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 ... . ,then, quadrennially. At the General Conference of 1878 the present Editor was re-electedfurther term of four years. Its present circulation is 10,157 weekly. sincefor a METHODIST PERIODICALS. 531 II. THE WESLEYAN. The publication of the Wesleyan was begun in the year 18-18 by the ministers connected withNova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland Distric
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 ... . ,then, quadrennially. At the General Conference of 1878 the present Editor was re-electedfurther term of four years. Its present circulation is 10,157 weekly. sincefor a METHODIST PERIODICALS. 531 II. THE WESLEYAN. The publication of the Wesleyan was begun in the year 18-18 by the ministers connected withNova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland Districts, which at that time were under the direc-tion of the English Wesleyan Conference. In 1855, when these Districts were formed into the Con-ference of Eastern British America, it became the authorized Connexional organ of that weekly circulation now (1879) numbers 3,000 copies. The following have been its Editors from1848 to 1881: Alexander McLeod, D. H. Richey, Churchill, McMurray 1848 to 18521S52 to 1S541854 to 1S601860 to 1868 Humphrey Piekard, W .Duncan D. CurrieT. Watson Smith 1868 to 18731873 to 1879 1879 to 1880 1880 to 1881. REV. HUMPHREY PICKARD, III. THE EVANGELICAL WITNESS. This was the organ of the late New Connexion Methodist Conference. The first periodical pub-lication of this branch of Canadian Methodism was The Christian Messenger, begun in 1844 as amonthly, and in 1847 issued as a weekly, under the editorial management of the Rev. Thomas , who continued to occupy that position until 1850 when it was discontinued from lack ofsupport. In 1854 the Rev. Joseph H. Robinson began the publication of the Evangelical Witness,which, by special resolution of the Conference of that year, was recognized as the organ of the Con-nexion. For the first three years, or until 1857, this paper was issued monthly, but the Con-ference of 1857 ordered that henceforth it should be published se
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