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It was a bitterly cold day in Williston, Maine, with snow covering the ground and icicles hanging from the eaves, but still around sixty young people showed up that Sunday night in February 1881. This was the regular youth meeting in the home of the pastor, Dr. Francis E. Clark."After a little general conversation as to the importance of starting right, or working for the Church, and of showing one's colours for Christ on all occasions, Dr. Clark with, as later admitted, 'a good deal of hesitation, ' produced a constitution, the germs of which had lain in his mind for a long while, but which he had written out for the first time that day. It proposed that the society should be called the 'Williston Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour.' Its object was declared to be 'to promote the earnest Christian life among its members, to increase their mutual acquaintance, and to make them more useful in the service of God.'"

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits The camp meeting has been a powerful symbol of frontier religion in the history of the United States of America. Millions of people have attended these gatherings over the years, many finding their Christian faith and salvation in the shady groves, listening to energizing sermons from hastily constructed platforms, crude covered podiums, or simple structures meant to keep the rain out, but still retain the feel of the outside. Traditional hymns, such as "Shall We Gather at the River" and "In the Sweet By-and-By," joined "The Old Rugged Cross" and "I Surrender All" to create a unique evangelistic event. While camp meetings became a trademark of the Methodist and Holiness traditions, their origins go back to the early field preaching of Wesley and Whitefield.

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits This book is a collection of messages delivered from the1 pulpit, over the radio, and at the chapel services of Asbury Theological Seminary. They are printed practically as they were delivered, except for some alteration in detail. The purpose of the book is to exalt the victorious Christ, and to attract the reader to the upward look unto Him who will conquer the unconquerable. The def eats and frustrations of life may be turned into victories through Him.

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits There is a two-fold purpose for the compiling of this booklet: namely, that those interested who have had only thumb-nail sketches of this spontaneous movement of the Spirit of God upon the campus of Asbury College may be able to read the full account and that the knowledge of these events may enrich the spiritual lives of the readers.However, it would be attempting the impossible to try to put on paper all that took place at Asbury College from Thursday, February 23, at nine o'clock in the morning to Wednesday, March 1, 1950. Dr. Holland, a faculty member, expressed the difficulty thus: "No artist could paint the picture, no pen describe it, and it eludes the lens of the camera. The full conception of it must await the revelation of the Eternal Day."

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits PrefaceThe matter contained in this book was originally designed to be used as an article in the SOUTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. But upon examination it proved to he too important for condensation, and too long for use as at first designed without it. Therefore it was determined to give it to the public in the manner here presented, believing that it will fully repay the reader both in interest and profit.The writer has no apology to make for writing and offering to public patronage another book from his pen, except the belief and desire that it may do good. We are in need of greater enlightenment as to the movements of colored people in public life...

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits FOREWARD The great reason why it is so imperatively encumbent on us all to get ready to meet God is the simple fact that no human being is ready without His personal redeeming grace, which normally reaches all far back in the prenatal state, the moment soul and body united constitute personality, which is five or six months antecedently to the physical birth Heb. 2:9, "By the grace of God, Christ tasted death for everyone not as e.v. "every man", as the Greek buper pantos literally means everyone, i.e. every human being. Therefore the very moment soul and body unite constitute personality, the omnipotent redeeming grace of God in Christ comes into availability, superinducing a free and full justification on heaven's chancery in the normal gracious economy invariably followed by the resurrection of the dead soul wrought by the Holy Ghost in the heart; superinducing the gloriously consolitory fact that by the omnipotent grace of God in Christ through His vicarious substitutionary atonement every human being is actually born a Christian as that cognomen, the sunum desideradum, chief desire of every human being, simply means a soul saved by Christ. W. B. Godbey

