Documents Relating to the Recent Determination of the British Wesleyan Conference to Dissolve Its Official Union with the Provincial Conference of Upper Canada. to Which Is Subjoined an Appendix, Containing a Letter from Dr. Alder to Lord John Russell
Documents Relating to the Recent Determination of the British Wesleyan Conference to Dissolve Its Official Union with the Provincial Conference of Upper Canada. to Which Is Subjoined an Appendix, Containing a Letter from Dr. Alder to Lord John Russell,
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...that the Wesleyan Ministers, Societies, and Congregations in Lower Canada, as well as in all the other British American territories, including those belonging to the Honourable the Hudson's-Bay Company, with the single exception of the Province of Upper Canada, are placed under the exclusive pastoral direction and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...that the Wesleyan Ministers, Societies, and Congregations in Lower Canada, as well as in all the other British American territories, including those belonging to the Honourable the Hudson's-Bay Company, with the single exception of the Province of Upper Canada, are placed under the exclusive pastoral direction and control of the British Conference; and neither have acknowledged, nor intend to acknowledge, in any sense, the headship of the Provincial Conference. Such a claim is incompatible with one of the principles on which the Union between the British Conference and the Provincial Conference was founded; in the formation of which it was intended to secure to the former "the right and power of exercising a reasonable and necessary degree of official influence and direction in the public proceedings of the latter Body," as well as to secure to the Upper-Canadian Preachers and societies those rights and privileges which belonged to them as Ministers and members of that branch of the Wesleyan Connexion. This is evident from Colonel Rowan's letter to Mr. Green, quoted by the Messrs. Ryerson; from which it appears that it was expected by the Colonial Government that one effect of the Union would be to bring Wesleyan Methodism in Upper Canada more under the control of the British Conference: nor was this a groundless expectation; for the official Address from the Provincial to the British Conference, dated Hallowel, Upper Canada, August 18/A, 1832, contains the following paragraph: --"We have adopted, and directed our Secretary to transmit to your Missionary Committee, a series of Resolutions agreed to by this Conference, making proposals and recommending the adoption of measures, by which the Methodist societies in Upper Canada, the neighbouring ...
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