J. H. Hamblen

Dr. James Henry Hamblen (1877-1971) was a lifelong Texan, a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Texas, an evangelist and revivalist preacher, and subsequent to 1946, was the founder of the Evangelical Methodist Church.

Dr. J.H. Hamblen (left) converses with Dr. Ezekiel Vargas of Mexico (right) in this undated photo.

Biography

After a long career as an itinerant Methodist circuit preacher and pastor, Hamblen served as first general superintendent of the fundamentalist and missions-centered Evangelical Methodist Church during the denomination's founding, and was pastor of First Evangelical Methodist Church, Abilene, Texas, for several decades.

His son, Carl Stuart Hamblen, was a composer and singer, penning and performing popular songs "This Ole House" and "It Is No Secret (What God Can Do);" and in 1952 he ran for president of the United States on the Prohibition Party ticket.

Bibliography

• J. H. Hamblen, "A Look into Life: An Autobiography" (Abliene, Tex.: J.H. Hamblen, 1969)

External links

• The Evangelical Methodist Church International Headquarters Web site
• One of Hamblen's tracts (edited by a local church)
• A Bob Jones University article which mentions Hamblen's role in the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy in the Methodist Church