. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. for the faiiiily ofStephen Read, his grandfather, who came fromFlamborough, Yorkshire, in 1770, and settled atNappan, the distinction of having been the firstMethodist family in Nova Scotia, or, in fact, inthe whole Dominion. William Black preachedin Stephen Reads house in 1782, during one ofhis earliest evangelistic tours, and the prophetschamber, which the good man added
. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. for the faiiiily ofStephen Read, his grandfather, who came fromFlamborough, Yorkshire, in 1770, and settled atNappan, the distinction of having been the firstMethodist family in Nova Scotia, or, in fact, inthe whole Dominion. William Black preachedin Stephen Reads house in 1782, during one ofhis earliest evangelistic tours, and the prophetschamber, which the good man added soon afterthat time to his dwelling, sheltered among others,in 1791, William P. Early, a discouraged young preacher, just from the Southern States, whosedepression vanished ere he left the hospitablehome of Mr. Read, a Methodist who loved andfeared the Lord. These Cumberland Methodists gave Canadaher first Methodist evangelist, William Black, ofAmherst. Blacks father was a Scotchman fromPaisley, his mother a member of a good York-shire family, and the son was born in Hudders-field. Converted in Nova Scotia, in 1779, in hisnineteenth year, ho left his fathers house as soonas he had reached his majority, and commenced. The Rev. William Black. those evangelistic labours which made him every-where known and caused him to be revered andremembered by tens of thousands as BishopBlack. Henry Allaine, the celebrated NewLight preacher, was then at the height of hiscareer. Alleine had no doubt a work to do—thework of breaking up the established order ofthings, and this work he in some cases did only toofaithfully. More than once Black and he, cross-ing each others paths, expended ammunition inattack or defence which ought to have been 2(50 CANADA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA. used in a combined assault upon the evil whichso often exists under various forms in a newlysettled country. Black was often sorely grieved by Alleinesefforts to break up the Societies he had formed,yet he possessed his soul
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