The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914 by George Emery

By George Emery

The Methodist Church met the problem with a centralized polity and a cross-class, gender-variegated, evolving spiritual tradition. It depended on prosperous laymen to elevate particular cash, whereas small presents fed its typical money. younger bachelors from Ontario and Britain crammed the pastorate, even if low pay, inexperience, and bad supervision triggered many to surrender. club progress used to be gradual as a result of low inhabitants density and church-resistant parts within the Methodist inhabitants (bachelors, immigrant co-religionists, and transients), and missions to non-Anglo-Saxon immigrants in Winnipeg, Edmonton, and rural Alberta unfold Methodist values yet received few contributors. within the Methodist Church at the Prairies, 1896-1914, the 1st scholarly learn of church historical past within the prairie quarter, George Emery makes use of quantitative equipment and social interpretation to teach that the Methodist Church was once a cross-class establishment with a dynamic evangelical tradition, now not a middle-class establishment whose tradition was once present process secularization. He demonstrates that the Methodist's success at the prairies used to be amazing and in comparison favourably with what Presbyterians and Anglicans achieved.

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As Clifford Sifton, Canada’s Methodist minister of the interior judged in 1904, “The attempt to give a highly civilized education to the Indian child is practically a failure. I have no hesitation in saying – we may as well be frank – that the Indian cannot go out from school and compete with the white man. [He has not] the physical, mental or moral get-up to enable him to compete. ”41 Administrative changes helped to isolate the native missions. ” In 1898, to prevent the conference stationing committee from using native missions as a dumping ground for hard-to-place clergy, the general conference gave the missionary society control over stationing for native missions, thereby ending administrative contact between the conferences and native missions.

Newton Wesley Rowell, 19091 Economic development transformed Canada’s prairie region during the years 1896–1914. The white settler population grew explosively through migration from central and eastern Canada and immigration from Britain, the United States, and Europe. Native peoples paid the price. 9 percent of the regional population. 2 Except for native converts, Methodists were part of the predatory white settler population. Anglo-Methodists lamented neither the native’s price nor nature’s plight.

E. C. Buchanan, George F. Driver, Joseph F. T. Harden. fm Page 3 Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:42 PM 1 The Prairie West as a Methodist Challenge Canada’s supreme opportunity at home is not in the development of her resources, or in the regulation of her trade, or in the improvement of her political relations, or even in the establishment of a navy, or in all these combined – her supreme opportunity at home is in making the religion of Christ a real and vital thing to all her people … The supreme question in Canada today is, what will be the religious life of our new communities?

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