As is known in Chile who profess the evangelical faith we are called internodes, well here's the story that this nickname many times that in a derogatory way, for this I have taken from a collection by R. ROBERTO ORTEGA AEDO and posted on the website of Harmony radio. The Methodist work began in Chile in 1877, following the travels of William Taylor for the Pacific coast. His job was to establish contacts with English-speaking immigrants who were interested in schools and cults have targeted by American Methodists.
then dealt with recruiting missionaries in the United States and sent to South America, where they would find their own means of subsistence.
The Methodist work in Chile advanced to the conversion of Juan Bautista Canut de Bon, a former English-born Jesuit who went through Presbyterianism, he returned to Catholicism and finally adopted the method thanks to the work of Taylor. Expanding
As mentioned above, say that John Canut was a Jesuit who converted to evangelical faith and captivated the minds of Chileans. Born in Spain, arrived in Chile in 1871. Five years later, in Quillota, found a volume of New Testament at a junk of junk, in a railway station. Coincidentally became a friend and assistant Robert McLean, a Presbyterian missionary in San Felipe. Canut left the Jesuit order to continue their studies, then decided to tailor their work to live, then married and had three children. In 1884 he returned to the bosom of Catholicism, but it was not for long.
In 1888, an American Methodist minister began to preach in Castilian in Santiago Canut was his assistant. Back in 1890, he met William Taylor, who was beginning his missionary work in Chile. Taylor established Methodist work in Africa and India. He apparently met their concerns, and Canut began to preach vigorously under the leadership of Methodist missionaries. In 1890 he was appointed pastor, devoting the remaining six years of his life to preaching and establishing churches. For example, for two years worked at Coquimbo and the surrounding region by distributing Bibles and religious literature. One of the converts in the Serena was Cecilio Venegas, who became a Methodist minister in Santiago, and this is in turn the young pastor Manuel Umaña Salinas Sr. and his wife. Mercedes Gutierrez, marriage was a pioneer of Pentecostalism in Chile. Because
its ease of words, and the fact that he had studied for the priesthood, his preaching drew crowds and caused a furor among the Catholic clergy. On more than one occasion, he and his family were in danger due to physical attacks of the mob fury. For his ardent desire to extend the work Methodist south and reach regions where there was no such concentration of priests and nuns, Canut was sent to Concepción to help start the work in that area. He traveled regularly to Chillán, Los Angeles, Traiguén, Angol, Victoria and Temuco, having meetings with great success. After two years of stay in Temuco, was forced to return to Santiago for reasons health, then died at the age of 50 years, November 9, 1896. He had lived 25 years in Chile, and became so popular that all Chilean Protestants are told, until today, "coverings" sometimes as a derogatory title.
His remains rest in the Cemetery of the Dissenters, on the southwest side of the General Cemetery of Santiago. This place was enabled to bury foreigners and those who did not profess the Roman Catholic faith.
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