Eudorus N. Bell

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Eudorus N. Bell (* 27. June 1866 in Lake Butler , Florida , USA ; † 15. June 1923 in Springfield , Missouri , USA) was an American pastor and the president of the General Council of the Assemblies of God in the United States of America , the American branch of the Pentecostal denomination Assemblies of God .

Life

Bell initially sought a career as a pastor in a Baptist church . After studying at Stetson University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he graduated from the University of Chicago in 1903 . For seventeen years, Bell served as a pastor in Baptist churches, mostly in Texas . He traveled to Chicago in 1908 with the consent of his Fort Worth church to investigate the growing Pentecostal movement, specifically the church of William Durham. From then on, Bell turned to the Pentecostal movement and a year later left his Baptist church to take up a leadership position in a Pentecostal church in Malvern .

Bell was the editor of a monthly magazine called The Apostolic Faith (later renamed Word and Witness ). In it he published a call to Pentecostal Christians to meet for a conference in Hot Springs with the aim of founding an independent religious community. The conference is considered the starting point for the founding of Assemblies of God (AoG). Bell gave his magazine to AoG and became its first president. From 1917 to 1919 he was the editor of Pentecostal Evangel , a weekly magazine, after which he was the managing director of AoG until 1920 and finally its president again until his death in 1923.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gale: Bell, Eudorus N. 1866-1923 . In: Contemporary Authors . HighBeam Research. 2004. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 26, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  2. ^ Herbert Balmer Randall: Bell, Eudorus N. (1866-1923) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism ( English ). Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 193279204X , p. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Bell, Eudorus N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pastor, President of the General Council of the Assemblies of God in the United States of America
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Lake Butler , Florida, USA
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1923
Place of death Springfield , Missouri, USA