Introduction

Biography

Harker was a Brit­ish Se­venth-day Ad­vent­ist min­is­ter.

His fa­mi­ly moved to the New­cas­tle-up­on-Tyne area in 1900, and he taught mu­sic for se­ver­al years out of his home in Si­mon­side Street in Walls­end.

In 1916, he be­gan work­ing in the North England Con­fer­ence of the Se­venth-day Ad­vent­ists. In 1918, he be­came pre­si­dent of the Ir­ish Mis­sion, hold­ing that of­fice four years. He then moved to pas­tor­al work in the South Eng­land Con­fer­ence.

In 1939, he re­turned to the Brit­ish Un­ion to lead the Youth and the Home Mis­sion­ary De­part­ments, serv­ing un­til re­tir­ing to Read­ing, Berk­shire, in 1946.