A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
but stayed with his organization. He continued to have some
fellowship with black Apostolics.
• “Mother” Mary Moise (1850-1930), a pioneer in Pentecostal
social work and operator of a rescue mission in St. Louis for
social outcasts. She received a first prize at the World’s Fair
in St. Louis in 1904 for her work with homeless girls.
• Daniel C. O. Opperman (1872-1926), a founder of the
Assemblies of God, one of its first executive presbyters, and
its first assistant chairman. He had formerly been superintendent
of the high school system in Zion City, Illinois, under
Alexander Dowie. He was an early leader in Pentecostal education,
conducting short-term Bible training programs. He
soon became the chairman of the General Assembly of the
Apostolic Assemblies, the first group to be founded as a
Oneness organization.
• L. V. Roberts, pastor in Indianapolis and evangelist who baptized
E. N. Bell in the name of Jesus. He later returned to
trinitarianism.
• H. G. Rodgers, an early leader in the South who received the
Holy Ghost under G. B. Cashwell. He briefly led a loose association
of ministers called the Church of God (Dothan,
Alabama) but soon merged that group with Howard Goss’s
white wing of the Church of God in Christ. One of the founding
members of the Assemblies of God, he never withdrew.
He maintained fellowship with Oneness ministers and continued
to baptize in Jesus’ name, however. His daughters
became part of the United Pentecostal Church.
• Franklin M. Small (1873-1961), Canadian evangelist and
one of the founders of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.
After it adopted trinitarian theology, he withdrew and founded
the Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada.
• George B. Studd (1859-1945), younger brother of missionary
C. T. Studd, an associate of Dwight Moody, and an organizer
of the Worldwide Camp Meeting at Arroyo Seco in
1913. He served as Frank Ewart’s assistant pastor in the Los
338