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 Calvary Holiness Church

Maynard James, Leonard Ravenhill and 2 other brothers started this denomination in the 1930's, which grew as per below in the quote.

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Interest in Pentecostal phenomena such as healing and speaking in tongues continued, however, to be unacceptable to the League and the International Holiness Mission. This did not deter James, who believed that at the close of the age God was restoring abilities to perform miracles.[59] Such differences of opinion led to James and three colleagues, Jack Ford, Leonard Ravenhill, and Clifford Filer (all trained at Cliff College) separating from the I.H.M. and in 1934 forming the Calvary Holiness Church, with James as President. The I.H.M. lost impetus, while Calvary Holiness congregations increased from two in 1934 to nineteen six years later.[60] James launched a magazine, The Flame, which emphasized healing, full salvation, and Christ's second coming and achieved a circulation of 18,000 by the 1940s.[61] At this stage League membership had dropped to 3,138 and Spiritual Life had a circulation of 6,000.[62] In 1943, J. S. Logan, a prospective League General Secretary, had to give an assurance that he had no connection with Pentecostalism, and two years later the word "Pentecostal" was dropped from the League's title.[63] New dynamism had been injected by Maynard James into a section of the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition which had grown out of the League, but which had been less cautious than the League in exploring new emphases.

Despite intra-Wesleyan disagreements in the inter-war period, there were shared holiness values. In 1929, commenting on his third address to the League of Prayer, Chadwick, referring to its holiness spirituality, enthused: "Everything Pentecostal appeals to me."[64] J. H. Stringer, a tutor at Cliff College for nearly four years, left to become General Secretary of the League in 1937, with J. A. Broadbelt, Chadwick's successor, offering full support.[65] By 1939 the rupture between James' Calvary Holiness Church and the original Holiness Mission, with its roots in the League, was on the way to being healed. In 1955 this led to a merger with the American Church of the Nazarene, which had previously absorbed the Pentecostal Church of Scotland, whose founder, George Sharpe, had ordained Ford, Ravenhill, and Filer.[66] The inclusivist spirit of the League was, it could be argued, at work. The League even invited to its conventions Keswick speakers such as E. L. Langston, S. D. Gordon, and Bishop Taylor Smith,[67] as well as Sidlow Baxter, pastor of Charlotte Baptist Chapel, Edinburgh, and D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.[68] Hopes for a holiness revival drew Wesleyan groups closer together and encouraged the League to see non-Wesleyan revivalists as allies.


from: http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/31-35/33-1-10.htm


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 Re: Calvary Holiness Church

And they have a wonderful publication, which I receive entitled [url=http://www.connectworldwide.com/woh/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/way_of_holiness_download_info.htm]"The Way of Holiness"[/url].

Here's a little snippet from the March-April 2005 version "We know of no imputed holiness. Christ imparts and never imputes holiness." A wonderful little quote.


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