This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study.
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“Broadlands ecumenicalism was held together, not by universalism only, but by the Quaker doctrine of the Divine Seed also.”
to read the section that was in the blog post below.
I wanted to point out that there is a myth in some Baptist circles sympathetic to Keswick theology that the early Keswick movement was almost the heart and soul of modern missions. On the contrary, in light of the universalism mentioned in this post and the facts mentioned in footnote 19, the first Keswick conventions actually refused to support missions. After all, if everyone will be saved anyway, why support missions? When finally came around, who did they support – fiery fundamentalist Baptists preaching a pure gospel? Absolutely not! The first person they sent out was George Grubb, who denied the existence of an eternal hell, and Keswick's international ambassador was the theological liberal F. B. Meyer, who went to India, for example, to teach the Hindus that they could be saved by faith in their own pagan gods, but they could only get power to live a happy life by Keswick theology, as well as teaching the heresy that Israel thought Jehovah was only the god of the hills but not of the valleys, the Holy Spirit was an impersonal force, etc. (See: http://faithsaves.net/f-b-meyer/ ).
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