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D.S. Warner
Daniel Sidney Warner (1842–1895). Born on June 25, 1842, in Bristol (now Marshallville), Ohio, to David and Leah Warner, D.S. Warner was a holiness preacher and founder of the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana). The fifth of six children, he grew up in a tavern run by his father, a heavy drinker, but was influenced by his mother’s Pennsylvania Dutch virtue. A gifted speaker from youth, Warner briefly attended Oberlin College, taught school, and served in the Civil War for the Union, substituting for his drafted brother. Converted in 1865 at 23, he preached his first sermon in 1867 for the Methodist Episcopal Church, licensed that year by the Winebrennarian Church of God. Married to Tamzen Kerr in 1867, he endured tragedy with her death in 1872 after stillborn triplets, followed by the loss of his daughter Levilla in 1878. Warner’s fervent evangelism led to over 700 conversions, but his advocacy for entire sanctification caused his 1878 expulsion from the Winebrennarian Church. In 1881, he broke from denominationalism, forming non-sectarian holiness congregations, launching The Gospel Trumpet newspaper, and authoring Bible Proofs of the Second Work of Grace (1880). Later married to Sarah Keller (1874, divorced 1890) and Frances Miller (1893), he died of pneumonia on December 12, 1895, in Grand Junction, Michigan, saying, “Holiness cannot prosper on sectarian soil.”
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D.S. Warner preaches about finding true satisfaction and completeness in God, emphasizing that worldly wealth and honor cannot fulfill the human heart like the presence of God can. He encourages the congregation to seek all their desires and blessings in Christ, the ultimate Giver of peace and contentment. Warner challenges the notion of a life devoid of comfort, asserting that Christ can bring joy even in the desert places of our lives. He uses powerful imagery to illustrate the insatiable thirst of the soul and the boundless love of God that fills every longing.
Hymn: My Soul Is Satisfied
1 All this world, its wealth and honor, Cannot sate the human breast; But when filled with God, our Father, Every want is fully blest. Refrain: My soul is satisfied, My soul is satisfied; I am complete in Jesus love, And my soul is satisfied. 2 All my soul can wish forever I do find in Christ replete; Every blessing and the Giver In my peaceful bosom meet. [Refrain] 3 Is thy life bereft of comfort? And thy heart a cheerless spot? Say not Christ is in thy desert— For we can believe it not. [Refrain] 4 Can a bird drink up the ocean, Thirsting still from shore to shore; Or the God of all creation Leave thy heart yet craving more? [Refrain] 5 Would my soul could more encompass Heaven’s glory, willed to me; Oh, the love of God so precious, ’Tis a deep and shoreless sea. [Refrain]
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Daniel Sidney Warner (1842–1895). Born on June 25, 1842, in Bristol (now Marshallville), Ohio, to David and Leah Warner, D.S. Warner was a holiness preacher and founder of the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana). The fifth of six children, he grew up in a tavern run by his father, a heavy drinker, but was influenced by his mother’s Pennsylvania Dutch virtue. A gifted speaker from youth, Warner briefly attended Oberlin College, taught school, and served in the Civil War for the Union, substituting for his drafted brother. Converted in 1865 at 23, he preached his first sermon in 1867 for the Methodist Episcopal Church, licensed that year by the Winebrennarian Church of God. Married to Tamzen Kerr in 1867, he endured tragedy with her death in 1872 after stillborn triplets, followed by the loss of his daughter Levilla in 1878. Warner’s fervent evangelism led to over 700 conversions, but his advocacy for entire sanctification caused his 1878 expulsion from the Winebrennarian Church. In 1881, he broke from denominationalism, forming non-sectarian holiness congregations, launching The Gospel Trumpet newspaper, and authoring Bible Proofs of the Second Work of Grace (1880). Later married to Sarah Keller (1874, divorced 1890) and Frances Miller (1893), he died of pneumonia on December 12, 1895, in Grand Junction, Michigan, saying, “Holiness cannot prosper on sectarian soil.”