A Holiness Model Of Worship

The Holiness Movement did not readily record its liturgy. Worship followed a common pattern familiar to its members. A reporter describing a camp meeting in Quinebaug, Connecticut, wrote: "Meetings were held from day to day, after the usual order. " The scarcity of printed orders of worship makes exploration of this topic difficult. There are, however, some prose descriptions of portions of worship that provide sufficient information to reconstruct a typical revivalistic, camp meeting service. The last fifteen years of the nineteenth century were marked by controversy within the Holiness Movement. Some had chosen to "come-out" of older denominations in which holiness, in their minds, was not preached and practiced. Others relied upon holiness associations to carry on the work. These associations were established to provide means of proclaiming the Wesleyan doctrine of holiness. Meetings were arranged so that they did not conflict with the services of the established churches. These a…