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 . s. In the periodbetween the war and the organization ofthe independent Methodist Church ofCanada, he conceived and carried outhis cherished plan of evangelizing thenative Indian races. During the firstfive years of its history, besides beingacting general superintendent, he wasspecial superintendent of missions. Hadthe Chur
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 . s. In the periodbetween the war and the organization ofthe independent Methodist Church ofCanada, he conceived and carried outhis cherished plan of evangelizing thenative Indian races. During the firstfive years of its history, besides beingacting general superintendent, he wasspecial superintendent of missions. Hadthe Church at this time constituted itselfepiscopal, there is no doubt that hewould have been its first bishop. When,in 1888, it definitely rejected the episco-pal form, and allied itself with theBritish Conference, he devoted himselfentirely to Indian missions; but was oneof the Canadian delegates to the Cincin-nati General Conference of 1X8(>. Hewas diligent in his pastoral supervisionof the aborigines, and did much in theway of translations. He was also in im-mediate charge of an Indian IndustrialSchool at Alderville. At the crisis of 1X40, when the Cana-dian Church broke away from the BritishConference, and remained apart for 564 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BAY OF QUINTS, CANADA. The building in the center of the engraving is the first Methodist Church buiit in Canada. To the extreme right i the monument erected to the memory of the United Empire Loyalists. seven years, Case, American-born as hewas, clung to the British alliance, alongwith John Sunday, the ablest of the na-tive preachers, who carried his Indiansalong with him. In the year 1844 heappeared at New York as a delegate forthe second time, on this occasion fromthe British Conference; and witnessedthe stirring scenes of that historic gath-ering. Happily, before his death he wit-nessed both the reunion between theCanadian and British Conferences, andalso the church consolidation of 1854,which made the two Cana
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