File: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 (14778969091).jpg

Identifier: 03180513.emory.edu
Title: 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 ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Cornish, George H. (George Henry), 1834-1912
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada Wesleyan Methodist Church
Publisher: Toronto : Methodist Book and Publishing House
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
were promoted by him with the most intenseearnestness and anxiety.* One of John Wesleys first efforts to improve thecondition of the converts of that period was an attempt to found a CharitySchool for the benefit of the colliers of Kingswood. That Charity Schoolproved to be the germ of one that ten years later grew into a complete literaryinstitution, and which is now devoted exclusively to the benefit of the sons ofWesleyan ministers. In 181.1 a similar school was established at WoodhouseGrove, near Leeds. John Wesley also established schools for poor children atNewcastle and London, made regulations for their government, and collectedand contributed funds for their support. In later years, when by Gods bless-ing Methodism had become established, and its resources to increase educationalagencies were more abundant, its attention was more systematically given to thework of education, as will appear from a glance at the statistics of English * Smiths History of Wesley and his Times. in
Text Appearing After Image:
VICTORIA COLLEGE. 535 Methodism. It now has three colleges for the education of ministers, fourschools especially for ministers children, two colleges in which young men arefitted for commercial and professional life, and two Normal schools for thetraining of teachers. It also has 853 day or parochial schools or departments,with an attendance of 67,152 boys, 52,517 girls, and 59,332 infants, being atotal of 179,001 day scholars. Its educational provisions are equal in extentto that of any other Protestant body in Great Britain. In the United States the Methodist people both North and South havedevised liberal things for the education of their sons and daughters. As earlyas the year 1780, Asbury and Dickens prepared a plan for a Seminary andobtained subscriptions. When the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized.Asbury and Coke succeeded in erecting an institution at Abington, which, inhonour of its projectors, was named Cokesbury College, which, howeverwas in a short time destroyed b

Note About Images