John Wesley - The Methodist Church - Marylebone Road, London, UK
N 51° 31.363 W 000° 09.206
30U E 697471 N 5711797
This 1939 building, the home of the Methodist Missionary Society, is on the south side of Marylebone Road at the junction with Nottingham Place. It is also known as The Methodist Church and The Methodist Church House.
Waymark Code: WMHW2Y
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/18/2013
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The text is inscribed on the cornerstone of the building and reads:
I look upon the whole world as my parish
The Christian
Classics Ethereal Library website contains the quote in context:
“You say, you cannot reconcile some parts of my
behavior with the character I have long supported. No, nor ever will.
Therefore I have disclaimed that character on every possible occasion. I
told all in our ship, all at Savannah, all at Frederica, and that over and
over, in express terms, ‘I am not a Christian; I only follow after, if haply
I may attain it.’
“If you ask on what principle I acted, it was this: ‘A desire to be a
Christian; and a conviction that whatever I judge conducive thereto that I
am bound to do; wherever I judge I can best answer this end, thither it is
my duty to go.’ On this principle I set out for America; on this I visited
the Moravian church; and on the same am I ready now (God being my helper) to
go to Abyssinia or China, or whithersoever it shall please God, by this
conviction, to call me.
“As to your advice that I should settle in college, I have no business
there, having now no office and no pupils. And whether the other branch of
your proposal be expedient for me, namely, ‘to accept of a cure of souls,’
it will be time enough to consider when one is offered to me.
“But, in the meantime, you think I ought to sit still; because otherwise I
should invade another’s office, if I interfered with other people’s business
and intermeddled with souls that did not belong to me. You accordingly ask,
‘How is it that I assemble Christians who are none of my charge, to sing
psalms, and pray, and hear the Scriptures expounded?’ and think it hard to
justify doing this in other men’s parishes, upon catholic principles?
“Permit me to speak plainly. If by catholic principles you mean any other
than scriptural, they weigh nothing with me; I allow no other rule, whether
of faith or practice, than the holy Scriptures. but on scriptural
principles, I do not think it hard to justify whatever I do. God in
Scripture commands me, according to my power, to instruct the ignorant,
reform the wicked, confirm the virtuous. Man forbids me to do this in
another’s parish; that is, in effect, to do it at all, seeing I have now no
parish of my own, nor probably ever shall. Whom then shall I hear, God or
man?
“I look upon all the world as my parish; thus far I mean,
that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden
duty to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of
salvation. This is the work which I know God has called me to; and sure I am
that His blessing attends it. Great encouragement have I, therefore, to be
faithful in fulfilling the work He hath given me to do. His servant I am,
and, as such, am employed according to the plain direction of His Word, ‘As
I have opportunity, doing good unto all men’; and His providence clearly
concurs with his Word; which has disengaged me from all things else, that I
might singly attend on this very thing, ‘and go about doing good.’”
The cornerstone is inscribed:
The Methodist Church
The foundation stone of this
Mission House was laid by
the President of Conference
the Rev W L Wardle MA DD
28th June 1939
I look upon the whole world as my parish
John Wesley
The Methodist Heritage
website tells us:
The union of the three main branches of British
Methodism in 1932 brought together their missionary societies into the
Methodist Missionary Society, and 'Mission House' was begun as their
headquarters in 1939 as a symbol of this unity in action.
However, the BBC occupied the premises until 1946. Since 1996, the building
has been 'Methodist Church House' when it became the offices for the major
part of the British Connexional Team.
Address: 25 Marylebone Road
London
United Kingdom
Website: [Web Link]
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