See also:KESWICK See also:CONVENTION , an See also:annual summer See also:reunion held at the above See also:town for the See also:main purpose of " promoting See also:practical holiness " by meetings for See also:prayer, discussion and See also:personal intercourse. It has no denominational limits, and is largely supported by the " Evangelical " See also:section of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:England. The convention, started in a private manner by See also:Canon Harford-Battersby, then See also:vicar of Keswick, and Mr See also:Robert See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson in 1874, met first in 1875, and rapidly See also:grew after the first few years, both in See also:numbers and See also:influence, in spite of attacks on the alleged " perfectionism " of some of its leaders and on the novelty of its methods. Its members take a deep See also:interest in See also:foreign See also:missions.
In the See also:History of the C.M.S., vol. iii. (by See also:Eugene Stock), the missionary influence of the " Keswick men " in See also:Cambridge and else-where may be readily traced. See also The Keswick Convention: its See also:Message, its Method and its Men, edited by C. F. Harford (1906).
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