Dr. Dinsdale Young occupied two of the most renowned pulpits in Methodism – Wesley’s Chapel, London, for eight years, and then the Central Hall, Westminster, from 1914 until his death in 1938. He was President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference in 1914.

In his book Preachers I Have Heard Alexander Gammie writes: ‘Fundamentalist as he was, Dinsdale Young did not bother crossing swords with Modernists, and many who disagreed with his views were always to be found enjoying his preaching. He did not argue, he proclaimed. He was not an apologist, but a herald.’

But in his positive proclamations he never one in doubt about where he stood. He’d say ‘I look at the Modernist errors with distress; but then I look up and say to the great Captain of our salvation,

“I’ll call them vanity and lies

And bind Thy Gospel to my heart”.

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