Index
Index
A.B. Simpson: His Life and Work (Thompson), xiii
Adopt-A-People program, 158
Adventist movement, 109–10n17
Africa Inland Mission, 10, 143, 168
Africa, missionary outreach to, 2
African Americans
in Christian and Missionary Alliance, 137
Simpson involvement with, 136–37
Ahlstrom, Sydney E., A Religious History of the American People, 27
Alexander, Charles M., 26–27, 61
Allegheny Alliance Church (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), 189
Alliance Life, 149
Alliance Theological Seminary, 189
Alliance Weekly, 136
altar theology, 12
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 8
amillennialism, 107
and Constantine, 108
Simpson objection to, 115
Anderson, Robert, 68, 72–73
“anxious seat,” 5
Apostolic Faith (revival newspaper), 84
Argentina, Alliance missionaries in, 145
Asbury, Francis, 2
on sanctification, 67–68
Asia, missionary outreach to, 2
Assemblies of God, 87, 90
missionaries, 89–90
Association of Vineyard Churches, 159
Augustine, 108
authority of Bible, 175
Azusa Street Revival, 84–85
Bailey, Keith, 93–94
Bakker, Jim, 164
Balfour Declaration, 116
Banister, Doug, 160–61
Baptism of the Holy Spirit, 13, 70, 81
gift of tongues and, 86
and Moody, 14
Baptist church
Board of Missions, 8–9
sanctification in, 13
Barnett, Amelia, 134
Baur, F.C., 2
Bebbington, David, 19
Beecher, Lyman, 4
belief in Jesus Christ, 44
“The Believers’ Meetings for Bible Study,” 113
Berachah Home for Healing, 38, 102, 134
Berachah Orphanage, 134
Bethel Bible College, 83
Bible
19th century conflict over, 2, 15
authority and inerrancy, 175
challenges by scholars, 16–17
as literal and historically accurate, 113
miracles in, 21
as primary for Simpson, 41
Isaiah 53:4–5, 96, 105
Matthew 8:17, 96, 105
Bible (continued)
Matthew 24:14, 100, 116, 117, 119, 156, 167, 169, 187
Matthew 28:19–20, 51
Luke 4:18, 37
Acts 1:8, 51, 129
Romans 8:11, 101–2
Romans 12:1, 181
James 5:14–15, 94–95, 105
James 5:14–16, 100
James 5:17, 180
1 John 3:3, 116
1 John 3:12, 118
Bible college movement, 14, 146–47
Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Torrey as Dean, 61
Bingham, Roland, 143
Blackstone, W.E., Jesus Is Coming, 113
Bliss, Phillip P., 36, 46, 122
Blumhardt, Johann, 93, 102
Blumhofer, Edith, 78, 82–83
views on pentecostal revival, 89
Boardman, William, 70, 82, 92
The Great Physician, 95
in healing movement, 92
The Higher Christian Life, 13, 45, 69
Boese, Harry, 158
Booth, Evangeline, 18
Booth, William, 3, 18
In Darkest England and the Way Out, 18
Bosworth, F.F., 87
Bounds, E.M., 165
Boxer Rebellion, 145
Boyer, Paul, on dispensationalism, 112–13
Brainerd, David, 7
Breeze, Phineas F., 15
Bridges, Jerry, 165
Broadway Tabernacle Church, 5
Brooklyn, Moody campaign in, 59
Brooks, James H., 113, 114
Brooks, J.H., 112
Brumback, Carl, 90
Buckley, James, criticism of divine healing, 99–100
Bundy, David, 78
Burma, 8
Businessman’s Prayer Revival, 167
Cairns, Earle, 7
Caledonia Hall (New York), 38
CAMA Services, 188
Cane Ridge meetinghouse (Kentucky), 23
Carey, William, 2
An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians . . ., 7
in India, 8
Carpenter, Joel, 31, 55, 63
Century Magazine, 99
Chalmers, Thomas, 19
Chambers, Oswald, 173
on pentecostal movement, 89
Chapman, Walter, and premillennialsm, 108
Chapman, Wilbur, 26, 28, 60, 74, 131
Moody’s impact on, 62
Chappell, Paul, 92, 97, 103, 106
on Simpson’s healing message, 104
charismatic leaders, Simpson’s influence on, 158–60
Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church, 54
Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church, ix, 36, 44–45, 121, 126
Chile, Alliance missionaries in, 145
China
Alliance missionaries in, 145
Taylor in, 2
China Inland Mission, 9, 143
Chinese Evangelization Society, 9
Christ, 169
as Coming King, 50–51, 114–19, 156–58, 177, 180
faith in, 76
as Healer, 46–49, 96, 97, 104, 176–77, 180, 182–83
Moody on personal relationship, 57
roles in believer’s life, 40–41
as Sanctifier, 74, 79, 163, 165, 176, 180–82
as Savior, 55, 175, 180
surrendering control to, 45
Christian Alliance, 38–39
Christian and Missionary Alliance, xiii, 10, 14, 27, 64, 141–42, 166, 188
in 21st century, 186–90
African Americans in, 137
beginnings, 38–40, 131
charismatic vs. evangelical perspectives, 161–62
and divine healing, 105
evangelization as priority, 150–51
and gift of tongues, 87–88
impact of Simpson, 173–90
incorporation papers, 30–31
Margaret Simpson as financial secretary, 128
message, 174
Metropolitan District, 137, 177–78
church planting, 188
pentecostal movement impact, 85–86
primary message of, 55
as unifier, 160–61
The Christian and Missionary Alliance Weekly, 133
Christian Catholic Church, 97
Christian millennialism, 107
Christian perfection, 11
Christianity
19th century conflict over Bible, 2
Moody on, 57
Christianity and Social Crisis (Rauschenbusch), 21
Christianity, the Social Order (Rauschbusch), 21
Christians in Great Britain, concern for poor, 17–18
The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life (Whitehall), 13
chronic fatigue syndrome, 96n19
church
early church fathers as premillennial, 108
growth 1800 to 1914, 1
intellectual threats, 15–17
missionary development of self-supporting, 151–52
Simpson on, x
Church of God, 15
Church of the Nazarene, 15
church planting, 188
circuit riders, Methodist, 2
City of Refuge, 132–33
Civil War in U.S., revival impact on armies, 25
Clouse, Robert, 108
Cohen, Daniel, 27–28
The Spirit of the Lord; Revivalism in America, 28
college students, as foreign missionaries, 10
colonies, missionaries in, 8–9
Columbia Bible College, 14
Columbia International University, 168
Columbian Exposition, evangelical outreach, 60
Commodianus, 108
Completing Christ’s Commission, 176
Condit, John, 151
Congo, 145, 151
Congregational church, sanctification in, 13
Conkin, Paul K., 23
Constantine, and amillennialsm, 108
contemporary church
inspiration of Simpson, 155
missions in, 185
necessity of holiness, 163–66
need for preaching on Holy Spirit, 164–65
Simpson’s writings and, 154–55
conventions
Gospel Tabernacle, 80
International Convention on Holiness and Divine Healing, 42–43, 75, 95
Keswick Convention (Great Britain, 1875), 71
missionary, 144–45
in North America, 147–48
Simpson and, 79–81
Summer Faith Convention, 95
Tozer on, 104
conversion, 14
joy of, 7
Methodist Church and, 12
struggle over, 54
Corbin, Randall, 189
Council of Ephesus, 108
Cravett, Joshua, 101
Creation, vs. evolution, 16
Cullis, Charles, 48, 92, 94, 95, 102, 106, 167
Culpepper, J.B., 78
Cunningham, Ray, 92, 94, 101
Dabney, Robert L., 109
Dahms, John, 133
Dallas Theological Seminary, 14
Darby, John Nelson, 111, 112
Darwin, Charles, On the Origin of the Species, 2–3, 15
Davis, John Jefferson, 109
Dayton, Donald, 130–31
deeper life message, 72, 180, 181
Dieter, Melvin, 67, 69, 71–72
dispensationalism, 111–12, 114
divine healing, 91, 96, 167, 177. See also healing movement
decline in emphasis, 184
Simpson and, 47, 48–50, 98, 100
Dixon, A.C., 55–56, 60
