Every drop of blood we received from our mother is impure. Sickness is born in a child just as original sin is born in the child. He was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. Every sickness is of the devil. Man in the Garden of Eden was pure and happy and knew no sickness until that unholy visitor came into the garden. His whole system was poisoned and it has been flowing in the Blood of all the human family down until God spoke to His people and said, "I am the Lord that heals thee. David, after being healed of rheumatism, perhaps contracted in the caves where he hid himself from his pursuers, testified saying, "Bless the Lord, Oh, my soul, and all that is within me.
Bless His holy Name, who forgives all thine iniquities, who heals all thy diseases. Healing continued with God's people until Solomon's heart was turned away by strange wives, and he brought in the black arts and mediums, and they went whoring after familiar spirits. God had been their healer, but after they lost the Spirit, they turned to the arm of flesh to find something to heal their diseases. Thank God, we have a living Christ among us to heal our diseases. He will heal every case. The prophet had said, "With his stripes we are healed," and it was fulfilled when Jesus came.
In addition, "He hath borne our grief," which means sickness, as translators tell us. Now if Jesus bore our sicknesses, why should we bear them? Therefore, we get full salvation through the atonement of Jesus. Fourth, we get the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire upon the sanctified life. We get Christ enthroned and crowned in our hearts. Let us lift up Christ to the world in all His fullness, not only in healing and salvation from all sin, but in His Power to speak all the languages of the world.
We need the triune God to enable us to do this. We that are the messengers of this precious atonement ought to preach all of it, justification, sanctification, healing, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and signs following. People from all over the country are sending in letters of inquiry, having heard that Pentecost has come to Los Angeles.
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Some have traveled long distances and report that the half has not been told them. Through this paper, we answer inquiries, as it would be impossible to write to each. Souls are hungry all over the land. Man is a fallen creature, and as such cannot receive the things of the kingdom of heaven, because they are spiritual and "foolishness unto him.
God recognizes this, and all through the ages has granted signs and wonders to awaken man from his spiritual death and turn him to seeking after God. If you will turn to Mark In a few hours after His crucifixion, had allowed Satan to harden their hearts and fill them with unbelief. They were also sanctified, as we read in John After He had upbraided them for their hardness of heart, He breathed on them the Holy Spirit to sustain them until Pentecost.
They were anointed, as many sanctified souls are today while seeking a real, personal Pentecost. Jesus at this time also said to them Mark These signs shall follow them that believe; in My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. We also read in Paul's epistles to the Corinthians that he speaks of nine specific gifts in the Holy Spirit.
We also find in searching the Word that eight of these gifts were in the church before the Day of Pentecost, the gift of tongues on this day being the power that startled the multitude. They were all amazed and marveled saying one to another, behold are not all these which speak Galileans? How hear we every man in his own tongue, wherein we were born? They were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
Others mocking said, These men are filled with new wine. Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said unto them, Ye men of Judea and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you. Hearken to my words, for these are not drunk as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel: Your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams" Acts 2: For John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence.
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? He said unto them, it is not for you to know the times of the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power. Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you: They obeyed this command, and Acts 2: If you will now turn to Acts 10 and read the story of Peter and Cornelius, you will see that the speaking in tongues was the sign or evidence to Peter that the Gentiles had received the Holy Spirit.
Peter preached the Word, and they were cleansed through the Word, as the disciples before the Day of Pentecost. This was a hard dose for Peter to take, he being a Jew and having been taught that the Gentiles were dogs and unclean. God had previously given Peter a vision of a great sheet let down from heaven, filled with all manner of unclean animals, with the command, "Rise, Peter, slay and eat. If you will now turn to Acts He preached the Word and explained to them their great privileges in the Gospel, "And when Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them.
They spoke with tongues and prophesied" Acts How foolish so many of us have been in the clear light of God's Word. We have been running off with the blessing and anointing of God's power, instead of tarrying until Bible evidence of Pentecost came. Sister Wettosh, a German sister of Pasadena, who was in the darkness of Romanism and in great physical suffering about a year ago, but who has marvelously saved and healed, has been baptized with the Holy Spirit, received the gift of tongues, and has gone out to carry this Gospel.
Her destination was Reno, Neb. Los Angeles, August 12th, This will certify that my daughter, Mrs. SP Knapp, of Avenue 56 and Alameda street, was healed of consumption by God on the above date, God's Spirit working in answer to prayer and through a poor Mexican Indian. In a cottage meeting on Morton Avenue, Elysian Heights, several souls have been baptized with the Holy Spirit, and a brother, George Hock, who has been stone blind for more than a year and a half, was saved and then received his sight.
