A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
127 Reed, Origins, 170.
128 A. D. Urshan, Apostolic Faith Doctrine of the New Birth
(Portland, OR: Apostolic Book Publishers, n.d.), 13.
129 Clanton, 28.
130 Minute Book and Ministerial Record of PAW (1919),
2, 5, 9-10, reprinted in Tyson, 295, 299-300.
131 Clanton, 52.
132 Ibid., 52, 114.
133 Ibid., 52-53.
134 Ibid., 135-36.
135 Stanley W. Chambers, telephone interview, 27 February
1993.
136 E. J. McClintock, personal interview, Hazelwood, MO, 8
April 1993.
137 Nathaniel Urshan, personal interview, Austin, TX, 24
April 1999.
138 David Gray, youth president of the Western District of the
PCI at the time of the merger and first youth president of the UPC,
estimated that two-thirds of the PCI and practically all the PAJC
held this view. (Telephone interview, 29 March 1993.) This number
would represent about five-sixths, or eighty-three percent, of the
merged body. J. L. Hall suggested that ninety percent may be more
accurate. E. J. McClintock said he could not give statistics but
agreed that Gray’s estimate is reasonable, and he pointed out that
most PCI members who did not hold a firm view of the new birth
were concentrated in a few districts. Ellis Scism, who served as
superintendent of the Northwestern District of the PCI at the time
of the merger and who was elected to the same position for the
UPC immediately after the merger, stated, “A minority in the PCI
did not believe that water baptism or a tongues experience was
essential to salvation.” Ellis Scism with Stanley Scism, Northwest
Passage: The Early Years of Ellis Scism (Hazelwood, MO: Word
Aflame Press, 1994), 227. Scism would not have called this group
a “minority” unless it was clearly less than one-half of the PCI, and
thus probably no more than one-third or one-fourth. His district
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