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Jlrnc££oings nf W4£ 0l4arl£s ~£sl£U j5>nci£iu Volume 6 1999-2000 S T Kimbrough, Jr. Charles A. Green Editor Assistant Editor PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CHARLES WESLEY SOCIETY July 2000 Liverpool, England Frederick E. Maser: 1908-2002 ................................ 3 Introduction: 1999 and 2000 . 7 S T Kimbrough, Jr. The Image of Christ in the Poor: On the Medieval Roots of the Wesleys' Ministry with the Poor: Synopsis . .. 11 Ted A. Campbell Perfection Revisited: Charles Wesley's Theology of "Gospel-Poverty" and "Perfect Poverty": Synopsis . .. 13 S T Kimbrough, Jr. Charles Wesley's Experience of Salvation: The Evidence of the Sermon Corpus . .. 15 Kenneth G. C. Newport A Single, Steady Aim: Images of Hope in Wesleyan Hymnody . .. 31 Elaine A. Robinson "Experimental and Practical Divinity": Charles Wesley and John Norris .. 59 J. Richard Watson Charles Wesley's View of the Self. .. 73 Martin Groves Ted A. Campbell, President J. Richard Watson, Vice President Wilma J. Quantrille, Secretary Charles A. Green, Treasurer E. Alan Rose, Secretary-Treasurerfor the United Kingdom S T Kimbrough, Jr., Director ofPublications Elaine A. Robinson, Program Director Board of Directors Friedemann W. Burkhardt Kenneth G. C. Newport John R. Tyson Paul W. Chilcote Kenneth D. Shields Maxine E. Walker Timothy S. Alexander-Macquiban Carlton R. Young Proceedings of The Charles Wesley Society 1999-2000 Published in the United States by The Charles Wesley Society, 2002 Editor; S T Kimbrough, Jr. Assistant Editor; Charles A. Green Copyright © 2002 by The Charles Wesley Society. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of The Charles Wesley Society. The Charles Wesley Society Archives and History Center Drew University Madison, NJ 07940 Ted A. Campbell, President J. Richard Watson, Vice President Wilma J. Quantrille, Secretary Charles A. Green, Treasurer E. Alan Rose, Secretary-Treasurerfor the United Kingdom S T Kimbrough, Jr., Director ofPublications Elaine A. Robinson, Program Directorpro tempore Board ofDirectors Friedemann W. Burkhardt Kenneth G. C. Newport John R. Tyson Paul W. Chilcote Kenneth D. Shields Maxine E. Walker Timothy S. Alexander-Macquiban Carlton R. Young Frederick E. Maser 1908-2002 The Charles Wesley Society gives thanks for the life and ministry of its mem ber Frederick E. Maser, son of a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, who was born February 26, 1908 in Rochester, NY. He attended elementary schools in Buffalo, NY, and in Baltimore, MD, and high schools in Baltimore and in Schenectady, NY. In 1930, he earned an A.B. Degree from Union College in Schenectady. In 1933, he received the M.A. Degree from Princeton University and the Th.M. degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1957 he received an honorary D.D. Degree from Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, and in 1964 the LL.D. from McKendree College near St. Louis. Licensed to preach in 1928, Dr. Maser in 1933 joined the former Philadelphia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. He served Alice Focht Memorial Church, Birdsboro, PA, from 1933 to 1938; Central Church, Philadelphia, from 1938 to 1945; and St. James Church, Olney, in Philadelphia from 1945 to 1953, when he was appointed District Superintendent of the Northwest District of the Philadelphia Annual Conference. In 1958, he became pastor of Old St. George's Church, the oldest Methodist meeting house in America, remaining there until 1967, when he took a sabbatical leave. In 1968, he served as Acting Dean of Students and Professor of Homiletics at the Conwell School of Theology, then in Philadelphia. In the following year he was appointed 3 4 Proceedings of The Charles Wesley Society 1999-2000 Director of Public Relations of the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. In 1971, he was elected elected Executive Secretary of the World Methodist Historical Society, a position he held until 1974, a year following his retirement in 1973. In 1952 Dr. Maser was elected a delegate to the Jurisdictional Conference of The Methodist Church, now The United Methodist Church, and in 1956 was leader of the ministerial delegation of his conference to the General Conference, the highest legislative body of The United Methodist Church. He served as a del egate to the Ninth World Methodist Conference (1956), Lake Junaluska, NC; Tenth World Methodist Conference (1961), Denver, CO; Thirteenth World Methodist Conference (1976), Dublin, Ireland; Fourteenth World Methodist Conference (1981), Oahu, Hawaii; Fifteenth World Methodist Conference (1986), Nairobi, Kenya. From 1952 to 1964, Dr. Maser served on the Television, Radio, and Film Commission of The Methodist Church. In 1948, he was elected Vice Chairperson of the Northeast Jurisdictional Association of the Methodist Historical Societies, serving for a quadrennium. In 1952, he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Methodist Historical