[1] He maintained that Australians could hold their own against the world in art, scholarship and sport and believed that Australia would at some time produce a national religious reformer attuned to local conditions.
[5] After visiting the other colonies and New Zealand as the travelling secretary of the Student Christian Movement, Pratt studied theology at Camden College and was ordained in 1897.
He moved to Victoria as minister of Wyclif Congregational Church in Surrey Hills serving from 1910 until 1916 when he went to Brisbane, Queensland.
He returned to Sydney and the Vaucluse church in 1917 and Hunters Hill in 1918 before a three-year ministry in Davey Street Hobart, Tasmania.
Pratt's final ministry was at the Roseby Memorial Church in Marrickville, New South Wales from 1928 until his death in 1932.