Door of Hope ministries, 132, 135
Dorsett, Lyle, 63–64, 101, 112
Dowie, John Alexander, 83, 97–98
Dowkonut, George, 134–35
Draper, Ken, 64, 122–23, 147, 149–50
Dwight, Timothy, 23
Earle, A.B., 70
East India Company, 8
Ecce Venit: Behold He Cometh (Gordon), 51
Ecuador, Alliance missionaries in, 145
Eddy, Sherwood, 11
Edwards, Jonathan, 7, 24, 109
Eleventh Street Mission, 134
An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians. . . (Carey), 7
Enrichment (periodical), 154–55
Erdman, W.J., 51
Evangelical Alliance, 35
The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), 10, 143, 168
evangelical groups
public invitation at meetings, 5
Simpson’s popularity, 160
social outreach, 130–31
Evangelical Missionary Alliance, 39
evangelism
before Christ’s return, 117
development, 26
with European immigrants in NY, 135
Simpson and, 54–65
transformational, 189
evangelists, 3–7
Evearitt, Daniel, 95, 131, 134, 139, 168, 179, 182, 183
on mission emphasis, 185
evidence doctrine, 160
Simpson opposition to, 86–87
evolution theory, 3, 15–16
experience, 42
Fairlawn Community Alliance Church (Cogan, Pennsylvania), 189
Faith Cure (Haresty), 167
faith, in Jesus Christ, 76
“Faith Missions,” 9–10
Faith Promise, 186
Faith Rest Cottage (Buffalo), 132
Female Missionary Society of the Western District, 4
filling by Holy Spirit, 181
Moody, Dwight Lyman (D.L.), 58, 121
financial panic (1857), 25
Finney, Charles, 1, 3–7, 12, 66
on sanctification, 68
in Second Great Awakening, 24
First Great Awakening
in Great Britain, 2
missions movement and, 7
Focus on the Family, 164
For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening (Rauschenbusch), 21
The Four-Fold Gospel (Simpson), xiii, 30–31, 74, 114, 156, 165
Fourfold Gospel, 52, 55, 166, 174
basics, 180–86
Christian Alliance and, 39
Nanfelt on need to preach, 162
pentecostal leaders’ adoption, 89
Simpson and, 40–43, 178
Franson, William, 143
Frost, Henry, 40
fundamental-modernist controversy (1920s), 188
The Fundamentalist Journal, 154–55
fundamentalists, Simpson’s popularity with, 160
The Fundamentals, 17
Funk, Albert, 135
Geddie, John, 32, 124
Gee, Donald, 89
German theologians, 16
Gilbertson, Richard, 81
Gladden, Washington, 3
Gladstone, William, 20
Moody meeting with, 6
Glover, Robert, 133, 145
God, as Creator, 16
Goforth, Jonathan, 30
Gordon, A.J., 7, 13, 55–56, 60, 74, 80, 104, 112, 114, 117, 131, 141, 156
contribution to Simpson’s periodicals, 82
Ecce Venit: Behold He Cometh, 51
in healing movement, 92
and higher life, 70
The Ministry of Healing, 102
and premillennialsm, 108
Gordon College, 14
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, xiii–xiv
The Gospel in All Lands (periodical), 148–49
The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification (Marshall), 34, 44
The Gospel of Healing (Simpson), 96, 102, 159
Gospel Tabernacle (New York), ix, 38, 54, 128, 129, 140
conventions, 80
evangelistic outreach from, 152
Friday afternoon healing, 100–101, 182
leaders, 132
rescue missions, 133–34
urban evangellism, 118
grace, second work of, 11–12
Graf, Jonathan I., 156
Graham, Billly, 1, 56
Gray, James M., 80, 116
Great Awakening. See First Great Awakening; Second Great Awakening; Third Great Awakening
Great Britain
Christians in, concern for poor, 17–18
industrialization, 17
revival, 2
“Great Century of the Church,” 1
chronology of, xix
Great Commission, 117, 157, 177, 187
correlation with Christ’s second coming, 51
The Great Physician (Boardman), 95
Guiness, Mrs. H. Grantham, 99
