Assemblies of God

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'Ol.. J. '0. J. ~ \LL \983

40th General Council Issue The Earliest Pentecostal Missions in Los Angeles, by Cecil M. Robeck, Jr.

When the Pentecostal Fire Fell in Calcutta, by Maynard Ketcham The Story of Pioneer Radio - Sermolls ill SOllg Goes Coast to Coast, 1946·50

William Durham and the Finished Work of Calvary, by Dr. Edith B1umhofer

C(I"cr IIlu'lr~I,,,n. !'r-dn~ BJn!cl1\~n and Ih,'

A,u", Sm:ct \\""un An"l'r~ ~Uunn} "r Britl);c Puh\"hlll);. Ill<. . lnll11 rh,"1 I><IO~

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THE HERITi\G~!-ETTER Wa neWam ..

T ill" ''',Ut: ollll'rllUI:'I' '" 'Ill''-.Iill hN nl .111, 1\ h .• , Ocen prepared

wllh the ·mth General ('oun<:1i in mind. Sc(;ondJy. 1\ .... iI'iU" lINn )ear, ago at the St Lnui .. CUUrl<:tI fhilt .... t: inlm­du.:cJ Ih ... Iluk p.lper \\c ha\c cnJIl}cd produ~'lIlg c;Jl.:h 01 the I) ' ...... ue .. ;lOd 1m .. , Ihal n L\ -.en-lOg the Intended purpn-.c: \(l help promote and pn!\CT"'C our gTe.1t hcril<l!!c Than~ you for your lIl\crc\[ In [hi .. new

PHlJC<:t and In thl\ "pc<:liLl General Coum:il ""lIe of III'riftuw

Ano, .. the page )'ou'lI lind a ,tory on the carl) j'cn!cco,tal Ol" .. illn .. In to .. Angell'''. which .... iI ....... nttcn II) CeCil M Rohcd.Jr. Then another .. lOry which re­late, to the carly m"'lon .. III 1.0\ Angell'''

and .1Il Ill1port,Vlt cllXlrin<l! , .. ..,ue i .. hhlh Blumhofcr', 'The hni ... hctl Work oJ Ci,I"af} ,. Milynanl Ketcham. a retired 1ll1\,>lOnilry I icld \Cuetaf) for the Far 1::..1\1. h;l\ gi .. cn u, an m\plrJIlg .md mlonnall\c \Ior) on thc 1907 I\:ntcco\tal rcvi\al 1Il

('akU\til Bul pleil'>c don't ,top there . You'll find

'llillC liI.,clllallllg infornliitlOn on the crea­tion (If the A G RadiO J)epilrlmcnt and the Initlill eHon\ I(l ev,lflgch/c 011 a national level \.Iollh Sam(lf/\ /1/ SOIlK, Th,lI ~tory!'> 'Pioneer. III A G NatIOn .. ! Radio,"

M;I)'bc you \.Ioere .. pitrl of that pioneer hr{)adt.:;t\t ( 1946-.'i0) or were a t.:hartcr I!'>tener Let u, hear from yOLI If you '!lIlg In the t.:hOlr. preached. II\tcned. or had ;II1Y

pilrl In Ih;lt broatka\t

And tllilt Y.-a, rl!a\on enou!!h tllr Ihl! Gl!neral ("ounul \II adopt the \aml! nilll!e tor 11\ natlona[ hroadca\l In [Y46

Gt)\pel radiO ha\ rnalurl!d \\-llh thl! .\\­\cmblie\ lit Gild. and thc rapid

gm\.lolh 01 thc mu\emcnl dunn);; Ihc P,J\I _~H )eal'\ can he illlnbuled in part tu Ihl\ \.Ioccld) c\iln!!l!h\11t.: outreach

In 1945 thl! "\'-.cmhllc\ (II' (jod l'kumed 241 .71':12 memocr\ ,lilt! ) .31 [l'hurchc, B) January I. 19H1. thcrc werc I. [1l).6H6 ml!mOC,..., and [0.173 t.:hurt.:hc, Therc an: man) t.:ontnhutlll!! lat.:IOr\ in thl' remark­able gro\.loth. hut Jon't mcr[ool.. the pl.1\.Ioer or radio.

I'he radIO nlUmtrle\ reached peop[e Ih;11 the churl'he, l'ould nOI and It', \liI[ hilppenlllg \\-ith Rl'rlmltillll' ,md Lr('rr DlI\' With Jell/I RadiO \Cnt a call1llg t.:ilrd. Introducing the [i,tcner to Ix)th Ihc go\pcl ot Jc~u\ Chri'l ilnd the local church "orm­IIlg the Radio J)eparlmenl in 1945 v. .. , a monument;l[ dcu'ton tor the Kingdom.

In the next i\\lIe )()u'[[ read a '10f) \In Hel·/I'lIlfllI/l'. one of the IH()\t eilecllve go,pc[ radio progr;lIl)\ ever produced

If you arc nol a mernhcr of the Henlilge Society and ,uh'crihcr to Hertlage. I hope you'IIJoin rlghl ;I\\-a) ,0 you \.Iollll·t Illi" a 'lIlg1c i\\ue.

A. nd here i\ ~()melhing ehe you'[[ nOI f"l.want to mi,,!

We h;I\'e \elected four complcle radio

pnlgr;1II1' produced h~ thc Radio f)CP;lrI Illellt hc l\.lo een IY46 ;lIld 195.1 and repro­dut.:ed them on <I 9()-rnlllute ca\,elle Thi\ ne\.lo and ull/que tape I~ (io\fJt'1 Rallio CIl/Hin and l"(lI1tain~ Scrmom If! S(lII,(

(194XI. fill' (impel Hod,cl f 1948). and t\.loO hwat!l'<I\h of RiTimll/llli' II Y5 I and 19511_

You ern have a free t.:0]1) 01 thi, in ~piril\g and nO~lalgic lilllC by becoming a memOcr of the lIenwKI' Sol'il'l\' (or re­nc\.lo Ill/,!. ~nur current Illelllber,hip)

It', a, '1lllple iI\ thilt h[J OUI the at­IiIrhcd po,t .. :ilrd (in the cellter of thl'> i"uc) . return to our ollice. ilnd \.Ioe·1I mail }our COP) oj (io\l1l'1 Radio elI/HiLI,

No IX)\t,lge i, needed if the card " ll1:ulcd III the U.S We'll ~Irnply bil[ you ($ I () for a ye;lr or S 1 00 for hlclirne), I f the card i\ mi\\ing, \.10 rile 10 the A"emblie, of God Heritage SocielY. 1445 Boonville Avenue. Springfield. ~1i\\ouri 65802 . Bc \ure 10 tell (1\ \.10 helher jour mcmbcr~hip I' NEW or RlNlWAL.

Ag,un. thank you for your ~upporl oflhe Aret1l\'e~ illld the Heritilge Soc icty. -~~

Thc n,Hlle Sl'rtnOI/\ 11/ Stili\!. ilctu;llI) camc from ;t I(K;II program produccd

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS b) Ccnlr .. 1 A\\elllbly imd rclea\ed ()\·er KWIO

I iI\I..cd Berl Webh. \\-ho \\-a' pa\tor of Cenlrill A\\cmbl) hcl\.locen 1939-44, about the ]ot.:al pmgr.un illld the origin 01 the !MmC

"We \.Ioantcd a IlC\.lo namc for our bmad­e .... I ... hc recalled "So [ ,Innounced thilt \.10 c \\-ould pa) $25 for a n;I111C \ubmillcd h) our 11'lcncr,_ lI undrclb of n ,Ul1C~ \\ere mailed III re'p<)Il,c 10 Ihe offer ..

One l1\tener \\-rote that Brother Webh hild thc ahilit) to get a me"age aat)" bctweellthe \ong\ Ocforc Ihe li,tciler re;ri­I/ed he h .. d heard a \er1ll01l Logicall). \he wmte. Ihe progr.lI11 ,hould oc called Sl'r-1/1(111.\ ill SOIl~,

She got the 525

W(/\flt' E. Wt/mer is Dirt'clOr a/the AlG An'll/res

Articlc Rcrrc!>hed Memoric!>

Thank you for Ihe ,mlde from TlIl'I.ltI­It'/" Ralll /;'I'ulIgei leoncerning the Pcn­tec()\tal work in Iowa]. Thi, \Hiteup re­frc\hed our mcmorie\ of Ihc lIlanc!ou\ rnoving of the ble\\ed Holy Spirit il hall century ago. Thank God He i, ,till proving Hi" pre\ence today wherever there ,Ire open hean~.

