William H. Durham (1873–1912) was born in Kentucky about fifty miles from Lexington. At the age of eighteen, Durham joined the Baptist church, but he did not experience conversion until 1898 while living in Minnesota. In 1901 he was sanctified though he would later re-interpret the experience as the reclaiming of the fullness of salvation (Jacobsen 2003). After a year as an evangelist, Durham assumed the pastorate of Gospel Mission Church, an independent holiness mission on North Avenue, Chicago…