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SUTHERLAND, Alexander, Canadian clergyman, born in Guelph, Ontario, 17 September, 1833. He was the son of a Scottish farmer, but, his father dying, he received few educational advantages. He learned the printing trade, but, uniting with the Methodist church, studied for the ministry, and was licensed as a preacher in 1859. He was afterward stationed at Niagara, but in 1861 removed to Thorold, and till 1874 was settled at Drummondville, Hamilton, Yorkville, Toronto, and Montreal. He was secretary of the conference in 1870-'1, delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Brooklyn, New York, and in 1874, when the union of the Methodist churches in Canada was consummated, he was appointed secretary and treasurer of Methodist missions. In connection with this office it has been his duty to visit the greater part of the Dominion, and he has won everywhere a reputation for eloquence. In 1879 he made a vigorous effort to clear the church missions department of a debt of $75,000, which resulted in the collection of $116,000. He was secretary to the conference again in 1878, and in 1879 received the degree of D. D. from Victoria college. He has published "A Summer in Prairie Land" (Toronto, 1882).
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