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NZ) Publication #16(3,4) 1958 Page 1 The First Hundred Years Wesley Historical Society (NZ) Publication #16(3,4) 1958 Page 1 The First Hundred Years Wesley Historical Society (NZ) Publication #16(3,4) 1958 Page 2 The First Hundred Years Central Church Masterton Central Church and Hall The Sanctuary Wesley Historical Society (NZ) Publication #16(3,4) 1958 Page 3 The First Hundred Years A SURVEY The establishment of Methodism in Masterton is closely associated with the foundation of the town itself. The pioneering spirit of the Methodists in the 18th and 19th centuries in England and Scotland was brought to New Zealand by Methodist immigrants in the earliest days of the foundation of the new colony, and was carried to Masterton by that kindly man of high ideals, the late Mr. Henry Jones. In 1855 Mr. Jones and some of his family arrived in Masterton and built a home. Mr. Jones then sent to Wellington for the younger members of his family and they departed for Masterton on New Year's Day, 1856, and arrived in the newly-founded township on January 6, after a most trying journey, over rough bush tracks and the dangerous so- called road over the Rimutaka Hill, part of the trip having to be done on pack bullocks with hidden dangers lurking everywhere in treacherous, tracks and bridgeless rivers where mishaps were not always avoided through slips on the tracks (they could not be actually called roads) and the scouring of the rivers. Through the trials and tribulations of that nerve-wracking journey—through swamps and bogs, and fast-flowing rivers and sluggish dangerous creeks—the remainder of the family safely reached the town named after Mr. Joseph Masters; the whole family having brought with them the true spirit of Methodism, which placing its trust in God had, since the days when John and diaries Wesley and George Whitefield had sown the seeds of Methodism in their little club at Oxford University in the eighteenth century, overcome all difficulties in the propagation of their faith. EARLY SUNDAY SCHOOL. Ever remembering their debt to God for having brought them safely to Masterton Mr. Jones set to work to establish Methodism in the township, and commenced a Sunday School in his own home which the children of neighbours were invited to attend. The teachers were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones and Mr. Bennett Pascoe Perry, farmer of Taratahi. The attendance increased, and, apparently, to avoid sectarianism, the Sunday School was for a brief period called a Union Sunday School—and one might claim that the seed was actually sown in those far-away days of what is being sought to-day, the Union of the Methodist Church and other similar denominations—and a small building obtained. For a time the Sunday School met in a building in Queen Street south, beyond the Renall Street corner. This building nearly sixty years later was occupied as a Chinese laundry. With the increase in the number of Methodist children in the town the Sunday School, a few years later, reverted to Methodist teachings alone. It was the Sunday School, held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones that eventually paved the way to the establishment of the first Methodist Church in Masterton. Wesley Historical Society (NZ) Publication #16(3,4) 1958 Page 4 The First Hundred Years SOCIETY FORMED. In 1858 a Society, probably on the same lines as those John Wesley formed in England in the 18th century, was established in Mr. Henry Jones' house, the members being Mr. and Mrs. H. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Perry, Susannah Chamberlain, Mary J. Kibblewhite, Emily Eaton, Sarah A. Hunt, Elizabeth Jones, Mr. C. Dixon and three others on trial. In 1862 a church-school building, having space room 30 feet by 20 feet, was erected on a site in Chapel Street where the old Masterton Fire Police and Salvage Corps had its building and meeting room over fifty years ago. The building was unlined for some years, and the seats were cushionless, and certainly not as comfortable as the church which has stood for so long at the corner of Chapel Street and Lincoln Road, known in the early days as Hall Street. ANOTHER STEP FORWARD. There was another step forward in the building programme in 1870 when a church, costing £175, and having seating accommodation for one hundred people, was built at the corner of Chapel Street and Lincoln Road. How the section upon which the church was built came into the hands of the Methodist Church requires an explanation at this point as the cost to the church itself was only £5 (registration fee); and into it comes that great scheme now known as the Small Farm settlement wherein those who joined this association were entitled to