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Library Record
Metadata
Item ID# |
A2009.058.001 |
Title |
Experiences of a backwoods preacher |
Object Name |
Book |
Author |
Hilts, Joseph Henry |
Additional Authors |
Fahey, Curtis, introduction and appendix by |
Publisher |
Bruce County Historical Society |
Published Date |
1986 (originally published 1887) |
Description |
The book recounts pioneer life and the many experiences of Rev. Joseph Henry Hilts (1819-1903) who joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1841 and became a circuit preacher in 1856. He started on the Garafraxa Circuit of Huron District in the Guelph Conference (Ontario). He served stations from Listowel to Thornbury, including Teeswater in Culross Township, Invermay and Kincardine, Bruce County. Table of contents: - Preliminary - Filling appointments - Changing locations - Going to conference - Camp meeting - Revival meeting - Revival meetings continued - Floods and bridges - Storms and snowdrifts - With the sick and dying - Traces of the traffic - Fighting the dragon - At weddings - Doctors and doctoring - Remembered kindness - Life on the rail - Change and progress The introduction gives background on Methodism, and on the Methodist Episcopal Church, which broke from the main Methodist body in 1834 and spread to the Huron Tract and used many itinerant preachers. It specialized in camp meetings and extended indoor revivals. The appendix gives biographical information on 58 clergymen mentioned in this book and who served in Ontario. The original 1887 edition was "printed for the author by William Briggs", Toronto. |
Physical Description |
366 p. : ill. ; 17 x 12 cm (red softcover) |
Places |
Culross Township Invermay Kincardine Ontario Teeswater |
People |
Ballantine, James Bradley, William Cross, William Crowsten, James Crowston, John Daniels, Henry Fairbairn, Thomas Ferrier, W.F. Gilroy, Ann Gilroy, John Hanna, Joseph Harrison, John Hilts, Joseph H., Rev. Hodgins, John Parr, George Robinson, Thomas Williamson, James |
Search Terms & Subjects |
Churches, Methodist Clergy Pioneers Rural life Transportation |