Niagara Bible Conference and Her Fruits

I.    Niagara Bible Conference and Her Fruits

A.    At the Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City-the first of five American Bible and Prophetic Conferences held between 1878 and 1914

B.    William Brookman gave a Bible Reading on "the Testimony of the Word as to the separation of God’s people unto Himself

C.George C. Needham followed on the same theme as found in the New Testament. He said that the Lord Jesus both taught and practiced separation and that every believer is "called unto a life of separation, 1.unto the Lord:

2.    from sin;

3.    from self;

4.    from evil companionship;

5.from the world; [and] 6.from the yoke and slavery of worldly possessions D.In 1881, the conference met (August 19-28) at Old Orchard, on the coast of Maine.

1.Speakers were a.A. T. Pierson (1827-1911) b.William G. Moorehead (1836-1914). c.James H. Brookes, the president of the conferences 2.Each year since 1875 the attendance had increased, to over 500 attending each year.

3.. In 1882, they gathered at another choice spot, Mackinac Island, Michigan, with speakers a.Hudson Taylor (1832-1905), the Britisher who founded the China Inland Mission, b.R. Nicholson (1822-1901), the Reformed Episcopalian 4.Other speakers up to 1899 a.Nathaniel West, b.William G. Moorehead, c.William J. Erdman, d.James M. Stifler, e.Henry W. Frost, f.Robert Cameron g.Arno C. Gaebelein (1861-1945),

5.    With the death of D. L. Moody in 1899, even his Northfield Conferences (Esther 1880) experienced a decline.