Introduction

Biography

At age 17, Knapp be­gan stu­dies at a Me­tho­dist col­lege in Al­bi­on, Mi­chi­gan. He worked on the fa­mi­ly farm in the sum­mer, stu­dy­ing Greek and La­tin at night, and at­tend­ing class­es in Al­bi­on in the win­ter.

In 1877, the Me­tho­dist Mi­chi­gan Con­fer­ence as­signed him a cir­cuit. He went on to a ca­reer in min­is­try, found­ing the ma­ga­zine God’s Re­vi­val­ist in 1888; the In­ter­na­tion­al Ho­li­ness Un­ion and Pray­er League in 1897; and God’s Bi­ble School (lat­er known as God’s Bi­ble School and Col­lege) in Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio, in 1900.

Works

• Christ Crowned With­in, 1886
• The Dou­ble Cure
• Out of Egypt into Ca­naan, or Les­sons in Spir­it­ual Geo­gra­phy
• Diary Let­ters; A Mis­sion­ary Trip Through the West In­dies and to South Am­eri­ca
• The Ri­ver of Death and Its Branch­es
• Pentecostal Preach­ers
• Revival Kind­lings, 1890
• Revival Tor­na­does; or, Life and La­bors of Rev. Joseph H. We­ber (Mc­Don­ald, Gill, 1890)
• Impressions—How to Tell Whe­ther They Are from Above or Be­low (Re­vi­val­ist Pub­lish­ing House; sixth ed­it­ion, 1892)
• Tears and Tri­umphs, with Le­an­der L. Pick­ett & John R. Bry­ant (Co­lumb­ia, South Ca­ro­li­na: Le­an­der L. Pick­ett, 1894)
• Lightning Bolts from Pen­te­cost­al Skies; or, De­vic­es of the De­vil Un­masked, 1898
• Holiness Tri­um­phant, or, Pearls from Pat­mos, 1900
• Bible Songs of Sal­va­tion and Vic­to­ry, with Ro­bert Mc­Neill (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Mar­tin W. Knapp, cir­ca 1902)