A Look Into Life: An Autobiography (1969). J. H. Hamblen.
Synopsis: Dr. James Henry Hamblen (11/13/1877 – 11/7/1971) was a pastor in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Texas, an evangelist and revivalist preacher, and after 1946, was the founder of the Evangelical Methodist Church International. This book covers almost the full scope of his life, having been completed a mere three years before his passing.
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The book is an easy read (I read it in three sittings), yet it is filled with stories and reminisces of past appointments and experiences in each one. I could almost see him riding that old horse and buggy for the forty miles between appointments as he rode the “circuit.” Reading it is like listening to a wily veteran share stories from the war. If one is interested at all in hearing how the appointive process in The Methodist Church worked in the “old” days, this is a great chronicle. What I found most interesting was the unfolding of events that eventually led Dr. Hamblen to form the Evangelical Methodist Church. “Modernism” had made its way into The Methodist Church in the early part of the 20th Century, and it was his position against the “program” of the Methodists that led him in 1946 to call a prayer meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, to address this issue. Out of that prayer meeting, the seeds of the Evangelical Methodist Church were sown. Dr. Hamblen eventually paid the price by forfeiting both his pulpit and his pension in The Methodist Church. He never regretted the sacrifice.