The Niagara Bible Conference (officially called "Believers' Meeting for Bible Study") is held annually from 1876 to 1897, with the exception of 1884. In the first few years met at various resort locations around United States of America. Beginning in 1883, held in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario at Queen's Royal Hotel and pavilion.
The driving force behind the meeting was James H. Brookes, a Presbyterian minister from St. Louis. Louis. Brookes publicized the meetings through his magazine Truth , and devoted great space to a speech summary. A typical example is his report from 1892, which describes the meeting as
" more attended than ever.Everyly every seat in the pavilion is occupied, and the porch is filled with eager Word listeners.The place also becomes more beautiful as the years go by, and it will be hard to find a better place" to learn Sacred and prayerful scriptures. Conferences where the Conference meets, overlooks Lake Ontario and the Niagara River, and are surrounded by green trees, secluded from the noise of the world; and very remarkable is the arrangement for guest accommodation, both at the Queen's Royal Hotel and in the boardinghouses of the village, no complaints are heard from anyone. "
Most speakers are dispensationalists, and the Niagara Conference introduces many evangelical Protestants to dispensationalist teachings. These messages generally center on the doctrines of Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, mission and prophecy. Premillennialism and dispensationalism are maintained and taught. Most of the leading dispensational of the late 19th and early 20th centuries attended conferences regularly, including William Eugene Blackstone, Charles Erdman, James H. Brookes, William Moorehead, Adoniram Judson Gordon, Amzi Dixon, C.I. Scofield, and James Hudson Taylor (who founded China Inland Mission).
In 1878, the Christian Meeting for Bible Study produced a document which came to be known as the "Waterfall Creed." This 14-point faith statement is one of the first to explicitly express faith in the return of Jesus Christ to the earth. The Niagara Creed does not explicitly affirm dispensationalism, but refers to some key dispensational beliefs, including the millennium reality, the restoration of Israel, and the difference between the judgment of the saved and the damned.
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Further reading
In Pursuit of Purity: American Fundamentalism Since 1850 , by David O. Beale ISBNÃ, 0-89084-351-1
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