The Mind of Methodism E-Book

Harvey Reeves Calkins

• Herausgeber: Full Well Ventures
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

This book discusses the ideals of a Methodism that is represented by worship with liberty in the Spirit, which he contrasts with the rigid Calvinism of the Puritans of earlier generations, flexibility in its administration, and in practice a living witness of the living God.

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THE MIND OF METHODISM

HARVEY REEVES CALKINS

“The Mind of Methodism” by the Rev. Harvey Reeves Calkins, M.A., B.D. was originally published in 1905.

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To I.V.C.

Sing Praises, Be Joyful, Thy Jesus Is Near.

“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

— Jesus Christ

CONTENTS

Foreword

Quotations

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

FOREWORD

It devolved upon me in an Asiatic mission field to tell my people the essential meaning of Methodism. How to separate the fortuitous from the necessary, I found not easy. Handbooks abound. The histories and biographies are packed with matter which, to an American or English Methodist, seems part of his family record. It has gotten into the blood. But our people who dwell under Eastern skies must not weakly copy the patterns which have been fitted to the facts of a Western development. Methodism in Asia will work out its own facts, if so be there is an intelligent loyalty to that Genius which has compelled a worldwide expansion.

Our people followed with me in what proved to be a helpful study, and it seemed well to sum up the whole in a short writing. It is not a treatise, neither is it a handbook, but only a suggestion, a Brief.

H.R.C.

The Mission House,

Cawnpore, India.

July, 1904.

QUOTATIONS

Who can describe exhaustively the origin of civil society? He who can do these things can explain the origin of the Christian Church. For others it must be enough to say, “The Holy Ghost fell on those that believed.” No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls, the unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel or pickax; it descended out of heaven from God.

Ecce Homo.

All the true good and glory, even of this world — not to speak of any that is to come — must be bought still, as it always has been, with our toil and our tears. That is the final doctrine, the inevitable one, not of Christianity only, but of all Heroic Faith and Heroic Being; and the first trial question of a true soul to itself must always be, Have I a religion, have I a country, have I a love, that I am ready to die for?