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The Asbury Journal publishes scholarly essays and book reviews written from a Wesleyan perspective. The jounal's authors and audience reflect the global reality of the Christian church, the holistic nature of Wesleyan thought, and the importance of boththeory and practice in addressing the current issues of the day. Authors include Wesleyan scholars, scholars of Wesleyanism/Methodism, and scholars writing on issues of theological and theological education importance.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. > FOREWORD Religious workers desire to make men and women out of the material that they find in the community. The task is a difficult one at best, but its difficulties are immensely increased if workers plunge into their labors badly equipped and with only a vague idea of the means they are going to employ to attain their end. There is no excuse for Sunday-school work- ers' remaining in ignorance of the work in which they are engaged. There are books a plenty dealing with the problem from every conceivable angle. But it is different with the Intermediate Christian Endeavor society. Here and there articles have appeared about it. Talks have been made about it at conventions. But no handbook which might serve superin- tendents as a guide has thus far been published. The Intermediate society is an instrument for the making of manhood and womanhood. The aim of the following pages is to give super- intendents a working idea of methods to em- ploy and of the nature of the young people with whom they will have to labor. The suc- cess of the society will always depend more or less on the superintendent and the way in which he leads. There can be little success without some knowledge of adolescent human nature and of plans to follow. Intermediates can do most of the things that are done in the Young People's society. The difference between the two societies lies in the peculiar mental state of adolescent boys and girls. This must be studied and mastered. The superintendent will be guide, counsellor, and friend, a true leader and not a driver. And his success may be measured by the strength of the confidence with which he can inspire the young people. After all, the deep- est secret of leadership is love. R. P. Anderson

This is a story of the Wesleyan Missions with special reference to their progress and their claims.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. > Preface Long have the people clamored for me to write my life. I did not want to do it, but found myself actually incompetent to resist the united appeals of my friends, who girdle the globe. I am intimately acquainted with many of the Lord's dear people from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Gulf to the Lakes, while my travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, in the providence of God, have given- me many happy acquaintances in all of these countries. The Lord has let me live seventy-three years, given me a splendid education, a bright conversion, a glorious sanctification, permitted me to preach fifty-three years and write forty-eight books and booklets. I have no dark chapter in my biography. Though, as I believe, I was converted at the age of three years, I inadvertently lost it; but was reclaimed at the age of sixteen, when the Lord so revealed Him- self to me as to enable me ever since to walk in the light of His kingdom. He kept me through all the pre- carious and slippery paths of childhood, and youth/' so fortifying me against the seducing enchantments incident to the juvenile, as to keep me out of their seductive quarrels and to enable me to lead a moral life, without ever contracting the vicious habits which blight the innocency of childhood and blacken the escutcheon of youth in the overwhelming majority of cases. He has so wonderfully kept His healing hand on my body that I have never been a bed-ridden invalid. Though terrible ailments have taken hold on me, He has always healed me so quickly that I lost no time comparatively and was never missed from the battle-field. While my dear father and mother were utterly unable financially to give me a collegiate education, God, in His signal mercy, not only permitted me to prosecute a thorough classical course, but has permitted me to travel three times in Europe, Asia and Africa, and within recent years to go around the world again, travelling through the great historic countries and the most important missionary fields. God is no respecter of persons. He loves your children as dearly as your humble servant. Let them read my biography and see how I began as a penniless boy, but finally prosecuted a thorough collegiate education. I have preached for fifty-three years with the constant blessing of God on my labors, and am still on the battle-field, pressing the war for God and souls, having preached as much by pen as by speech. I have travelled extensively for the glory of God and the establishment of His kingdom in all the earth, so my life's history will be an inspiration to your children to do likewise. There is nothing in it which will not prove a blessing to the reader. My life has been quite eventful. God sanctified me fifteen years before the Holiness Movement reached the Great South, where I was born and reared, and He used me to preach entire sanctification from the Atlantic Ocean to Mexico in anticipation of the oncoming movement. You will also find in this history a ten years' war with the Campbellites and everything you need on the great baptismal controversy, in which all need light and grace to walk in it. This book will be about the size and make of my large Commentaries and will sell perhaps for $1.50. You and your children cannot do without it. God bless you. W.B. GODBEY

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits > Introduction This book is life not literature. Its origin is the heart rather than the head. It grows out of convictions, struggles and prayers to know and live the right life. It represents faith in God and victory through faith. The chapters have appeared in religious and other papers. Many, in this form, have had wide circulation. They are introduced here essentially unchanged. The writer regards them as a series of tracts on important, practical problems of heart, conscience and life. The chapters are placed in this more permanent form for the same reason that the writer preaches-to reach men. The conviction to preach and to write are one, and he sincerely trusts that both are of the Lord. May the truths which have deeply touched his own heart, life and ministry inspire others to "follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." W. T. Bloomington, Ind., May 29, 1906.

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits > INTRODUCTION No class of literature makes so deep an impression on the average reader as biography, and no influences in life, excepting possibly that of the mother, have molded so many characters and shaped so many destinies, as has biography. The lives of statesmen, divines, generals, missionaries, scientists and eminent men in every department of life's activities, portrayed in biography, have moved millions to great deeds and have awakened slumbering talents which otherwise might have remained dor-mant forever. It is therefore absolutely necessary that a biography, to be effective, must have a good subject. This condition is fully met in the book which is now presented to the reading public. Alexander Beers was no ordinary man. His life and activities were an inspiration to a large body of people, particularly students, who came under the influence of his noble, self-sacrificing life, and this volume will per-petuate the influence of those molding and inspiring activities which so strikingly characterized his life. His commanding figure, his affable and courteous manner and his striking personality can never be forgotten by those who came in contact with him. His vision of future events was so clear that he lit-erally lived before his day, his great energy carried him through seemingly unsurmountable obstacles, and his strong love for the work of God won him many lasting friends. Mrs. Adelaide L. Beers, who presents this volume to the public, is well qualified in every way to write it. Her many years of service in public life have fitted her for this task. Her practical nature and her intimate acquaintance with the outstanding facts of her husband's exceedingly busy life add to her other qualifications to write this brief history of his many activities in an interesting and readable manner. I am confident that all who read this book will be amply repaid by the inspiration they will receive from its perusal, and my intimate acquaintance with both the author and the subject of this biog-raphy warrant me in saying that its production will be an interesting as well as a permanent contribution to biographical literature, and I take much pleasure in commending it to the reading public as worthy of universal perusal. "Be strong ! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift, We have hard work to do and loads to lift, Shun not the labor; take it, 'tis God's gift. Be strong." WALTER A. SELLEW. Jamestown, N. Y., October 10, 1922.