From [John] Howen Rodda at the Manse, Tower Hill, Williton, Somerset, to [Frederick Leach Buxton]. He had been hoping that he would be able to attend the re-union at City Road in London next week, but discovers that it is quite impossible. He would be grateful if Buxton could pass on to the brethren his best wishes and sincere regrets.
He rejoiced in Methodist union but is nevertheless grateful that he was born a Bible Christian. As a family they owe everything to the fact that his parents were living in West Cornwall and were brought to a knowledge of Jesus through the Bible Christians.
Rodda was a Bible Christian minister for ten years, a United Methodist for twenty-five and a Methodist for eighteen. For this ministry of fifty-three years he is thankful.
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- John Howen Rodda (1878-1951) was born in Perranporth in Cornwall. He entered the Bible Christian ministry in 1897 and served for fifty-three years in circuit work. His brother William was also a minister. Source: Beckeriegge and M R 15 Nov. 1951, p.12