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Songs Of Triumph: Adapted To Prayer Meetings, Camp Meetings, And All Other Seasons Of Religious Worship /
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John Swanel Inskip was an Methodist Episcopal clergyman, whose evangelistic work speaded not only aroung United States, but England, India and Australia. He also was the editor of the Christian Standard for many years.
Background
John was born on August 10, 1816 in Huntingdon, England, United Kingdom, and was brought to the United States in 1821, whither the other members of the family had migrated the year before. He was one of the fourteen children of Edward and Martha (Swanel) Inskip.
His home was first in Wilmington, Delaware, and later in Chester County. Here, when he was sixteen years old, he was converted under the preaching of Levi Scott, subsequently a bishop of the Methodist Church. Inskip at once entered with zeal into the Methodist activities of his neighborhood, and soon decided to become a minister.
Education
His education had been slight, but John had a good mind and a natural gift for public speaking.
Career
Inskip was licensed to preach on May 23, 1835, and the following year was admitted to the Philadelphia Conference on trial. In 1838 he was ordained deacon, and in 1840, elder. For the first ten years of his ministry his appointments were to circuits and stations in the Philadelphia Conference.
In 1845 he was transferred to the Ohio Conference. and stationed at the Ninth Street Church in Cincinnati, where his parents were then living. His subsequent appointments in this Conference were to Dayton, Urbana, Springfield, and Troy. During this period he became embroiled in a controversy over the introduction into Methodist churches of "promiscuous sitting, " which, while common in the East, was opposed in the West as a violation of the Discipline requirement that men and women should sit apart. Inskip favored "promiscuous sitting, " and it was introduced into new churches built while he was at Dayton and Springfield.
At the following session of the Conference he was charged with violation of a solemn pledge, "contumacious treatment" of the Conference, and "the publication of obnoxious matter or doctrine" in his book. He was judged not guilty of wilfully breaking a pledge, but was admonished for error. He appealed to the General Conference held at Boston in 1852, where, after a masterly defense made by himself, the action of his Conference was reversed. Transferred to the New York East Conference, he was stationed at the Madison Street Church, New York. Thereafter, all but one or two of his charges were in that city or Brooklyn.
From the beginning of the Civil War until his health failed fourteen months later, he was chaplain of the 14th Regiment, New York State Militia. In 1864 he experienced, as he believed, "entire sanctification, " and became one of the leaders in the "holiness movement. " When, in 1867, the National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness was formed, he was chosen president.
After 1871 he gave practically his entire time to evangelistic work. That year, in company with others he held a notable series of meetings on the Pacific coast and in Salt Lake City. These were followed by many similar meetings in other sections. In 1880 the campaign was carried to England; from there to India; and then to Australia.
After his return from his tour around the world his health failed, and in October 1883 a cerebral hemorrhage put an end to his labors. He partially recovered, but died at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, the following March.
Achievements
John Swanel Inskip was famous as the author of a well-written and controversial treatise entitled, Methodism Explained and Defended. Besides, he was president of the National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness. During his adminisration, fifty-two camp meetings had been held in various parts of the country, at forty-eight of which he presided.
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Views
John Swanel Inskip interpreted the Discipline rule in question as advisory rather than mandatory.
Personality
Inskip was a man of large mould, great physical strength, and intense emotion. His command of language and fluency of speech were remarkable, and when he was fully aroused he became a veritable whirlwind.
Connections
In 1835 , November 1, Inskip married Martha J. Foster of Cecil County, Maryland.
