Green, R: Mission of Methodism

Excerpt from The Mission of Methodism: Being the Twentieth Ferneley Lecture

Methodism stands forth a fact in this age. Its history and its service are universally known. Its efficiency is neither dependent upon recognition being given, nor im paired by its being withheld. But we may ask ourselves, What is its place in the world to-day? What is its adaptation to the world's need? What is its calling - its mission? These questions we ask not with a View to justify the work of Methodism, but to illustrate it; we ask them partly for our satisfaction, partly for our guidance. It is permitted to us to stand and take our outlook over the world, the interest of whose history becomes daily more and more thrilling, and to endeavour to ascertain how far and in what way our appliances are capable of rendering service to it. We may not find much to amend, we may not find much to congratulate ourselves upon; but a glimpse of unfulfilled duty, of unoccupied ground, of greater possibilities, may stimulate to new and enlarged effort. Methodism needs no vindication at our hands; its history is its own best vindication. But if there be not a call for justification, there may be the highest advantage in trying; from an examination of its past history and of its adaptation to present requirements, to form a just judgment on its calling in the future. What Methodism is.

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