Societies and seved in var ious offices of this organization until 1966. He was chairman of the Division of Evangelism of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches from 1953 to 1958, and held memberships in a variety of civic and community organizations in and around Philadelphia, and he served on numerous committees and commissions in his local conference. Maser served on the Advisory Councils of several Methodist-related colleges and seminaries. In 1958, he became a trustee and one of the founders of The George Ruck Trust, which dispensed funds for worthly charitable causes. The trust was dissolved in 1986. Maser was a popular preacher in the USA and abroad (Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Germany, England, New Zealand, Australia). He was also did inten sive research collecting Wesleyana, rare Bibles, and prayer books on trips to Portugal, Spain, Italy, and England. In 1977, he gave the Tipple Lectures at Drew University, Madison, NJ, enti tled "Second Thoughts on John Wesley," later published in The Drew Gateway. Dr. Maser was the author of numerous pamphlets and articles that have appeared in newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals on both sides of the Atlantiic. He was also the author of The Dramatic Story of Early American Methodism (1965); (coauthor) Proclaiming Grace and Freedom, the Story of United Methodism in America (1982); The Life of Robert Stawbridge, First American Methodist Circuit Rider (1983); The Story of John Wesleys Sisters or Seven Sisters in Search of Love (1988); (coauthor with his wife, Mary Louise Jarden Maser) Christina Rossetti (1991). Maser was also editor of The Journal of Jospeh Pi/more (1968), and made contributions to The History of American Frederick E. Maser 5 Methodism (1964); the Encyclopedia of World Methodism (1974), Together Magazine, and Methodist History. In 1977 Maser presented to Drew University his Wesleyana collection, con sidered at the time to be one of the most complete collections in private hands. He also presented Drew University his large collection of Anglican prayer books and related materiaL He was twice cited for his activity in improving race relations between African-Americans and Caucasians by the Chapel of the Four Chaplains, Philadelphia, and in 1967 the St. George's Gold Medal Award was conferred on him for "distinguished service to the United Methodist Church." In 1991, he was the first recipient of the Certificate of Appreciation presented by the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church for distinguished service to the church in the field of history. A Publication Fund was established in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Maser by appreciative friends and the Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. Dr. Maser was an active member of The Charles Wesley Society and made a major financial contribution to the Society which made possible the publication in 1997 of the folio volume of Hymns on the Great Festivals (1746) with tunes and figured bass by John Lampe. His article, "Pastoral Values in the Works of Charles Wesley," was pubHshed in the 1998 edition of the Proceedings of The Charles Wesley Society, which was delivered as a lecture at an earlier annual meeting of the Society. The Society is especially grateful for Dr. Maser's financial undergirding of its folio facsimile reprint of Hymns on the Great Festivals (1746). Thanks be to God for Frederick E. Maser's numerous gifts of love, service, creative thinking, and faithfulness to Christ, the church, and the Wesleyan tradi tion. Introduction 1999 There is no separate volume for the year 1999 of the Proceedings of The Charles Wesley Society. The Tenth Annual Meeting of The Charles Wesley Society was held October 14-17, 1999, on the campus of Perkins School of Theology (Southern Methodist University) in Dallas, Texas, in conjunction with the consultation The Wesleys and the Poor: The Legacy and Development of Methodist Attitudes toward Poverty, 1739-1999, which was sponsored by the Bridwell Library. Two papers presented by members of The Charles Wesley Society, Drs. S T Kimbrough, Jr., and Ted A. Campbell, were simultaneously part of the annual meeting of the Society and the consultation. They were subse quently published in the volume of papers from the consultation, John Wesley and the Poor, edited by Richard P. Heitzenrater (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002). Kimbrough and Campbell have provided brief summaries of the main contehts of their presentations, which are published here with the papers from the Eleventh Annual Meeting of The Charles Wesley Society in the year 2000, held in Liverpool, UK. 2000 The 2000 issue of Proceedings of The Charles Wesley Society consists of a series of four lectures delivered at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society in Liverpool, UK. All four address diverse theological and literary concerns in Charles Wesley's theology as reflected in his prose and poetry.