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Identifier: 02845216.425.emory.edu
Title: The history of Methodism (electronic resource)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: New York : Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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heverities of the Gospel. He was an expounder of the peculiartenets of Methodism. His earnest soul, his nervous energy,his delicate appreciation of the operations of the human mindand his remarkable adaptability to social changes he conse-crated to the work of soul saving. His eloquence was thatof an earnest soul baptized with Holy Ghost fire. He washappiest when in the straw at camp meeting pointing aweeping sinner to Jesus and hearing the shouts of the newlyredeemed souls. And what shall be said of Matthew Simpson? The wholeEnglish-speaking Church has already crowned him princepsamong pulpit orators. His career emphasizes the possibilityof success and preeminence despite disadvantages of healthand voice. Simpson succeeded in doing his best for God 1204 American Methodism and humanity, and the world stood still and wondered atthe fiery eloquence of a soul burning with zeal. He was born in Ohio in 1811. His early educational op-portunities were fair. He was a born teacher, hence early
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AFTER THE ENGRAVING BY H. C. BALDING, MATTHEW SIMPSON, D.D.Consecrated bishop 1852 ; died 1884. found himself in the position of pedagogue. He studied andpracticed medicine, but soon feeling that God wanted him topreach he entered the Pittsburg Conference of the Methodist Bishop Simpson 1205 Episcopal Church. Then he became a teacher again, theprofessor of natural science at Allegheny College, Pa., andin 1839 the President of Asbury (now De Pauw) Universityin Indiana. Nine years thereafter he became editor of theWestern Christian Advocate, and from the editorial desk hewas in 1852 called to be a bishop. In each position he wasa success. As bishop he became distinguished for hisbreadth of thought, gentleness yet firmness of administra-tion and tender consideration of the needs of the humblest.Yet as a preacher he is best known. His was natural, if notsupernatural, eloquence ; not studied, mechanical oratory Asin the case of Durbin, and even to a greater degree, Simp-sons supremacy in t

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