Book Description

Excerpt from Apostolic Ministry: Sermons and Addresses IT is with some hesitation that the following Sermons and Addresses are issued in permanent form to the public. Most of them were strictly official utterances delivered by me as President of the Wesleyan Metho dist Conference. Somfhee are included'which werewnof 'stric'tly official, namely, Addresses to the Wesleyan Methodist Union for Social Service at Ox ford, to the Wesley Deaconesses at the Annual Dedi cation Service, to the Southport Holiness Convention, and to the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches on 'the Relative Duties Of the Church and the Nation in regard to Poverty.' The volume is completed by the addition of the Presidential Address to the National Free Church Council in 1906, and the sermon on retiring from the Presidency in the following year. The reason for publishing discourses thus delivered on many different occasions, and dealing with diverse aspects of Christian Life and Work, is that they form a connected whole. They are an attempt to show the inclusiveness ofthe spiritual life, and to set forth the way in which many great causes which appeal to Christians in the present day, notably, Evangelism, Foreign Missions, Social Reform and Christian Reunion, are related to faith in Christ and to the service of His kingdom. They are sent forth in the hope and prayer that they may be helpful to some in reconciling the claims of the inward and the outward, of the Spiritual and the Social, through a Clearer and more distinct appre hension Of the meaning of the Christian religion, as the revelation of the love of God and the fulfilment of love in man, through Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.