The Methodist Church and Missions, Vol. 4: In Canada and Newfoundland, a Brief Account of the Methodist Church in Canada, What It Is and What It Has Done (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Alex Sutherland

9780483769793: The Methodist Church and Missions, Vol. 4: In Canada and Newfoundland, a Brief Account of the Methodist Church in Canada, What It Is and What It Has Done (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0483769797 ISBN 13: 9780483769793

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Excerpt from The Methodist Church and Missions, Vol. 4: In Canada and Newfoundland, a Brief Account of the Methodist Church in Canada, What It Is and What It Has Done

In preparing this little volume I have made free use of the materials contained in my book, entitled, Methodism in Canada: Its Work and Its Story, which comprised the Fernley Lecture for 1903. That large volume of 350 pages I have compressed into very much smaller space, omitting many details, and throwing the whole into such form as may best suit the requirements of Epworth Leagues, Mission Study Classes and Sunday Schools. Those who desire fuller information are referred to the volume above mentioned.

The plan I have adopted is to give, first of all, a brief statement of what the Methodist Church in Canada is at the present time, and then so much of its story as will show how it came to be what it is. What I have to relate is the process of a divine evolution whereby God made them to be a people that were not a people, and raised up the weak things of the world to confound the mighty. To change the figure, I have to tell something of the story of how a grain of mustard seed was planted in unpromising soil, but how in the space of one hundred years it grew into so stately a tree that to-day one million of people, or nearly 17 percent, of the whole population of the Canadian Dominion, gather under its shadow and are called by its name.

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