Thank you for thc lIt'/"ifllge publ icalion. We enjoyed re;tdrng II ,lIld will pa\\ II on to iI couple \.Ioho are retired A G rnini'ler"

John R. and Loui'>C Riche)

Hemel. Californ ia

Ellilor's II()fl'. TIll' Rlehl',n /OII11r/er/ till' OIJell Bible b'lIl/gelislil' l\u()cillliOl/ (lI:JJ2) which Imer hl'clilI/e Opel! IJ/IJ/t' SllI/UlliNI Cllllrdw~ (l935}.

Rcscar{'hinl! Kan\:1S lIislOr)

I do \.10 I\h 10 JOIll the A~\emblie, 01 God Herilage Soclet} ,.1 Ju,t became a\.loare of the Society fmm our Di\lrict iI\ they ilre aware (If Ill) imerc't in rc<.earch

I ,Ull gl;ld for thl~ SlX"iet} illld 11\ Inlel\."l and hopc churt.:he, can he madc a\\are before all the pa'>l generation, arc gOlle We ha\e no chaner rnemhcr. lelt from our A''>Clllhl) irnd onl) nnc v. lio carne ,hortl} ;tlter Ihe church \\a, founded_

I did \Ian our re\Cilreh ,e\era] \e;l,..., ago hut r, e much more to do. -

We IlIU,t look forv.ard. but we cannot forgel from where we camc ,Hid tho,e \\ ho ga .. e thaI \\e mighl have.

Pmi,e Ihe l.ord !

Carol Duvall Coffe) 'IIII.'. Kitlhil'

ASSB1BLICS 01' GOI) HERITAGE

lIema"., i\ puhl"hed 'lualtcrty by the ,\'>>oCrnbtics 01 God Archnc_. loWS Boon'tHc A'c. SpnngflCld. 1'.1065802_ PlM,lnI: (417) 862-2711 t Tlm paper l~ free 10 member; 01 lhe Asscmbhc,> (If G~JOJ Hcnlagc SocICI) In10nn.3110n on ITl('mhcl'hlp "a,altabk on rcquc~1

\\:a} roc E_ Warner. Editor Pam I:,l,tl~kc, A,'>l,tanl Ednor

Cop)nght 19HJ by the Geller:ll CouncIl of lhe Ao;o;cmbhc~ of God

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l .tadcr~ at Ihl'\llI~a Sln"('[ \li'-l>iQIl in 1907 I(alh{'r "jIll Pa.'lor \\ ilti"rn J . So.»lIlour. Florcn..:c Cr'H.rord. "110

The Earliest Pentecostal Missions

of Los Angeles

... ,I"bli,hed Ih" \1}(), lolic hill! in " orlland. j, Q,mdinj! IX'hind Sl')U\our. II l'r daughll'r j. ~l'at{'d in the ("t'n ler. IJlw[ j~ }beliac! Sill'lo",· "ho look Ih(' 1'{'nt(,(:lr.>tQI rn('~aR" to SWi oJ.(ricid. Mi~uri.

A Look at Their Humble Beginnings More Than 75 Years Ago

Il)' Cecil M. Robeck . Jr.

Thi~ paq year Tim(' magazine reponed Ihal "the b igge~t db!inc! category of

ProIC\(anb today ... [C0I1\i'>1\ of! Pcn­lcc()~tali~l~ - at 51 million ,'mng ... [n addition II million member ... of more tra­dilional denominations foll ow !'cntceo,!a) practice'>,'" These number .. bear \\ilnC\\

not only to the blc"ing of God. bUI aho to the tenacity of the ca rl y Penteco\(al pioneer..,. Often coming from among the JXXlr and underprivileged, the~e brother. and ~i:.ter~ e ndured hard..,hip and per­:.ecution for the mc~sage they belicn:d and preached. a ll1e~~<Ige of a "Latter Rain"' outpouring of God'" Spirit.,

The Penteco~tal me~~age came 10 Lo~ Angele.., during the :.pring of 1906 through the mini,try of a blac~ brother, William Joseph Seymour. At that time the city numbered some 230.000 re..,iderm. 2 On the whoh: the city wa' f:lirly well in­tegrated. ' although there were two or threc ~mall areas where the population wal> pre­dominantly blac~.

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The earlie~t black re,ident\ of Lo:. Angeles wcre ..,pread throughout the city. but a \l1lall Llu,ter "eltled 111 a ,emi­indu'>Irial area includlllg ..,everal liver} \tablc.., bounded by 1 "I and Jrd Street<­belween S<ln Pedro and S<)nla Fe. Within Ihi.., ~ll1all area was a ~h()rt ,treel which from 189-1. 10 1904 h{)u~ed Ihe Steven,

"These /)rorher.\ alld sisters ('Iull/rnl Jwr(/.Ihip lIlIll pl'r.recl/tiollfor the m('.\.Wlge thev heliel·t'(lllllll preached, a mess(l1:(' (if (I '·Latter Rai,,'· outpouring of COlt.1 SI,i,.il. ,.

African Methodist Epi\copal Church at 312 Ai'usa $treel."

A.., the new century dawned and more hl;lck familie~ moved into Ihe area. Ihe migration tcnded to drift south and e:!st. bounded by Maple Avenue. Olympic Boulevard, and Central A\enue.~ Clo,er to Ihe railroad trad, of Ihe Santa Fe line where lot~ ran between $200 and $400,

the\ built betwecn Santa I·e A~enue and ~,.ile() Streel Ste\en\ A'lL Church 010\ ed \\ IIh the migratron tn Xth and T{)\\ nc In 1904. ch.m!!ing It, name 10 !·ir"t \\11.:. Church Tht' ,\/U'a Street Itl(:Jtll1ll \.\a, lefl \;lC,lIlt \.\lIh the 1:Iurkhng Ilcrng u\ed tor "torage

I t \'\.1\ in ;.t 'l1latl h,llllk'''' nll"'10n tonned III 19nfl lIn Sanl,! h: A \ l'nue that \\ J

Sq mour IIr"t I"lrllU!!llI the Pentel·o,t<rl me .... ;!!!e III bte \lan:h " HI" JIle"'J.ge \\ J." rl'Jected. and he \.\.1' I"lJITed tWill preach mg there Yel, there were tho .. e pre'ent \.\ ho w,lIlted 10 he;lr Illore

Ruth and hcr hu .. hand Richard I) \"

Ocl). ,I Janitllr employed at thc "lInn: BUlldlll!!.L1 lO() SllUlh Spnng. In\ lied Sl') mom tn their home at 21" N Bonn!!: Br;It" SITl:ct (111m 21M to JOIll ,I cottagc pr,l~er mecong. SC) mour accl!ptcd their 111-\It.1l10n, but the mceting~ \\l!TC "h\lrtlr\ed. lor thl! Spirit tcll al Bonme Br.lc (In Apnl 9, and \\on! of the Cll'lII 'pn:ad 4uic~l~ For the nC'I",llhrec nighh thc mecting \\<1"

moved out,ide Ihe \\h,tc-\\;hhed \\nod frame ,Iructure to accommodate tho'e \.\hn C;llIle·· The tront porch I\\hleh ri,es \Ollle 15 tcet abm e Ihe curb I ,en cd a, a pulpit lunlil it-. collap"e on Apnl 12. 1906. frum the \\eight \llihe wor .. 1I1rcr.l. while ero\\d" gathaed mlhe .. treet. 'llCll­bound by the 11\(1\ IIlg of the Spin! .. ~ The efO\.\d, qui"~I) <lttmell!d the ,,((e1111011 tIt the pollcc.') Jlld il oceilllle C\ Ident thill a 1:lrger place. more ,ult,!hlc for the meel in!!.s \\ould bI! e'o\ential. ~That wee~ Ihe nm\ dclapldated Steven,

AME Church budding on }\/U'" Street \\a" acqulrcd Wilhin fivc day' \.\-h.1I would become knu\\ n a" the ApostoliC Fillth Mr"ion on A/u\a Street h;ld made Ihe Lo.\ AII1:e/t'.1 f)wlr TiIllC.I. On Apnl 17, a Timl'.1 ~taff \\ rit ..: r all..:nded thl! e\..:ning meding. 111\ artie1e titled, ··Weird Babd of Tongu..:,:· appeared 111 the Tilll/'_1 the next day. d..:scribing. thl! mi"ion .. ~ a ··Iumble-do\\ n ,had on ALU'i1 Str..:ct" where ··nightls Illade hideou, in the nClgh borhu(xl by the ho\.\ ling.' ollhe wor.hlper" who 'pend hour, swaying forth alld had 111 a nervc-radlllg attitude of prayer and supplieation .. ·1(1 Seymour had been 111 town Ie .. , than .. monlh

