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All Rights Reserved By HDM For This Digital Publication Copyright 1993 -- 2006 Holiness Data Ministry Duplication of this disc (CD or DVD) by any means is forbidden, and copies of individual files must be made in accordance with the restrictions stated in the B4UCopy.txt file on this disc. CALLED UNTO HOLINESS The Story of The Nazarenes: The Formative Years By Timothy L. Smith, Ph.D. Nazarene Publishing House Kansas City, Missouri Church History Commission Mendell L. Taylor -- S. T. Ludwig J. Glenn Gould -- Westlake T. Purkiser Third Printing 1962 Copyright 1962 By Nazarene Publishing House Library Of Congress Number 62-11469 Printed In The United States Of America * * * * * * * Digital Edition 08/14/06 By Holiness Data Ministry * * * * * * * CONTENTS About This Digital Edition Book Jacket Text Preface Introduction * * * 01 -- The Holiness Revival, 1858-88 The Modern World Challenges the Old Faith. The Holiness Revival in the Methodist Churches, 1865-85. Interdenominational and International Aspects of the Movement. * * * 02 -- The Church Question, 1880-1900 The First "Come-outers." The Pursuit of Unity and Loyalty. The Loyalists Face a Mounting Crisis. Holiness Social Work. * * * 03 -- NAZARENE BEGINNINGS IN THE EAST The People's Churches: Holiness and Congregationalism. The Methodist Preachers Delay Decision. A Middle Way: The Evangelical Association and New England Methodism. William Howard Hoople and the "Pentecostal" Churches in Brooklyn. * * * 04 -- THE ASSOCIATION OF PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES, 1897-1907 The Growth of Denominational Fellowship. H. F. Reynolds and the Search for a Superintendency. The Pentecostal Collegiate Institute. The Establishment of Foreign Missions in India and the Cape Verde Islands. Retrospect: Radical Experience and Conservative Churchmanship. * * * 05 -- PHINEAS BRESEE AND THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE The Making of the Man. The Holiness Revival in Southern California. The Founding of the Church of the Nazarene. Characteristics of the Early Nazarenes. * * * 06 -- THE NAZARENES BECOME A NATIONAL CHURCH The Dawn of the Idea of a National Holiness Church. The Growth of the Church in California. Nazarenes in the Northwest. How Bresee's Church Came to the Mississippi Valley. * * * 07 -- FROM THE CUMBERLAND TO THE RIO GRANDE: THE HERITAGE OF HOLINESS IN THE OLD SOUTHWEST Robert Lee Harris and the New Testament Church of Christ. The Beginnings of Denominational Organization. The Holiness Movement in Eastern Texas. The Holiness Association of Texas: Peniel. The Independent Holiness Church: Pilot Point. The Rising Star Union of 1904. The Holiness Church of Christ, 1905-8. * * * 08 -- THE PENTECOSTAL MISSION IN TENNESSEE, 1898-1915 The Holiness Movement Comes to Middle Tennessee. An Undenominational Path, 1901-7. The Postponement of Union with the Nazarenes. The Last Years of the Pentecostal Mission. The Progressive Movement in American Religion. * * * 09 -- UNION AND LIBERTY -- ONE AND INSEPARABLE First Steps Toward the Union of East and West, 1906-7. Forging the Links of National Fellowship. Erasing the Mason-Dixon Line. The Meaning of Pilot Point. * * * 10 -- SOME UNHERALDED ACCESSIONS, 1908-15 The First Fruits of Union. Success and Failure in Other Merger Efforts, 1908- 15. The Midwest Becomes the Nazarene Heartland. The Pentecostal Church of Scotland. * * * 11 -- ACHIEVING THE INNER REALITY OF UNION Unfinished Business. The Early History of the General Superintendency. The organization of Foreign Missions. The Harmonizing of Educational Activities. The Establishment of a Central Publishing House. A Churchly Way of Life. * * * 12 -- THE TRANSITION TO A NEW GENERATION A Crisis of Leadership. Liberty Versus Unity. The Rees Dissension. H. Orton Wiley and Northwest Nazarene College. The Fear of Spiritual Decline in the Second Generation. * * * 13 -- THE LAYMEN'S HOLINESS ASSOCIATION ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS The Origin of the Laymen's Movement. A Methodist Association. Wesleyan Fundamentalism. Uniting with the Nazarenes. The Nazarene Response to Fundamentalism. * * * 14 -- THE RENEWAL OF LEADERSHIP AND THE RESURGENCE OF EVANGELISM, 1921-33 The Enlarged Role of Education in Denominational Strategy. The Inner Life of the College Communities. Christian Education in Local Congregations. The Committee System of General Church Administration. R. T. Williams and the Forming of the General Board. Evangelism at Home and Abroad. * * * A Forward Glance Notes Index * * * * * * * ABOUT THIS DIGITAL EDITION For a number of years Holiness Data Ministry has worked quite closely with Dr. George Lyons of Northwest Nazarene University's Wesley Center in the publication of our digital Holiness Classics. Recently Dr. Lyons donated to HDM a number of books