Holiness movement Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Wesleyan realignment=== [[File:Circuit rider illustration Eggleston.png|thumb|right|200px|Illustration from ''The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age'' by [[Edward Eggleston]] depicting a Methodist circuit rider on horseback]] Though many Holiness preachers, camp meeting leaders, authors, and periodical editors were Methodists, this was not universally popular with Methodist leadership. Out of the four million Methodists in the United States during the 1890s, probably one-third to one-half were committed to the idea of [[entire sanctification]] as being brought about instantaneously.{{sfn|Synan|1971|p=}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Post-Civil War Methodist Church|url=http://www.revempete.us/research/holiness/methodistchurch.html|access-date=2021-08-24|website=www.revempete.us}}</ref> Notable scholar Daniel Whedon famously stated, "they are not Wesleyan. We believe that a living Wesley would never admit them to the Methodist system.”<ref name="Raser, Harold 2006"/> Proponents of the Holiness Movement however, fiercely resisted this accusation, and defended their doctrine from Wesley's own words.<ref name="Wesley, John 1991">{{Cite book|author=Wesley, John|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/52723806|title=Christian perfection, as taught by John Wesley|date=1991|publisher=Schmul Pub|isbn=0-88019-120-1|oclc=52723806}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Mallalieu|first=Willard F.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/908396603|title=The fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ|date=2015|publisher=Schmul Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-88019-579-9|oclc=908396603}}</ref> One of the founders of the camp meeting association,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wesleyanbooks: Autobiography of John Allen Wood By JA Wood|url=http://wesleyanbooks.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=WB&Product_Code=5339&Category_Code=|access-date=2021-08-24|website=wesleyanbooks.com}}</ref> J. A. Wood, defended his doctrine with an extensive survey of Wesley's doctrine of Christian Perfection, entitled ''Christian Perfection as Taught by John Wesley''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wood |first=John |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/22001726/ |title=Christian Perfection as taught by John Wesley}}</ref> In this book, he spent several hundred pages exclusively quoting Wesley in defense of the Holiness Movement's view of entire sanctification.<ref name="Wesley, John 1991"/> In fact the Holiness Movement was able to defend its doctrine so well that historian Melvin Dieter comments that "The holiness movement was 'so closely identified with traditional Methodism and Wesleyan doctrine and life that Methodist opponents of the revival were forced to distance themselves from Wesley and the standard authors of prevailing Methodist theology to re-solve the struggle with the holiness elements within the church.'"<ref>{{Cite book|last=Watson|first=Kevin M.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1252424037|title=Perfect Love Recovering Entire Sanctification-the Lost Power of the Methodist Movement |date=2021|publisher=Asbury Seedbed Publishing|isbn=978-1-62824-810-4|oclc=1252424037}}</ref><ref>Melvin E. Dieter, The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century, 2nd ed. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996), 256.</ref> Even still "The leaders of the National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness generally opposed “come-outism,”...They urged believers in entire sanctification and Christian perfection to remain in their denominations and to work within them to promote holiness teaching and general spiritual vitality."<ref name="Raser, Harold 2006"/> Southern Methodist minister [[Benjamin Franklin Haynes|B. F. Haynes]] wrote in his book, ''Tempest-Tossed on Methodist Seas'', about his decision to leave the Methodist church and join what would become [[Church of the Nazarene]]. In it, he described the bitter divisions within the Methodist church over the Holiness movement, including verbal assaults made on Holiness movement proponents at the 1894 conference.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Haynes |title=Tempest-Tossed on Methodist Seas}}</ref><ref>[http://www.revempete.us/research/holiness/methodistchurch.html Pete, Reve M., ''The Impact of Holiness Preaching as Taught by John Wesley and the Outpouring of the Holy Ghost on Racism'']</ref> This tension reached a head at the 1898 conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, when it passed rule 301: {{Blockquote|Any traveling or local preacher, or layman, who shall hold public religious services within the bounds of any mission, circuit, or station, when requested by the preacher in charge not to hold such services, shall be deemed guilty of imprudent conduct, and shall be dealt with as the law provides in such cases.<ref>Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1898, p. 125</ref>}} Many Holiness evangelists and traveling ministers found it difficult to continue their ministry under this new rule—particularly in mainline Methodist charges and circuits that were unfriendly to the Holiness movement. In the years that followed, scores of new Holiness Methodist associations were formed—many of these "come-outer" associations and various parties alienated by [[Mainline Protestant|Mainline]] Methodism consolidated to form new denominations (e.g., the [[Free Methodist Church]], the [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (United States)|Wesleyan Methodist Church]], the [[Salvation Army]] and the [[Church of the Nazarene]]). Other Holiness Methodists (the "stay-inners") remained within the mainline Methodist Churches, such as [[Henry Clay Morrison|H. C. Morrison]] who became the first president of [[Asbury Theological Seminary]], a prominent university of the holiness movement that remains influential among holiness adherents in mainline Methodism.{{sfn|Winn|2007|p=115}} Those who left mainline Methodist churches to form Holiness denominations during this time numbered no more than 100,000.{{sfn|Synan|1971|p=}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page