Such un\ought publicity broughtlX!Oplc from Illile, around Se) mour lived on Ihc prerni,e, of the IW()- .. tory frame burldlllg and meeting' wac conducted from 10 a.lll. until midnight and be)ond. II became the Penteco .. tal center of it.., day, fir.t al­traeling people. then ,ending them (Jul with a nc\.\ experience and .. Illl!..,sage

M canwhile ,omc five block, a\.\ay a congregation mct HI Burb;lIlk lIall at

542 South Main Strect. E~tahh,hed in September 1905. a~ Fir-.! New Tc,tament

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Church. it ",a~ led by Jo~eph Smale. Formerly the pilstor of Hrst Bapt"t Church in Lo~ AngeJc.. •. Smale had left to fonn this new congreg:lIion which he en­couraged to '>Cd. revivill Fran\" Bilrtleman was a charier memocr 01 this work II At l-'ir~t Ne w Te~liImcnt Church. people prayed for the restor-ilion of the g ilt~ men· lIoned In I Connthliln~ 12:4-11 I~ On April I S. the week Seymour moved his meeting from Ronnie Brae to A/Usa Street. a black woman ~poke in tongue~ dunng the SundOlY morning service at Fir\! New Testament It caused q Uite a ~ tlr,l' ;lnd a number of member, wcnt to Alusa Street

"flcr a .. hort period o f lime Pastor Smalc Invited hi~ people b:ld, promi~ing them " liberty In the Spirit." an cve nt about which Banlcman wrote on Junc 22_ 14 A month Imer . on July 23. 1906. thc hap­pemn!!.~ at the Fir,t New Testament Church were a1-.o featured in the Till/i'S.

T he lI rt icle IIIled. "Queer 'Gifl' Given Millly" described this co ngregation as a "prospcrous-:tppeari ng, tas tef u II y -dressed and cult ured-looking assembly" g iven to "loud walling, bursh of <"ong and prayer and shout ing of ' Hal leluJah.' "The arlicle wa, accompanied by c:lrtoon caricatures of nine ' 'Types oftho!.C who clalill to have received the 'gift of to ngues' at the New Testament Ch urch . "I~

By Augu ~t 1906, Frank Barl leman was co nvi nce d that so me thing new W:lS needed. He wrote later that he foresaw the decli ne of both A.wsa and the New Tes­lament Church because they chose to "or­gani!.e."lh Whatever hi s reasons, Bartle­man opened the doors of a buildi ng at the edge o f the black ne ighborhood on the southeast comer of 8th and Maple o n Su n­day, August [2. A congregation which refused to take a name, it was lis ted in the 1907 City Directory s im ply as a Pen­tecostal church whose pastor was C. E. S .. rgenl. 11 Ban le man W:IS acti ve there for a time, the n turned the leadership over to W . H. Pe ndelton .

September was :l very eventful month . The Azusll Street mission published its

first issue of The Apostolic Faith . IH a monthly ne wspaper featuring testimo nies . articles , and news Ite ms of interest to Pen­teCOl-wl be li evers. It s spirit was non­sectarian, for the October issue gave full coverage to the 8th and Maple work , me n­tioning also the work at People 's Church (598 Mateo) and other ne w wo rks in out­lying areas Olnd around the world .

September 19. 1906. brought fUrlher co verage of the move me nt by the Los Angeles Daily Tillles. Of particular interest was the expcricnceof Dr. Hcnry S . Keyes, a member of the Ne w Testame nt Church and the "directing surgeon of the Emer­gency and General Hospital." On Sep-

Th_ cartoon caricatures appc:.tred in Ihe Loi. \nl:e~ Times, Jul) D. 1906. supposedt) repr~nlinl: the t)pe!> of Pentl'COStals at the First "'ew Testament Church. The photo at the ril:h l is of Elmer Hsher , pastor of the l ppt"'r Room \lission.

tember 18, the Times asked Dr. Keyes to " reduce the strange 'language' that sud­denl y descended upon him to writing." The interpretation was written by another Pentecostal. L. C. Le Nan . and the re~ults were g iven 10 o ne Baba Bharati described as "an e minent Oriental scholar," who declared it 10 be no thing mo rc than gibber­ish . Drawings of the doctor "e xplaining hi s 'gift' of a lOlnguage nobody cver hcard o f." "a facsimile o f Dr. Keyes' 'Gift of To ng ues ' sc raw l. ils En g lish ' tra ns­latio n' ... and the opinion of Baba Bha­rati" accompanied the anicle . l

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About the same time Pastor Smale of Fi rst New Testame nt Church began to rethink his eommit ment to Pentecost. As such he tightened the re ins o n the Pen­tecostal ex perience in hi s c hurch . Ul-

timatcly Elmer Fisher established the Up­per Room Misson at 3271J2 South Spring Strect. Bartleman noted that both racial and theological issues entered into the fo unding of this miss io n. ··Most of the white saints from 'Azusa' went with him lFisher]. with the 'bapti zed ' ones fro m the New Testament Church. This later became for a tim e th e s tro nges t mi ssio n in lown. "zo

As the years went by, new missions Joined those already in ex istence. By 19 15 Los Angeles had no fe wer than 15 such missions with outreaches to various ethnic groups includ ing the Itali an and Spanish. speaking res ident s o f Los Angeles. In add itio n there were at least three black

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When the Pentecostal Fire Fell in Calcutta AIC Missions Traces Origin 10 1907 Outpourings

b) MOl) nard Kelcham and \\'a~ Ill.' Warner

Irna~c, of pmeny. ~!<Ina[ion. di\C3'>1.'.

and death come \0 mind .... hen the cit) of C:llculla I'> mentioned But then we arc al~o remllldcd that the ,>1\ua(J()O i.., nOi entirely hopcic..,,> a, long a" the 10\ lllg mlni<,tric,> of peoplc ,ueh ;\.., 1\lothcr Tcrc,>a lind Marl.. and Hulda Buntam conlmu\!

The'>c cornpa"ionatc mini<,tric<, might \cem <,0 ,mall when the need i .. \0 great. BUIlhe ,>ucec.." ~toric\ flov. ing from Ihc,>c gallant cffon.., an: tilling \OIITrnc,>. I

To chan thc rnini'>try of Pcntcco,>t:lh in Calcutta one I11U,>1 go bad, to 1907 when the Holy Spirit WlI'> poured out in twO ~cparalc location,> about five milc~ apan. The'>c revival fire,> later merged and g.IVC 11

foundation to thc work of thc A.,\cmblie~ of God in Calculla. Ea!>tem India. and Bangladei>h. ~

The firi>t fire started when Alfred G. and Lillian GaTT arrived in CalcuUlt. fre~h from the Azui>a Street 1l1ceting~ in Lo~ Angele~.

Garr wa~ pastor of a Burning Bu\h con­gregation in LOi> Angeb in 1906 when the Penteco~tal outpouring shook Los Angele\ and tran!>formed believers around the world. When he received a mighty endue­ment of power. Garr ~poke in Bengali - a language he did not )..now . A~ a result of this unu\ual experience, the GaTT~ felt a strong call to service in Indill: i>0 in the fall of 1906 they left their Lo~ Angeles con­gregation in the hand~ of others and sct out for New York :md eventually India.

Enroutc to New York City the GaTT' stopped at Burning Bu~h congregations in

Chicago ;lI1d Dam ilk. Virginia. telltng of their rccent c"I;paicnce at thc A/u". Street fl.li~~ion Con\equeml}. man) III the,e people recel\ed the ]>enteco\l;tl expcriencc. 1

Whde the) \\cre ,nil in thl~ counlr) Garr \Hotc to Wilham J. Se)l1lour. pa\tor of the AlU\a Street ~hs~lon. cuncernlllg the Penlecmtal revival III Dan\llie IIc closed hi!> lener \\ ith a note of 1;lIth fur their mi"ion to Indi a: "We arc expeClIlly. God to gIve us a good reVival m IndIa ..

God honored their fmth 111 a greater v. a) perhap\ than thC} could ha\oe imagined

After arrivll1g 111 Cakulla. the G;rr, met 11 \1I1CCrc and dedicated minister. Pa'tor Hook of the Bov. Bat.ar Bapti'l Church­the same church which had nJOg 10 the lI11pas~ioned eloquence of WilJi<l~ Carey 100 years earlier.

