on an equal footing, the church became complicit in practical involvement in the errors of the Established Church, he held, and therefore compromised the PCEA testimony against Erastianism. He considered that this signalled an approach to truth that seemed capable of extension to other doctrines of the Westminster Confession of Faith. Ultimately 5 of the 22 PCEA ministers continued outside the union accomplished 1864/65, and several united who were not really in favour. The still-maintained practice of a capella psalmody in the PCEA was not regarded as an issue of principle on the level of the Erastian issue by McIntyre and his colleagues. He was an able man, a solid if not winsome preacher. He was a man of firm principles of whom Sir Samuel Griffith, one time Premier of Queensland and the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, wrote: "On the whole he was a remarkable man, and his name deserves to be remembered as one of the foremost worthies of New South Wales." References Further reading Rowland S. Ward, Presbyterian Leaders in 19th Century Australia (Wantirna, Victoria 1993), pp. 82–97. External links Alan Dougan, McIntyre, William (1805–1870), in: Australian Dictionary of Biography 1806 births 1870 deaths Australian Presbyterian ministers Scottish emigrants to Australia 19th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Alumni of the University of Glasgow Australian newspaper editors People from Highland (council area)