James E. Thomas

[2] For four years he studied at College of the Bible and School of Philosophy at Kentucky University, from which institution T. J. Gore, Ira A. Paternoster, and other Adelaide preachers graduated.

[5] He graduated in 1906, and received a call to the Church of Christ, Grote street, which he took up in February 1908, after extensive travels through Britain, Europe, Egypt and Palestine, where he toured the Holy Land.

[2] In January 1912 he was elected to succeed David Amos Ewers (died 1915) as editor The Australian Christian,[9] however that appointment was trumped by his call to the Lygon Street Church of Christ in Melbourne.

[14] He remained there for 13 years, then in 1936 retired to embark on mission work in Western Australia, preaching in Fremantle, Maylands, Subiaco, Hollywood (northern Nedlands), and Victoria Park.

By July he was back in Adelaide, where he preached in the Norwood tabernacle and at tent meetings at Forestville,[16] then on 28 August he conducted an Endeavour rally at the Unley, South Australia Church of Christ.

On 11 September 1937 he preached to a crowded Adelaide Town Hall,[17] then two days later was on the train to Melbourne, to attend the Victorian State conference.