Pastor llook Hlntcd GaTT tu conduct service, <It the church. and it v.w.n·t long before another Pentecostal fire wa\ burn­ing ;n the world - thi' one morc thilll 8.000 mile~ from the A/u<.a Street Mi",ion.

Mi\\ionaries and national\ alike were touched by the fire. Many \vere com icted of ,>in. Some wcre irnpre\\ed to make restitution. It wa" :\ genuine move of the Spirit which wa, reponed in Pcnteco~tal periodical!> around the world .

One of the repon,> wa~ publi~hed in The A,'QJtQlic Faith. Seymour', periodical in Los Angeles. Mr.;. G:tTT wrote:

God i\ ~prcadmg PentLx'O\t here in Calcutta. and thn1ccn or founeen 101" 'Ion;tric~ and other wor~er' h;t\e

Mhs Fallll) S;IIII1!>(ln a nd '''0 )"ou n~ IIIis.,;ullar} COUI)Ic~ "lIoul l<nll . On th~ left ~rl' Gtad}~ a nd Maynard Keteham. Hnd on the ri!:hl art' Charll", ~nd Lillian Woole\ef.

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rn'ci\ed 11 We ,ltC amLlng Bible tc;t(h cr.. and Ihe) ha\l~ the Word '0 ,[ored ;jl>.a). but n(lw thc SPlnll' putting Ill. .. ,lIld ["K.ll>.Cr IIllll n. \\ h)(h "\\\lnderfulhl hehoJd ~

Ldhan Garr .11,0 repor!eJ that ~I,,\

Su,an ta,ton. heill.l of the .\mcru.:.111 Women', Board tlf ~1t"ion" h,ld Ocen bapll/cd III the Splf11 ;tIld "i, J ptl\\er for God.·o(>

So the lirl' that had ,tarted lilLo, Ange1c~ \\;h nov. hurning til C.kulla

B Ut a \ccond fire \\ a<. abuut to ,tan ,00llC

II \"1; Illlle\ from the Bov. IlMar ,e('tmn orCakulla. Apparently thl\ re\ihll dfon wa\ IIldepcndent of the GaTT meeting'

Fann) Sirnp,un. a ."1cthodi~t 1111S\ion· ary from Bo~t()n. directed a girh orphan· age on Elliot Road v. hlch \\ a, 'lXlIl,ored by the Methcxhq Women', UnIOn MI, ,ionary Societ}

Linle did M", Sltllj>\on )..Ij(l\\ that the re\ival v.hich \\ould \tan 111 her orphanage v.ould be the mean~ of hl;r dt\l1li~,,!1 from the orphanage.

One day 1-":1011) heard about fcn t!nt rnOrllmg prayer meetlng\ anlong the gIrl, Then ~hc heard about gir1~ \\ ho v. ere con· fe~~lIlg .... rong'. returning 'tolen rice and soap. A chapel ~cf\ ice \\:\, imcrmpted when ~e\'cral gir1~ ",ere ~lain mthe Spirit Some uf the girh began 10 prophe,y Other, .began to "pea~ in unintelligible languages.

Fanny was a \ery proper Bo,tonian \\ ith impre~~ive mis,ionary credential, But thi!> w:h all new to her. She didn't reall) )..now ho\\ W handle the demun~trations. It wa~ ev ident. howe\cr. that It'>e\ were bell1g changed. There wa, no doubt about that. and gi rb Whche li\e~ were re\oo· lutionlled wert! making a deep il1lj>re~"on on thcir director.

Finally MI~' Simp,on', doubt~ began 10 disappear. and she too ~ought God - rig.ht alongside the fonner ~tret!t urchlll\ \\ ho had been praying down the b1c~~lIlg, of God. When the girb ~:t .... their beloved leader praying. the) JOIned her and "prayed her through" to the bapti~1l1 III the Holy Spint.

New, \oon circu lated around C .. IcUII:t that ~otl1e unusu;J1 th ing~ were happening at Si\ter Simlhon'~ orphanagt! over on Elliot Road.

Unfortunately. the bi~ho]) h .. d appre­hen~ion\ about what wa\ going on III the orphanage. l-k warned Fanny thaI ,0Il1e· thing had 10 be done . "Si\tcr Fanny. you arc highly reg:lrded :lI1d re' l>ccted." the

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IlI'.hl1p tx-g,m In h." dtort tn \t(IJllhc fC \I\al. '-hut Ihl\ ClllvtlOll. thc\c mani· k'I;JIJon ... , Ihc~ arc ull ... ecml) lor malUrc • .md rC'I'lI!lI;Jolc Chn\IIi.tn\ •

Linn} \HlUld h,ne tn ,top the m,l",

11: ... 1.1111111'- (If tal..\.' the prd)Cr meeting, In a had.. mom

BUI I'anny had ,cen enough of the (lut ptlunng to kn{)\.o, thai it "it\ ol(irKI and Ihal pU\IHng It tn thc bad. of the ()rphilllagc w(luld he .... rIlng And ... he told the hl\hop \\).

l )c~ritl! thl! hi~hop', 1'C'J'Ct:t for l 'Olnn)", hk and mlnl'try, he felt he mu~t dl\mi~~ her a~ the orphanil!!1! ICOlder. But e\lcn allcr LlIln) pild .. cd her hap and returned til Amcril;a. thl! orphanage rcvival con· tmucd rhe girl'> ",ho had received the haptl~lIllllthe Ii oly Splritl..new the expcri· cnt:c ",iI~ real and , hould not he qucndlCd Milllyo j the !Wl, laler married and reared (,hn'tlinl lamilie'. 'ome of whom went mto the 1Il1lli,try

One uf the ",ilp God u,cd to keep [he lin: burning in CalcUlla ""a' through

the Chandra fanlll) ROll Bahadur Chandra \\a~ a Brahmm of

the hlghe't rank. the "collector:' \lr high e,t gO\iernlllen[ offi cial The Bnt"h gov· em ment h'ld made hml a Ral Bahudur, ""hn:h" equIvalent 10 bei ng knighted . He g.lve up IIl1ldUl'nl and Oceame a devout Chn'tlan und er the mlll"try of Dr Alel;andcr Duff. a fanwu, ScollL..,h Pre,hyteri'lIl mi~~ionary. Ral Bahadur eh.lndra re.lred a remarkahle f:unily of three ~)Y' ,lnd two girl~. The boy, became Judgc~ and maghlrale~, and Ihe girl'> be· .:arne dIrector'> of Chri,ti.m m'tIlU\lOn,

Whcn the C'h:mdra f:uni]y hcard (lilhe SPirit', outp()uring at the mee\lng, con­dlJ(;.ed hy Ihe Garn and allhe Ell iot Road nrphan ilgc, Ihey became intere,ted On a !np to blgland Ihey carne In contact wit h FInn Pentec(}'>t'll ~ and received Ihe bap­II ,m III the Ii oly Spirit.

Thcy returned to India and con,tructcd it 'malt t:hilpcl and rc,idenee ne)(t door to thcir huu'>e 10 Beniapuker, lIere in the lI uu'>C of Pril}er and Good New..,. a~ it "':" called, I.ngh'h and Bengali !.Crvice~ were conducted hy thc Elim mi~~i(lnaric' LMer. bceau \e the Elim organiL:llion wa, IUll1ted 111 Ix:r'otllle l ,Hld finance~. Ihe work wa ... lr:m,ferred to thc I\merictml\,­\C mhhe, of God 7

NO". what happened 10 "ann} Sl1np\on?

Some believed her minbtry wa\ fin­I\hcd "hen the bl!>hop dismissed her from the orphilllagc in 1907. But that wa .. hardly the ca'tC.

She V.ih already blessed wl[h a dynamic pcr,>orlJliIY. cloqucm speech. and rnui>ic .. kilb . Nov. Ihal ~he had received the bap­[1\111 in the Holy Spirit. she became <In effective cvangclht during the early yean;

\11 Ihe P,..nteco'tal mo\cmenl One nlthc mCcllll)!, m 1910 in a lillie

\1eth"di,t I;hun.:h In La,lporl. Long. hland. wlluld pl'l~ a p,ut In th,.. mi'~llIna,! cilll to \Ia) nard ,,"etl;ham a )-)car-old hoy 011 Ihal IlIlle \1a~nard', mlllher rct:el\-ed thl! Oapl"l11 m' the HoJ~ Splnt under bnn)"~ mml'>ll) 10 nne ul the Ea~I' pon rncellllg, Then MI" SHnp,on lurned hcr altentlt)n to young \laynard at hi~

\ . (,;. Garr

mOlhcr"~ , ide She 1'11d her h"nd, on \1ay­nard ', head :md clilimcd him by faith a' a nm~ionary 10 the Bengal i-~ I)c:ll.. ing area of Ea~tern India .