Guinness, H. Grattan, ix
Hadley, S.H., 131
Hardman, Keith, xiv, 24, 68
Haresty, Nancy A., Faith Cure, 167
Hatch, Nathan, 56
Havner, Vance, 61–62
Haynes, Mark, 181, 185, 186
healing home, 93
healing movement
Simpson’s influence, 92–106
in Third Great Awakening, 92
Hell’s Kitchen, Second German Baptist Church, 129
heroes, ix
“Higher Christian Life,” 14
The Higher Christian Life (Boardman), 13, 45, 69
higher life, 70
“Himself” (sermon by Simpson), 75–77, 154
Hinn, Benny, 159
Hippolytus, 108
Hodge, A.A., 109
Hodge, Charles, 109
Hoffman, Fred, 59, 60
holiness
necessity in contemporary church, 163–66
pastor-parishioner pursuit of, 165
holiness (continued)
Simpson’s promotion of, 79–82
Wesleys and, 2
holiness movement, 11–15, 18, 66–91
and healing, 92
and Methodist Church, 14–15, 66–68
missions link to, 81
Simpson and, 77
and social reform, 19
Taylor and, 10
in Third Great Awakening, 91
Holiness, the False and the True (Ironside), 88–89
Holy Ghost and Us Church, 83
Holy Spirit, 46, 58, 71. See also Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Moody’s filling by, 58, 121
outpouring of, 55
role in Awakening, 73
surrendering control to, 13
Third Great Awakening and, 73
The Holy Spirit (Simpson), 42, 165
The Holy Spirit: The New Testament (Simpson), 79
The Holy Spirit: The Old Testament (Simpson), 79
Hutchinson, W.R., 150
Huxley, Thomas, 16
immigrants, Thirteenth Street church refusal to welcome, 127
immigration, to U.S., 3
In His Steps (Sheldon), 20, 21
India
Alliance missionaries in, 134
Carey in, 2
famines, 135
Indochina, Alliance missionaries in, 145–46
Indonesia, 178
Christ the Healer in, 184
industrial missions, 135
Industrial Revolution, 3
Industrial School for Girls (Buffalo, NY), 135
inerrancy of Bible, 175
Inland South American Mission, 10
innate sin, 13
Inskeep, John, 15
International Convention on Holiness and Divine Healing, 42–43, 75, 95
International Missionary Alliance, 39
Internet, Simpson’s popularity on, 155
Inwood, Charles, 80
Irenaeus, 108
Ironside, Harry, Holiness, the False and the True, 88–89
Jerusalem, 116
Alliance church in, 145
Jesus. See Christ
Jesus Is Coming (Blackstone), 113
Jones, Sam, 62
Jordan, Barry, 178, 181
Judd, Carrie, 104
Judd-Montgomery, Carrie, 132
Triumphs of Truth, 133
Judson, Adoniram, 8–9
Judson, Ann, 8–9
justice, 20
Justin Martyr, 108
Kaiser, Walter, xiv
Kane, J. Herbert, 141
Kansas Mission to the Soudan (Sudan), 99
Kerr, D.W., 87
Keswick Convention (Great Britain, 1875), 71
Keswick movement, 13, 14, 71–72
Wesleyan-Holiness movement argument against, 78
Kimball, Edward, 57
King, Louis L., on Alliance’s missionary work, 144
Klassen, Jacob, 146, 149
Knight, George, Millennial Fever and the End of the World, 109–10n17
Knox College (Toronto), ix, 34
Knox Presbyterian Church, ix
Simpson at, 121
Ku Klux Klan, Parham and, 85
labor rights, 20
Lactertius, 108
Lanphier, Jeremiah, 25
A Larger Christian Life (Simpson), xiii, 79, 165
Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1, 6, 145
Layman’s Movement, 140
laypersons
in Faith Missions, 9
as missionaries, 146
liberalism
negative impact, 10
opposition to, 113
The Life of Prayer (Simpson), 30
Livingston, David, 8
Lockyear, Herbert, 99
London, H.B., 164
Long, Kathryn, The Revival of 1857–1859, 167
lost, Simpson’s burden for reaching, 54, 143
Louisville, Kentucky
division after Civil War, 36
impact of conversions, 46
Love-Joy Missions Institute, 136
Luther, Martin, 44, 93
MacArthur, William, 41
Magdalene Home for Girls, 132
