Excerpt from Ministerial Education in the Methodist Episcopal Church But the church has come to a new era in her history. She has extended her borders from ocean to ocean. Some of our churches are nearly a century in age, and we have grown to be the most powerful religious or ganization in the western world. Religious education, enlightened and evangelical, the great want of the human mind, - must be met and supplied by us. It is as important now, and as much the dictate of divine Providence that we should take care of these churches and supply them with this needful want, as it was that our fathers should plant them in the first instance. If our fathers and brethren, now on the stage, differ with us as to the mode of accomplishing this object, we will have no controversy with them. They are at liberty to proceed in their own way. There is room enough for us all to work. Our book 1s strictly apologetic, and not controversial. We stand simply on the defensive, and all we ask is that we may have the privilege of acting out our own convictions of duty in respect to ministerial education in the church of our choice. This privilege we grant, thls privilege also we firmly claim. 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.