Funn y Simp,on would lIve 10 ~ee thut prayer :uhwered when in 1926 Mayn:lrd arrived in India a, a mi'~ i ()nal)' He and hi, wife Glady~ bec'll11e the fir.'>' A, ,emblie, of God mi'>'lonarie.'> to the Bengali-.. pcaking ,Irea of E:t"cm Indi.l, which include~ Calcutta <lnd what wa.., then cOllled Ea\1 Bcng •• 1 II

The burden Fanny Simp<.On carried for India could not be ~helved. In 1920

.. he relumed 10 the country - Ihi s tlllle to Purulia - where .. he e~\:Iblished an or phanage and mi."ion work which would later become the hub of the A ... ,cmblie~ of God work in Bengal M ... ~ Simpson pur­c hased Ihe land ",ith her own money (about $2.650) which ,he had rcceivcd from her mOl her ' .. e~ta te.

And Fanny Simp~on', mUlLstr} in India continue.'> 10 Ihi, d:IY - 34 yeaN after her death. Nalional, 'I ill carry on Ihe work ~he staned in Ea~tem India . And one of her successor!>, Maynard Kelcham - who j ,

now I'Ctired H) Springfield, Mi~souri -had an imponant role In the origin of one of the mOSI dynamic Chri"tian ministries in the entIre counlry.

In 1955 Maynard. no" field direclOrfor Asia, invitcd a young evangcli" 10 con­sider bccommg a mi",ionary 10 Calcutta The young e\'angeli,1 had reeei\-cd another offer of ministry e l..,ewhere , but he agreed 10 pray about Cakul1a .

After praycr Ihe young man accepled Ihe Cakuna challenge. He h "till there, and hi s n'lIlle is Mark Buntain .

.-\nd here l'> o..onlethmg cI-.c that gi\c, the Penteco~tal \\urk III ('akulta an inter­e'tm!! 1"1'1 \Iarl.. Buntalll OUiIt a church oUlldmg almlN JCro~~ the rNd fmm the orphanil!!c '-ann) Slmp,>on ""a, forced to Ica\-e in J907'~

\la)nard Kelch,IIl1 l'> thnllcd al ""hal God hi!' done III Cdculla .• lIld he 1111,lgme\ that othcr, arc aho Jookmg on "The Garr ... , ~anny Simp,on, and NC\llle ('handr,. arc lool..mg down on the ~·i[) of Calculta lrom the battlement'> of hea\-'en and arc rcjoicmg ..

The 'ame HoI} Spirit who tour.:hed Ii\-\!, in 1907 ~'on[mue~ to u<,c dedlc.lted men and women to reach CalcUli a', ,ulknng rna ... -.c,.

The nrc ha, never gone out

"ole.-. I '·"r murc mlonl1alnln un MOlher 'I ere"., \cc

I .. ",,,, (>J e"//UIIII. b) Rubert Sem!U {\kGrJI' Ihlh I)oul! Wead'~ Thr e"'''I''''''''''Iur f",,,·h (HClhan~ I!ou-.e) " Ihe 'IUr) I,f \1~rl J.1d Hulda Bumam', n1m'\I~ .n Cakuu"

2 TodJ) lhe A,..embhc' 0' Gud h", .\1 n1.""1l1. ann . .'i 1_' ,recicnllalcd rullonal mml'ICf'. Jnd 70 la) 'HITla, men.'ICnn!! en Indl~ There arc 4117 dun;he,. 4~6 ouNallon'. elghl B.lllc -.:ho..ol" and nc:arl) tUO.IIOO hehe,.:" Dumaln" Cakuua C1m~­IIJn \'I ",.on lI{)\pHal annual!) ,a~ .. lor .. onle: IIIUMlO \l>utpallellh phI., lbe .npallcnl~ Thuu'and, are Ie\! da.l), through a chuT(:h-ojlc:f'ale\! fond Ilf('I!f'J!I1

.1 A! Ihl ' IlnlC. GaIT and Olher l)cnlc~(,,(;LI, be· hcvcd Ihe lIifl of longue~ II-.'~ for prc;KhUlI! ttl lor ClllllC!"> en the.r Oll-n lang\l,Il!c l-a(cr Ihc) rcall/cd Ihal ",heoc,cr Ihl\ c.tpcrico<;f,· lool plxe 11 "3, an u,cpllnn. nol Ihe rulc. IS~ ... Gary \k(j~'C\'blrJ) I'cnl.:(,),lal \1,,,,ollanc," en Ihe Summcr I')ln Ifrm"l{f )

4 .-\ G. GaIT. "Pcnlc<'<K1 In I)an\ll!c. \a Thr ,\".'.11"/1< f'"ilh. (XI 1906. P 2

.'i Lillian GarT. ''In Caleuna. hld.a:· Th .. A.II(,·uol./ flll/h, April 19(17. p. I

6. 101\!. SU'>311 !::.a,lon be,amc an A",:rnhhc, of God m,",on3ry and '>c:f'·cd on lhe I'urelgn M""on, COn1l11>lIe(: Alfred G Garr fuundcd Ihc Camhna !:vangell'IK A",o(ialiun in I'HO Alfred C G"rr. Jr .. nnw l'a,lOI'\ Ihe churd. hl\ rallier foun\!ed III Charlouc. N C.

7, ~b)'nard dnd Glad), Kccdlem "cre: lhe fi .... 1 A\'>c:mbhc<. of God nl1~'.onarIC' en (hargc (If lbe Bengah ..ef'KC\. The) "en: follo ... cd by Dan and blhcr \larocco, Some uf Ihc (lul\landmg A,· ..ernbhc\ of God m,",ionaric" '" ho mml'!ercd in Ille f.ngll'h branch ofth., mllll\lry IIKlu\!~""lhe HllIilr}" Ca",~,on." Ibrrich. Br~JI1I'. \\ oIlCler,. John I.e""". and otllef'. One of tile OUhlandmg nallon31., lralncd herc "'a~ I)a"d Roy Cllo",dhury,

8 The IICn1CCO\IlII mc"Jge rea(hlng lJJngta t)c,h "11 Ihrllllng '101) en 11'>1:11 Abdul Mun,lue. a DapU\1 prc;u;her and conlcrt from 1'[;1111. d,\CoI'ercd Auncc Semp[c /T.kPhcl'M'n· ~ booL rhi, /J 1htll. In a hor~ry He II-ame\! III lno", murc ;.OOUI the I'cnlcco,lal c\jlCncn,c. 1.1' hc .... role l':lIc~ III Ind' J , one of "hl(h "'a' atldre\..ed 10 "The Pcmtt'''lal M,,, innaru.'\ 111

lc.a~lcrn Ind.a .. Aflcr bouncIng aTQtJoo ..e'cral PI"I offe(~\. Inc feucr am'cd allhe l"uruha ml\o'Ion IIcn: Mun,hlc ncard mun: aboul Inc P~mccO\lal c\jlCn· cncc. JU\I before Ma)nard and Glad), Icfl Puroha for IIle,r fif'1 furlough. a greal oulpourlng uf Ille Spml ~Ufrtd Ille area. TlM: Cllllre \lun,h.e fannl) re<;ell~""

Ihc baph'Ol en the Holy SPIn! Abdul. dc_pIle -.e 'ere jlCf'iI:'cul.on, relurned to hi~ IIonoeland ;l~ lite apmllc of I'cnlcco~L Today h.., -.oil I)ame! I' Ihe ,upcr­mlcndcnl " f Ihe A~l>Cmbllc, o f Gnd "ork m Bangia l)c,h ..,..

AlG HERITAGE, FALL 1983

Tht, !Wrrnons in Son~ , Iodio. J'jl-UI-SO. \llh(' far ril:ht L~ Thom,,~ F. I.imrnnrnllll. dirl'Clor of Ihe Radio Ueparln1('111 Mild alllloonCtr, On hi~ ril:hl j, Ihe pro~ram ' Ilt:akcr. Gl'ncral ~lIperinlcnd('nl E. S. \\ illimll', and 10 hi, ril:hl j~ \\, I. han~. Th~ oq:ani,1 i~ (;"cn Jon('\, corr~nt t'dilor of Ad'ant'1' ma~l,,;n('.