get a Masterton town acre tor £1 and 40 acres adjoining the town for 10/- an acre. The Crown granted the whole of the land for the Masterton area to Charles Rooking Carter (after whom Carterton was named) to transfer the titles to the individual settlers concerned. On December 3rd, 1859 a conveyance of one acre of land was signed from Mr. Carter to the Rev. J. Buller, of Wellington, chairman of the Wesleyan Missions in the Southern district of New Zealand, and the latter in turn transferred on December 23, 1873 that acre to Messrs. B. P. Perry, Henry Jones, Walter Perry (butcher), Robert George Williams (saddler, and Masterton's first Mayor), Henry Bentley (farmer), William Day of Upper Plain, farmer, Frank Harrison, sawyer, and George Henry Shute as trustees of the Masterton Methodist Church. NEW CHURCH BUILT. As the congregation was increasing a new church was built in 1878 at the corner of Chapel Street and Lincoln Road at a cost of £680, the site being that conveyed by the Rev. J. Buller to the trustees of the Methodist Church in 1873. The raising of the money to erect the church was a problem surrounded by difficulties for the small Methodist population of Masterton in those days—when the first regular minister, the Rev. John Dukes, was appointed in 1880 to Masterton, the congregation totalled 39 which number was nearly doubled ten years later—but the position was faced with the same spirit and determination which was shown by the founders of Methodism in England over a century before, and the new structure was opened to the great joy and Wesley Historical Society (NZ) Publication #16(3,4) 1958 Page 5 The First Hundred Years satisfaction of those then living who had carried the Torch of Methodism in Masterton. The old church built over seven years previously then became the Sunday School. This building was split down the centre and enlarged by the addition of another room. The alterations cost £178. In 1899 additions were made to the Sunday School, Bible class rooms being added. In 1912 the primary department building was added. The original portion of the 1878 church measured 45 ft. by 30 ft. and was capable of seating 225 people. The roof of the church was covered with shingles but these were removed after a fire in 1940 and replaced by iron. With that spirit of progress so long associated with the church and its members the church in 1894 was enlarged to accommodate 350 persons. What was known as the old "bellows organ" in the church was replaced with the present pipe organ in 1914. For many years the church had an excellent choir (one of the best in New Zealand) and an orchestra, among the members being Mr. James Candy, so long associated with the musical life of Masterton, and Mr. Harry Inns. It is interesting to note that on January 21, 1880 the church trustees sold for £65 a strip of the "church acre" to the Masterton Borough Council —half a chain wide from Lincoln Road to Albert Street for the purpose of widening Chapel Street. Then on December 31st, 1885 the trustees sold a piece of land facing Chapel Street to Messrs. G. E. & E. E. Chamberlain (who had the flour mill in the vicinity) for £300. Church and Cottage, 1890 Wesley Historical Society (NZ) Publication #16(3,4) 1958 Page 6 The First Hundred Years THE PARSONAGE. In 1880 the parsonage was in Albert Street; later Mr. Gillespie (whose family have been long associated with the Methodist Church in Masterton) built a house in Chapel Street which was let to the Rev. L. M. Isitt (Minister at Masterton from 1882 till 1884, having followed the Rev. John Dukes 1880-81) for 12/6 a week. As it was necessary for the Minister to have the use of a horse to visit his parishioners in the outlying districts, a larger area of land was required to graze the horse and also a cow. With that commendable spirit of progress which had always been shown down the long, long years it was decided to purchase 3¼ acres of the Dixon Estate in Worksop Road, and there in 1883 was erected the first Methodist Parsonage in Masterton, having ten rooms and costing some £500. Then came the era of motor transport, less land was required for a Parsonage and eventually a new site and building was obtained in Lincoln Road and there the Methodist Parsonage stands today, one of the best parsonages in New Zealand Methodism. AN EARLY PROBLEM. In the early years of the Methodist Church in Masterton one of the great problems was the lack of Ministers available. Most of the preaching was done by lay preachers, who did an excellent job. Lay preachers from Masterton braved the dangers of the flooded Tauherenikau, Waiohine and Ruamahanga rivers to conduct services at Greytown, Tauherenikau, Carterton and in other parts of the district.
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