Who was Harry Morse ?

[Scott Pitta]

A Harry Morse update is in order...

1910 He started the "Stockton Manufacturing Construction and Improvement Company" to sell lots, build houses and a public school for Pentecostals in Stockton.

1913 At the Apostolic Faith Camp Meeting, a committee was formed to distribute donations for foreign missions. On the committee were: A H Argue, Harry Morse, R E McAlister, F J Ewart, Warren W Fisher, R J Scott, G B Studd.

1923 Warren E Carothers hosted a Pentecostal Unity Conference for Missions. It was to promote fellowship and cooperation between different Pentecostal denominations. Of the 40 or so leaders invited, Harry Morse was one of them.

[Scott Pitta]

“God finally broke the news to us as to the absolute absence in the Word of God of there being a second instantaneous work of grace. This truth nearly upset the Pentecostal movement but believers of that phase of teaching are comparatively few. Now God is taking us a big step farther and showing us that there is an absolute absence of even two experiences taught or recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, gospels, or epistles, viz., the new birth and then the baptism afterwards. Neither can we find one reference to two acts of faith ever taught or recorded where any one was ever born of the Spirit under one act of faith and next filled with the Spirit under a second act of faith; ‘tis not in the New Testament.

Harry Morse quote
Pentecostal Herald
Feb. 1947

[Garbonzo]

Scott,

I don't have contact info but you should speak to Jonathan McCune in Stockton, CA.

He is listed as a staff writer on one of the CLC websites.

Anyhow his father Henry McCune and Mother Gladys were both missionaries to China for the PAW early on and I think also PCI. Not a guarantee but there may be a link to Henry Morse given the West Coast connections.

[Scott Pitta]

Harry Morse believed in the "social purity" doctrine. His ministry peers, Lydia Swinton and Selma Nelson were lifelong celebrates. So was Florence Crawford. Not sure about Clara Lum and the others.

There may have been more supporters of the "social purity" doctrine that I have first thought.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Scott Pitta

Harry Morse believed in the "social purity" doctrine. His ministry peers, Lydia Swinton and Selma Nelson were lifelong celebrates. So was Florence Crawford. Not sure about Clara Lum and the others.

There may have been more supporters of the "social purity" doctrine that I have first thought.

The doctrine was refuted by William Durham in 1912, so it was making the rounds back in the earliest days.

[Scott Pitta]

Where is the document of Durham refuting it ? It may be that Ben Irwin started it in Texas around 1895. But it may be that it was a seventh day Adventist idea.

Irwin preached against a lot of things. But he was a fraud. How those at Azuza did not see through him amazes me.

[Esaias]

Durham's Pentecostal Testimony. The thread I started refers to the full citation and a link to where you can get a pdf copy of it.

Here:

https://pentecostalarchives.org/search/

Search for pentecostal testimony and for the years enter 1910 to 1912.

The specific one is the May 1912 edition, under the heading False Doctrines.

[Esaias]

http://pentecostalarchives.org/digit...HC/1912_01.pdf

http://pentecostalarchives.org/digit...HC/1912_05.pdf

http://pentecostalarchives.org/digit...HC/1912_06.pdf

Should one of those three, probably the second one.

[Scott Pitta]

Thanks !!!!

[seguidordejesus]

Originally Posted by Scott Pitta

Harry Morse believed in the "social purity" doctrine. His ministry peers, Lydia Swinton and Selma Nelson were lifelong celebrates. So was Florence Crawford. Not sure about Clara Lum and the others.

There may have been more supporters of the "social purity" doctrine that I have first thought.

Sounds like there wasn't a lot of "celebrating" going on.