Includes bibliographic references.

Introduction -- Upbringing and education -- Missionary and leadership tasks -- Methodist Ladies College -- Conference president -- Being methodist -- President-General -- Final ministry -- Last years -- Appendices: Pastoral address, 1952 -- The sincerity of a minister and his leadership -- Proclaiming the Gospel -- Pastoral letter of the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia assembled in Melbourne, 1957 -- President-General's ruling -- The funeral sermon - tribute to Queen Salote (December, 1965) -- Dr Wood's last notes on the Australian Hymn Book (Church and Nation, February 13, 1980) -- Old age (The Methodene, August, 1968) -- Church union issues, Aldersgate Journal, September, 1971 -- Inaugural assembly - Wednesday, 22 June, 1977 (2.30pm).