A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
those who had received the Holy Spirit according to
the standard of God lifted up in Acts 2:4. . . .
Peter’s answer [in Acts 2:38] forever settles the
question as to what the standard of God is. . . .
We are identified with Him by faith in His death on
the Cross, and in His burial, by our immersion in
water; and in His glorious resurrection life by the
blessed Holy Spirit, Who is supposed to come upon us
when we come up out of the water. And, thank God,
we have lived to see the blessed day that He has
restored the Scriptural order of things, and the Spirit
is falling on thousands and they are speaking in
tongues as at the beginning.
A prominent Fundamentalist preacher, A. C. Dixon,
once met with Durham and asked what his distinctive
doctrine was. Durham told him it was speaking in tongues
as the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost. Dixon exclaimed
that by this doctrine he indicted all Christendom, whereupon
Durham solemnly replied, “Sir, they deserve to be
indicted.” 56
Durham died before the Oneness movement began,
but Ewart believed he would have received the Jesus
Name message had he lived. He was a trinitarian, but
according to one report he performed at least one baptism
in Jesus’ name. 57 He placed great emphasis on the
name, person, and work of Jesus Christ: 58
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• Christ is all and in all. As we yield to the Holy Ghost,
we will see more in Him and less in everything else.
If there is no other name under Heaven, whereby
men can be saved, we ought to constantly proclaim