Although I attended a Wesleyan church all my life, graduated from one of their colleges and also took most of their ministerial course, I did not know this dramatic story myself until I stumbled on to it in Connection with my doctoral dissertation on Sierra Leone. It is about time we corrected this serious distortion. Wesley and his followers succeeded where we have failed. The contrast between the accomplishments of the English Evangelicals from the time of Wesley to the Victorian era and the frustrations of today is most fascinating. Actually, we have not neglected our social problems in the modern era, but they have not yielded to the remedy.
Conditions steadily worsen.
This is, indeed, a paradox. But with God all things are possible. Perhaps this brief paper may serve as an introduction to this study. 4. 6, Cairns, op. William Sloane Associates.