Wesley's World Parish: A Sketch of the Hundred Years' Work of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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John Wesley's famous saying, "I look upon all the world as my Parish," was not prompted by ambition or impatience of control; it was a declaration of plain duty. Carrying in his heart "the salvation which is in Christ Jesus," he must needs make it known, so far as he might, to all his fellows. Ecclesiastical boundaries, national and racial barriers, geographical distance, have no power to limit the dispensation of the grace of God committed to the believing Christian man. "In whatever part of the world I am," Wesley explains, "I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty to declare unto all that are willing to hear the glad tidings of salvation." This working conception of the scope of the Gospel embodied itself in the Methodist Church. The following pages attempt to narrate, in the briefest compass, the manner in which the world-mission thus imposed has, so far, been discharged. Its fulfilment is to come.

This little volume is issued in advance of the larger Centenary History of Wesleyan Missions to be published on behalf of the Missionary Society. All that is attempted here is to sketch the general course of the advance of Methodism in foreign lands, to mark the chief events and bring into view the leading personalities of the hundred years' striving for the faith of the Gospel. The difficulty of the writers has been that of selection and compression. The tithe is not told of all one would wish to tell of the doings and sufferings of Christ's ambassadors sent by our Church across the seas; much is wanting of that which interested readers in the different provinces of world-Methodism will perhaps expect to find. We shall have space for a juster treatment, if it please God, in the extended work. Amongst the defects due to lack of space, two are particularly regrettable: the home-side of the Missionary Society has been largely ignored; and but little indication is given of the work of sister Churches in the missionary fields on which our own is engaged. We do not forget that Methodism is but a single limb of the "one body" of Christ spread abroad through the earth.

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