A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
active in early Oneness organizations but later returned to
fellowship with trinitarians, although he never renounced his
Oneness views. He penned the words of “Down from His
Glory.”
• George A. Chambers (1879-1957), an early Canadian leader.
He was a minister in the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World
in 1919. He soon repudiated the Oneness position, however,
and became the first general chairman (superintendent) of
the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.
• Glenn A. Cook (1867-1948), business manager of the Azusa
Street Mission, evangelist who brought the Pentecostal message
to Indianapolis and to the Church of God in Christ, and
assistant to Frank Ewart in Los Angeles. He brought the
Oneness message to St. Louis and Indianapolis, baptizing
Mother Barnes, Mother Moise, and Ben Pemberton in St.
Louis and L. V. Roberts and G. T. Haywood in Indianapolis.
• Frank J. Ewart (1876-1947), assistant pastor and successor
to William Durham in Los Angeles. He was the chief proponent
of the Oneness doctrine in 1914, in conjunction with
Glenn Cook. At his death he was a minister in the United
Pentecostal Church.
• Elmer K. Fisher (1866-1919), associate of William Seymour
and then pastor of the Upper Room Mission in Los Angeles.
He did not enter into the Oneness movement. His son-in-law,
Wesley Steelburg, was a minister in the Pentecostal
Assemblies of the World, but he later became general superintendent
of the Assemblies of God. A grandson, Stanley
Horton, became a well-known Assemblies of God theologian.
• Howard A. Goss (1883-1964), a convert of Charles Parham
in 1903 and onetime field director of Parham’s work in
Texas. He and E. N. Bell were the chief organizers of the
Assemblies of God in 1914, and he served as one of its first
executive presbyters. He later became the general superintendent
of the Pentecostal Church Incorporated and the first
general superintendent of the United Pentecostal Church.
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