Daniel Sidney Warner
| Daniel Sydney Warner | |
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| Born |
July 25, 1842 Bristol (Now, Marshallville), Ohio |
| Died | December 12, 1895 (aged 53) Grand Junction, Michigan |
| Resting place | Grand Junction, Michigan |
| Education | Oberlin College |
| Occupation | Theologian and Church Movement Initiator |
| Spouse(s) | Tamzen Ann Kerr, Sarah Keller, Frances Miller |
| Children | Sidney |
| Parent(s) | David and Leah Warner |
Daniel Sidney Warner (July 25, 1842 – December 12, 1895) is known primarily as a church reformer and one of the founders of the Church of God (Anderson) and other similar church groups. He is also known for some of his songs which other church groups have incorporated into their hymnody. He is mostly known by only the initials of his given and middle name, D. S. Warner, which was typical for his time period.
Daniel Sidney Warner was born July 25, 1842 in Bristol (now Marshallville), Ohio to David and Leah Warner. His father ran a tavern at the time of his birth and later was known for his drinking, but his mother, of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, is recorded by Daniel to have been more virtuous. He was the fifth of six children. His speaking abilities were noted even in his youth, when he would occasionally give political speeches in his home area. During the American Civil War, Warner volunteered to serve as a private for the Union to replace his brother, Joseph Warner, who had been drafted, since Joseph had a family.
Warner became a Christian in February 1865, at the age of 23. He attended Oberlin College for a short while and taught in the public schools. On Easter Sunday of 1867, Warner preached his first sermon in a Methodist Episcopal Meeting using Acts 13:18 as his text. In October of the same year, he married Tamzen Ann Kerr and was licensed to preach by the Winebrennarian Church of God. In May 1872, Tamzen Warner died after the birth of their still-born triplets.
Warner was an effective evangelist in the Winebrennarian church (over 700 people responded to his altar calls during the first decade of his ministry), preaching throughout northwest Ohio and northern Indiana for about six years. He was then assigned a mission post in Nebraska for two years, a work to which he gave himself wholeheartedly, even if it meant long, lonely spells of absences from the home for his wife, Sarah Keller, whom he had married on June 4, 1874.
He returned to Ohio, and on July 6, 1877, he claimed to have experienced entire sanctification. Earlier in his life, he had rejected the teachings of the holiness movement, writing of a certain meeting: "Nearly all blew loudly the horn of sanctification but manifested little of its fruits, such as travail of soul for the sinner and sympathy for the one soul of the altar, to whom none gave a word of encouragement, but each in turn arose and boasted of his holiness. Oh the delusions of Satan! How manifold they are!" However, through the influence of his in-laws, he began to think favorably of this growing movement. It would ultimately give the course of his life a new direction.
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