Peter Jones, the Ojibwe, and Evangelical Hymnody
Peter Jones (1802-1856) was one of the great Canadian Methodist leaders of the first half of the nineteenth century. As a missionary to the core, Jones rubbed shoulders with royals and bishops, spoke to crowds of thousands on both sides of the Atlantic, worked as a Bible translator, and was instrumental in the merging of Wesleyan Methodist denominations. All this was done with the ultimate goal of effectively reaching the Ojibwe people of Ontario with the gospel. While it should be already clear from this introduction why Jones is a name deserving of remembrance and study, there is one more...