Rev. Samuel G. Philips was a native of England, not very large of stature, active-mined, and, we suspect, largely self-educated, an education which has been going on ever since.

He came from the Lower Canada section of the work, where he had labored at least one year as a supply. When a Wesleyan standard-bearer went over to another section of the militant Church, the year preceding this at St. Johns, Rev. phillips had been called to supply the vacancy, and did it courageously.

This young man was destined to get up his Conference studies well, to advance his circuits, to preach good sermons, and to write and publish, saleable and useful books.

...from the minutes of the 1854 Wesleyan Methodist Conference in Toronto C.W.