Pioneers in AiG National Radio Sermons in Song Goes Coast to Coast and Around the World

Part I

God dOl':'II'1 erellle (/ lI1('dilllll like nufiu (Imllhell IIl1ml il 10 fli.1 folloll"er.1 to

use 10 l'l'lIlIgeli::l' Ihl' world. Rather. I-It­w(lils paliemh Ifltife fillill' lIIall .lIl1mbft>r /01f(/rd di:,cul't'/"\' of lite mediuIII (IIul dl'­I,t,fo!):} it. Tltell He 1/101'1'.1 111'011 lIi.\ wr­willIS to lIIake 11.\l' of till' tool tllat IUI.\ ''''('/1 IIImit' (II '(lilable, "I

What come.., to mind when you think of a national radio progrmn produced by the Assemblie., of God?!

Probably Ihe name., of Dan Bell.er and C. M. Ward for ,>larter~. Then the well­~nown prograll1\. Rl'I'il'(lltime and EI'er." Day Willt Je.ms.

Unlc~s you have reached your 50th birthday. you probably never heard two olher radio ~peakcr'>, E. S. Wilham.., and Wei>ley R. Slcelberg, Sr.. and Ihe fiN national radio program Snmol/s ill Song. \

Thi s brief ~tory deah with the clIrly years of the Radio Departlllent ,lIld Sl'r­/I /oIIS ill SUllg which was launched on a memorable Sunday, Janu;.ry 6, 1946.

If you were lIround on Ihal day and listening [0 the radio. you can probably recall the thri ll you experienced when the A~,>embJics of God wa'> "linkcd" CO;tq 10 coaSI by radio. And it probably d idn't matter th<lt the melHlS WH~ by "tr;IIlS­cription." or a gi;tnt LP record bClIlg playcd over your local radio qation.

It mighl secm li~e a pri mitive com­municalion syslem when compared with the Lil'e.' From Anllhf';m lelecast. But St'rmOlls ill SOllg was usi ng [he highe~1 technology available to produce and broadcast th e gospe l . And it W;tS cffeclive.~

AlG HER ITAGE, FALL 198_'

De~pite thc identificalion tag [hat Ihe ne\\ program W,I~ Ihe "NatIonal A'>­

\emblic\ of God Radio Hour:' Sermoll.l ill SOIlR wa, at;tually a 15-minulc proout;tion.

The fonna l included sacred \ong~ and a brief Illc.."age. The fiT\! program', pcr­~onnel included General Superintendent E. S. Williams as the ,>pe:l~cr : Thomas 1-Zimmerman a, director 01" Ihc Radio De­partmcnl and narrator: and Les BarnCIL who bclorc his conver'>ion wa, a ll1u,ie coach for popular movie per~onalilie,. ,,\ director of the mlhic .~

Each "cd Thoma, F. ZLimnerman', unmistakable \oice would beeomc a I\el­come ~ignal a(;fO,~ the mitc~ and cvcn 11110 forcign countrie~ with hi~ familiar inlro­duclion: "The Gcneral Council of Ihe A,-

"It II'lI.I lIjul'-MO.'1Jl'1 .10//11(1111111 hro/lght I\'ar",th m/{llo\,(' mill hope 0/1 till' h<'l'I,1 oj lile 1II0.l"t dl'\·a.\llllillg wlIr in 1111/1/(/1/

hiHory, "

~e1llblies of Goo presents - Sermonl ill SOl/g."'

And thcn the choir',> calchy Ihcmc would alen the listener Ihat a full-go,>pel program W;tS on the air:

Je.nu is the 0111.1' S(/I';OIlr, LOlld leI the edlOl'S rillg;

JeslI.1 is the mighty flealer. Gfadfy tile message brillg: it'SIiS is tht, grt'al IJa{)ti::er. "Glory, fl lIllelujah" sillg; AmI "'f' rejoice for fle'.f

Ollr comillg King.

The fiN fc\\ pmdU('IIOlh {If S('''''WI/I il/ SOllg "ere rccorded al ('entf,1I :\,>,emhl~ in Springfield Later Ihc hroadGI,t, \\ere produced on the Centr..1 Blhle Cnlkge t;;llllpU,>. Natur.III). ,tudCllh ;ltthl.' I.'ollege were excited about partit:ipJltng III a pro­gram" hidl had a potenlLal audteru:c of million,

But Ihe college 'Iudellt' and Head quarler~ per,onncl 1\ ere not the onl) people in\olled in th i'> fiN national pro­gram Young peopk In ('hri,I', i\ mha',a· don, group'> around [he counlry gOI hchind the el;ttl gcll~11l effort hy purdht'ttlg rc­cording equipmenl :11 ;1 co'>[ 01 $1 ~,()OO ma~ing. the ~tudio one 01 the fine~[ re­ligiou,> '1Ud io~ in the count/)

The 6O-\oice choir, cOIllp!hed of ,tu· dent, at C BC. "a'> ,>\llllething to hchold

In 1945 girls a[ CBC \\erc ~Itli weOlflng uniform'> n:l\) dre">e,> 1\llh t)·tlKh

bow~, The men wore \uit,: but I"k!CilU'>C 01 shortage, irnmedi:ttcly following World War II. it wa~ alm(l',[ Imp!)s,>ihle to gel <.,uit~ alike - evcn to outfit a quartet

R adio progralTl~ proom:ed hy [he A,· selllblies of God belween 19-16 ilnd

1950 were recordcd on Ihe then 1,1t1lIiL;tr '·transcription,. "The~e wcre l:lrgc 16· inch records \\ hich were ,>cnt to the radiO stations carry ing thc prograttl\.

But before Ihe programs could be senlto thc '>wlion,>. Ihe masler record wn~ sent to the National Broadca'>t ing Com pan) 111 Camdcn. New Jef)cy. where pre~sing.,>. or duplic<t1e<.,. of the broadc<l!>t were madc, T hc duplicates were then shipped [0 Springficld where Ihey wcre mailed to the ~tation.."

Producing the masler rccord allo"ed IlO

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room for mist like, '>ince there Wi!'. no mean ... for editing It the participants made mi ... t ilke~ during the fl!cording se,>slnn'. the ent ire program h,ld to be recorded "bam.

Harl'i ~ Jan,en. now;1 facul ty memher at the A"embtie~ 01 God Gradu<He School \\';1'> a member of the chOir ;lnd quartet m those eilrly ye,lrs lie rcmember'> '>orne long ro.!hear-.als ,lIld tense recording ... e ... · ... ion .... "Les Barne!! added a profes ... ional touch to Ihe llu l ... ic." he recall .... "but SOIllC of hi ... diffit'ult arrangemc nt s often cha l lenged Ihe mw.ician ......

The hard wt)rj., and ded ication. how­ever. paid off ,I'> SI'rmolll /11 SOllg with its pleasant and profcs,iona l wund sought out IlIdden receive r ... and lonely heart ... hearts thaI were wa iling 10 hear Ihe Good News. The .. c voice\ of hope reac hed inlO new area, 10 cllangeli 7c li nd introduce li ... t e nc r~

10 local <i\scmbll es. It was a t'ull -g()~rc l

sOllnd that brought warmlh and love "nd hope on the hee l ... of Ihe mO'1 dev:ts t:tll ng war In human hi,>lOry.

And that'~ not a ll. In ! Y47 Serlll(! II .l1I/ SOIlR wa:, presented

Ihe aware! fo r the " n est AII -ar()unJ Re­Il giou, BroadeHQ" by Ihe National Re­li gIOUS Broadcaster .... Other award ... wo ulJ come for thi s pionecr A~scl11blics of God hroadc"'1 and <tho for Th(, Gospel Rockel , ;t chlldren 's program prod uct!d in 1948 by the RadIO Depanmenl.

And the nelworh were t"king nOli ce 100. I II Augll~t194Y.lhe American Broad­c<Jsting Ct)mpan y paid a wcJl ·deserved Irlbute to the Snlllolls ill SOllg personne l

Atthr ril{h\. T . F. Zl nllncrll1:on fhehind Ihe counler ) prumotes Sermon, in Sonl! and The (;n"JW'1 Ruckel 31 Ihe 7th anlllla l SUllda) Schuol COIlHntion. 19"9. lielol" h Ihe Sermons in SUIl!: choir.

when it offered to Carr) Ihe program (lllihe nelv.ork

But it w()uld not be the 11I11e nor Ihe prog.ram for tht! A~ .. emblic~ 01 God III go on Iht! network That dcci~i(ln <lnd ~Iep of huth would come laler wilh ... olllething bigger <lntl with t!ven a greater oUlreach Rnil'(/{IIIIU'. v. hich would be intnxluced on E:t~lcr SundilY 1950.

