- J. H. Hamblen
Dr. John Henry Hamblen (1877-1971) was a
bishop of theMethodist Episcopal Church, South , an evangelist and revivalist preacher, and subsequent to 1946, was the founder of theEvangelical Methodist Church .Biography
After a long career as an
itinerant Methodist circuit preacher, Hamblen served as general secretary of the fundamentalist and missions-centeredEvangelical Methodist Church during the denomination's founding, and was pastor of First Evangelical Methodist Church,Abilene, Texas , for several decades.His son,
Carl Stuart Hamblen , was a composer and singer, penning and performing popular songs "This Ole House" and "It Is No Secret (What God Can Do);" and in 1952 he ran forpresident of the United States on theProhibition Party ticket.Bibliography
* J. H. Hamblen, "A Look into Life: An Autobiography" (Abliene, Tex.: J.H. Hamblen, 1969)
External links
* [http://www.emchurch.net The Evangelical Methodist Church International Headquarters Web site]
* [http://www.geocities.com/dentonemc/Hamblen.html One of Hamblen's tracts (edited by a local church)]
* [http://www.bju.edu/library/collections/fund_file/chm.html An Bob Jones University article which mentions Hamblen's role in the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy in the Methodist Church]
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