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Albert Carman dies – Nov. 3, 1917
This week marks the anniversary of when prominent Canadian Methodist minister, evangelist and educator Albert Carman died in Toronto, Ontario, at the age of 84.
A native of Iroquois, Upper Canada, Carman spent years as a teacher and principal, then became a Methodist bishop and church administrator who worked on church planting.
When the various Methodist churches of Canada united in 1884, making it the largest Protestant denomination in the country at the time, he became general superintendent of the union.
“The pallbearers at his funeral included Premier William Howard Hearst*. The portraits of Carman presented after his death were tinged with respect and admiration but little affection,” noted The Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
“The secretary of the General Conference, Thomas Albert Moore, stressed that Carman had stood for ‘the integrity and veracity of the Book, and was no speculator or enterpriser of the truth’ and that he had sought to build ‘a national life, wherein sin would not find easy development.’”
