Garland's Ghosts Haunt New Zealand Methodism
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Garland's Ghosts Haunt New Zealand Methodism | Through the Year with John Wesley

Garland's Ghosts: Tackling Hard Issues About the Intellectual Contribution to Methodism in New Zealand by the Rev Charles Hughlings Garland (1856-1918) by David Bell

It was Charles Hughlings Garland who threw down the gauntlet, challenging the anti-intellectualism which permeated Victorian Methodism.

He made a very great impact upon the Wesleyan Conference of 1893, and beyond, articulating themes of Higher Criticism, along with Adam and Eve and evolution.

He did it in the 1893 Conference Lecture.

Garland lacked a formal university education, but his friends knew him to be a gifted preacher and 'original thinker'.

Garland, in fact, was a man of great importance in the life of the Methodist Church of New Zealand and the significance of his contribution ought not to be overlooked.

He was not a scientist, but his broad range of interests in the intellectual climate of his times meant he had sympathy for scientific thinking and its consequences upon social life.

Born in London in 1856, his parents were very active in the Wesleyan Seaman's Mission and encouraged him in various aspects of Church life.

This included such diverse duties as playing the organ at services, conducting cottage meetings and becoming a local preacher at the age of sixteen, although his close friend C.H. Laws noted that Garland's initial attempts were not indicative of the "pulpit gifts" which were to follow.

Garland was a school teacher until the age of twenty when he entered Headingly and Handsworth Colleges for theological training.

His upbringing in a background of Wesleyan piety, energy, and vision well suited him to life as a minister, and he had little difficulty relating to many different types of people.

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