Excerpt from Social Science and Service: Report of the Oxford Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Union for Social Service for the Consideration of Social Problems, Easter, 1909
The Oxford Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Union for Social Service, the Report and Papers of which are here presented to the public, was not only an unequivocal success, but it may be said to mark an epoch in the history of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. It was the first Conference of the kind ever held in Methodism. It was presided over, from first to last, by the President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference himself, and that not merely in his capacity as President of the Union for Social Service, but as representing, in his person and office, the rising tide of social sympathy in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. It was attended by a large number of Methodist women, many of whom took an invaluable part in the proceedings; also by some young Wesleyan ministers, by general admission, amongst the ablest, most eloquent, and most promising in the Wesleyan Church, who took an active share in the Conference. This Union of Social Service Easter Conference at Oxford may be said to signify the entry of the Wesleyan Methodist Church into the arena of constructive social reform. It is but a beginning but it is a beginning, and there is now no drawing back. There is nothing before it, for the future, but an ever greater participation in the definite promotion of a really Christian civilization.
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