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KESWICK CONVENTION

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 761 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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 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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