an Irish Wesleyan Methodist minister, was born at Borris-O’Kane, County Tipperary, in 1796. He was converted in his fourteenth year under the labors of Gideon Ouseley, and was appointed to a circuit in 181. He prosecuted his labors with unwearied diligence for forty-six years, when he became a supernumerary. He died at Holywood, County Down, March 10, 1875. Mr. Ballard was genial, kind, tenderhearted; immovable in matters of principle, yet reluctant to wound the feelings of any. He ably defended Methodism when it was assailed. A sympathetic and faithfill pastor, Mr. Ballard was truly a pious man, and one who feared God above many. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1875, p. 33.<\/p>\n
Ballard, Thomas an Irish Wesleyan Methodist minister, was born at Borris-O’Kane, County Tipperary, in 1796. He was converted in his fourteenth year under the labors of Gideon Ouseley, and was appointed to a circuit in 181. He prosecuted his labors with unwearied diligence for forty-six years, when he became a supernumerary. He died at Holywood, … Continue reading “Ballard, Thomas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}