Cyclopaedia Of Methodism In Canada Containing Historical Educational And Statistical Information Dating From The Beginning Of The Work In The Several Provinces Of The Dominion Of Canada And Extending To The Annual Conferences Of 1880

Excerpt from Cyclopaedia of Methodism in Canada: Containing Historical, Educational, and Statistical Information, Dating From the Beginning of the Work in the Several Provinces of the Dominion of Canada, and Extending to the Annual Conferences of 1880 The results of Methodism in the social, civil and religious interests of the world, are not appreciated - are not known even. Indeed they cannot be till the great balance sheet shall be made up. Methodism saved England from French atheism and anarchy; the United States from antinomianism and a licentious liberalism; and Canada from a State ecclesiasticism. It has saved the Protestant Churches of Great Britain and America from the stupor of the dark ages. Those blessed men who were the immediate instruments of this great salvation are worthy of monuments more enduring than the pyramids of Egypt. The fragrance of their memory will be as fresh a thousand years hence as it is now never, never lost - rather increasing in its preciousness till Gospel triumphs shall culminate in glory. In the year 1867 we published the handbook or canadian metho dism, which contained a full record of all the ministers and preachers whose names had appeared in the Minutes of Conference down to that date, together with those who travelled in Canada under the direction of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States of America, prior to the formation of the Canada Conference, and those who laboured under the direction of the British Wesleyan Conference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

When American Methodist preachers first arrived to Upper Canada they brought more than a contagious religious faith. They also brought saddlebags stuffed with books published by the New York Methodist Book Concern - North America's first denominational publisher - to sell along their preaching circuits. Pulpit, Press, and Politics traces the expansion of this remarkable transnational market from its earliest days to the mid-nineteenth century during a period of intense religious struggle in Upper Canada marked by fiery revivals, political betrayals, and bitter church schisms. The Methodist Book Concern occupied a central place in all this conflict as it powerfully shaped and subverted the religious and political identities of Canadian Methodists, bankrolled the bulk of Methodist preaching and missionary activities, enabled and constrained evangelistic efforts among the colony's Native groups, and clouded Methodist dealings with the British Wesleyans and other religious competitors north of the border. Even more importantly, as Methodists went on to assume a preeminent place in the province's religious, cultural, and educational life, their ongoing reliance on the Methodist Book Concern played a crucial part in opening the way for what would later become the lasting acceptance and widespread use of American books and periodicals across the province as a whole.