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits FOREWARD The Association of Professors of Mission was organized in June of 1952 and held its first meeting during that year. This means that 2017 marked our 65th anniversary.Clearly teaching mission in 1952 was a lot different from teaching mission today. The missiological issues of 1952, during the beginning of the "golden years" of the Eisenhower administration, are not the missiological issues of today. That this is so is reflected in the very membership of the APM. For example, back in 1952 there were no women in the APM (the first woman didn't join until 1962), and very few Roman Catholic professors (most didn't start attending until the late '60s), or professors of color. And, back in 1952, the teaching of mission was quite simple for most: mission professors teaching missionaries and missionary candidates here how to do cross-cultural ministry somewhere over there. There was very little emphasis on local engagement.The theme of 2017's meeting was "Teaching Mission in the Complex Public Arena: Developing Missiologically Informed Models of Engagement." In 1952 there wasn't much discussion, or really any discussion, about missiologically informed models of engagement. Sixty-five years later this certainly is no longer the case. For if we professors of mission today do not develop missiologically informed models of engagement, what we teach will likely fall on ears that will not hear. Why is this so? Because today our North American context constantly immerses us in complex contemporary issues that arise from the public arena: issues of racial justice, immigration, gender and sexuality, ecology and environment, to name but a few. Speaking to such issues responsibly from a missional perspective requires awareness of how religious language is heard, as well as how to have gracious dialog and loving engagement. Thus, during our two days together, we sought to consider this question: What should mission and the teaching of mission look like in our increasingly complex public arena? We considered how to negotiate contemporary landscapes in North America and worldwide with faithful Christian witness in our mission teaching and scholarship, including models of dialog and engagement. Embodying a missionally informed perspective in today's world can be challenging. We can be uncertain about what will offend and what will resonate, what is respectful of social difference and what is faithful to what we have seen and heard. This is especially pertinent as we prepare students for mission work globally; equipping them to appropriately interact with their various complex environments. Our students are wondering how to effectively engage in their complex public arenas in both biblically and missiologically informed ways. The following papers help address some of these issues as we attempt to faithfully teach mission in the public arena. Larry W. Caldwell

place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Title Page BIBLE THEOLOGY By REV. W. B. GODBEY, A. M. Author of Seventy Books and Booklets on Holiness and Travels., Among Which the Seven "Commentaries on the New Testament," "Translation of the New Testament," "Footprints of Jesus in the Holy Land," "Life of Jesus and His Apostles," "Tour Around the World," "Autobiography," "Incarnation of the Holy Ghost," "Glorification," "Christian Perfection," "Holiness or Hell," "Sancti- fication," "Baptism," "Demonology," and "Work of the Holy Spirit," are the Most Prominent.

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits IntroductionIn 2017 the American Society of Missiology addressed a number of topics related to the Future of Mission. In this volume of the Working Papers of The American Society of Missiology (volume five in the series) we have organized the submitted papers to be part of a conversation about this topic. Where is missiology headed in the future? How has our current context shaped how mission is done and where it will be headed? These are important issues for our profession, and while we do not have all the answers to what the future holds, we can begin to see some suggestions that might give us hints to prepare for more changes to come.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Preface Pursuant to the constant importunities of friends corroborated by conscientious convictions, I turn myself over to the Lord, permitting Him to use me for His glorification in the following elucidation of Christian baptism. We write not for theologians, but for the people. But as we have had so many debates on this subject, especially in Kentucky, let me here distinctly state, If any one desires to controvert this book, it will afford the author great pleasure to meet him at the time and place he may designate. As this book is not for the learned, but for the people, I shall not encumber it with dead languages, but give in English the substance of vast and variant lingual, critical and historical data, for which I am personally responsible. I shall freely and frequently advert to the valuable and compendious works of Drs. Ditzler and Chapman, in which hundreds of authors are faithfully quoted.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Preface Not only for the sociologist but also for the church historian the microcosm of the sect has special value. Factors and trends too complicated to be easily discerned in the great and ancient communions stand out sharply in the select society. In the study of the three movements which are the subject of this thesis, the Church of the Nazarene in Britain, the International Holiness Mission and the Calvary Holiness Church, causes of division can be learned afresh, familiar patterns of faith and order emerge, the evolution of the sect into a denomination and towards a church takes place, but with particular modifications which warn us not to make our categories nor our rules of development too rigid, and the desire for unity, given momentum by the pressure of internal and environmental forces, bears fruit in their uniting in a larger denomination. The history of these three movements is drawn from primary sources and fully annotated. Their origin is traced back to the British Holiness Movement of the latter part of the nineteenth century, which is shown to owe a real debt to the American Holiness Movement. Their faith and church order is analysed, their attitude to the world indicated and explained and the doctrine of Holiness to which they give special emphasis is defined and discussed, with special reference to John Wesley's teaching of entire sanctification. An attempt is made to compare their belief in Holiness and its expression in church life and towards the world with movements and individuals in Christian history holding a similar belief. A short summary of conclusions is given concerning factors in their origin and features in their development. Criticisms of their doctrine are considered and its value is indicated, and suggestions are made concerning their contribution to society and to the Church. - J. Ford

