1873, Bris­tol, England.

Ap­ril 4, 1955, To­ron­to, On­tario, Ca­na­da.

Mount Plea­sant Cem­e­te­ry, To­ron­to, On­tario, Ca­na­da.

Son of a Bap­tist min­is­ter, Shields was or­dained to the Bap­tist min­is­try in 1897. He earned Doc­tor of Di­vin­i­ty de­grees from Tem­ple and Mc­Mas­ter Un­i­ver­si­ties, and pas­tored in Flor­ence, Del­hi, Ham­il­ton and Lon­don, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da, and at the Jar­vis Street Bap­tist Church in To­ron­to (1910-55). He wrote sev­er­al book and book­lets, and in 1922 found­ed The Gos­pel Wit­ness, a week­ly mag­a­zine. He served as pre­si­dent of Bap­tist Bi­ble Un­ion (1923-30), found­ed the To­ron­to Bap­tist Sem­in­ary in 1927, and was pre­si­dent of the Un­ion of Re­gu­lar Bap­tist Church­es of On­tar­io and Que­bec. In 1948 he became vice-pre­si­dent of the In­ter­na­tion­al Coun­cil of Chris­tian Church­es.

1. O Grace of God So Bound­less