published by the Church of the Nazarene, including "Called Unto Holiness" by Timothy L. Smith. Subsequently Dr. Lyons informed me that it was alright to digitize and publish the book. It is with that understanding that HDM herewith presents this digital edition of "Called Unto Holiness." While we claim the copyright on it, we release it to Dr. Lyons and to Northwest Nazarene University Wesley Center for publication under their own copyright. They, in turn, may share it with whomsoever they will. However, this digital edition of "Called Unto Holiness" may not be re-published by anyone else without the express, written permission of Holiness Data Ministry. Various changes have been made in the text of this digital edition. Whereas long quotations in the printed volume were indicated by inset text blocks without quotation marks, I have inserted quotation marks around such quotations. Also, the author used Roman Numerals for the chapter numbers in the printed edition, but I have taken the liberty to use Arabic Numerals instead in this edition, and I have also employed zero numbers. Finally, as the reader can see, I have moved the Table of Contents up to near the beginning of this file, and I have inserted the Book Jacket Text above the Preface. -- Duane V. Maxey, Holiness Data Ministry, Chandler, Arizona, August 14, 2006. * * * * * * * BOOK JACKET TEXT Inside Front And Back Book Jacket Text The Church of the Nazarene is fortunate to have made available at this strategic period Called unto Holiness--The Story of the Nazarenes: The Formative Years. We live in an age of activism, of challenge, when the doors of the future swing wide, beckoning men of vision. Any church is safe in the hands of people who possess a prophetic vision and a historian's wisdom. Not only must one peer steadily into the future, but always there must be a strong and steady appreciation for the foundations laid by the founders in the yesterdays. Every Nazarene will do well to read again, prayerfully, the story of the beginning days, of the heroism, of the unwhimpering sacrifice, of the bearing and forbearing, of the long hours of agony and prayer. Meet the men and women who watched by the bedside of our struggling, embattled infant church. This is designed to be used as a text. It is thoroughly documented, utterly dependable, warmly interpretative. It was written also to be read by every thoughtful layman. Those who thus acquaint themselves with the foundations of their faith and of their church will forever be the better. Every Sunday school teacher would most certainly wish to read this and be a better informed classroom representative of the Church of the Nazarene. In 1955 the Board of General Superintendents appointed the Commission on Church History. Through the intervening span of years this commission has tirelessly and meticulously pursued this project. Called unto Holiness is the product and will stand as a monument to the thoughtfulness and the untiring efforts of the commission. * * * The Author Timothy L. Smith is associate professor of history and education at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches and directs research in the role of both education and religion in American history. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and received his doctorate in American history at Harvard University in 1955. He is the author of Revivalism and Social Reform, a prize-winning history of American Protestantism on the eve of the Civil War. Prior to going to the University of Minnesota in 1961, Dr. Smith taught for nine years and served as chairman of the history departments at Eastern Nazarene College, Wollaston, Massachusetts; and East Texas State College, Commerce, Texas. * * * Outside Back Book Jacket Text CALLED UNTO HOLINESS The Story of the Nazarenes: The Formative Years You will read about Bresee and Jernigan and Reynolds and a host of others: about dreams, ambitions, arguments, convictions, contentions. Out of all this there has been woven the fabric of the present-day Church of the Nazarene, one of the dominant churches of the twentieth century. The Holiness Revival, 1858-88 The Church Question, 1880-1900 Nazarene Beginnings in the East The Association of Pentecostal Churches, 1897-1907 Phineas Bresee and the Church of the Nazarene The Nazarenes Become a National Church From the Cumberland to the Rio Grande: The Heritage of Holiness in the Old Southwest The Pentecostal Mission in Tennessee, 1898-1915 Union and Liberty -- One and Inseparable Some Unheralded Accessions, 1908-15 Achieving the Inner Reality of Union The Transition to a New Generation The Laymen's Holiness Association on the Northern Plains The Renewal of Leadership and the Resurgence of Evangelism, 1921-33 * * * * * * * PREFACE "The perfect historian," wrote Lord Macaulay, "is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age