Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. The Origins of Methodism 9
6. The Early Mission to British North America 27
7. Methodism as a Personal Spiritual and Moral Movement 53
8. Upper Canadian Wesleyan and Episcopal Methodism, 1820–54 71
9. Divergent Visions: The Wesleyans in the Atlantic Region and the Smaller Connexions before 1855 100
10. Mass Evangelism before 1860 127
11. The Methodists and Native Peoples before 1860 148
12. The Elaboration of a National Methodist Church 179
13. The Transformation of the Social Means of Grace 211
14. Methodist Education 239
15. Methodist Missions in Canada, 1854–1925 276
16. Methodist Overseas Missions, 1873–1925 306
17. Methodism and the Creation of a Moral Order 334
18. Young People and the Methodist Moral Order 363
19. Methodism in the Early Twentieth Century 388
20. Methodism and the Formation of The United Church of Canada 416
21. Methodism–the Continuing Legacy 440
22. Notes 453
23. Index 549