A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

Oneness Pentecostal Organizations
New Testament church. For the earliest and most significant
Oneness leaders, belief in Acts 2:38 as the “new
birth” and “full salvation” came almost simultaneously
with belief in the Oneness doctrine of God.
From the start, Frank Ewart equated being “born
again” with baptism in Jesus’ name and the baptism of the
Holy Ghost. 118 He reported the following testimony, apparently
from 1914 or 1915: “Brother E. D. Yeoman . . .
declared that he never was saved until he surrendered to
Christ, was baptized in Jesus’ name, and received the gift
of the Holy Ghost.” 119
George Farrow, who attended Ewart’s church in Los
Angeles and composed “All in Him,” wrote in January
1915: 120
Many of the saints here are seeing it and walking
in the light. This truth is water baptism in the name of
Jesus Christ. . . . It may seem to be very nonessential
at first thought. . . . But God has surely been blessing
this truth and talking very definitely to many about its
importance. . . . I also am coming to see that under the
present light that we have, nothing short of the baptism
in the Holy Ghost is really salvation in the highest
sense of the word.
G. T. Haywood taught that the new birth is water baptism
in the name of Jesus and the baptism of the Holy
Spirit with tongues. 121 In 1913, even before his baptism in
Jesus’ name, he drew up a tract showing that water baptism
and the baptism of the Holy Ghost were necessary to
enter into the kingdom of God. 122 In 1914 he penned the
hymn “Baptized into the Body”: 123
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