Magnuson, Norris, 98, 103, 130, 131
on Simpson’s involvement in temperance movement, 138
Mahan, Asa, 11–12, 66
on sanctification, 68
Marsden, George M., 78, 113
Marshall, Walter, The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification, 34, 44
Martyn, Henry, 7, 8
Maurice, F.D., 19
McGee, Gary, 155
McGraw, Gerald, 126, 146, 148, 152
McLoughlin, William, 23
Modern Revivalism, 27
Revivals, Awakenings and Religion, 27
McNabb Street Wesleyan Methodist Church (Hamilton, Ontario), 25
medical care, 184
medical establishment, Dowie attack on, 97
Merritt, Stephen, 82
Methodist Church
founding, 2
and holiness movement, 14–15, 66–68
and sanctification, 11, 12
Methodius, 108
Meyer, F.B., 7, 29, 72, 77, 80, 131
and higher life, 70
midtribulationists, 111
Millennial Fever and the End of the World (Knight), 109–10n17
Miller, William, 109–10n17
The Ministry of Healing (Gordon), 102–3
Mission Frontiers, 157
missionaries
in the Congo, 151
deaths, 144, 145
training local, 149–50
westernization by, 150
missionary conventions, 144–45
in North America, 147–48
missionary journal, by Simpson, 125, 126
Missionary Messages (Simpson), 51–52, 144
missionary movement, in U.S., 140
missionary outreach, 2
Simpson on, 117
missionary responsibility, and second coming of Christ, 51
Missionary Training Institute, 118, 139, 142
missions
in contemporary church, 185
Simpson link to holiness, 81
Simpson’s interest in, 124–26
Mitchell, J.M., 34
Moberg, David, 138
Modern Revivalism (McLoughlin), 27
modernism, 17
negative impact, 10
Moffat, Robert, in South Africa, 8
Monod, Theodore, 72
Moody Bible Institute, 61
Moody, Dwight Lyman (D.L.), 1–2, 3, 24, 26, 72, 73–74, 80, 131, 141, 156, 167
and Baptism of the Holy Spirit, 14
conversion, 57
and dispensationalism in U.S., 112
evangelistic meetings in New York City, 63
filling by Holy Spirit, 58
in Great Britain, 58
in healing movement, 92
and higher life, 70
influence, and Third Great Awakening, 28
as layman, 5
lieutenants, 60–63
Northfield Bible Conferences, 80
and premillennialsm, 108
Second Coming of Christ, 112
theology of three Rs, 57–58
in U.S., 6–7
Moody Evangelistic Association, Christian Worker’s Conference, 45
Moravian Church, 141–42
Morgan, G. Cambell, 88
Morrison, Robert, in China, 8
Mott, John, 10, 156
Moule, Handley, 72
Mount Kearsarge, Simpson hike, 49
Mueller, George, 112
Muncy, W.L. Jr., 61
Murray, Andrew, 72, 80, 104, 131
in healing movement, 92
Nanfelt, Peter, 157, 162, 174, 175, 177, 187
Nardi, Michele, 136
National Camp-Meeting Association for the Promotion of Christian Holiness, 15
National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness, 73
Neil, Stephen, 146
Nelson, Randall, 164
nervous breakdown, of Simpson, 44
Nettleton, Asahel, 1, 3
constrained approach, 4
New Man (periodical), 152
“New Methods,” Finney introduction of, 4–5
New York City
evangelism with European immigrants, 135
evangelistic meetings, 63
health ministries, 134
Simpson in, 64, 133
New York Gospel Tabernacle, ix, 38
New York Missionary Training College, 38
New York Stock Market, crash in 1857, 25
New York Times, on Simpson’s missionary impact, 141
Niagara Bible Conference, 113–14
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 11
Nienkirchen, Charles, 86, 89, 90
Noll, Mark, 19, 140
North Dutch Reformed Church (New York City), 25
Northfield Bible Conferences, 7, 10
“Not I, But Christ” (hymn), 170–71
Nyack College, 14, 38, 178, 189
Nyack, New York, Missionary Training Institute, 89–90, 139
Oberlin College
Finney at, 5
