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{{for|the English doctor and philanthropist|Samuel Taylor Chadwick}}
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'''Samuel Chadwick''' (1860–1932) was a [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)|Wesleyan Methodist]] minister. He served as [[President of the Methodist Conference|President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference]], 1918–1919.

==Early life==
Samuel Chadwick was born in [[Burnley]], [[Lancashire]] in the industrialised [[Northern England|north of England]] into a devout [[Methodist]] family. His father worked in a [[cotton mill]] and, at the age of 8, Samuel joined him, working 12-hour shifts. At the age of 21, he became a lay [[pastor]] at nearby [[Stacksteads]].

==Epiphany==
After a major awakening and deepening of his faith in his late twenties via a personal [[Epiphany (feeling)|epiphany]] after which he burned all his early sermons, he moved on to larger congregations and greater popularity. After a few years preaching in [[Edinburgh]] and at a new chapel in [[Glasgow]] he was ordained in 1890 and returned to England as Superintendent of the [[Leeds]] Mission.

==Cliff College==
In 1904 Chadwick began lecturing weekly at [[Cliff College]], a Methodist [[Laity|lay]] training centre, commuting from [[Leeds]]. In 1907, he was appointed to a faculty position as a biblical and [[theology|theological]] tutor. Although he was doing mission work in the [[South Yorkshire Coalfield]] when the Principal of Cliff died in 1912, he immediately returned to the school and was formally appointed principal in 1913, remaining in that post for the rest of his career.

Famed outdoor evangelist [[Leonard Ravenhill]] was educated at Cliff College during Chadwick's tenure.

At Cliff, Chadwick wrote ''The Way to Pentecost'', which went to print as he was dying in 1932. He also wrote ''The Call to Christian Perfection''. Chadwick's works have been reprinted often since his death, and continue to be reprinted in new editions under various titles for modern study.

''The Way to Pentecost'' contains this popular quote:
<blockquote>
The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power. Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing Fire, nothing else matters.
</blockquote>

Another of his most widely published quotes is:
<blockquote>
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
</blockquote>

== Influences and theology ==
Chadwick was strongly influenced by the [[Arminianism|Arminian]] stance of Wesleyan Theologian [[William Burt Pope]].{{sfn|Bebbington|2005|p=138}}

==Works==

This is not an exhaustive list. Numerous editions under various titles have appeared since Chadwick's death.

*''Humanity and God'' (1905), 356 pages, ASIN B00089ZBA2.
*''The Path of Prayer'' (2001), 132 pages, {{ISBN|0-87508-578-4}}.
*''[http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/0401-0500/HDM0496.PDF The Way to Pentecost]'' (1932) 64 page e-book in PDF format, accessed 31 May 2008. Also see 170 page reprint (2001), {{ISBN|0-87508-579-2}}.
*''What is Meant by Conversion''<ref>{{cite book|title=What is Christianity?: A Series of Lectures Delivered in the Central Hall, Manchester. Vol. II|date=1905|publisher=Charles H. Kelly|location=Cincinnati|page=85}}</ref> (1905)

===Posthumous===
*''The Gospel of the Cross'' (1935)
*''[http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/0601-0700/HDM0641.PDF The Call to Christian Perfection]'' (1936) 44 page e-book in PDF format, accessed 22 October 2006.
*''[http://a.co/hOcHjs1|The Complete Works of Samuel Chadwick] (2016)''

==Further reading==

*"Spirituality: Do Our Sermons Promote It?" by Edward Braislin, reviewing, ''inter alia'', ''Humanity and God'' (1905) by Samuel Chadwick in the ''American Journal of Theology'', Vol. 10, No. 3 (July 1906), pp. 570–576.
*'''Samuel Chadwick''', ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''.

==References==
===Citations===
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===Sources===
* {{cite book |language=en |last=Bebbington |first=David W. |title=The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody |publisher=InterVarsity Press |location=Downers Grove, IL |year=2005}}

==External links==
* [http://www.cliffcollege.org/ Cliff College], home of the Samuel Chadwick Memorial Library.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060910115632/http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/31-35/33-1-10.htm The Pentecostal League of Prayer: A Transdenominational British Wesleyan-Holiness Movement], a paper by Ian Randall hosted by the Wesley Center Online, placing Chadwick in the mainstream of Methodism and "traditional Wesleyan spirituality."

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