Excerpt from My Father Braddock: Being the History of the Trials, Sufferings, Sacrifices, and Wrongs, of This Good Old Man and His Family in the Methodist Itinerancy State, to be effected? Are reformations or revolutions, if you please, to be accomplished by the cool process of argumentation? N o, verily: the logic of mind may direct, but it requires the dynamic power of the heart to impel to all great movements. Men must not only be made to see, but forced to feel the necessity of a change.
The Book of Discipline of the M. E. Church, and writers upon our Church polity, generally, give but an inadequate idea of the practical workings of the machi nery employed. Ideally considered, it is a system con taining many elements of moral sublimity. What is more sublime than the sight of an individual, for conscience' sake, Offering himself, soul, body, and substance, upon Heaven's high altar, - promising, in the spirit of the Itinerancy, to have no other will but the will of Him who calls and sends him forth as an ambassador to guilty men? But alas! How are such elements obscured, when we learn, that after the acquisition of a rich and varied experience, he who has borne the burden and heat of the day, must be compelled to step aside and give place to another, who, in his turn, is to be pushed to the same sad extremity.
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