He can now read, and his relatives and friends who were unbelieving are filled with wonder and are publishing it everywhere. Canes, crutches, medicine bottles, and glasses are being thrown aside as God heals. That is the safe way. No need to keep an old crutch or medicine bottle of any kind around after God heals you. Some, in keeping some such appliance as a souvenir, have been tempted to use them again and have lost their healing. Jesus said, "Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very work's sake. If you cannot understand it, just take the Word of God.
He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe: In My name shall they cast out devils: If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. God is confirming His Word with signs following. A young man, who a year ago was in the chain gang, is now baptized with the Holy Spirit and preaching everywhere.
He was a Catholic but God took all the Romanism out of him. He is telling the Catholics to get their own Bibles and the Protestants to get to God and not lean on preachers. He is a powerfully built young man. God has so taken the fight out of him that when he was struck and spit upon in the face, he went home and was so blessed that he prayed all night. He said he loved the people who persecuted him more than if they had asked him to pray for them.
During the preaching service, the Holy Spirit fell on a preacher and he jumped to his feet shouting "Hallelujah! He speaks Zulu and many tongues more fluently than English and interprets as he speaks. The Lord has since used him to stir a whole city. He is filled with divine love.
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His family were first afraid to see him speaking in tongues, thinking he had lost his mind, but when his wife and children felt the sympathy and divine love which the Holy Spirit puts in people's hearts, they said, "Papa was never so sane in his life. He has the following to say of God's dealings with him:.
My call to Africa in ; the blessed thought of going out in His name, so full of comfort and victory; and yet my call to my native land and civilization is more wonderful and blessed. The getting down in quietness in the presence of the Holy Spirit, and letting him teach and show me what he would have me know of His Power and omnipresence. I found it so true, He is all love, "and in Him is no darkness at all. We often hinder the blessed wooing and power of His love by cross currents of our human mind and thought. May God help us to be little in our own eyes, not over anxious to serve much, but to love Him with all our heart, mind and strength.
His simple love in our hearts does the work among the heathen. The dear children of Ham are stretching out their hands for the love that is manifested in the sons of God. Often tears fill my eyes, as I think of their simplicity and kindness to us, in the years of our residence among them. One time while going down to our Annual Conference, one hundred miles from where I was situated at Malange, we often met with a slave woman, with whom we lodged nights, who showed us much kindness. She would listen to the story of the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world, and say, 'Tell it to me again,' I would go over it again.
She would say, 'Tell it once more;' then she said, 'Tell it to me on my fingers. I bent down her first finger and said, 'That means that God's Son has died for you, and shed His Blood for your sins. Bend down the second finger, that is, if you believe it, He will take you to His home, where is no death, nor crying, whippings nor pain. Bend down the third finger, that is if you do not believe, you will be obliged to live in a land of sorrow, pain, death and crying forever and ever.
She repeated it repeatedly, and we could see the truth getting into her heart. We lost sight of her for a long time; her village was burned up, her people moved away, and she had gone out of our mind. One day there was a commotion at the entrance of the compound at the Mission. I saw the same slave woman, running into the yard, leading a little boy by the hand. I did not know her at first, and she cried out, 'Don't you know me? My brother, if our love and faith were but more simple, to take God at His Word, our life would be full of sunshine and it would lighten and brighten up the dark places, that sin has caused on God's beautiful earth.
They recognize some of the languages spoken as being dialects of Africa. When God has fully equipped them, they will return to their labor of love. We meet many honest souls these days that are under the delusion that they have committed the unpardonable sin. The following incident should be an encouragement to such. A child of God was attacked by the enemy with the suggestion that she was forsaken of God and had committed the unpardonable sin. She was then on a mission field in the South, separated from other Christian workers; and without any apparent cause, the archenemy that tempted our Savior told her that God hated her.
The Words, "God hates you" seemed to be continually shouted in her ears and she could not get away from it. She lost her faith and believed the enemy, not knowing His Power. The next suggestion was, "Drown yourself in the river. She returned to her room, and throwing herself down, fell asleep and dreamed.
She seemed to be on a boat on which all the people were rejoicing and praising God, except her. She heard the captain call out to the pilot, "Sound the depths and compare it with the love of God. A young woman who came into the meeting unsaved, went to the altar during the sermon, under deep conviction, and was saved in about five minutes. Before that evening was over, she was sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit and had the gift of the Chinese tongue and was singing in Chinese in the Spirit.
Her mother followed her to the altar and has also been saved, sanctified, baptized with the Holy Spirit and healed of asthma and heart trouble that the doctors said was incurable. We preach old-time sanctification, and old-time Baptism of the Holy Spirit that is the gift of power upon the sanctified life, and God throws in the gift of tongues. First, justification deals with our actual sins.
