METHODIST  CONFERENCE WEEK.

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President   and   His   Work
[By Doulos]

   The Rev. William A. Potts comes to the chair of the Conference in the 38th year of his ministry.  He possesses all the gifts necessary to the discharge of his high office, and his duties will be taken up and carried through with modesty and ability.   He will remain what he always has been—frank, brotherly, conscientious, outspoken; a man whom his seniors trust and in whom young men have confidence. He cannot be ranked among "the connexional lawyers." It would probably take him all the years of his life to wear out a single copy of the "Book of Laws;" but Mr. Potts knows Methodism, and he has other endowments liberally bestowed, and with them the saving grace of humour, and the gift of common sense.

The Register, 23 February 1920 p.7.

The Rev. W. A. Potts who twelve months ago was elected President of the Methodist Conference for 1920-21, took up the office on Tuesday. He is a native of Shropshire. He became a candidate for the Wesleyan ministry in 1879, when 19 years of age. In 1883, for health reasons, he came to South Australia, and was soon recognised as a man of exceptional ability. A widely-read man, a clear thinker, and a lucid expositor, his ministry has been successful in the different circuits in which he has been stationed. 

CHRONICLE, 28 February 1920