Who was Arthur Stace? Part 2

The Reverend John G. Ridley, M.C. Arthur Stace was โ€œborn again,โ€ as he would have described his experience, on 6 August 1930 at an evangelistic service at St Barnabasโ€™ Church on Broadway, Sydney. He soon began attending the Burton Street Baptist Tabernacle where Rev. John G. Ridley (1896-1976) was a regular preacher. Ridley himself was …

Who was Arthur Stace? Part 1

A diminutive figure crouches on the pavement in pre-dawn darkness, his right arm moving in rhythmic jerks. He stands, looks around, and moves on. Dressed in a black lounge suit and tie, with an overcoat over his left arm, his hat all but obscures a face like a character from a gritty Graham Greene novel. …