Excerpt from The World Service of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchMethodism is on the march! This is normal. A militant church does not stand still. Wesley marshaled forces for a fresh crusade. Asbury outdistanced his reli gions compeers. Simpson and Mccabe challenged to larger advance. Thoburn, Bashford, Lewis thought in terms of Christ's continental conquests.God gave to S. Earl Taylor, one of the secretaries of the Board of Foreign Mis sions, a vision of the greater work He had for the people called Methodists. After a tour of inspection to many parts of the world in company with John F. Goucher and other leaders, Taylor challenged the church to undertake more seriously the Christian possibilities of the generation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.