholic woman who widened his insight of ecumenism.
After graduation, Boreham accepted a call to be the first minister at the Mosgiel Baptist Church, Dunedin, New Zealand, in March 1895 and there began his prolific writings, initially for the local newspaper.
In 1906 he moved to Australia to be pastor at the Baptist Tabernacle in Hobart, Tasmania, where he was active in the multi-faith Council of Churches, serving six years as secretary and two as president.
Boreham wrote some 3,000 editorials that appeared weekly in the Hobart Mercury for 47 years between 1912 and 1959, and others in the Melbourne Age.
In addition, Pioneer Library and John Broadbanks Publishing are seeking to revive many of his out-of-print books.