The first Keswick Convention convened on June 29, 1875 in a scenic town nestled beneath Skiddaw mountain in northwest England. The convention became an annual event of week-long meetings consisting of Bible studies, addresses, prayer meetings, women’s meetings, and a concern for practical holiness. The first conference was initiated by Canon Thomas Dundas Harford-Battersby (1823–1883), Robert Wilson (1824–1905), and Robert Pearsall Smith (1873–1898). Smith withdrew and Harford-Battersby took ove…