Freeborn Garrettson
Freeborn Garrettson
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The sense of responsibility and the faith of those Methodist pioneers knew neither barriers 60 Freeborn Garrettson nor limitations. Their field was the world, Christ had died for all men. How absurd would have sounded to them any talk about a "home field" or a "foreign field"! In their Bible they read only world-state- ments — "God so loved the world, " "Go ye into all the world" ; and to them, as it must be to us, the missionary appeal was a world- appeal. Whoever lifts an honest voice in Chri...st's name in whatever place stands at the center. With those early Methodist preachers it was not so much where they labored as how successfully. They were men who were willing to work anywhere, if they could help along the kingdom. So when John Wesley in the Leeds Conference in 1769 said, "We have a pressing call from our brethren at New York; who is willing to go?" he was not required to repeat the question.
It was very natural, therefore, that at the Christmas Conference the eyes of those missionary preachers should be upon the far horizons, and that when William Black, a Yorkshireman, through whose efforts in 1780 Methodism had been started in Nova Scotia, told of the prosperity of Zion in that land of snow and frost, and declared he must have help, the Conference was sympa- The Missionary 61 thetic with his plea and appointed Freeborn Garrettson and James O.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The sense of responsibility and the faith of those Methodist pioneers knew neither barriers 60 Freeborn Garrettson nor limitations. Their field was the world, Christ had died for all men. How absurd would have sounded to them any talk about a "home field" or a "foreign field"! In their Bible they read only world-state- ments — "God so loved the world, " "Go ye into all the world" ; and to them, as it must be to us, the missionary appeal was a world- appeal. Whoever lifts an honest voice in Chri...st's name in whatever place stands at the center. With those early Methodist preachers it was not so much where they labored as how successfully. They were men who were willing to work anywhere, if they could help along the kingdom. So when John Wesley in the Leeds Conference in 1769 said, "We have a pressing call from our brethren at New York; who is willing to go?" he was not required to repeat the question.
It was very natural, therefore, that at the Christmas Conference the eyes of those missionary preachers should be upon the far horizons, and that when William Black, a Yorkshireman, through whose efforts in 1780 Methodism had been started in Nova Scotia, told of the prosperity of Zion in that land of snow and frost, and declared he must have help, the Conference was sympa- The Missionary 61 thetic with his plea and appointed Freeborn Garrettson and James O.
What to read after Freeborn Garrettson?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Ezra Squier Tipple to read onlineMoreLess
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