02.00. The Call To Holiness

The Call To Holiness by

Samuel Chadwick

Samuel Chadwick was born in Burnley, Lancashire, in 1860. He was converted to Christ at the age of 10 and felt a call to the ministry at the age of 15. He started to preach at the age of 16 and by 21 was a circuit rider for the Methodists. In 1907 he became a tutor at Cliff College, Calver with the hopes that he would return to the mission work he was doing in the south Yorkshire coalfields within five years. However, when the Principal, Thomas Cook, died Chadwick was called to fill the position and he never returned to circuit duties.

He became editor of ’Joyful News’ magazine, was elected Chairman of Sheffield District in 1911, President of the Methodist Conference in 1917, and President of the Free Church Council in 1922.

He made seven preaching tours of the United States, and visited South Africa in 1916 when he addressed their Conference.

He returned to Cliff College in the late 1920’s and went home to Jesus on October 16th, 1932.

One famous student of his was Leonard Ravenhill who said he learned how to pray from Chadwick.

NOTE: I have taken the liberty of dividing Mr. Chadwick’s work into it’s various sections, rather than merely by chapter numbers and other minor formatting changes. I have not edited ANY of his material with the exception of inserting scripture reference’s where appropriate and tagging all reference’s as tool tips. Being read as .top files, I feel his work lends itself more readily to being studied as sections; he himself broke the individual chapters up in such a manner.