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits PREFACE For seven years Dr. Frank Bateman Stanger, President of Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, has edited the page of The Herald, "He Healed Them." Many letters have come to my desk, along with hundreds of personal testimonies given me in the course of my travels over the nation, expressing deep gratitude and appreciation for the benefits received from this page. We have also had numerous requests for some of the materials in this special feature of The Herald, in booklet form. It is at the request of the editorial committee of The Herald that Dr. Stanger has given the "Pitcher of Cream" on the church ministry of healing in this convenient booklet format. The booklet is available without cost to new subscribers to The Herald. It is also available without cost to present subscribers who send in a gift subscription. This little classic on healing centers around The Great Physician, the source of all healing. J.C. McPheeters, Editor --- CONTENTS Preface 1. What Do We Mean by Healing? 2. Five Facts that are Compelling 3. The Healing Steps 4. A Remarkable Healing

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits FORWARD In one way or another the papers that follow respond to our 2013 conference theme highlighting missiology's growing engagement with social issues. This marks a "social turn" of sorts that expands missiological reflection in the direction of social change, social justice, activism, advocacy, and related research. Such emphasis is hardly new but taking it with renewed seriousness raises fresh questions for professors of mission. Of primary importance to our members are questions about how we equip our students to concretely and practically engage social realities while reflecting on them theologically and theoretically. And in keeping with APM's mission to advance the teaching of mission studies, such educational questions were brought to the center of our discussions this year. With this pedagogical emphasis in mind, our collection of papers begins and ends with the plenary papers presented by David Fenrick, from Northwestern College, and Al Tizon, from Palmer Theological Seminary. Both papers concentrate on service-learning or "engaged" scholarship as they explore new ways to move beyond the classroom to train missioners as scholar-practitioners. David presented a vital (even path-breaking) model for experience-based education; Al described the challenges of creating an entire graduate program rooting classroom instruction in social advocacy and activism. Both are instructive as we envision new curricula and new programs for effectively training the next generation of missioners and missiologists. In between these plenaries, twelve other papers were presented in workshops. Several of these also touch on pedagogical issues related to engaged scholarship and service-learning. Others explore theoretical, historical and social-cultural issues in missiological perspective.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits INTRODUCTION It has been suggested that the story of Asbury Theological Seminary be told within the compass of this little volume numbering less than one hundred pages. What an assignment! However the attempt is being made with the hope that the purpose of such an assignment may at least in some measure be fulfilled. The limitations upon such an attempt are numerous. We trust that they will be understood and appreciated by the reader. The actual time of the founding of the Seminary was 1923, and the major emphasis will be put upon the events and developments that have taken place during the four decades from that year to the present. However, there is a meaningful continuity between the spirit and life of this theological institution and the historic Christian community even from apostolic times. Especially will this continuity be observed in the relationship that Asbury has maintained with Methodism. Heretofore there have been no published works dealing exclusively with the history either of Asbury College or of the Seminary. Three unpublished works, however, have been produced, one on the history of the College and two on the history of the Seminary. Each of these was written as a master's thesis. In 1926 Earl Stanley McKee dealt with the early history of Asbury in a thesis entitled, The Early History of Asbury College, 1890-1910. This is available at the library of the University of Kentucky. Twenty-three years later, in 1949, Robert Owen Fraley wrote a master's thesis entitled, A Complete History of Asbury Theological Seminary. A copy of this may be found in the Asbury Seminary library. Only two years after the work of Mr. Fraley, Paul Frederick Abel produced a master's thesis, which he submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Columbia University. The title of this thesis is An Historical Study of The Origin and Development of Asbury Theological Seminary, and it is available both at the library of Columbia University and at the Asbury Seminary library. Permission from the latter two writers, Fraley and Abel, for the free use of materials included in their theses has been obtained by the committee on publication of The Fortieth Anniversary of Asbury Theological Seminary. Specific reference in the use of such materials will therefore usually be omitted. The author of this history wishes to acknowledge his debt not only to these, but also to any others whose writings have furnished significant information in this popular telling of the story of Asbury Theological Seminary. It will be understood by the reader that the limitation of space for this anniversary volume will make it impossible to include references or footnotes. The works referred to above will provide such references for the scholar who may desire to pursue a more thorough study.