and holiness movement, 66
Ohio, Alliance work in, 136–37
Old Orchard, Maine
Simpson vacation in, 47–48
summer conferences, 80, 95
On the Origin of the Species (Darwin), 2–3, 15
Orr, J. Edwin, 24, 25–26, 28, 55, 69, 142, 167
on Christian and Missionary Alliance, 31
outcasts in NY, Simpson’s concern for, 129–30
overpopulation, in urban areas, 3
Ozman, Agnes N., 83–84
Page, Kirby, 11
Palestine, return of Jews, 116
Palmer, Phoebe, 12, 24, 66, 77, 80, 167
Palmer, Walter, 24, 66
Papias, 108
Pardington, George, 55, 64, 115–16, 122, 123, 130
Parham, Charles Fox, 83
and Ku Klux Klan, 85
pastor-parishioner pursuit of holiness, 165
Pennsylvania, Alliance work in, 136–37
pentecostal movement, 13, 105
evangelist leader views, 88
leaders vs. Simpson, 86
Simpson’s influence, 82–91, 158–60
perfectionism, 66. See also holiness movement
Personal Holiness in Times of Temptation, 164
Phillipsburg Alliance Church, 183
Pierson, A.J., 55–56
Pierson, Arthur T., 13, 29, 51, 72, 80, 82, 89, 104, 116, 117, 131, 141, 156, 167
in healing movement, 92
and premillennialsm, 108
Pilgrim Holiness Church, 15
Plymouth Brethren movement, 111
poor, British Christians concern for, 17–18
Porter, Douglas, 5
postmillennialism, 107
in early 19c., 109
Simpson objection to, 115
view of Christ’s second coming, 50–51
Whitley introduction of, 109
posttribulationists, 111
Power Evangelism (Wimber), 159
Power Healing (Wimber), 159
Pray Magazine, 156
prayer meetings, 5
preaching gospel, before Christ’s return, 117–18
premillennialism, 50–51, 107–19
division over, 114
growth, 108
Presbyterian Church
in Canada, ix
in London, Ontario, 34
sanctification in, 13
pretribulationists, 111
Promise Keepers, 164
Protestant churches
changes in NY, 129
missionary movement, 7
Pullis, Joseph, 138
Pyles, Franklin, 117
racial separation, and pentecostal churches, 85
Rader, Paul, 62
rapture, 111
Simpson’s belief in, 116
Rauschenbusch, Walter, 3, 20, 21
A Theology for a Social Gospel, 129
Reiter, Richard, 114
Reitz, George, 128, 129, 136, 139, 156–57, 165, 177, 178, 179, 188
on mission emphasis, 185
A Religious History of the American People (Ahlstrom), 27
religious knowledge, Simpson on, 43
Rescue Day, 132
Revell, Fleming, 112
The Revival of 1857–1859 (Long), 167
revivals, xiv
and holiness, 68
in Louisville, Kentucky, 122
in Second Great Awakening, 24
Revivals, Awakenings and Religion (McLoughlin), 27
Rhoads, Louise, 184
Richards, E.J., 128
Riss, Richard, 67, 85
Ritsel, Albrecht, 19
Robert, Dana, 117
Roberts, Evan, 26
Rochester Seminary, 21
Roman Catholic Church
amillennialism in, 108
missions emphasis, 7
The Roots of Fundamentalism (Sandeen), 28
Salem, Oregon, Alliance church in, 189
Salvation Army, 3, 18
in U.S., 18
sanctification, 7, 163, 176
Boardman interpretation of, 69
Christ as Coming King and, 52
differences in views, 77–78
and Methodist Church, 12
non-Wesleyan view, 13
return of Christ and, 116
Wesleyan-Holiness view of, 73
Wesleyan-Holiness view vs. higher life, 70
Wesleys and, 2, 11
Sandeen, Ernest, 113
The Roots of Fundamentalism, 28
Sanford, Frank, Holy Ghost and Us Church, 83
Sankey, Ira, 1–2, 72
in Great Britain, 6, 58
Saratoga Springs, music, 47
Sawin, John, 39–40, 51, 75, 101, 105, 125
Scandinavian Alliance Mission, 10
Scharpff, Paulus, 59
Scharpft, Paulus, 24
Schneider, Gregory, 11
Scofield, C.I., 29, 80, 111, 113, 116, 160
Scofield Reference Bible, 73
Scott, Peter Cameron, 143
Scripture. See Bible
Seaman’s Christian Association, 132
Second Berachah Mission, 134
