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The People's Methodist Church was a Wesleyan-Holiness denomination in the Southern United States from 1938-1962 founded by revivalist Jim H. Green. The denomination consisted of around 1,000 members in 25 churches in the U.S. states of North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia at the time of its merger with the like-minded Evangelical Methodist Church in 1962.〔http://archive.org/stream/handbookofdenomi009472mbp/handbookofdenomi009472mbp_djvu.txt〕 ==History== James Henderson "Jim" Green (born 21 June, 1881, and died May 23, 1955) founded the People's Methodist Church. Born in a one-room cabin in Ashe County, North Carolina, Green became an educator and, following a high-profile religious conversion, a prominent and fiery Methodist Episcopal Church South minister and evangelist.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=HGoD6HlU1iIC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=people%27s+methodist+movement&source=bl&ots=qqi0xN-2cu&sig=Yq5TETDkKJrvomBaxKMobDfhMto&hl=en&sa=X&ei=U75PVOiHJMajNsWOgpAM&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=people's%20methodist%20movement&f=false"〕 Denouncing the inroads of theological liberalism on one hand, and the allure of worldly prestige on the other, Green left the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1926. He described this event as "the saddest hour of my ministerial career. It almost killed me." (Green would reunite with the mainline Methodist fold in 1954, about six months before his death of a stroke.) 〔http://books.google.com/books?id=BdAGnn0SZX0C&pg=PA356&lpg=PA356&dq=jim+green+people%27s+methodist&source=bl&ots=jijwV2BOan&sig=X9qVrBPejHyLboaBuGDGAXOQRA8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1sFPVLCvDomiNtDagZAO&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=jim%20green%20people's%20methodist&f=false"〕 During his time away from the Methodist Church, Green was an itinerant Evangelist in the Church of the Nazarene and founded the independent Light House Mission in St. Louis, which he served from 1929-31. In 1932 he established the People's Bible School on property that recently held the defunct Greensboro Bible and Literary Institute in Greensboro, North Carolina. The college, which started with four faculty (from the previous institute) and 18 students, later became known as John Wesley College (1956) and Laurel University (2011). This college distributed the ''People's Herald'' periodical, later titled ''The Crusader''. The college remained non-denominational while promoting a distinctively Wesleyan-Holiness view on entire sanctification, with Methodist Evangelist and Holiness pamphleteer John R. Church as its first board chairman.〔http://www2.westminster-mo.edu/wc_users/homepages/staff/brownr/NorthCarolinaCC.htm〕〔https://web.archive.org/web/20100527085335/http://www.johnwesley.edu/site/templates/jwc.aspx?articleid=155&zoneid=82〕 When Green's students required more preaching opportunities than what was available to young ministers in training, a "chain of tabernacles" -- the People's Christian Movement -- was organized. This connection consisted of members of churches friendly to Green's revivalism and new churches planted by Green and company. Founded in 1938, the movement was later re-branded the People's Methodist Church.〔http://firstemcofkannapolis.org/history.htm〕 It was described as the "institutional consummation of Green's nearly forty years of personal tent and tabernacle revivalism throughout North Carolina." 〔http://ncpedia.org/biography/green-james-henderson〕 Green was superintendent of the People's Methodist Church until 1951. During this time, Green founded Camp Free in Connelly Springs, North Carolina, White City Camp near the white, sandy lake shore of Avon Park, Florida, in 1940 (now Avon Park Holiness Camp()), and Sunny South Camp in Greensboro in 1946 with the assistance of H.C. Morrison of Asbury College. The name "People's" reportedly troubled many of Green's followers during the "Red Scare" of the early 1950s. Conservative and anti-Socialist Green decried the love of wealth and regularly criticized prominent American religious institutions, as Communist sympathizers during this period were prone to do for vastly different reasons.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=HGoD6HlU1iIC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=people%27s+methodist+movement&source=bl&ots=qqi0xN-2cu&sig=Yq5TETDkKJrvomBaxKMobDfhMto&hl=en&sa=X&ei=U75PVOiHJMajNsWOgpAM&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=people's%20methodist%20movement&f=false"〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The People's Methodist Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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