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CHRISTIAN GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER
rublishfld under the direction of the "'esleyan Metho,\ist Churcn
in Canada. Office in Toronto-street, City of Toronto. Editor,
lle'l Ephraim Evans.
\TESLEYAN
)IETHODIST MISSIO;-qARY SOCIETY, AUXILrAIlT
TO THE SOCIETY IN ENGLAND.
Treasurer, :\Ir S E Taylor. Superintendant of missions, Rev
Joseph Stinson
This society employs 12 missionaries and about 15 school teachers
among the Indians, besides a number of native exhorte~s. Tho
nUlnber of Indillns in society is 1017, and about 350 cluldren In
the schools
PRIMITIVE METHODISTS.
Chapel situated in Bay-street, Cit!} of Toronto.
In the year 1829, :\[r \\,illiilm Lawson, a Primitive :\lethodist Lo.
cal Preacher, from London, settled in York, and immediately commenced
l'reaehing in the market square, formed a :'ociety, and
wrote to the P _II (onference in I·.ngland, for a mi"ionary. Ons
was sent who arrived in r' ugust 1830, and took the society tllU'
formed into the connexion of the said conference.
Connected with this station are 4 travelling preachers, 30 local
preachers, 330 members, and ,1;2 distinct congregations.
~o'j(-.-l he doctrines and rules of the Pnmitive .\Jethodists, for
private members, are the same as the \Vesleyans, from whom they
differ in some points of church government, viz. their distrIct an.!
tlnnual conference, being composed of two parts laymen, anu ~no
part travelling preachers; this was intended to preserve a ju,t
equipoise c f power, and unite all the intelligence and experience
of their society, in their church government.
~tationed preacher in ths: City of Toronto, Rev Wm ~urnmersides
BAPTISTS.
The Baptist Church in the City of Toronto is situated in M:ucil
.treet east, and has service every f.unday at 11 in the morning, 3
in the afternoon, and at 6 in the evening.
J E R>1axwell, Pastor. H Toast, jlcacon