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Preface I have written this book from a strong conviction of duty. Christ commands us to let: our light shine. There is no reason why this subject should not be considered as calmly and candidly as any other. We should not refuse to examine it in the light of Scripture and of reason because of any apprehension of dreadful consequences if some women should be ordained. By the Friends, for over two hundred years, woman has been accorded the same rights as man, and yet she has lost none of her womanliness in consequence. Among no class of people are women more true, and modest, and domestic, and noble, and refined, and given to every good work than among them. Nowhere else can be found more beautiful, happy homes than in the Society of The Friends. Nor need we have any fearful forebodings, if giving to women equal in the church should lead to giving her equal rights in the state. This experiment too has been tried. United States senator Carey is reported as saying: "In the State of Wyoming woman has had the ballot for twenty years. None of the objections which are made to this extension of the suffrage had been found in actual practice, in his State, to have a good basis. The result there bas been more than satisfactory. It was not true that women in general took no interest in the question of suffrage. Those who were not originally advocates of it exercise their privileges when they once received them. There was fully as large a proportion of women who voted in his State to-day as of men. Anything that related at all to their interests was sure to bring out the full vote. He thought that the women gave more thought to the subject than the men, and were more conscientious in the exercise of their right. Their influence was exercised always on the side of good government and for the of the selection best men for office. Their influence in politics was of such a character as to make men more circumspect in the transaction of the duties of public office. He added that it was a particularly good element in all municipal elections. Women, as a class, can never be on the side of corruption, of the ignorant and the criminal elements- which have such control in the municipal affairs of the leading cities of the United States."* I have purposely avoided all appeals to sentiment and to ''the spirit of the age," and based my arguments mainly on the Word of God. Where texts have been interpreted contrary to the generally received meaning, reasons have been given, which, I trust, will be found satisfactory. I have endeavored to make everything plain. I ask as a special favor of those who have decided not to agree with the position I have taken that they will read before they condemn. The subject is worthy of patient and prayerful investigation. I have no misgivings as to the truth of what I have written, nor evil forebodings of the consequences that will result if the views herein advocated come to be generally received. I only ask that truth may prevail, Christ be glorified, and His Kingdom be advanced on earth. *T. Crawford in N. Y. Tribune, Feb. 22, 1891.

Richard Whatcoat has long impressed me as being one of the neglected heroes of early American Methodism. He was fortunate in his personal relations to Bishops Coke and Asbury and especially to the latter. But he was somewhat overshadowed by both of them. Even as Barnabas was more or less concealed by St. Paul, so was Whatcoat hidden by the Asbury to whom he was truly devoted. When the time came that our Church printed some tiny classic volumes about our Pioneers, Richard Whatcoat was not included. If this exclusion may have harmonized with his modesty, it certainly does not represent complete justice.

