Beverly Carradine
Beverly Carradine (1848–1931) was a Methodist pastor turned holiness evangelist, and one of the most widely read writers of the American holiness movement. He was born on 4 April 1848 on Altamont Plantation in Yazoo County, Mississippi, served briefly in the Confederate army as a teenager, and was converted on 12 July 1874. Three months later he was licensed to preach and admitted to the Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
He filled a series of increasingly prominent pulpits: in Mississippi, in New Orleans, and from 1890 at Centenary Church in St. Louis. While in New Orleans, on 1 June 1889, he professed the experience of entire sanctification. That experience reshaped his ministry. He preached it from the pulpit, drew opposition from parts of his own denomination, and in October 1893 left the pastorate to become a full-time evangelist. For the next three decades he held revival and camp meetings across the United States.
Carradine wrote about two dozen books. Some are doctrinal (Sanctification, The Old Man, The Sanctified Life), many are collections of short, vivid chapters drawn from his own experience (Pastoral Sketches, Revival Incidents, People I Have Met, Graphic Scenes), and a few are addresses or short studies (Gideon, Jonah, The Bottle). His style is direct, anecdotal, and often humorous, with a steady focus on a second work of grace and a holy life. He died on 22 April 1931 in Western Springs, Illinois. The actor John Carradine was his grandson.
Books
21 book(s).
- A Bundle of Arrows — Beverly Carradine
- Beulah Land — Beverly Carradine
- Church Entertainments — Beverly Carradine
- Gideon — Beverly Carradine
- Golden Sheaves — Beverly Carradine
- Graphic Scenes — Beverly Carradine
- Heart Talks — Beverly Carradine
- Jonah — Beverly Carradine
- Pastoral Sketches — Beverly Carradine
- Pen Pictures — Beverly Carradine
- People I Have Met — Beverly Carradine
- Remarkable Occurrences — Beverly Carradine
- Revival Incidents — Beverly Carradine
- Revival Sermons — Beverly Carradine
- Sanctification — Beverly Carradine
- Soul Help — Beverly Carradine
- The Altar Service — Beverly Carradine
- The Better Way — Beverly Carradine
- The Bottle — Beverly Carradine
- The Old Man — Beverly Carradine
- The Sanctified Life — Beverly Carradine