Methodist Theology and Practice
By Editor
But the Methodist Church is tainted through and through with that which would have been considered rank heresy by Wesley and Fletcher and their associates. Great and important changes have taken place in that church in the last half century.—Signs of the Times. That is possible; but the Methodist preachers who are doing the chief work of the church still hold to the theology taught by Fletcher and Wesley. The defection is greatly overstated.—California Christian Advocate. Oh, yes; the preachers subscribe to the theology of Fletcher and Wesley—to a large extent. But do they preach it? Does not the editor of the Advocate know that the preaching of the Methodists is as different from what it was fifty or forty years ago as the defection is great among the laity? It is not alone the modern church fair, where the minister tries to say funny things to keep pace with the fun-loving crowd, that would make Wesley groan. A minister, as we have actually seen, in good standing in the Conference, with a Masonic badge of gold on his breast, would not have been accepted in one of Wesley’s classes. And Fletcher would have strengthened his "Checks" had he heard a Methodist minister preach that the Ten Commandments were a law for the Mosaic dispensation, from which we are freed in Christ, as we have known Methodist ministers to do when trying to meet the arguments of Seventh-day Adventists. And the editor of the Advocate himself has recommended Methodist literature tinctured with the same heresy.