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WHS Journal 2009 Wesley Historical Society Publication #89 Page 1 WHS Journal 2009 Wesley Historical Society Publication #89 Page 1 WHS Journal 2009 Wesley Historical Society Publication #89 Page 2 WHS Journal 2009 Contents EDITORIAL SPIRITUAL JOURNEY Phil Taylor TRAVELLING WITH METHODISTS (AND OTHERS) ON THE GOOD SHIP OIKOUMENE: REFLECTIONS FROM AN (ECUMENICAL) ANCIENT MARINER Allan K Davidson RESCUING FROM OBSCURITY: A LIFE OF THE REVEREND JOHN SKEVINGTON, 1815-1845 Gary A Clover Book Review — Norman E Brookes THE JOHN WESLEY CODE — Finding a Faith that Matters By James Stuart Book Review - Terry Wall JOHN WESLEY’S PREACHERS A Social and Statistical Analysis of the British and Irish Preachers Who Entered the Methodist Itinerancy before 1791 By John Lenton Wesley Historical Society Directory 2009 Anniversaries 2010 - 2011 Wesley Historical Society Publication #89 Page 3 WHS Journal 2009 Editorial During this year the Anglican and Methodist Churches entered into a covenant relationship. The signing of the covenant by leaders of our two churches took place on Wesley Day, 24th May 2009 at Lotofale’ia Tongan Methodist Church and Te Karaiti Te Pou Herenga Waka, the Anglican Maori Church, Mangere. The celebration at Mangere was the culmination of six years of conversations between the two Churches and represented a willingness to look to a shared future. As the ecumenical movement has required, each Church had looked at the life of the other and discovered there the apostolic faith. Each Church recognises the ministry of the other Church as being a real ministry of Word and Sacraments. Each Church accepts that the other exercises a ministry of episkope and welcomes the baptised members of the other Church to receive the Eucharist. In the language of ecumenical theology, both Churches are not out of communion, but share a real but incomplete communion. The challenge now is to find ways to give institutional expression to the degree of communion that we enjoy at this stage of our journey. The signing of the covenant commits the two Churches to further dialogue on outstanding theological and ecclesiological issues, and encourages collaboration in joint worship and witness, service and mission. The President of the Wesley Historical Society, Helen Laurenson, is a member of the Anglican Historical Society. It is to be hoped that there will be opportunities to further develop the relationship between our Churches in the field of historical enquiry. In April a Selwyn Symposium was held at the College of St John the Evangelist to mark the Bicentenary of the births of Sarah and George Selwyn. The editor was privileged to be among the participants. Papers, probing the contribution of the Selwyns, were of a high standard and will be published at a later date. The 2009 Conference held in Christchurch marked the fiftieth anniversary of the first ordination of a woman in mainline churches in New Zealand. The Rev. Dr Phyllis Guthardt was honoured at a session of Conference. In the context of a liturgy led by ordained women, Bishop Victoria Matthews and Phyllis herself spoke of their experience and shared insights. It was one of the inspiring sessions of the Conference. This Journal touches the ecumenical movement at a number of points. Phil Taylor’s fascinating spiritual journey indicates the way in which he was influenced by streams other than Methodism. Allan Davidson’s contribution reflects on his friendships and contacts with Methodists and Methodism throughout the duration of his ministry and vocation, teaching Church History. Gary Clover shows how John Skevington was sent to South Taranaki at least in part to “forestall the influence of ‘Popery’ and ‘Puseyism” Dr James Stuart’s book The John Wesley Code was published toward the end of 2008. It has been well received and represents decades of Jim’s conversation with John Wesley Historical Society Publication #89 Page 4 WHS Journal 2009 Wesley. We are pleased to carry a review of this important work by Norman Brookes, a loyal member of the Society. Also reviewed is John Lenton’s John Wesley s Preachers published in Britain in 2009 by Paternoster. The Society is currently in the middle of a rich seam of publications. This year saw the launch at Conference of Jim Stuart’s Making Connexions Down Under - reflections of a United Methodist in Aotearoa New Zealand. Edited by Eric Laurenson, the book brings together a number of Jim’s addresses and articles of an historical, theological and autobiographical nature. The year 2010 will see the publication of the eagerly awaited history of Trinity College by the Rev. Dr Susan Thompson. As this Journal was being prepared for the printer, we heard that Allan Davidson had been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Allan has been