Bernard continues his rewrite of UPC history

[Max Cosme]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

He seems to have a vested interest in making that number as small as possible, even going so far as to say that one could not effectively hold that view in the UPC today.

He has documentation coming from his book, History of Christian Doctrine Volume 3. David Bernard makes this footnote:

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 was a major area of concentration for this minority. - page 372