History of the Free Methodist Church of North America: Volume 2. By Wilson T. Hogue

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits TABLE OF CONTENTS I. PROCRASTINATING AND PUTTERING . . . 7 II. TAKE YOUR OWN PACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 III. WORK'S PRABLES AND PROMISES . . . . 17 IV. "A, E, I" WORKERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 V. "O, U" WORKERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 VI. HOW TO FEEL LIKE IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 VII. POOR KINDS OF FAITHFULNESS . . . . . 35 VIII. WORKING TO BREAK THE RECORD . 38 IX. WORKERS THAT CONSUME THEIR OWN SMOKE . . . . 42 X. BATTING, AND DOING THINGS . . . . . . . . . . . 46 XI. HYPNOTIC LABORERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 XII. TAKING HINTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 XIII. HURRY UP! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 XIV. KEEPING PENCILS SHARP . . . . . . . 71 XV. FOUR - TRACKED WORKERS . . . . . 74 XVI. GETTING - READY DAYS AND FINISHING DAYS . . . . 79 XVII. BUCKLING DOWN TO WORK . . . . . . . . . . . 82 XVIII. "CAN" CONQUERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 XIX. PREPARED TO FAIL . . . . . . . 91 XX. THE SHOEMAKER AND HIS LAST . . . . 94 XXI. A PRIDE IN YOUR WORK . . . . . . . . 98 XXII. EXPENSIVE WORKMEN . . . . . . . . 100 XXIII. PEOPLE THAT MEAN BUSINES . . . 103 XXIV. WHERE TO WORK . . . . . . . . . 108 XXV. WHAT IS UNDER YOUR HEAD? . . . . 115 XXVI. MAKE READY, TAKE AIM! . . . . . . . . 119 XXVII. HEAPING IT ON . . . . . . . . 126 XXVIII. TIME, THE WORKER'S GOLD MINE . . . 129 XXIX. THE BULLDOG GRIP . . . . . . . . 137 XXX. OUR BREATHING - SPELLS . . . 144 XXXI. THE TRIVIAL ROUND . . . . . . . . 151