a long time member of the Society and has made an outstanding contribution to the study of Church History in this land. We warmly congratulate him on being recognised in this way. — Terry Wall Wesley Historical Society Publication #89 Page 5 WHS Journal 2009 SPIRITUAL JOURNEY - Phil Taylor Rev. Philip Taylor My most vivid early memory that I can put a date to was 3 September 1939. Dad and I were walking along the drive leading into my grandfather’s orchard that he managed. He told me we were at war again. The deep concern behind his words was what imprinted that fact in my mind. He had come to Nelson in 1917 for his health’s sake. That also resulted in him being unfit for WWI service. He shared in the grieving of our community and had regularly taken me to the ANZAC Day services at the Stoke memorial gates. Our church occupied one of the corners on the village crossroads. A second corner was the blacksmith now developing into a garage. A third corner was an open paddock where Sir Jack Newman’s hired plane landed to get petrol before going on to his home at Wakefield and the fourth corner was the Turf hotel. Chapel and pub folk never mingled except on the hockey and cricket fields. They were shut when we were open and each community felt uncomfortable in the other’s field of expertise, so we rarely met. The Anglican and Methodist churches provided the village’s spiritual nourishment. During the 1920s a Baptist family came to our chapel as their city church was too far away. I later was told that the discussions on the merits of believers’ baptism extended into the moon-lit evenings as grandfather and Baptist, Frank Black, walked home Wesley Historical Society Publication #89 Page 6 WHS Journal 2009 together. Such dialogue resulted in some members, including my father, being immersed by the Methodist minister in the cold Waimea river. In the 1930s and 40s a more serious faith concern enveloped the Methodist Church. Seeking quiet appointments for pacifist ministers, Conference sent them to Nelson and Waimea circuits. Amongst them were Ashleigh Petch, John Grocott and Charlie Hailwood. The Richmond parsonage was reputed to be a safe refuge for conscientious objectors fleeing to the West Coast. Hubert Holdaway was establishing on his orchard the Riverside Community. As the war objectors were eventually released they found a safe haven there in Upper Moutere. Amongst the members were Arch Barrington, Dave Silvester and Norm Cole. These men greatly influenced me. In the late 1940s, lay preacher Dave Silvester was on the preaching plan for Stoke Church. He was welcomed without resentment. The conmmnity provided much of the Easter Camp leadership at Dovedale. Their last finest hour was to be later on, when they took their stand on the cathedral steps, against the Vietnam war. One was frog marched away by the RSA-inspired opposition and he was held, head down, while the toilet was flushed over him. Those who did it had no doubt been frustrated for several decades by Arch Barrington’s letters to the Nelson Evening Mail. With Ray Marshall as our B C leader, who stood twice as Labour candidate for Nelson, the Stoke chapel was known for its socialist-leaning attitude. My foreman followed his children there, but soon withdrew to his Anglican roots because, as he said, “I can’t go along with the Methodists’ pink leaning congregation.” It was to be well into my ministry, after I joined “clergy for Rowling” that I learnt that while Methodist ministers may be to the left, their congregations tended to favour the right. Another influence on my spiritual journey came through the quality found in the ministry during the 30s and 40s. The three presbyters I have mentioned already, were to become presidents of Conference. The Conference’s desire to sideline pacifist ministers was our windfall. Beyond the Easter Camps there were Winter Schools where these men came into their own in leading us through Bible studies. Their openness to scholarship must have also come through in their preaching to my parents’ generation. As a young teenager I asked my father for help about the burning question of Creation. I was aware that Genesis spoke of creation taking place in a few days and at school learning another story. He answered to this effect: “Human beings weren’t around when it happened to report and we can only think of our beginnings in story or myth form.” For most of my ministry I confess it has been difficult to use that word “myth,” because of the false connotations in people’s minds. But I am grateful for that openness that kept me safe from a literalist’s approach to Scripture. As to when I became a Christian, I was never aware when that was not the case; or, I could answer just as truthfully, it is taking me many years becoming one.
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