History of the Methodist Church Within the Territories Embraced in the Late Conference of Eastern British America (Volume 2); Including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Bermuda - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. SKETCH OF PROGRESS DURING EXISTENCE OF EASTERN BRITISH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, WITH NOTES ON SUBSEQUENT UNIONS. English Presidents. Financial plans. Home Mission Society. Jubilee celebration. Territorial growth. Labrador. St. Pierre. Death of senior ministers. English ministerial recruits. Joseph Laurence. Membership. Mount Allison College. Book Room and "Wesleyan." Movements towards union with the Canadian Conference. Consummation of Union. Further Union in 1883. For a period of nineteen years the Methodism of the Lower Provinces retained the form of organization secured in 1855. Throughout those years, the latter of which were marked by pleasing development, the new Conference received important financial assistance from the Parent body, and derived valuable counsel from several of the more prominent men of English Methodism. The chair of the Conference was taken in 1860 by William B. Boyce, previously a distinguished missionary to South Africa, and first president of the Australian Conference, who in 1861 was elected one of the General Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. In 1864 the business of the assembled ministers was guided by William Lockwood Thornton, connexional editor, and that year representative from the British Conference to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States and president of the Canadian Conference, as well as president of the British Conference. The occupant of the presidential chair in 1866 was George Scott, D.p,, a former very suecessful minister to Sweden, whose interest in the work in Eastern British America ended only with his life; and in 1868 by William Morley Punshon, English Methodism's most gifted orator, and in some respects the foremost man in the Methodist Churc...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1154290921
- ISBN 13 9781154290929
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages156
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