Year: 1907
Crumpler resists the pentecostal experience; attacks A.H. Butler in his publication.

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In Crumpler's absence, most of his preachers received the experience and accepted Cashwell's doctrine of the initial-evidence.⁽⁵³⁾ Cashwell's original campaign in Dunn led to attacks by Crumpler in the official paper, The Holiness Advocate. Two parties developed in the church: pentecostal and non-pentecostal. This was an issue in the 1907 annual meeting with Crumpler, the president, leading the attack against the Pentecostal faction and vice-president A.H. Butler defending them. Crumpler and Butler were both re-elected and the issue was put off for another year.

The climatic battle occurred at the 1908 convention which met in Dunn, North Carolina on November 26, 1908 in the Holiness Tabernacle. Crumpler who had been unanimously re-elected there finally brought the matter to a head by walking out of the convention. Only a small portion of the church supported him. He was soon back in the Methodist Church where his ministerial credentials were restored in 1913 and he served many years as a supply pastor.⁽⁵⁴⁾

The convention ended with A.H. Butler as the president and the church totally in the hands of the pentecostal preacher. Cashwell was named Chairman of Committees to examine applications for the ministry and to revise the Discipline. Further, Cashwell's Bridegroom's Messenger was adopted as the official organ of this church until further arrangements. A pentecostal view of Spirit baptism was incorporated into the Articles of Faith in 1908. Church of God in Christ did so in 1907 whereas the Church of God (Cleveland) did not print this in their General Assembly minutes until 1913. It was November 25, 1909 at Falcon, North Carolina that the church changed back to its original name, the Pentecostal Holiness Church.