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that special efforts must be made this winter to
bring Y'0ut (al right r elationship wi t h Jesus
Chr ist.
A month l a t e r the pub Lf cat Lon reported on the General Confer-
e nce of Canadian Methodism which gave "the l e a d i n wha t i s
aft e r a l l t h e fundamental work of e.ha c hurch- - the work of
Eva ngelizati on". Five practical recommendations guaranteed a
rene wed awareness of evangelism within the l o c a l ch urch . 28
Charles Lench, a Methodist I inister who preached i n Newfound -
l a nd early in the t wen t i e t h century, wrote of "g r a c i ous
man i fe s t ati on s of quicke ning power" on che Bona vista circui t .
Revivals result ed i n sinners trembling , f eel ing " t ha t t h i s
g a s p e l was indeed God' 5 spell " . 29
The Methodist Chur c h was l a t e r challenged by the Sa lva­
t ion Ar my, Which was introduced to Ne wfou nd land i n 1885 by
captains Emma a nd Charles W. Daws on. 30 As t he Ar my opene d
fire in the i sland, many pe ople believed that Newfc und Lan d ,
vas r i pe for a sp iritua l awake n ing. This feeli.,g wa s rein-
forc ed by a c ursory g l a nc e a t t he established c hurches,
especially Methodism Which had , Army officers and discontented
Methodists contended, becom e f o r mal i s t i c a nd spiritually
a naemic. Much of its eva nge listic ze a l had evaporated by t he
time the Ar my a r rived . K. S . Inglis' comment about Eng lish
Sa l va tionism applied e qua lly to Newf oun dla nd : "Muc h i n t he
history of the Salvation Army becomes i ntelligible o nly whe n
i t is seen a s the creation of dlssa tisried Met hodists". 31
Tho s e attracted to t he Army regarded i t as t he epitome of what
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