When we go to Him and repent, God washes all the guilt and pollution out of our hearts, and we stand justified like a new babe that never committed sin. We have no condemnation. We can walk with Jesus and live a holy life before the Lord, if we walk in the Spirit. Second, sanctification is the second and last work of grace. After we are justified, we have two battles to fight. There is sin inside and sin outside. There is warfare within, caused by the old inherited sin. When God brings the Word, "It is the will of God, even your sanctification," we should accept the Word and then the Blood comes and takes away all inherited sin.
Everything is heavenly in your soul; you are a child of God. The Spirit of God witnesses in your heart that you are sanctified. Third, the Spirit begins immediately leading us on to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now, as a child of God, you should enter the earnest of your inheritance.
After you have a clear witness of the two works of grace in your heart, you can receive this gift of God that is a gift without repentance. Pray for the power of the Holy Spirit, and God will give you a new language. It is for every believing child. About 28 years ago, I went into a meeting to break it up and the Lord broke me up. My conversion I never could doubt. I was called to preach and refused, and went on for a number of years trying to get away from the call. Finally I obeyed the Lord, and started in to work for Him, but not to preach.
The Lord sanctified my soul. Then I commenced to try to preach. About two years after, the Lord appeared to me in a dream. He so filled me with His Spirit that people were not able to stand up before me, for a time. A few days after, He told me to give up my business, and make my wants known to Him, and not to man. The Lord supplied my every need, and was with me in revival meetings and in healing many that I prayed for. I heard of people receiving the Holy Spirit and speaking with tongues.
I came to Los Angeles to investigate, and found it was a fact, and earnestly commenced to seek the Lord for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Lord, knowing my heart, came and took possession of me and spoke with my tongue. I want to say to every person, test God and you will never deny the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. It has been said of the work in Los Angeles that is was "born in a manger and resurrected in a barn.
Those who know God feel His presence as soon as they cross the threshold. Some have come from long distances to this spot, directed of the Lord, and the humble have always been greatly blessed. The work began among the colored people. God baptized with the Holy Spirit several sanctified wash women, who have been much used of Him.
The first white woman to receive the Pentecost and gift of tongues in Los Angeles was Mrs. Evans who is now in the work in Oakland. Since then multitudes have come. God makes no difference in nationality, Ethiopians, Chinese, Indians, Mexicans, and other nationalities worship together. There are a dozen or more Christian workers who are devoting their time to the salvation of souls, having been called of God from other lines of employment to devote their time in praying with the sick, preaching, working with souls at the altar, etc.
We believe in the faith line for Christian workers, and no collections are taken. During the four months, meetings have been running constantly, and yet with working day and night and without purse or scrip, the workers have all been kept well and provided with food and raiment.
Workers who have received calls to foreign lands are going out, the Lord providing the means with no needs being presented. The ones that give, give as the Lord speaks to them and do not want their names mentioned. It is a poor time in these last days to board up treasures on earth. When the Lord speaks it is a blessing to the obedient, so we covet no man's gold, nor silver, nor apparel. A sister who was called to Oakland had her faith tested as to her fare, as the time was near and she had not received it.
That night she was caught away in the Spirit and when the Lord brought her back, the Words came to her, "If I can carry you around Los Angeles without a body, I can take you to Oakland without a fare. Hermon is a small Free Methodist settlement in the hills near Los Angeles. At cottage, prayer meetings being held there, the Holy Spirit has manifested His presence in a marvelous way.
The church people stand aloof, but God is overthrowing all opposition. At a meeting recently held in a cottage near the church, one sister was baptized with the Holy Spirit on the front porch. She lay under the power of God for something like two hours, praising God and speaking in an unknown language. Two nights afterward, at another cottage prayer meeting, the house was filled to overflowing with people. The meeting lasted until one o'clock in the morning.
Five were baptized with the Holy Spirit and three were sanctified. Two sisters lay under the power of God until after one o'clock, speaking and singing in unknown tongues. The singing could be heard over the hills. This is stirring the people, and God is going to work wonders in this place. He recognizes no man-made creeds, doctrines, nor classes of people, but "the willing and obedient shall eat the good of the land.
It is our privilege to earnestly contend for the power of the early apostolic church, so that men would be instantaneously healed and baptized with the Holy Spirit. The power of God is going to fall on men in this city. He wants people that will believe in Him and exercise the faith. Faith moves God, that is one thing that makes God get in a hurry, when he can get the faith. When they put Paul and Silas in the Philippian jail, they went joyfully.
They sang and prayed and at midnight God heard their prayers in heaven and shook the earth until doors flew open. The jailer trembled and was going to take his life. He fell under conviction, and what happened? They all were saved. I believe those men had faith in God.
