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Notes
Movement in Historical and Theological Context” (M.A. thesis,
Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, 1998), 39.
73 Oliver F. Fauss, What God Hath Wrought: The Complete
Works of O. F. Fauss (Hazelwood, MO: Word Aflame Press,
1985), 181-82.
74 See Ewart, Phenomenon, 117, 142-43, 195; Hollenweger,
Pentecostals, 32, 43 n. 21; and various articles in Burgess et
al., eds., Dictionary. The evidence for the rebaptism of C. H.
Mason is anecdotal; it is widely stated in black Apostolic circles,
including the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World and the
Pentecostal Churches of the Apostolic Faith. See Tinney, in Gill,
61, 66. According to Robert Spellman, historian for the Church
of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Mason was baptized
in 1930 or 1931 in Chicago. When the leaders under him
did not accept the message, he did not proclaim it but stayed
with his organization. Robert Spellman, telephone interview, 22
January 1999.
75 Carl O’Guin, personal interview with J. L. Hall and David
Bernard, Granite City, Illinois, 18 December 1987.
76 Combined Minutes of the General Council of the
Assemblies of God (1915), 7.
77 Ibid. Interestingly, Justin Martyr advocated the same formula
in the second century A.D. It appears that he endorsed a
compromise that led the church away from its original baptism
solely in the name of Jesus to baptism in the name of Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost.
78 O’Guin interview, 1987. He eventually joined the
Pentecostal Church of God and served as pastor of Trinity
Tabernacle in Madison, Illinois. He authored Special Occasion
Helps (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1965).
79 The 1916 minutes contain the roster roll for the meeting.
It consists of 67 people who held credentials and 13 who did
not hold credentials but were granted “privileges of the floor.”
A few Oneness ministers appear on this roster roll, but most
do not, including Ewart, Goss, Haywood, and Opperman.
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