Excerpt from Father Corson, or the Old Style Canadian Itinerant: Embracing the Life But the unusual structure of the book will strike the reader, and perhaps make it the occasion of confronting the editor with not very approving criticism on the part of some. Some of these probable grounds of attack may be anticipated. Each of the unusual features, therefore, I shall make to stand out by itself for a moment. First, I have made the several stages of his public life to coincide with the several epochs of Canadian Methodist history. In justification of which unusual plan I have to say If this distribution of his life-work and progress will answer as well as any other division of his career, who has a right to object? But I have done more: I have given such incidental references to all passing occurrences in Provincial Methodism, that while lured on by the story of a humble itinerant, the general reader, who could not be induced to encounter an elaborate history, because something too formidable, will, unknown to himself, be getting informed on all the essential outlines of that history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.