The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-10-06

conference CnlS AFTERNOON, at talley
City, N. D., Bishop Charles Wesley
Buns, declared, "While Wesley placed
the emphasis upon supernatural
change Of heart and conscience even
tuating in right living and scrupu-
lous fulfillmen of obligations, he did
net lay stress upon creeds and cere-
monies. The more perfect love that
casts our fear was his: and it forbade
him to mingle the essences Of sacred
truth with the beggarly elements Of
the world. His amazing breadth Of
sympathy was safeguarded, however,
by corresponding grasp upon what
he deemed the fundamentals.
"His dimensions stood four-square.
He correlated his vivid assurance Of
personal deliverance from sin with a
practical knowledge Of the needs of
man, and expressed his raptures not
in worship aicne, but also in schools.
al,nhouses, crphanages, and other
pEilanthropic, enterprises. He lifted
his voice to Lis last hours against the
organized w:c,-edness for which pub
lic;sts apo.ogized. Now can we
doubt what his attitude would be to-
day in the discussions that rage
around war, International peace, con-
tra-social conduct, the drink traffic.
and similar matters There is no diff
ticulty confronting US which cannot be
parallelled by those which confronted
him. He plucked his triumph out Of
the jaws of apparent defeat, and in
the strength given to him overcame
obstacles which appeared insurmount-
able" y &l
s'Much has been written to prove
that culture and evangelism are not
incompatible. Who that has a right
to express an opinion has ever doubt
ed it? That scholarship is not al
ways evangelistic is true. That schol-
arship has often been unfriendly to
certain modes of evangelism is true,
But it is likewise true that many Of
evangelistic fervor have not been
scholarly and those whose sole shib-
boleth has been evangelism, have been
unfriendly to scholarship. The one is
as true at the other, and the debate
ends. But the crux of the matter is
this: that the history of the church is
not wanting in reinforcing examples
of the truth, that scholarship and the
posion for souls have been as the brain
and heart of one man in the leaders Of
the Church Of Christ. The leaders of
the Church have ever been on fire for
God and at white heat for souls. To
the roll call of such answer-Paul and
Tertullion and Chrysostom and Basil
and Savonarola and Luther and Lati-
mer and Calvin and Knox and Wy
cliffe and Hooker and Jeremy Taylor
and Baxter and Tillotson and Fenelon
and Mason and Massillon and Robert
South and Robert Hall and Edward
Irving and Newman and Stanley and
Charming and Bushnell and Chalmers
and Spurgeon and Brooks and Mat
thew Simpson and Beecher and Fin
ney and not the least Of these was our
own John Wesley y-and what a COM
pany of immortals it is! The altar
fires never burned low when these
prophets were in Gods pulpit, and
they were scholars all! To these
should be added more modern names
who. were of like passion in the evan
gelistic earnestness Drummond, Hugh
Price Hughes, G. Campbell Morgan, J.
H. Jowett, Alexander Whyte, T. L.
Guyler, Robertson Nicoll. There are
great names not only in evangelism
but in scholarship.
"Methodism is a rebuke to bigotry
The only doctrine upon which he in
sisted was the doctrine of the cross.
Nor was the revivalism Of Wesley
spurt. It was a spirit continuous
scul-saving efficiency. Wesley was
pre- eminently a supernaturalist. He
stressed the direct influence of the
Holy Spirit in awakening and saving
men. Revivals were as normal as
preaching was continuous and the
preaching of Wesley and his followers
was always a passionate heralding Of
the Christ.
II love the new notes Of social
social sympathy, social help
God filled fraternal COM
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