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 . WILLIAM CASE, The father of Canadian missions; born in Massachusetts in 1780; ordained by Bishop Asbury. From 1810 to 1828 he was presiding elder in Canada; he acted as Superintendent of Indian Missions and Schools in Canada. OLD CHURCH, TADOUSACThe oldest church in the Dominion of Canada. War of 1812-14 he was acting as pr
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 . WILLIAM CASE, The father of Canadian missions; born in Massachusetts in 1780; ordained by Bishop Asbury. From 1810 to 1828 he was presiding elder in Canada; he acted as Superintendent of Indian Missions and Schools in Canada. OLD CHURCH, TADOUSACThe oldest church in the Dominion of Canada. War of 1812-14 he was acting as presid-ing elder in his own state, but in 1815he returned again northward, and servedboth in Upper and in Lower Canada asone of the presiding elders. 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 Conferen
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