Excerpt from The Methodist Quarterly Review, Vol. 36: 1884 But, although his studies had been pursued with a design to enter into the holy orders of the ministry, yet upon the very threshold of this work he was startled, horrified, and dis gusted by the necessity he would be under to subscribe to the doctrine of predestination. His conscience in this respect was not so elastic as that of some of our modern ministers who, professing to be Arminians 1n their theology gulp down the whole Calvinistic system without a qualm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.