Chronology of the Life and Ministry of Albert Benjamin Simpson
Chronology of the Life and Ministry of Albert Benjamin Simpson
1843—Albert Benjamin Simpson was born on December 15, 1843 in Bayview, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
1857—Simpson’s nervous breakdown and first religious crisis.
1861—On January 19, Simpson makes a solemn covenant to God. He totally dedicates himself to God.
1861—In October, Simpson enters Knox College, a seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in Toronto.
1865—In April, Simpson graduates from Knox College.
1865—On August 15, Simpson receives a call to be a pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Canada.
1865—On September 12, Simpson is ordained for the ministry in the Presbyterian Church of Canada.
1865—Simpson marries Margaret Henry on September 13 in Toronto, Canada.
1873—Simpson preaches at the Evangelical Alliance Conference in October in New York City.
1873—Simpson resigns from Knox Presbyterian Church in Hamilton to take a call from the Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
1874—Simpson begins his ministry as pastor of the Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church in January.
1874—Simpson has a crisis experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit after attending the Christian Worker’s Conference sponsored by the Moody Evangelistic Association.
1874—Simpson launches a united crusade with the churches in Louisville together with Major Daniel Whittle and P. P. Bliss. This was the beginning of a religious awakening in Louisville.
1877—Simpson receives his missionary vision in a dream of seeing the world without Christ.
1879—Simpson resigns from Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church on November 6, 1879.
1879—Simpson begins his ministry on December 9 at the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church in New York City.
1880—Simpson launches the first illustrated missionary magazine, Gospel to All Lands.
1881—Simpson experiences divine healing in late July or early August at Old Orchard, Maine. He had heard a message on divine healing from Dr. Charles Cullis.
1881—Simpson resigns on November 6 from the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church. The next day he resigned from the Presbyterian ministry.
1881—On November 20, Simpson holds his first meeting with seven people at Caledonian Hall on Eighth Avenue and Thirteenth Street in New York City.
1882—Simpson starts the New York Gospel Tabernacle with thirty-five members on February 10 in New York City.
1882—Simpson begins another missionary journal, The Word, the Work, and the World.
1883—Simpson starts the Berachah Home for Healing.
1883—On October 1, 1882, Simpson and the Gospel Tabernacle open the Missionary Training College, one of the first Bible Colleges in North America.
1884—Simpson holds his first “deeper life” and missionary convention at the Gospel Tabernacle.
1889—The Gospel Tabernacle erects its first permanent building complex on the east side of Eighth Avenue and Forty-fourth Street in New York City.
1889—In the summer at Old Orchard, Maine, the Christian Alliance and the Evangelical Missionary Alliance are organized.
1897—The Christian Alliance and the Evangelical Missionary Alliance merge in April to form the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
1897—The Missionary Training Institute moves to Nyack, New York. Simpson also moves his residence to Nyack.
1917—The Christian and Missionary Alliance has 292 missionaries and 270 Alliance evangelists and superintendents in the United States and Canada.
1919—Simpson dies on October 25 at Nyack, New York.
. See Thompson, A. B. Simpson. Simpson’s covenant is given in its entirety, and he wrote two rededications on it: one on September 1, 1863, and a second on April 18, 1878.