The Story of Methodism

by Hutchinson, Paul; Luccock, Halford E.; Speakman, Harold

• ISBN13: 9780687063871
• ISBN10: 0687063876
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

1926. With two final chapters by Robert W. Goodloe. Illustrations by Harold Speakman. Contents: Meet John Wesley; A Tale of Two Villages; A Nursery Epic; Student and Missionary; A Prayer Meeting and What Came of It; The Very Soul That Over England Flamed; How They Sang a New Day into Britain; Men of Mighty Stature; Methodism Crosses the Atlantic; The Birth of a Church; The Afterglow; The End of the Long Trail; Methodism in the New Republic; Methodism's Man on Horseback; Camp-Meeting Days; The Winning of the West; The Missionary Spirit; Methodist Breaks and Fractures; Southern Methodism; Through the Civil War and Beyond; A Spiritual Forty-Niner; The Tale of the Years in Many Lands; Forming a World Parish; High Hours in a Church's History; The Battlefields of Reform; The Unification of American Methodism; and Methodism Since World War I.

Table of Contents

Meet John Wesley!	p. 13
A London Crowd Two Hundred Years Ago
On a Soap-Box
A Family Reunion
Londoners All
A New Message
A Tale of Two Villages	p. 28
In Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire
King and Commoner
Patron and Parson
History Springs a Surprise
A Nursery Epic	p. 35
Nineteen Children!
Susannah Wesley
On the Fifth Birthday
Samuel Wesley
John Wesley's Birth
Boyhood's Highest Hours
David Looks at Goliath
Student and Missionary	p. 50
The Oxford Undergraduate
Choice of a Life-Work
"Leisure and I Have Said Good-By."
The Holy Club
Georgia
The Moravian Influence
A Prayer Meeting and What Came of It	p. 65
Aldersgate Street
Days of Spiritual Conflict
After the Great Change
The Hour of Destiny
Whitefield
Wesley Moves Out of Doors
Difficulties
A Lord Bishop is Scandalized
"The Very Soul That Over England Flamed"	p. 83
The Poet's Picture
What Wesley Attempted
Wesley the Traveler
Methodism and the Industrial Revolution
Typical Days in Wesley's Work
Persecutions
Facing the Mob
The Wesley Message
The Duchess of Buckingham is Insulted
Controversies
Methodist Conferences
"Captains Courageous."
How They Sang a New Day into Britain	p. 105
A Joyous Religion
Charles Wesley
What Methodism Sang About
Typical Hymns of Charles Wesley's
John Wesley's Hymns
Other Methodist Hymn Writers
Men of Mighty Stature	p. 120
Rise of the Lay Preachers
What Lay Preachers Accomplished
Wesley's Discipline
John Nelson
John Haime
Silas Told
Alexander Mather
Thomas Walsh
Helpers in the Church of England
George Whitefield
William Grimshaw
John Fletcher
Thomas Coke
Vincent Perronet
Women of the Methodist Movement
Methodism Crosses the Atlantic	p. 141
"Who Will Go?"
Religious Awakenings in the New World
Beginnings in New York
In Maryland
The First Methodist Preachers Land
The Coming of Asbury
The American Revolution
After the Revolution
Wesley's First Ordinations
Coke and Asbury Meet
The Christmas Conference of 1784
The Birth of a Church	p. 162
The First Societies
Life in the Methodist Societies
The Class Meetings
Step Into a Class Meeting
Bands
Circuits
The Question of the Sacraments
A Church
The Afterglow	p. 180
After the Tide Turned
The Measure of a Life
"He Never Folds His Legs."
Typical Days in Wesley's Life
Wesley the Reader
Wesley the Thinker
Wesley the Theologian
Wesley the Religious Pioneer
Wesley and Social Issues
Wesley the Organizer
Wesley the Man
The End of the Long Trail	p. 202
Charles Wesley's Passing
Wesley the Aged
The Closing Scene
What Did Wesley Accomplish?
Methodism in the New Republic	p. 213
George Washington's America
Francis Asbury's Methodism
The Circuit-Riders
Freeborn Garrettson
Jesse Lee
Heroes All
Methodism's Man on Horseback	p. 232
Riders
Asbury's Episcopal Area
What Asbury's Road Was Like
Asbury's Religious Contribution
Asbury the Dictator
The Better Side of Asbury
The End of the Long Road
Camp-Meeting Days	p. 252
As an Englishman Saw Us
A Child of the Frontier
The Social Importance of the Camp Meeting
Why Methodism Used the Camp Meeting
Camp-Meeting Preachers
The Frontier Church
William McKendree
Peter Cartwright
The Winning of the West	p. 285
Westward Ho!
The First Melting Pot
The Man on Horseback
Getting on the Ground
The Oregon Mission
Saving the Great Northwest
In the Gold Rush to California
The Missionary Spirit	p. 301
Thomas Coke
John Stewart
The Missionary Society Launched
The First Foreign Mission
South America
China
Methodist Breaks and Fractures	p. 319
Gains and Losses
The O'Kelley Movement
The First Breaks in England
The Methodist Protestant Church
The Break Over Slavery
William Booth
Why These Losses?
Southern Methodism	p. 335
How the Break Came to the South
The Birth of the Southern Church
The Southern Church and the War
Since the Civil War
Efforts at Reunion
Facing the Future
Through the Civil War and Beyond	p. 352
The Civil War
The Centenary Celebration
The Founding of Colleges
The Methodist Book Concern
Laymen in the General Conference
Women in the General Conference
A Spiritual Forty-Niner	p. 376
Gold!
Out of Virginia's Hills
In California
Off to Australia
"Driven Back and Forth the World."
Bishop for Africa
Afterglow
The Tale of the Years in Many Lands	p. 393
'Round the World in Thirty Minutes
British Wesleyanism
Other Methodist Bodies in England
In Ireland
In Canada
In Australia and South Africa
In the South Seas
Forming a World Parish	p. 410
Thoburn and India
Progress in India
Development in China
South America and Africa
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Foreign Mission Changes in Fifty Years
High Hours in a Church's History	p. 437
The Freedmen's Aid Society
"Building Two a Day."
The Rediscovery of Youth
The Battlefields of Reform	p. 463
Militant Methodism
The War Against the Liquor Traffic
The Battle for a Christian Social Order
A Living Church in a Broken World	p. 482
When the World Exploded
The War
The Centenary
Problems on a World Scale
Methodism's Future
Conclusion
Index	p. 497
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