second coming of Christ, 50–51, 107, 177
and Great Commission, 51
historical events before, 116
Simpson on, 117
Second Coming of Christ (Moody), 112
Second German Baptist Church, 129
Second Great Awakening, 3, 23
societies founded, 8
“second work of grace,” 11–12, 14
Senft, Frederic, 42
Seymour, William J., 84, 87
Shaw, Edward, 29–30
Shedd, W.G.T., 109
Sheldon, Charles, In His Steps, 20, 21
Shelly, Bruce, 16, 20
Simpson, Albert Benjamin (A.B.), ix, 7, 10, 13, 60, 74, 117, 141
belief in pretribulation rapture, 116
birth, ix
chronology of life and ministry, xv–xvii
concern for souls, 130
conflict with church leaders, 37, 54, 123–24
conversion, 44
crises, 43–53
nervous breakdown, 44
criticism of, 99
decline in social conerns, 139–40
Dowie and, 98
evangelism, 63–65
and Fourfold Gospel, 40–43
healing, 46, 95–96
and higher life, 70
“Himself” (sermon), 75–77
on Holy Spirit, 180
illness in teen years, 34
impact, 166–71
on charismatic and pentecostal leaders, 158–60
on Christian and Missionary Alliance, 173–90
Knox College graduation, 35
life, 32–37
Missionary Messages, 144
on need for mission to “regions beyond,” 143–44
neglect of, 27–29
reason for, 31–32
in New York City, 63–64
passion and vision, 175
for missions, 150–51
pentecostal adoption of Simpson hymns, 90
vs. pentecostal leaders, 86
permission to pursue ministry, 33
popularity of, 29–31
prayer requests to, 101
as premillenialist, 115
religious family of, 33
and sanctification, 13, 36, 74
on Torrey, 74
vision of lost of world, 124–25
Simpson, Albert Benjamin (A.B.), writings
A Cloud of Witnesses, 103
continued publication, 155–56
The Discovery of Divine Healing, 103
The Four-Fold Gospel, xiii, 30–31, 52, 74, 96, 114, 156, 165
Friday Meeting Talks, 103
The Gospel of Healing, 96, 102, 103, 159
on holiness, 81
The Holy Spirit, 42, 165
The Holy Spirit: The New Testament, 79
The Holy Spirit: The Old Testament, 79
Inquiries and Answers Concerning Divine Healing, 103
A Larger Christian Life, xiii, 79, 165
The Life of Prayer, 30
Missionary Messages, 51–52
When the Comforter Came, 165
Wholly Sanctified, 75, 79, 165
The Word, the Work, and the World, 30, 38, 100, 102
Simpson, Howard, 34
Simpson, Margaret, 125, 127
diphtheria when 3-year-old, 49
sin, innate, 13
slums, suffering in, 130
Smith, Eugene, 148
Smith, Hannah Whitehall, 71
Smith, Robert Pearsall, 71
Smith, Timothy, 66, 69–70
Social Gospel, 3
Social Gospel movement, 17–22
liberal views of, 19
social ministries, 189
social outreach, 188
social reform, 19
Soper, John, 176, 181, 185
souls, Simpson’s concern for, 120–26, 130
South America, Alliance missionaries in, 145
speaking in tongues, 13, 83, 86, 160
Speer, Robert, 10, 131, 156
Spencer, Herbert, 16
The Spirit of the Lord; Revivalism in America (Cohen), 28
Stewart, Lyman and Matthew, 17
Stock, Eugene, 72
Stockmayer, Otto, 80, 93, 104
Stoesz, Samuel, 45, 76, 115
street evangelism, 37
Strong, A.H., 109
Student Volunteer Missionary Movement, 2, 7, 10–11, 156
motto, 140
Sudan Interior Mission, 10, 143, 168
summer conferences
divine healing message in, 103–4
Simpson and, 79–81
Summer Faith Convention, 95
Sunday, Billy, 28, 60, 62
Sunday School Times, 141
Swaggart, Jimmy, 164
Synan, Vinson, 68, 87
tabernacle evangelism, 62–63
tabernacle-type building. See also Gospel Tabernacle
Broadway Tabernacle Church, 5
Simpson’s plan for, 123
Takenaga, Robert, 157
Talmage, T. Dewitt, 29
Taylor, Hudson, 2, 9, 72, 80, 143
temperance movement, 137–38
Tertullian, 108
