The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . ctor Fisk deliv-ered at its opening in September of the fol- lowing year a brilliant inaugural address,which was much talked of and long re-membered. Other positions had meanwhile beenoffered him. The Canada Conferenceelected him bishop of the Methodist Epis-copal Church in that colony. It is sig-nificant that the founding
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . ctor Fisk deliv-ered at its opening in September of the fol- lowing year a brilliant inaugural address,which was much talked of and long re-membered. Other positions had meanwhile beenoffered him. The Canada Conferenceelected him bishop of the Methodist Epis-copal Church in that colony. It is sig-nificant that the founding of the first col-legiate institution of Canadian Method-ism was exactly contemporaneous withthe founding of the Wesleyan college at Cobourg, situated on theshores of L,ake Ontario, some sixty mileseast of Toronto, which later, as VictoriaUniversity, won for itself an honorablename in the annals of education in theNew World, also dates from the year1831. So enthusiastic were the Canadianpreachers in its behalf that they pledgedfor its support all the marriage fees whichshould accrue to them under the recentlegislation which permitted them to per-form the rite of matrimony. There was also educational activity in The Illustrated History of Methodism. 501. A GROUP OF , PRESIDENTS AND W. A. Smith, D. D., President Randolph-Macon College, 1846-66; President Central College, Prof. David Di-xcan, A. M. 3. A. W. Jones, D. D., President Memphis Conference Female College. 4. R. Thomas, I)., President Emory College, Georgia. 5. O. H. P. Corprkw, Professor iu Randolph-MaconCollege and Central College, Missouri. 6. Prof. S. D. Sanders, Southwestern University. 7. B. W. Arnold, A M.,Vanderbilt University. 8. Prof. Bennett Puryear, A. M., L,E. I)., Randolph-Macon College and Richmond Col-lege. 9. George W. , A. M., Professor University of Alabama. 10. R. , A. D , PresidentMississippi Industrial Institute; Pro
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