The Minutes Of The Annual Conferences Of The Wesleyan Methodist Church In Canada From 1824 To 1845 Inclusive

Excerpt from The Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Wesleyan-Methodist Church in Canada, From 1824 to 1845 Inclusive: With Many Official Documents and Resolutions Not Before Published; To Which Is Added the Marriage Act "Methodism is Christianity in earnest." Every fragment of its history is important, and will be sought for with avidity by those who may hereafter write the history of the Churches. It is no longer considered a mere experiment, but a wise system of vital and practical godliness, the efficiency of which has long since been felt and acknowledged in most parts of the world. The Wesleyan-Methodist Church in Canada is the third and youngest branch of the Wesleyan household. Legitimately descended from the parent stock, she takes her stand on the mutually-acknowledged platform of Wesleyan identity, and rejoices to co-operate with the elder branches of the family in the great work assigned us. This volume is offered to the world as well to show her sentiments, strength, and operations, as to instruct and comfort those who are "fellow-heirs with us of like precious faith." It is both pleasing and profitable to look back upon the achievements of by-gone days, and reflect upon the labours and sacrifices of those men, through whose instrumentality, God has "turned a barren wilderness into a fruitful field, and made the desert rejoice and blossom like the rose." The Minutes of Conference contain the authentic statistics of the Church in detail; and great pains have been taken to have these statistics correct. As a book of reference, this volume will be found very useful, while the official documents it contains, and the instruction herein given to the different officers of the Church, cannot fail to be of great service to those whose duty it is to conduct the affairs of our Zion. 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.

Transatlantic Subjects dissents from four decades of scholarly writing on colonial Canada by taking the British imperial context - rather than the North American environment - as a conceptual framework for interpreting patterns of social and cultural life in the colonies prior to the 1850s. Anchored in "the new British history" advanced by J.G.A. Pocock, David Armitage, and Kathleen Wilson, this collective work explores ideas, institutions, and social practices that were adapted and changed through the process of migration from the British archipelago to the new settlement societies. Contributors discuss a broad range of institutional and social practices, including education, religion, radical politics, and family life. Transatlantic Subjects offers a new perspective for the writing of Canada's history. A self-conscious response to the plea for a broader British history that includes the overseas settlement colonies, it makes a significant contribution to the new cultural history of the British Empire. Contributors include Bruce Curtis (Carleton), Michael Eamon (Queen's), Darren Ferry (McMaster), Donald Fyson (Laval), Michael Gauvreau (McMaster), Jeffrey McNairn (Queen's), Bryan Palmer (Queen's), J.G.A. Pocock (Johns Hopkins), Michelle Vosburgh (Brock), Todd Webb (Laurentian), and Brian Young (McGill)."

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