Marker honors Holy Ghost preacher

(MCT) — It took G.B. Cashwell three days to yield to the spirit. It took 30 days for him to turn organized religion upside down in the Carolinas. And it took slightly more than 100 years for him to have a roadside marker placed in his hometown.

Cashwell, the man generally credited with bringing the “Holy Ghost revival” from the West Coast, will be enshrined on a state highway marker this morning. The ceremony also will kick off the Church of God in North Carolina’s national convention. Gaston Barnabas Cashwell became a preacher in the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church, but as the church took a stance against the growing holiness movement, Cashwell left in 1903 to join the Holiness Church of North Carolina.