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE TWENTY- EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION HELD IN THE 71st REGIMENT ARMORY AND MANY CHURCHES NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. JULY 6 - 11, 1921.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits PREFACE For ten years it has been my pleasure to write articles on the leading hymns and hymn- writers for The Christian Endeavor World, one a month. These hymns were suggested as memory hymns for the Christian Endeavor societies, the hymns to be sung from memory in the meetings, and the facts regarding their writers to be stated to the young people. The considerable amount of hymn lore thus collected is here presented in permanent form for the use of pastors, church workers, young people's societies, and all lovers of hymns. No claim is made to originality; only a few of these chapters consist of material here presented for the first time; most of the book is collected from a large number of volumes. The usefulness of the book will spring from the wide range of hymn literature which has been examined, the most interesting and inspiring facts being collated for this volume. A knowledge of the authors of our hymns, and of the stirring incidents connected with the use of them, cannot fail to make the hymns more precious to every Christian. The one hundred and twenty hymn-writers here treated include the greatest of these poets, and many of the lesser writers. In each case all their most important hymns are named, while one hymn, usually the most famous and beloved, is selected for printing in full. I can have no happier wish for this book than that it may bring the same pleasure and profit to its readers that the writing of it has brought to me. AMOS R. WELLS. Boston, Mass.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits FOREWORD It shall be my purpose in this book to focus attention upon mass evangelism, and to make a candid appraisal of its spiritual values. I am fully aware that evangelism is a term with many facets. Its over-all meaning has to do with the spread of the gospel of Christ. There are several approaches to this divinely appointed task. Widely used techniques have evolved over the years. But it is an indisputable fact that practically all of the methods used today were used by Jesus and the early Christians. Paul expressed the attitude of the early Church when he wrote, "To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means." In well planned revival efforts all known methods are used. In a significant sense a genuine revival marks the climax of the desire of Christians to win others to Christ. It is my purpose to follow the revival stream from King Josiah to Billy Graham, and to discuss in chronological sequence, the great revivals that have moved the souls of men and kept the church on the march. In my rather extensive reading in this field, I have not seen a book that treated this important subject as I have attempted to do. It is my belief that a summation of spiritual revivals of all times, given without excessive detail, will broaden the understanding and deepen the appreciation of all who will read the record. It is crystal clear that if the revivals cited had not occurred, our religion would not have the prominent place in the thought and life of men it has today. I do not pretend that what this book contains will have the attraction of novelty, but I believe it will have reader appeal for all Christians who desire a fuller knowledge of revivalism as it has been expressed over the years. Deep inside me has crystallized the conviction that the basic concept of revivalism belongs to the divine economy and that it is a fruitful means of keeping religion alive in the souls of men and in the life of the world. This conviction did not form while I was dwelling in an ivory tower. It came while I was in the midst of spiritual conflict. I was converted in a revival. I have closely observed the results of revival efforts in churches. I have served as minster over the years, and I have witnessed the conversion of sinners, as well as the inspirational boosts given to the churches. I am sending this book forth with the earnest hope that all who read it will re-think and re-appraise revivalism, and that they will become vigorous supporters of this time honored method of making converts to Christ and His kingdom among men.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits PREFACE THE object of this little book is to present some of the less obvious and less understood results of communion with God. The fruits of the Spirit-love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness - are often, and rightly, dwelt upon as the supremely blessed outcome of the Spirit- filled life; and yet there are other, and no less real, benefits which communion with God confers, which should not be left out of the account. To be sure, if we seek God's presence for the sake of the health, friends, and prosperity which it will bring, the blessings will elude our selfish grasp, and the precious secret will never be ours. No sort of simony is tolerated by God. But if we truly seek God for himself, with himself he freely gives us all things. If we seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, all these things shall be added. I have made frequent use of this phrase, " practising the presence of God," so loved of Jeremy Taylor, Brother Lawrence, and other devout men, because the use of this somewhat unusual synonym for communion with God, and similar phrases, may lead some of my readers to inquire more deeply into its meaning, and to find out for themselves its blessed significance. These chapters have been written during a long and otherwise tedious and unpleasant voyage of twenty-three days in tropical seas, on a Hindoo coolie ship, from India to South Africa, during which (for the voyage has been in some sense my Arabia) I trust I have learned something (more, at least, little as it is, than I ever knew before) of the blessed life I have tried to open to others. Young people, especially, long with an intense longing to know the secret of true success in life; I have put into their hands the key. May God, who alone can do it, help them to unlock the wondrous secret. Steamship "Congella," Indian Ocean, March, I897.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS CHAPTERS 1. The Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2. The Years of Pilgrimage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3. On Sychar Grounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4. Old Camp Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5. Great Leaders and Great Meetings . . . . . . . . . . 36 6. This New Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 7. Great Preachers at Sychar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 8. Remarkable Meetings at Sychar . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 9. The Historic Policy of Camp Sychar . . . . . . . . 58 10. L'envoi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 1. SOMETHING NEW........................................ 9 2. SEVEN CONFESSIONS ........................................ 12 3. CROSSING JORDAN........................................ 20 4. IN CANAAN ........................................ 23 5. WANDERING ........................................ 27 6. CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST .......................................... 32 7. FRUIT BEARING........................................ 38 8. THE FRUITS OF DECEPTION........................................ 41 9. A FEW THINGS THAT PROVE DEPRAVITY ........................................ 48 10. THE FIVE THINGS NECESSARY To GET You To HEAVEN ......... 50 11. THE MARKS OF THE Loss OF FIRST LOVE ........................................ 52 12. SET THY HOUSE IN ORDER, FOR THOU SHALT DIE ...................... 56 13. THE TREE THAT IS DEAD AT THE TOP ........................................ 61 14. THE RIVER JORDAN........................................ 65 15. THIS GREAT SALVATION ........................................ 70 16. BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT........................................ 88 17. UPHELD ........................................ 91 18. UNDER HIS WINGS ........................................ 96 19. A WALL OF FIRE ........................................ 99 20. GUIDED BY HIS EYE ........................................ 101 21. IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS HAND ............................ 104 22. GRAVEN ON THE PALMS OF HIS HANDS ........................................ 107 23. THE IDEAL CHURCH ........................................ 111 24. THE TWO GREATEST POWERS ........................................ 114 25. THE WHOLE LAMB ........................................ 116 26. RICHES ........................................ 145 27. PROMISES ........................................ 148 28. Joy ........................................ 151 29. SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ........................... 153 30. MY OBJECTIONS TO A SINNING RELIGION ........................................ 155 31. THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST ........................................ 160 32. THE FIVE CROWNS ........................................ 163 33. THE MOTH-EATEN GARMENT ............................ 166 34. BARNABAS, THE EVANGELIST ........................................ 185 35. THE MORNING GLORY AND THE GLORY OF THE MORNING .... 209

