Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada [electronic resource]: containing historical, educational and statistical information, dating from the beginning of the work in the several provinces of the Dominion of Canada ... . n just fifty;their number now exceeds one thousand. The number of missions were then five; their number is now more than three hundred—extend-ing from Bermuda to Mackenzies river, and fromGaspe to British Columbia, and even Japan. The number of missionaries then employed wassix; the number of missionaries now employed ex-ceeds three hundred. The places of worship were then few and
Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada [electronic resource]: containing historical, educational and statistical information, dating from the beginning of the work in the several provinces of the Dominion of Canada ... . n just fifty;their number now exceeds one thousand. The number of missions were then five; their number is now more than three hundred—extend-ing from Bermuda to Mackenzies river, and fromGaspe to British Columbia, and even Japan. The number of missionaries then employed wassix; the number of missionaries now employed ex-ceeds three hundred. The places of worship were then few and farbetween; most of them inferior in style and ac-commodation, and unfinished; places of worship,many of them large, commodious and elegant, arenow found everywhere. The Church then had no college or school; nordid the province itself possess one worthy of thename; our Church now possesses three UniversityColleges, three Theological Institutions, threeLadies Colleges—in which more than two thous-and young persons have been educated, amongwhom are several hundred university graduates,between fifty and one hundred of whom arelabourers in the Christian ministry. Then there were few ministers parsonages, and. REV. E. HARTLEY DEWART, those very poor and not furnished; now convenientand furnished ministers parsonages are found onthe great majority of the Circuits; provision forthe support of ministers and their families has ad-vanced in like manner, although not now by anymeans equal to what it ought to be, consideringthe improvements of the country, the require-ments of position and culture, and the expensive-ness of living. We say nothing of the diffusion of literature,the wonderful multiplication and great improve-ment of Sunday-schools, the progress of church music, and the establishment of numerous asso-ciations for the mental culture and social elevationof youth. Nor do we even glance at the longstride of progress which our country at large hasmade in educational inst
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