A Theology for the Social Gospel (Rauschenbusch), 21, 129
They Gathered at the River (Weisberger), 27
Third Great Awakening, 3, 23–27, 167
beginnings, 24–25
in NYC, 5
counter-attack on critical view of Scriptures, 17
evangelism in, 56
holiness movement in, 91
and Holy Spirit, 73
impact of, 52
Methodists and, 68
Moody’s impact on, 56–60
Orr’s phases, 25–26
Palmer and, 12
phases, 55
Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church, ix, 36–37, 126
Simpson’s resignation, 136
Simpson’s vision of evangelism vs. church leaders, 37, 54
Thomas, Griffith, 99
Thomas, T.V., 64, 122–23, 147, 149–50
Thompson, A.E., 36, 80–81, 162
A.B. Simpson: His Life and Work, xiii
on Moody and Simpson, 29
on Simpson’s rearly conception of evangelism, 121
Toccoa Falls College, 179
tongues, speaking in, 13, 83, 86, 160
Torrey, R.A., 13, 26, 28, 60–61, 74, 80, 88, 104, 116, 131, 167
contribution to Simpson’s periodicals, 82
evangelistic world tour, 61
in healing movement, 92
and higher life, 70
and premillennialsm, 108
Simpson on, 74
Towns, Elmer, 5
Townsend, Charles, 80
Tozer, A.W., 28, 44, 86, 98, 147, 148–49, 166
on conventions, 104
on Simpson’s first week at Knox church, 35
Wingspread, xiii, 178
training, of national leaders, 149
transformational evangelism, 189
Travis, Drake, 104
Triumphs of Truth (Judd-Montgomery), 133
Trudel, Dorothea, 93, 102
Cullis visit to healing home, 94
True Peace (medieval treatise), 42
Tucker, Ruth, 141
Turnbull, Walter, 42, 51, 79
United States Center of World Missions, 157
United States, Moody return to, 59
universalism, 10
urban areas
overpopulation in, 3
Simpson’s concern for, 126
urban evangelism, 177, 187–89
Finney and, 5
Simpson and, 31, 120
Varg, Paul A., 150
vision, 179
of Alliance, 187
of Simpson, 124–25, 175
for missions, 150–51
von Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig, 141
Wacker, Grant, 13–14, 15, 70, 84, 87
Walborn, Ron, 158–59, 160, 178, 180, 182, 185, 187
Wardrobe, Dr., 121
Warfield, Benjamin B., 109
Warren, Rick, 179
Watkins Glen, New York, Believer’s Conference, 124
W.C.T.U. (Women’s Christian Temperance Union), 138
Weber, Timothy, 107, 111–12, 119
websites, with Simpson writings, 155
Weisberger, Bernard, They Gathered at the River, 27
Wellhausen, Julius, 2
Welsh Revival, 26, 55
Wesley, Charles, 2, 7
Wesley, John, 2, 7
on individual salvation, 11
on sanctification, 66–67
Wesleyan-Holiness movement, 72–73, 77
westernization, by missionaries, 150
Westminster Shorter Catechism, 43
“What would Jesus do?” (WWJD), 21
When the Comforter Came (Simpson), 165
White, Charles, 12
Whitehall, Hannah, The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life, 13
Whitfield, George, 7
Whitley, Daniel, 109
Whittle, Daniel, 36, 46, 51, 63, 80, 122
Wholly Sanctified (Simpson), 75, 79, 165
Wiggins, Donald, 174
Wilkerson, Bruce, 164–65
Williard, Francis, 131
letter in The Alliance Weekly, 138
Williard Tract Repository, 94
Wilson, Henry, 86, 132, 138
Wimber, John, 159–60
Wingspread (Tozer), xiii, 178
Within Our Reach, 158
Wittemore, Emma W., 132
Woman’s Industrial Center, 135
Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Evangelistic Training School, 137–38
Wood, Rick, 157
Word of God, Bible as, 19
The Word, the Work, and the World (Simpson), 30, 100, 102, 148–49
world evangelism
Simpson on necessity, 120
Simpson’s burden for, 124
Simpson’s impact on, 140–53
World War I, and end of Third Great Awakening, 62
Yale University, 23
YMCA, 11
Zionist movement, 116
Zulauf, Larry, 179, 183, 185
on mission emphasis, 186