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits PREFACE I had most singular experience once with the subject Amazing Grace. I hope I shall not be thought forward or lacking in modesty if I tell the story. I was riding in a train in the West, one day, -I think I was going through Kansas-when I was moved to write a short article on the subject: Amazing Grace. I cannot now recall what I said in that article. I sent it on to the New York Christian Advocate, and it was published. Some months afterwards I received a letter from a lady in Milan, Italy, telling of the way the Lord had blessed her through reading that article. The letter I kept, it reads as follows: "May a stranger thank you for your living, inspired article in The Christian Advocate. "For years I have known much of that 'amazing grace.' It has enabled me to sing my way through many a tunnel. Over and over, by the dying beds of my dearest ones, and even by their graves, it has filled me with the very joy of heaven. Loneliness, loss of property, exile from my own country and the friends of a life-time, the anxieties which come with motherhood, the temptations to worry about the future-in all these things it has been more than conqueror and my soul has winged its flight above the clouds and exulted in the light of His countenance. But for some weeks past, under strange and very trying conditions, I had gotten into the dark, and had begun to cherish thoughts and feelings which I knew could not be pleasing to God, and yet which seemed to entangle me in a web of fine-spun steel, in which I seemed to have little heart to struggle or even pray-a veritable snare of the enemy. Yesterday morning I was reading your article aloud to a member of my family, when I came to the verse from' Gospel Power.' I was immediately carried back to an old-fashioned camp meeting. I could see the flare of the oil lamps on hundreds of faces, the rough platform, the straw in and around the simple altar rail, and I stopped in my reading to recall the old tune, not heard in many, many years. It came back to me immediately- that music by no means classical or artistic, but with a lilt, a holy charm, a thrill of hope and victory in it, the vehicle-that homely tune-of God's' Promise of Love Triumphant.' "I sung it over and over, went about my work still singing it, for as I sang the grace of God again flowed into my life, restoring my soul. To-day I am again proving yet, as often of old: "' With Thee conversing we forget All time and toil and care. Labour is rest and pain is sweet, If Thou, my God, art there.' "You will pardon this long personal letter, I am sure. It seems to me that no matter how useful and honored and busy a Christian man may be, a word of gratitude for help rendered cannot be un-acceptable, for we so often sow in tears and never know here if someone has gathered food or sweetness where we toiled with weary feet. So I venture to thank you from my heart. The testimony itself is not confidential, but my name I would have you please consider as a confidence. "Yours cordially, " ______ _______ " The hymn Amazing Grace is a great favorite of mine and I have chosen it as the title of my book in which I aim to set forth some of the wonders of Grace and attempt to write upon some aspects of the deeper things of God. G. W. R. Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky.

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