Shannon Methodist Church
| Type of organisation: | Religious
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| Street name: | Lyons Road |
| Town or locality: | Calomba South Australia |
| Date established: | 1873 |
| Ceased operation: | 1957 |
| Established by: | Primitive Methodist people |
| Business or purpose: | Religious services, religious education, social gatherings |
An official program printed for the Jubilee of the Shannon Methodist Church includes the following information:
"If it be true that we live in deeds, not years, then the men who pioneered the mallee lands of Dublin )known as the 30 mile scrub) must surely deserve honour. Fifty years ago these fertile plains, now the envy of the agriculturist, securely fenced and subdivided, dotted here and there with comfortable homesteads, many of which have electric light and all modern conveniences, were covered with dense mallee scrub. The adventure proved the acid test of character, and of some it must be said "weighed in the balance and found wanting" but some endured to the winning of success.
Of the enduring few there were some who, while keen on the conquering of the mallee and the growwing of wheat, believed that "man shall not live on bread alone" and believed in the communion of saints - saints who countered for something on the business end of a grub axe in the biting cold of winter and the scorching heat of summer, who could make bread and sew in a pine and pug one-roomed hut and wear a smile seven days a week.
But the temple of God made by hands was not as yet built, there was no lofty spire bidding man to look upward to higher things, no sweet music to charm him from the rough conditions of his daily enviroment, but there was something within him that compelled , like Israel's sweet singer to cry: "As the hart panteth after the water brooks so panteth my soul after thee o God."
Men with haearts big enough to face a mallee allotment are not likely to want something very much for long. We expect them to act, "Act in the living present, heart within and God overhead', and these men acted with the result - Shannon Church.
The real church - a body of men and women who seek to follow their Lord was "born again" (not built) some time previous to building operations starting, and Divine services were held in the homes of disciples.
To be continued
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