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William Fraser McDowell was born on February 4, 1858 in Millersburg, Ohio, and was the second in a family of three sons of David Allison McDowell, a well-to-do merchant, and Rebecca (Fraser) McDowell.
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This Mind (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from This Mind The Mendenhall Lectures Of depauw Univer sity, to which this series Of addresses belongs, was founded by the Reverend Marmaduke H. Mendenhall, D.D., of the North Indiana Confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Object of the donor was to found a perpetual lec tureship which would bring to the University as lecturers persons Of high and wide repute, of broad and varied scholarship, who firmly adhere to the evangelical system of Christian faith. The selection Of lecturers may be made from the world Of Christian scholarship, Without regard to de nominational divisions. Each course Of lectures is to be published in book form by an eminent publishing house and sold at cost to the faculty and students Of the university. 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.
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In the School of Christ (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from In the School of Christ The preparation of this volume has brought me anew for many months into the New Testament with its wonderful story of Jesus Christ and His disciples, and into many volumes interpretative of this perpetual rec ord. This experience has been an unspeak able privilege in the midst of a life in which administrative cares tend constantly to absorb all energies. And the experience has created anew a joy and high-heartedness in thinking Of the ministry itself, even in a day in which it is thought that the ministry of Jesus Christ has lost much of its attractiveness. 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.
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Excerpt from The Right Sort of Men for the Ministry The kind of men required for the ministry of to day is determined by several capital considerations. What a strong man should do With his one life should always be decided on the basis of such considerations. The ministry must appeal to men at their best; their choices must be made at the highest and deepest levels of principle and life. Otherwise, manhood does not get its chance and the ministry misses that manhood Which it must have. The ministry does not and can not make its appeal on the basis of its need. It can hot demand strong men just because it has none; but must base its claim on fundamental and commanding principles. The best men must come in With their heads up and remain with a royal high-heartedness. 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.
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William Fraser McDowell
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After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University he studied for the ministry at Boston University, receiving the S. T. B. degree in 1882. During his student days he heard the great preachers of the times: Thomas DeWitt Talmage, Henry Ward Beecher, and especially Phillips Brooks, to whom he listened more than a hundred times. He received honorary degrees from Wesleyan (1903), Northwestern (1904), Denver (1914), Vermont (1914), and American University (1934).
Career
McDowell was ordained in 1882. After serving pastorates in Lodi, Oberlin, and Tiffin, Ohio (1882 - 90), McDowell became chancellor of the Methodist-affiliated University of Denver, a position he held for nine years. During this time he received from his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan, the degree of Ph. D. (1893) and an honorary D. D. degree (1894). In 1899 he was appointed corresponding secretary of the board of education of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1904 he was elected a bishop, serving in Chicago until 1916 and in Washington, D. C. , from that time till his retirement in 1932.
Few preachers have equaled his appeal to students, and he was in constant demand both as a preacher and as a lecturer in the great universities. An ecclesiastical statesman, McDowell was able to reconcile differences and to center upon major objectives. His rare gift of evolving creative and constructive compromises was revealed in his leadership of the movement to reunite the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church. He served as chairman of the Methodist Episcopal section of that endeavor and lived to see the plan of union adopted by the General Conference of his own church in 1936, though not the ultimate reunion of Methodism in 1939. He died of a heart attack in the spring of 1937 at his home in Washington and was buried in Delaware, Ohio.
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In the School of Christ (Classic Reprint)
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The Picket Line of Missions: Sketches of the Advanced Guard (Classic Reprint)
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Good Ministers of Jesus Christ (Classic Reprint)
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A Man's Religion: Letters to Men (Classic Reprint)
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The Picket line of missions : sketches of the advance guard
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The Christian Student, Volumes 5-8
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This Mind (Classic Reprint)
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The Right Sort of Men for the Ministry (Classic Reprint)
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The Christian Student, Volumes 13-15
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The Mendenhall Lectures, Eighth Series Delivered at DePauw University; This Mind
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In the School of Christ (Classic Reprint)
Personality
Endowed with extraordinary oratorical ability, McDowell was a noted preacher whose sermons have been characterized as "classics of the modern pulpit. " His addresses were intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving, designed to build up spiritual reserves and to command action.
Tall, well-proportioned, athletically built and an outdoor man, Bishop McDowell was a striking personality. His handsome, mobile face, flashing eyes, and evident love of humanity attracted immediate attention and made him the center of any group he entered. His friendships included men and women in every walk of life. During his years in Washington his wisdom, rigorous respect for confidences, excellent sense of humor, and worldwide influence won the friendship of presidents and other leading statesmen. Lacking, as he once wrote, "the temperament of the traditional reformer, " he sought to effect fundamental reform by releasing spiritual power through personality rather than by marching in the vanguard of social movements. The one exception was his acceptance of the presidency of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church during the active days of the prohibition movement, a position he held from 1916 to 1932.
Connections
On September 20, 1882 McDowell married Clotilda Lyon, by whom he had one child, a daughter, Olive V. Mrs. McDowell later served as president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; the architecturally famous chapel at Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, India, was named in her honor.
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