Character, creed, and conduct are closely related and interdependent. Character is what a man is, creed what he believes, conduct what he does. Creed is usually the outcome of character. Badness or goodness is the make-weight of intellectual opinion. The magnetic needle is disturbed by the iron in the vessel beneath it. Doctrinal preaching is sometimes disparaged. Ethical preaching is preferred. Doctrine is simply teaching, and people are always suffering and perishing for lack of knowledge. Ethics is simply the logical result in conduct of believing certain doctrines.

What, exactly, is “time”? Man has never yet technically answered this question despite thousands of years of reflection upon the definition and nature of time. John Wesley defined time as “a fragment of eternity broken off at both ends.” This definition is appropriate because it recognizes not only the confines of the past, present, and future but also the reality of eternity.