When they called upon God, something happened. When are we going to get that perfect faith? The Lord is just preparing His people now for the work He is going to do. We have been a long ways from it. The devil does not like to see us getting back, but God is going to overrule. All these 6, years, we have been fighting against sin and Satan. Soon we shall have a rest of 1, years. We are going to rest from our 6, years of toil in a reign of 1, years.
That will be the millennial age Jude The saints who have part in the first resurrection will return with Jesus and reign over unglorified humanity Revelation Our place will be higher than that of the angels, because we are partakers of His divine nature and His immortality, and angels are simply pure spirits. We can go and come, just as Jesus did when He rose from the dead. We can vanish out of sight and go millions of miles in a second.
Paul prayed that the Ephesians might know, "What is the exceeding greatness of His Power to us ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power that he wrought in Christ when he raised Him from the dead. We shall have the same privilege as He had, for "we shall be like him. We shall be in the heavenly image. That is the time when the lion and calf shall lie down together and a little child shall lead them Isaiah That is the time when God is going to give some two cities to reign over, some ten, and the twelve apostles will reign over the twelve tribes of Israel.
In the millennial age, we shall have great glory; but it will be still greater glory when Satan has been judged and cast into the lake of fire; and the meek, the justified souls, shall inherit the earth. We shall be living in the new heaven and the New Jerusalem. Jesus will turn the kingdom over into His Father's hand and sit down among the brethren.
We shall have the same glory that Jesus had with His Father before the foundation of the world. God will be everything, and we shall be swallowed up in immortality 1 Corinthians It is wonderful how God sent His Son to take little worms of dust and to transform us into glory and immortality. We do not know what it means until we begin seeking God. God has many things to teach us, as we remain humble at His feet.
On August 11th, a man from the central part of Mexico, an Indian, was present in the meeting and heard a German sister speaking in his tongue which the Lord had given her. He understood, and through the message that God gave him through her, he was most happily converted so that he could hardly contain his joy. All the English he knew was Jesus Christ and Hallelujah.
He testified in his native language that was interpreted by a man who had been among that tribe of Indians. This rough Indian, under the power of the Spirit was led to go and lay his hands on a woman in the congregation who was suffering from consumption, and she was instantly healed and arose and testified. Jesus said, "Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you. Jesus said on that night before he was betrayed, "Now are ye clean, but not all.
The disciples had been sanctified before Pentecost, for the Word of God is true. We know they had been justified a long time before, for he said, "Rejoice not that the devils are subject unto you but rejoice because your names are written in heaven. He said, "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. We know the Spirit only follows the Blood. The heart must be clean before the Holy Spirit can endue with power from on high.
It is not the work of the Holy Spirit to burn up inherited sin and carnality; he is not our Savior. The Blood cleanseth us from all sin. The disciples were cleansed and sanctified and were sitting and waiting when the Holy Spirit fell upon them. We know also that Cornelius was clean, for when the Lord let down the sheet before Peter, he said, "What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common," or unclean.
The Holy Spirit fell on them as at the beginning and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. The hundred and twenty on the day of Pentecost were baptized with the Holy Spirit according to promise. The converts of Philip in the Samaritan revival were baptized with the Holy Spirit, when Peter and John came from Jerusalem and preached the doctrine to them. The household of Cornelius received the same endowment of power, showing that the promise was also extended to the Gentiles. Again, to the Corinthian church the record is given of the fulfillment of the promise.
That the Apostolic church had wonderful power is evidenced by its remarkable growth, as well as by the record of the Word. We have the promise of the same power today. What about the fulfillment of that promise? However, did not Paul prophesy that these things should be done away? Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Sometimes, not stopping to find out when this shall be, we jump at the conclusion that these things have been done away. We have only to read the next two verses to be set clear. When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. If they are to be done away on that great and notable day of the Lord, they must be in existence when He shall come.
Divine love never faileth. When He returns these other things shall fail. God's promises must last until by God's own word they are withdrawn. At the beginning of the Eighteenth century, among the French Protestants, there were wonderful manifestations of the Spirit power accompanied by the Gift of Tongues. The early Quakers received the same powerful religious stimulus and had the Gift of Tongues. The Irvingite church, about , had the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and spoke in other tongues.
In the Swedish revival in , there were the same manifestations of the Spirit and the Gift of Tongues. In the Irish revival of , there is the record of the power of the Spirit in winning souls and the speaking in tongues by Spirit filled men and women For the above facts, my authority is Bishop Hurst's History of the Christian Church, Vol. Bishop Taylor left the record that he took a young woman to labor among a certain tribe in Africa, and left her preaching through an interpreter; but returned two months later and found her preaching fluently in the native language, without having learned it.
