Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...of which was at Clapham, and the influence of which upon the Church was so prominent in the early years of the nineteenth century, the result of his teaching, above all of his life and example; the application also of some of his methods by men who, unlike Wesley himself, remained within the Church, or who, like Joseph Milner, disowned Methodism altogether. In another direction we note also influence of a more permanent character. Hitherto in the Church of England the "quires and places where they sing " had been rare and poor; hymns formed no authorised part of its services. Tate and Brady, Sternhold and Hopkins, still reigned supreme. But the burst of song which accompanied the great revival could not fail to produce its effects on others. The dreary services that had been the rule both with Dissenters and the Establishment, gave place to brighter and more emotional forms of worship. The ministry of song, so marked a feature in every great spiritual upheaval, once more regained her own. The importance of Wesley's political influence cannot be exaggerated. In himself he was a curious mixture of critical independence and partisan Toryism. Of Wesley we may say with Green that "no man ever stood at the head of a great revolution, whose temper was so anti-revolutionary." He believed in the divine right of kings. For the revolt of America, he condemned unsparingly the colonists, instead of the obstinacy of George III. and his ministers. At the same time he was before his age in his opposition to the slave-trade--that "execrable sum of all villanies" as he termed it,--and in his exposure of the evil effects of absenteeism in Ireland. The effects of his strong conservatism was apparent in the leanings of many of his followers. When, ...
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Book Description
Methodism by H. B. Workman was first published in 1912 as part of the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series. The text contains a historical account of the development of Methodism and John Wesley's role in this process, together with an outline sketch of Methodist theology and practice.
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