This week in Christian history: John Gano dies; Bud Robinson conversion; Martin Spalding ordained
Bud Robinson has conversion experience – Aug. 11, 1880
This week marks the anniversary of when Bud Robinson, a popular evangelist with the Church of the Nazarene, became a born-again Christian at a Methodist camp meeting in Texas.
A beloved holiness preacher and traveling evangelist known as “Uncle Bud,” at the time of his conversion, Robinson was a young worker at a ranch and was not particularly religious.
Robinson came to the camp meeting at the invitation of a Methodist circuit rider, and later recounted that the prayers and spiritual contemplation that hit him there “was a life and a death struggle.”
“While we were praying together the bottom dropped out of heaven and my soul was flooded with light and joy until literal waves of glory rolled up and down my soul,” he wrote.
“I believe that getting religion is the finest thing in the known world. After I hopped, skipped, jumped and shouted until midnight, I would jump the mourner’s bench from one side to the other, all the time telling the people that I had got religion.”