A drunkard got under conviction in a street meeting, and raised his hand to be prayed for. They prayed for the devil of drink to be cast out, and the appetite was gone. He came to the meeting and was saved, sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Spirit, and in three days from the time he was drunk he was speaking in a new tongue and praising God for Pentecost. He hardly knows himself. A sister was healed of consumption when she had but a part of a lung left.
She lay in a trance for three days and saw heaven, hell, and unutterable things. She received the Pentecost and gift of tongues and feels called to a foreign land. The preaching of old time restitution is owned of the Lord. People have been paying up old debts, making wrongs right, getting hard feelings out of the way, etc.
One was saved from drink, and he confessed to his crimes, offering to pay the penalty of the law.
People living in adultery or where one party had a living husband or wife have separated, and God is wonderfully pouring out His Spirit on this line of things. The first time I was out of wood after the Lord had shown me to trust Him, I asked the Lord for wood and the wood did not come. The Lord had shown me that I could not ask for flour until it was gone. I went down into the basement that morning and found some hard knots that had been laid aside and had enough wood for that day.
The next morning I asked the Lord for wood. The wood did not come. I picked up enough chunks and chips to do that day. The next morning, I went to the Lord and said, "Father, there are no more chunks and chips, we are out of wood. Did not think of it, until I returned home, and my daughter said, "Papa, who brought the wood? I did not know for some time who brought the wood; but one day when holding meetings in South Seattle, a man invited me home with him, and while at dinner he said, "I want to tell you something that happened to me.
I was crossing the bridge with a load of wood. My wife had written out a bill of some things that we had to have, and I needed feed for my horses. I was taking this load of wood in to get the groceries and feed. While out on the bridge and no one near me, an audible voice said behind me and just above me, 'Take this wood to McConnell. I said, 'I cannot take this wood to McConnell, I have got to have the groceries and feed,' and drove on. There was no one about. I drove to the house and unloaded the wood, then drove back home as quickly as I could, loaded up some wood that I had and drove back to town, sold my wood as soon as I reached town, and got my feed and groceries.
From that time I have prospered as never before. A band of workers left Los Angeles for Oakland. All are baptized with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues. Brother Manley had come down from Oakland especially to see the movement but did not receive his Pentecost until after he returned. Reports brought back by Brother Evans are that hundreds have been at the altar, many converted, sanctified, and healed, and thirty have received their Pentecost and are speaking in tongues.
The saints of Los Angeles rejoice to hear the good report. A man visited saying, "I have been afflicted with paralysis eighteen long years, if you can do anything, will you lay your hands on me? Before he was prayed for, he called a physician to be a witness. The Lord relieved the man of his distress in the presence of the physician.
A man who was deaf and said he had not been able to hear for half his life was prayed for. God instantly gave him his hearing, when he was anointed and prayed for. He was a practicing physician in Oakland. He weighs between three and four hundred pounds. The Lord dropped him on the floor and gave him the Pentecost. A Pentecostal missionary has left for foreign lands, Brother Thomas. Mahler, a young man of German nationality, has the gift of tongues besides the knowledge of several. He left here for San Bernardino. As our brother was leaving, Brother Post spoke of his call and gave a message in tongues in regard to Brother Mahler which he interpreted as follows: He is a chosen vessel to me to preach the Gospel to many, and to suffer martyrdom in Africa.
Our prayers follow him. The secular papers have said, "These people are buying their ascension robes. We which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds. We shall not rise to meet Him in grave clothes or any earthly clothing. We shall leave them behind as Jesus did when he left the tomb. For John saw the linen clothes lying," and Peter following him, "seeth the linen clothes lie and the napkin that was about his head. We will be as well when we are changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, clothed in garments not made with hands, fit for the bride of Christ to wear in the courts of Heaven.
The garments that Jesus wore after His resurrection could appear, disappear, and pass through bolted doors and walls. They were none such as are worn on earth. Many who are proud of their clothing here are selling their birthright for a mess of pottage and know not what they are losing. It matters not how poor our clothing may be, the Lord knows those who are ready and all glorious within. Brother and Sister AG Garr, former leaders of the Burning Bush work in Los Angeles, were powerfully baptized with the Holy Spirit and received the gift of tongues, especially the language of India and dialects.
Brother Garr was able to pray a native of India "through" in his own language, the Bengali. Sister Garr also spoke Chinese. They left Los Angeles for the East in July going by the way of Chicago, where they met with the Burning Bush leaders, then on to Danville, VA, where they have been preaching to hungry souls. From there, they will go on to India. In a letter from Brother Garr, we learn that God is honoring His precious Gospel in a marvelous way, reclaiming, sanctifying and filling with the Holy Spirit nearly all the members of the old Burning Bush band.