And Ihat'~ anolher slor)'

'nt(·~ I BaH}' Sledd I. (;01/",1 RadIO (Lm<tlln. f\;e·

hr:l\k" lIJ"~ 10 Ihe Blhle Bn.md"'''I. I'nll. p 19 P,Il',bur!!h', C'llh'dr}' Lpl'>(;np,,1 Chun;h Im,.uk,,,t

Ih .. fiN go'pel '-Cr. i;;e o~cr a cnllnn"r.;I"II) II"cn-cd ""non. KDKA. 1111 J'III, 1. 19~1 AIIII<"<: S .. mple \kPh"N,>!l "", Ihe 111"1 "ornJn I" pn;J<'h tin I<ldlll. Apnl I'J~~, Olher pnlnecr radio preadel" ,"dudcd Joho Znllcr. MIChl!!"n: Paul Radn. C'hl;;"~II; ~ R IIrown. Omaha: Ch:.rlc<. E, I'ulkr "11 tile Old I'mlll"'''''' /(('1'11·,1/ I iour. Lon~ Ika;;h; DOllald Grey IIMnll,IU'C UII the /I,hl<' SIII<I1' ,.limr. 1'1I11<1dclpllla: '!IId W"lta A Mai~r "0 Ihe. '-'I/Iwrllli Ihmr, St

1. Althvugh ,t "." a ,mdl! ~[an. Ihc A,'-CrnhIIC' 01 God rd"d't"<.lll, til"l g'hpcl prtl);r:1II1 ,wer KWTO. Spnll);l,dd. ,n 1<)36

~ TI,C IMllle S,'""""., II! SII11;': "a~ ;.l·IU;.l!y hor·

WI<cd Ir"m ('entra! A,-cmbl, III Spnll,!!lleld. "h",11 ,,~, ~ rucal pwgr3m n:lc"",d mer KWTO Thc nal'(lnal pu'~r"m,!!U1 "' ,I,," "n Ihe "C'1 cua,1 dunn); (klt>!x'r ,md ,",,,'emocr 1<).1) Lei.lod R Key,. pa,· l\>f 01 (ilad Tldml!' Temple. Sail h,mc"",·o. ottered 11111<' Oil a tc" ,t;ltlon, \I hlell I",d ocen III;,dc ,,\'~;Iahk It, hi, ;;hvrdl f-i\'c n;lc;lw, of Sermon' 1/1 Soug \lerc hruad;;"'1 \\\cr" limllcJ numhcr "I "all"n,

J Th,,' A,-cmhltc",j Gnd Hefna!!C ~l(:iCl~' i, no" nrknn~" n'''tai!!1<' <)(I·mlnule CJ"CIIC Gmpd Huciio Cltl''''' ," .1 premium fllr ne" and n'oc""k Thc tap.: cunlOlln, reprc..cmall\'e prngr:lIll\ <If .krlllol!.l III

SlIlIg (1IJ-IK). /'Iw GOlf'''' /(0( A," 119-1IH. dnd R" ",-,11,,'11<' (1IJ~1 ilnJ 19~3)

.~, Olher "'"CC' hC;II\1 un S,'rIIIW" III SOII/I. "hid, "a' "11111,, "ir bcl"ecn 19-16 :lI\d 1 9~O. Indudcd J R",,,dll·h,,,cr. \ \ dhuill I b;nl~. (iayk F, Le"i,. \'v ,\ Hnmn. \\ R Slcclhcrg. Nne;! Per~in. ~nd

BUllett f'cler"'n ' Iar;;u, Ga,I'Hl rcplat~d L", Barnett a, mu'to: d'r~"1Ur 10 1'J.\7. 1< 1 1,l"t'i~lh ror th" 111111,,1 hro,ldcJ'h ,ndudcd 'Oilll'I', Kcnn~lh Jam~, Jnd H"IT) ,\Iyc"; ,mnl! "I","el. AIm" I'r~). 1I.'lclha Y",,~cr. Roocn W, Cunm1ing': .lIul I'aul Grc,wlI: UI):"m'h: Keith Hili <ll1d Gwcn Junc': m,lIc "u Ol n<'l; I'CI\1"" JIIIIC'. E!l1~rald Wra}. Raymolld LlI h~. and Jame, 1lft)1!~'; in,trumcnl"llriIL R"ym(ll1d Br(x.'k. Al WCI" 'IIlJ Ruth Gnrlol'k: I;ld,c' (lin: (ira;;" Juhn'><m. Irene Bucklcy. "nd Ph)!!i, C,x,tx'r, hnt'h Si"el" TII<1: Gen. jc;lIIne. "lid MJrJonc ...

To he continued in the next issue.

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The Finished Work of Calvary William H. Durham and a Doctrinal Controversy

by Dr. Edith D1umhofer

[Brolirer Durhamj IW/} Sl'll/ o/Ihe umJ f rom Chicago lI'ilh (I message [or tlie Pen· tecostal sai/lls ill Los AlIgl'les. He Sf(lr fed meetings (llIli ,he saims flOCJ;l'li back to IA::USlI Street} flndfll/n/ i1 {/gain lI'ilh the high praise.f of God II 11'(/.\

called by many the seemul .Ihmwr of the L(lII(' r Raill , 0" SUlld(/.\ lhe plllCt' W(lS

crowded ami !i"i' IlI/nt/rN/ were lIIr11('(/ ([1m)'. The pe0l'le would n01 /(,(/1'(' ,heir sealS be/ween lIIeeti"g~ [or [(,ar of /oJilll< Ihem .'

The time wa~ February 1911. the place Los Ange les. The preacher. 37-ycar­

old William II . Durham, W3\ probably the mo~ t controvcrsi .. J leade r within the small Pentecostal movement of the day. What was the message . and why thccomrovcrsy? Durham 's ministry can be,,1 be considered from a broad pcr~pec t i ve on the whole of earl y American Pc nteco~ta li ~rn.

experience in Ihe orc/o ,m/ult,\ 1h~ tl;\pli~m wLlh the Holy Spirit eviden(ed by ~1')C.\klllg in tongues. Thi~ h;\plI ... m could onl) be rccei\ed by tho'>e who h;ld been ... anctified in a .,econd d~finite work of gr.lce: il wa ... the cnduelllenl wilh power for '>enice "on the clean . .,anctified life"

Such tcaching ch;\Tal'tcri/ed the Itr ... l {)f­gallllcd Penteco ... tal group": the Church of God in Chri'>l. the Church of God. and the Penleco.,t<ll Holine." Church. <III of which had rOOh in Ihe hoI1l1e~., revival ... orlhe 1'<I.,t generation and were primarily .,outhem and loc;!1 in thetr influence. The A/u~a Street llIi., ... ion and two group., wi th the n;tme .. Apo ... tolic r;tith." onc centering. in Ba>.:ter Spring~. Kan'a .... around Parham· ... 1lI111is­try and the other led by Florence Crawford in Portland. Oregon. also promulgated the teaching on three e ... \enti.t1 crl~1\ expcnencc ... ,

A., the decade progre~ ... ed. however. in­crea~ing number, of Penteco ... ta!s reprc­.,enl1l1g a non· W"ley.m heritage org.m l/.cd Pcnteco~lal m i n .... lries. Someof these never fully ;lCcepted the ~econd work of gr<lce teachi ng; other ... d id not quei>t ion it par­ticularly but wcre not <,trongly committed to it. They had been infl uenced rather by Ke~wickian ilnd Reformed evangelic:! ! te<lching. on ... anctification ;md the lIoly Spirit. One center \\here non-Wesleyan Pentecos ta li.,m would become increas­ing ly illlport:mt w ..... Chicago where the in­fl ucnce of 1e:!chi ng emanatlllg from John

-\kxander DOWie·, ChriMtan Catholtc C'hun.:h ..... Ith headl.juancr. III neilmy ZIOn Cit~ ..... ouldtend \(l ,uPPl)rtthe empha"., of the man .... hn unwlttingl) provoked thc fiN SCTlOU' diq ... i,)n in Americiln Pen· \eCO\\illi'llI. Wtllt;tlll II Durhilm

