Proceedings of the Third Œcumenical Methodist Conference: Held in City Road Chapel, London, September, 1901 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

T. B. Stephenson

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ISBN 10: 1331693322 ISBN 13: 9781331693321

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Third Œcumenical Methodist Conference: Held in City Road Chapel, London, September, 1901

It would have added to the joy of the Conference if any decisive step could have been reported towards Union between some at least of the several Methodist Churches in Great Britain and in the United States. But it was tacitly recognised that in the countries where Methodism has been longest planted, is most widely and strongly entrenched, and has the memory of past struggles still surviving, the difficulties in the way of Union are the greatest. The Conference, however, greatly rejoiced in the fact that controversy between Methodist Churches is a thing of the past, and the relations between those Churches are cordially harmonious, and Show promise of an increasing intimacy of relation and feeling as the years pass on.

It must be admitted, and the Conference indicated this by resolution, that the programme gave inadequate opportunity for the discussion of some of the topics which should be most congenial to the Methodist spirit. Woman's work in the Church, for instance, was only represented by an extemporised public meeting added to the programme, and to the imperial subject of Foreign Missions only one day was allotted. These and some other topics will doubtless have larger Opportunity given to them at future Conferences.

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Third cumenical Methodist Conference: Held in City Road Chapel, London, September, 1901 In 1881 the first cumenical Methodist Conference was held in London, and the Report of its proceedings was introduced by a "Prefatory Statement." The Report of the second cumenical Methodist Conference, 1891, which was held in Washington, was prefaced by an "Introduction." Both were written by William Arthur. He died, eighty-two years old, a few months before the assembling of the third cumenical Methodist Conference, whose Report is here presented. That I should have been appointed to write an Introduction to this volume is a task at once more honourable and more difficult because I am following in the steps of such a man. For fully a generation William Arthur has been the most venerable and the most widely-known figure in our Churches of every land. Bishop Simpson alone of the men of modern Methodism could stand on the pedestal beside him, and the Bishop saw only the first of the cumenical Conferences. It is unnecessary here to sketch the life-history, or to define the personal characteristics, which gave to William Arthur his unique position. It is enough that I should here, in the name of the Conference of world-wide Methodism, pay to his memory this tribute of affectionate respect. Many honourable men, chiefs of the tribes of our Israel, have passed away from earth during the interval of ten years. It would be a grateful task to mention their names, to describe their excellencies, and to define their places in the ever-unfolding story of Methodism and of Christianity. But to attempt such a task would savour of presumption, and it would be difficult to avoid partiality for some and injustice towards others. Let it be enough that we reverence the memories of those who have "fought the good fight, and finished the course"; that we rejoice in the ever-increasing throng of the "great multitude which no man can number"; and that we draw from their e

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331693322
• ISBN 13: 9781331693321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 625