The brother writes that when they spoke in tongues the people had such confidence in their Pentecostal baptism that those who were sick were immediately healed. We clip the following from the Apostolic Faith published by Brother Charles. Parham at Baxter, Kansas. This was much criticized by the town and vicinity, so the principal physician, who was familiar with several different languages, was prevailed upon to go to the meetings in order to denounce the whole as a fake. Miss Tuthill, in an unknown language to herself, but known to him as Italian, spoke his full name. No one in the town knew save himself, telling him things that had happened in his life twenty years ago, and on up to the present time, until he cried for mercy and fell on his knees seeking God.
He now says he would rather pray for the sick than give drugs, and is seriously thinking of leaving his profession and going into the Lord's work. A song in an unknown tongue was interpreted as follows: With one accord, all heaven rings-With praises to our God and King; Let earth join in our song of praise, and ring it out through all the days.
Think of what hung on that momentous hour that Jesus suffered. No hour in all history has been fraught with such eternal interests. It was a crucial hour and He was a willing offering. He said, "What shall I say, Father save Me from this hour? For this cause came I into this world. Someone now may be facing their cross, their Gethsemane. Will you say, "Father save me from this hour?
God will give you grace for the hour of your opportunity. Some are drawing back. Let us pray, "Lord, save me from drawing back. If you know of any hungry souls to whom you wish the paper sent, send in their addresses and as the Lord permits we will send the paper. We are having 5, of this issue printed.
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The money came in answer to prayer. The next issue will come out as He permits. The Lord led her into the Pentecostal Baptism and gift of tongues without her hearing the truth except from the Word. She related the following wonderful vision and revelation. A few weeks ago, as we were in our campmeeting, the first night we called our altar service there were at the altar seeking God, and a strange power came into my being that I had felt once before when God wanted to reveal something to me. I have learned that it pays to be quiet before the Lord.
I went home to my daughter's house and prepared for bed. Just as the gray dawn began to appear, I waked as if someone had touched my shoulder, and felt the same power. I heard the beautiful warbling of a bird and thought it was a mocking bird which one might hear there. No, it seemed away down in my soul. As that beautiful bird began to sing, I saw a little infant face right before my eyes. As the song of the bird began to ripple, it began to sound like water running over pebbles.
It increased until it sounded like many waters, and the face enlarged until it was a full-grown face. I said, "Surely this is a messenger from the holy country. Go forward in My name; preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, for the King's business demands haste. My people have only time to get on the beautiful garments, and prepare for the wedding supper in the Heavens. I said, "Lord, reveal unto me what this means, the singing of the bird and rippling of the waters.
I was down with them, when it was told to me that the Lord would heal us and wanted to do it without the help of medicine, so I made up my mind that I would not have another chill; that the Lord would heal me. My chill was to come on about seven o'clock in the morning. It started to come and I was about to call my people to put more cover over me, when I thought how I had taken the Lord for my healer. I got up and dressed and would not let the devil bring a chill on me, but prepared for breakfast. When the ice wagon came along and my little grandchild called my attention to it, I started to say, "No, I will not take ice for this is my chill day.
Then I stopped myself and said, "Yes, I will take ice," and I drank ice water all day. I was healed and in two months had gained about twenty-five pounds in flesh. Different nationalities are now hearing the Gospel in their own "tongue wherein they were born. They were so glad to hear the truth that they wept and even kissed her hands. They are a very simple, pure, and hungry people for the Full Gospel.
The other night, as a company of Russians was present in the meeting, Brother Lee, a converted Catholic, was permitted to speak their language. As he spoke and sang, one of the Russians came up and embraced him. It was a holy sight, the Spirit fell upon the Russians, as well as on others, and they glorified God. A baptismal service was held at Terminal Island, one of the beaches near Los Angeles. One hundred and six persons were baptized in the ocean. About people went down from Los Angeles and spent the day. A number of extra cars were filled and such a singing, shouting, joyful company Terminal Island never saw before.
The day was spent in services of worship and the baptismal service. Brother Seymour performed the baptismal services. Elysian Heights and Hermon, suburbs of Los Angeles have cottage prayer meetings where souls are being baptized with the Holy Spirit. Two Holiness churches, one in Los Angeles and one in Monrovia have caught the fire, the ministers and several of the congregation having received the Pentecost and are speaking with tongues.
The Burning Bush workers in Los Angeles came into the movement in a body and numbers of the different missions and the New Testament and Nazarene people are being filled with the Spirit and carrying the blessed light to other hungry souls. It is not our desire to tear down churches but to make new churches out of old ones. We pray God to send the Pentecost to every church. We earnestly invoke God to manage the publication of this sheet and He is editor-in-chief and business manager.
