[9] He was credited, along with Percy N. Slade (1872–1944) and George W. Cocks (died 1952), with modernizing Methodist policies and organisation in the state.
After his removal to the administration arm of the church he took to the pulpit only occasionally, but remained an active member of his local (Lindfield) congregation, attending services every Sunday.
He died at Kempsey after a long illness, and following a service at the Lindfield Methodist Church, his remains were cremated at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium.
In his presidential address he was vehement in opposing the then-current preparation for war,[11] and when the Church of England withdrew from the Council, he fought the resolution for it to disband.
[2] They had four sons and one daughter:[a] Jones married again, to Edith Winnifred Wells Holmes,[15] who was with him at Crescent Head, when he died.