The Keswick Movement: In Precept and Practise
Overview
A spiritual revival that began in 1875, the Keswick Convention began in a tent on the lawn of St. John’s vicarage with the theme “All One in Christ Jesus.” The conference grew by the year, attracting such notable speakers as D. L. Moody, and later, Billy Graham. Today, the annual conference attracts over 6,000 attendees each year. A. T. Pierson’s The Keswick Movement is an account of its humble beginnings, told through the eyes of one of its earliest participants.
Top Highlights
“Worldliness had invaded even the courts of the Lord. Formalism had corrupted worship, selfishness had paralyzed spirituality, and apathy was threatening even the work of missions. Symptoms of spiritual decline were so apparent and so alarming that devout souls were driven to prayer in despair of any human help, feeling that God must interpose.” (Page 38)
“There was this further result: that the spiritual senses were exercised more clearly to discern things which are good and evil; so that what had before been justified, or at least extenuated, was now positively condemned, and what had been at most looked on only as questionable was now seen to be undoubtedly sinful and harmful.” (Page 28)
“These new experiences of victorious power found in Christ, for present sin and need, came to thousands as practically a new revelation. It was not so much a discovery of new truth as of new life.” (Page 20)
- Title: The Keswick Movement: In Precept and Practise
- Author: Arthur Tappan Pierson
- Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
- Print Publication Date: 1903
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Keswick movement; Spiritual life › Christianity
- Resource ID: LLS:KESWICKMOVEMNT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:14:09Z