We publish it with the clear leading of the Lord. Hundreds of workers and missionaries will be represented in it. We wish no human writer to receive any honor but that it might be all to the glory of God, and that it may voice the power and presence of Almighty God who is moving on the people in Los Angeles and over the world. We start with not a cent in sight, but in the little upper room office above the mission on Azusa Street, we dropped on our knees and asked Him to send the means to publish the paper.
In a short time, the money began to be sent in. No debt will be incurred. The paper will only be published as the money comes in advance. A message that was given in tongues for God's people was this, "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God.
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A sister had a vision of God's people as vessels that were full and the Lord said, "The vessels must be emptied and I will fill them. A brother who has been baptized with the Holy Spirit was arrested because of the disturbance that the preaching of the Gospel created among the people who crowded about the tent in Pasadena.
As he stood to answer the accusation of disturbing the peace, another brother says he saw an angel standing by his side. The Lord has been doing great things in that place and we expect greater things. Some workers were preaching on the street corner in Los Angeles and a poor drunkard had just been saved, when a policeman came up and ordered them to stop, and took two of them off to jail. The sister sang all the way to the jail, shouted, and prayed while they were there.
They soon were anxious to get rid of them and let them go. Meantime the other workers returned to the mission and told how the workers had been arrested and they all went to the altar and prayed and rose praising God; and soon in walked the ones who had been arrested. We are ready not only to go to prison, but to give our lives for Jesus. Leatherman, who have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and received the gift of languages, have left for Jerusalem, going by way of Oakland, leaving there August 10th.
Reports came of meetings on the way that four souls received the Pentecost in Colorado Springs and three in Denver. Brother Johnson has received seven different languages, one of which is the Arabic. Sister Leatherman speaks the Turkish language, and while in Oakland, some were talking on the street about the gift of tongues. Sister Leatherman began to speak just as a man wearing the Turkish fez came by. He listened in wonder and asked what college she had attended. He said that she spoke perfect Turkish tongue, as he had heard spoken by a foreigner. He was an educated man from a Turkish college in Constantinople.
She told him the Holy Spirit gave her the language which she did not understand herself and he was the first person that had interpreted for her. When we leave the Blood out, Satan has power to switch us into fanaticism, but no powers out of hell are able to make their way through the Blood. This is a worldwide revival, the last Pentecostal revival to bring our Jesus. The church is taking her last march to meet her beloved.
Brother John Matthews, a minister of San Luis Obispo, writes that himself and little flock are in harmony with the Los Angeles revival and waiting on the Lord for Pentecost to come that way. A returned missionary from the interior of Africa was present in the meeting, when a sister testified in an African tongue which the brother interpreted to be, "The Lord is my husband.
A band of four Spirit baptized workers left for Arizona. We hardly know people's names in this movement and have failed to get these names. We hope to have a report from them. It is the Lord preaching His own sermons, singing His own songs, and prophesying. For he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain the first month. He gave the former rain moderately at Pentecost, and He is going to send upon us in these last days the former and latter rain.
There are greater things to be done in these last days of the Holy Spirit. All along the ages, men have been preaching a partial Gospel. A part of the Gospel remained when the world went into the dark ages. God has from time to time raised up men to bring back the truth to the church. He raised up Luther to bring back to the world the doctrine of justification by faith. He raised up another reformer in John Wesley to establish Bible Holiness in the church. Then he raised up Dr. Cullis who brought back to the world the wonderful doctrine of divine healing. Now He is bringing back the Pentecostal Baptism to the church.
God laid His hand on a little crippled boy seven years of age, healed him of disease, and made him whole except his ankles, causing him to walk on the sides of them. When he was fourteen years of age, he had been sent to college and God had called him to preach. One day as he was sitting reading his Bible, a man came for him to go and hold a meeting. He began to say to the Lord: He has since been in evangelistic work all over the United States, seeing multitudes saved, sanctified and healed.
Five years ago, God put it into this man's heart Brother Charles Parham to go over to Topeka, Kansas, to educate missionaries to carry the Gospel. It was a faith school and the Bible was the only textbook. The students had gathered there without tuition or board, God sending in the means to carry on the work. Most of the students had been religious workers and said they had received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit a number of years ago. Brother Parham became convinced that no religious school tallied up with the second chapter of Acts.
Just before the first of January , the Bible School began to study the word on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit to discover the Bible evidence of the Baptism that they might obtain it. The students kept up continual prayer in the praying tower. A company would go up and stay three hours, and then another company would go up and wait on God, praying that all the promises of the Word might be wrought out in their lives. Ozman, one who had for years "the anointing that abideth," which she mistook for the Baptism, was convinced of the need of a personal Pentecost. A few minutes before midnight, she desired hands laid on her that she might receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
During prayer and invocation of hands, she was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance. This made all hungry. Scarcely eating or sleeping, the school with one accord waited on God. On the 3rd of January , Brother Parham being absent holding a meeting at the time, while they all waited on God to send the Baptism of the Spirit, suddenly twelve students were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongue. When Brother Parham returned and opened the door of the room where they were gathered, a wonderful sight met his eyes.
