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''The Christian Guardian'' was a Wesleyan Methodist journal founded in Upper Canada in 1829. The first editor was Egerton Ryerson. It ceased publication in 1925 when the Methodist Church of Canada merged with the Presbyterians and Congregationalists to form the United Church of Canada, and merged their journals to create ''The New Outlook'', later renamed the ''United Church Observer''. ==History== The Canadian Wesleyan Methodists founded ''The Christian Guardian'' as their weekly newspaper on 21 November 1829 with Egerton Ryerson (1803–1882) as editor. The ''Guardian'' was the first religious newspaper published in Canada. In the first issue Ryerson wrote, "we consider it our duty and feel it to be our vocation to devote our limited researches, talents and influence, to the high and holy interests of morality and religion - to the spiritual welfare of immortal and redeemed men." However, he was not able to stay out of politics, and soon became engaged with the Anglican John Strachan in a lively debate over the future of society in Upper Canada. Ryerson was called a "doughty controversialist who, by his facile pen, fought the battle of civil and religious liberty." Ryerson's passionate views caused him to be voted out of office three times. He was editor from 1829-1832, 1833-1835 and 1838-1840. With minimal resources, Ryerson managed to build up the circulation to 3,000 within three years. Other editors before Canadian Confederation (1867) were James Richardson, Ephraim Evans, Jonathan Scott, George Frederick Playter, George R. Sanderson, James Spencer and Wellington Jeffers. Jeffers was editor of ''The Christian Guardian'' from 1860 to 1866. He invited Nathanael Burwash to write a number of guest editorials during this period. Edward Hartley Dewart (1828-1903) was named editor of the ''Christian Guardian'' in 1869. He wrote incisively and with conviction, and was one of the driving forces in bringing about a union of Methodist churches to reduce the wastage of duplicate services. In 1874 the Methodist New Connexion Society was consolidated with the Wesleyan Methodist Society to form the Methodist Church of Canada. The New Connection paper ''The Evangelical Witness'' was merged with ''The Christian Guardian''. David Savage, editor of ''The Evangelical Witness'', continued as associate editor of the merged paper for some time. Dewart supported the further Methodist union in the 1880s. The ''Canada Christian Advocate'', the organ of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was merged into the ''The Christian Guardian'' in 1884, as were ''The Christian Journal'', the organ of the Primitive Methodist Church, and ''The Observer'', the organ of the Bible Christian Church. Dewart advocated federation of Victoria College with the University of Toronto. During his long editorship the ''Christian Guardian'' became increasingly a mouthpiece for Dewart's orthodox opinions, out of touch with the more liberal views of the church. He was forced out of office by the General Conference of 1894. William Black Creighton, a Methodist minister from rural Ontario, became assistant editor of ''The Christian Guardian'' in 1900 after laryngitis forced him to stop preaching. From 1906-25 Creighton was editor of the paper, where he developed his views as a progressive supporter of the Social Gospel. During World War I (1914–18) the ''Guardian'' gave strong backing to the Canadian war effort, the Union government led by Prime Minister Sir Robert Laird Borden, and conscription. W. B. Creighton wrote in an editorial in August 1914, “We are British! and we will stand by the mother land in this greatest campaign of all time.” In 1925 the Canadian Methodists, Congregationalists and most Presbyterians merged into The United Church of Canada. The newspapers of the three denominations were merged to become ''The New Outlook''. It was first published on 10 June 1925, the day of the founding services of The United Church of Canada. W.B. Creighton continued as editor of ''The New Outlook''. The newspaper was renamed ''The United Church Observer'' in 1939. Based on its origins in ''The Christian Guardian'', the ''Observer'' describes itself as the oldest continuously published magazine in North America. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Christian Guardian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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