were personally introduced to the ministries of people like F. B. Meyer, Andrew Murray, and Evan Hopkins. Actually, Keswick teaching had been developed in the early 1870s by two American evangelists, R. Pearsall Smith and William E. Boardman. But it was Smith’s wife, Hannah, who gave their thought classic statement with her Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life. Keswick teaching said that most Christians were “grievously destitute of real spiritual power and often essentially carnal.” Nonetheless, it