The whole room was filled with a white sheen of light that could not be described, and twelve of the students were on their feet talking in different languages. He said they seemed to pay no attention at all to him, and he knelt in one corner and said, "O, God, what does this mean? This man has preached in different languages over the United States, and men and women of that nationality have come to the altar and sought God. He was surely raised up of God to be an apostle of the doctrine of Pentecost.
This Pentecostal Gospel has been spreading ever since, but on the Pacific coast it has burst out in great power and is being carried from here over the world. We are expecting Brother Parham to visit Los Angeles in a few days and for a mightier tide of salvation to break out. The waves of Pentecostal salvation are still rolling in at Azusa Street Mission. From morning until late at night the meetings continue with about three altar services a day. We have made no record of souls saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit, but a brother said last week he counted about fifty in all that had been baptized with the Holy Spirit during the week.
Four of the Holiness preachers have received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. One of them, Brother William Pendleton, with his congregation, being turned out of the church, is holding meetings at Eighth Street and Maple Avenue. There is a heavenly atmosphere there. The altar is filled with seekers; people are slain under the power of God, and rising in a life baptized with the Holy Spirit. The fire is spreading.
People are writing from different points to know about this Pentecost, and are beginning to wait on God for their Pentecost. He is no respecter of persons and places. We expect to see a wave of salvation go over this world. While this work has been going on for five years, it has burst out in great power on this coast. There is power in the full Gospel.
Nothing can quench it. Missionaries for the foreign fields, equipped with several languages, are now on their way and others are only waiting for the way to open and for the Lord to say: Let a volume of prayer go up from all the Lord's people. There is but time to dress and be ready, for the cry will soon go forth. Eight missionaries have started to the foreign field since this movement began a Los Angeles a few months ago. About thirty workers have gone out into the field.
The brother at Elysian Heights, who received his eyesight after being blind for a year and a half, is a living witness of the power of God. Since that he has been sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit and his wife has been saved. In the City of Oakland, during the five weeks that the band from Los Angeles was there, Brother and Sister Evans and Sister Florence Crawford, sixty-five souls received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and thirty were sanctified and nineteen converted.
A man who was twice in the insane asylum, an infidel that had been going from place to place denying the name of Jesus Christ, is now saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit, and working to win others. Sometimes, among officers of the law, we find a keen judgment concerning genuine or spurious religion. In Pasadena, where the Lord was working in power some months ago, the chief of police made the remark: Sister Lizzie Frazer of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was one of those who received the gift of tongues when the Palestine Missionary band passed through there.
She writes that she expects to go to India with a band of missionaries next month. The Lord has given her wonderful equipment. Kring was healed of cancer of the lungs on August 8, after the doctor had given her up. One lung was entirely closed up. When she was prayed for, the Lord immediately touched her body and healed her. She shouted for an hour with strong lungs, and is the happiest woman you ever saw.
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A mother brought her son to the Mission to be healed of epileptic fits. He is about twenty-one years old and has been suffering for years, like the boy that was brought to Jesus that the devil had often caused to fall into the fire and into the water. The boy was so wrecked in mind and body that he was in a semi-conscious condition. Brother Batman, who is called to Africa, prayed for him, asking the Lord to cast the demon power out of him and give complete healing.
The boy raised up from the floor and witnessed that the work was done and went home rejoicing. A brother living in the east had been down sick for quite a while and sent a handkerchief to be blessed as in Bible times. His sister brought it to the Mission, praying for the Lord to show her to whom she was to give it, and the Lord showed her to give it to Sister Sallie Trainor. She immediately took it upstairs and as she knelt before the Lord, the Spirit came upon her in great power and she prayed in tongues, and kissed the handkerchief three times, as the Spirit seemed to lead her.
It was sent with a prayer and the brother was immediately healed. He was a Catholic and his father had expected to have him educated as a Catholic priest; but God had His hand upon him. He came to America, was converted from the power of Romanism and captivity about six years ago in a Portuguese Methodist church in New Bedford, MA, and entered the ministry of the Methodist church as a missionary to the Portuguese in the state of California.
He was sanctified about four years ago, and is now conducting Pentecostal offerings in the People's church in Los Angeles. Evans and his wife and Sister Florence Crawford went to the city of Oakland preaching the full Gospel, I went the first night, not to criticize but to investigate. Be the first to ask a question about The Azusa Street Papers. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
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