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

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.

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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.