D urham .... ;1\ tlom in Kentucky til 1MB and J\lmcd a Bapll't church in 11-\91

Not unttl ~c\cn yea"" later .... hlle m "1m· nc'otil (hd hc h'l\ I,.' a truc conI cr.1onexpcri­enee. howevcr. C'ol1\u.:ted of \111 through the reilding ill the Bible m 11-\9~. he pih\cd through a rehglOu ... cri,i ... during" hlch he kne" "unutteTilolc JOY" .md lull a",urancc of sallation. The emotion ... oon ~ub,ided, and for the next three ~ear., while "pur· ... uing 111 elery po ... sibk way it ,ccond ble ... ~ing 01 ... anct1ficat10n." he made no di\Cerniblc 'pmtu;tl pmgrc",. In 1901. he later recalled. he "had gr::lce gl\'en from God to tm,t the merit, of the Blood alone" and e\perienced agalll "the cnllTe ,anc· tific:tlion ilnd hea\enly rest. 1')C:lce ilnd JOY" whld1 he had known:u hi, conler\lun

Durhillll felt citl led to 1111 nl\(1) and beg.1Il a ,uccc",ful cvangch'>tlc dlort in Chicago \\hich included a i"lX;U\ on d l \lIl~ h~almg. h om 1901 he abo taught ,anctificallon a ... a \Ccond dcfin i t~ \H)rk of gmec

In 1906, the Pen\eclhtal re\ival broke (Jut III the grcater Chicago area Charlc ... Parhmll mini'>lered for \e,,"er;11 "cd, in Zion Cit) with Ill1prc ... .,i \'~ n! ... ults and ~olll e of h" con\erh ~upportcd the eff(lrh of Chil.:ago lIl iS~ I ()"" " he re reporh fro m Azu\a Street had ~timula ted ... ome to begm \cekmg the Pentcco\tal experience in July 1906 On November 19. in 1I 1lli"""11l at.J2~ Wc~t63rd Strect. secJ..a., began to ~pcak III tong ue .... Wit hin a short time about 50

During the fir~t decade of the 20th cen­tury . the Pe ntecostal movement emerged a., a vibrant but cont roversial re vi val i ~ t ic chal­lenge to bo th libe ral and co nserva!lve Amcrican Chri stians. Its root<, were in the broad nlllinstrearn currents of 19th-century American Protestantism: both We~ ley:ln and non-Wes leyan currents info nned i t ~ theological heritage. Yet in its fiN decade its adherents were essenti ally unconcerned about developing a system:!tic statement of faith . Their movement foc used in local centers and. except in parts of the South . lacked organization. defi nit ion and i d~n ­tity. It stressed. rather . experiential piety. and its focal assertion was Ihat speaking in tongues wai> the Biblical evidence of an "enduement with power" that wa:. the bap­ti sm with the Holy Spi ri t. Representing diverse religious background~ thei>e Pen­tecostals were united both by the ir under­s tanding of Spirit bapti s m and by a conviction thaI theirs were the last dllYs and that their task w:!s the restoration of the apostolic faith.

lVilliom H Durham (swlIll illJU {"(mdllflil1K It'/IIlIIeNil1K aluml 1909.

Because the Azusa Stree t revival which brought Pentecostalism into the public eye derived much of its impetu i> from the min is­try of the independent itinerant holiness evangelist . Charles Parham. the teaching it propounded stre ssed the 19th-ce ntury Wesleyan holiness notion of the neces~ ily of two works of grace in salvation: justifi­cat ion which procured pardon and sanc­tification which "rooted out" the Adamie nature.

T he se two work s of grace, Parham taught. were to be followed by a third c ri<'i ~

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Illt:mhcr. (II Durhillll·" mi ...... i(ln on !\nrth Avt:llut: had h<ld it "'lIlllli1r e'lX'm:nce

[)urhllm neither reJel'tcd tongue ... nm que,tinned the g.cnumc c\penence 01 hi ... memoer,. hut he "'{T{mgl) nppo ... cd the teachingthil{ {on~U!:' \\erc {hc unilnrllllll lIIal c\iderJ<.'C Ill' Spint baplr ... m. A ... time p;I ...... ed. hnwc .. er. hi ... Bible "'Iudy and ob­\er\'lllIm ... cnnvim:cd him \11 {hc \,ill idll}' 01 thc Pcnlcco ... t;11 d;lim He further con· dudcd that "all c"pcncncc ... lhel h;lo e\.-er ,een, Ih,"'1 own IIlduded. v.cre lar hclow the ... 1;1I1d;Lrd God had lifted up in 'r hc Al·t ..... and dctcTl1l1ned to find for hUl1\cJf and Ill ... lllllli ... try the lull pov.er \lIthe Itoly Spint Th c "daim theory," Durham rcali/ed. r.:nuld no longer he ddended "I r.:ould not knccl "tthe altar. ,lIld Cl,lIllllhe Iioly Gh{l~t and go il\hly Thi ... v.,,,,, a real e~pericncc [ mu't Willi unlll lie c,IITle" Accordmgly. Durh,l1l1 V.Cnt to 1..0'" Angele ... tn "tiUTY" at A/u,a Stn.:et when.: he rece i\ed Spiril hap­t1\m on M"rch 2. 1907

C{)nteJllPor"rie~ de'>Crihcd Durham ,I'" ,I "born preacher" and rClxlncd Ihal on

111\ return to Ch, r.:;lgo. crowd ... allcnded hi ... ... ervice ... day and night ,lithe Nonh I\venue M",ion where thc) cl;llmed to ..cn ... e Ihe "very pre ... ence of God." In tlllle. the meel­mg' nec,lIllc noted for the ... mgmg of the "he,lvenl y choru ..... which wa ... uMmlly be· gun by one or two "haptiled ~:I int ... '" who wou ld gradu:lll y he Joined by all the Spint­filled in ~ingi n g that "!!chocd and re· cchoed anm~ the hall" for an hour or mor!!, Becau~e of the noi ,e which often ac­

companied hi' ..crvice .... Durham WH ... Ire· quently ~um1l1oncd to the police ~ t:llion hut wa ... :llway ... relea~ed without penalty. Such I>clly persccution became in .. igniricant. however. III the light of Ihe eri ticislll and reJc(;tion lrom within Pe nteco ... lali ... m that Durllilln ' ... mini ... try began 10 evoke. Since his Spint bapli~lIl. he claimed. he had been unable 10 teach "'illlctirication a~ a ~econd defimtc work of g racc: he had . rather. like his non-Pente("mtul contemporaries in the Keswick and "highcr lifc" movemcnts of the day begun to foc u ... on Chri ... 1 and the ~ig lllfi(;:t nee of the atonement. By 1910 hi ... thought had developed and mawr!!d 1IItO :1 'ystclll:t tic pre ... ent:tt Lon of an ;Ilter­nail VI.' view ami he had begun to articulate the "fi nished work" Icaching thaI would reJc(;t what many regarded :I~ a c:lrdinal Pentecostal truth and would permanentl y divide the na~cent Pentecostalmovcment. eventually alLgnll1g more Ih:1I1 half of it ... adherents with a non-Wesleyan American evangelical heritage.

In contrast 10 the pervasive holine ... s Pentecmlalteachll1g. Durham maintained Ihat "thc living faith that ju~tifie~ a man. brings him Into Chri,t, the Sanctifier. in Whom he i~ complete. nOI with regard to sanctification only. but everything el ... e

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that rcnillll' tn hi'" ,ah i.lllon " '\0 ... ub· ,cqucnt v.()r~ III grilce v.a, needed: 111 the t'om'Cr'lIl1l e\pcriencc. ("hri,t dcan,cd the ... nul. j'onnin!! ,I "nt:v. t'rcature " Thl' hcliever [v.J'] ",a\'ed from "'In. de,lth Jnd hell. I v. ,1\] i.l real r.:hild of God. jl\l ...... e ... 1 ed] eternal hlc.ldid] not nl'ed '.lIlmhcr v.urk oj grar.:e. hut needled] 10 <lblde 111 Chri ... l. re(elve i.lnd walk lIllhe Spin\. hold I" ... tthe faith. grov. m grace and m the kno\\ ledge (If God and of ("hn'>t .. Thi ... leil(;hing. Durham il"crtl'd. exalted ('hri ... t·, atoning work a~ hotine" doctrine l'ould not do. Si.llv:ltion wa~ a (hange of hCi.ln. ,Ill tn .... i.lrd work 01 grace i.lnd periecled through grov.th 1I11h;LI gTilce. Holine" Pentecmtal tear.:her .... all of whom m ... iqed on two work~ 01 gr.l(;c. not onl) erred but were deludcd hy Sa!iLn. he ,Idded '

Funher. Durham looked althe doetnnl' a, being "~o deadl) that all men oughl to ,Iv(lid it. il'" they would Ihc rno ... t dead I)

"nil' I/Iillg jfl/ll! Ihal

jlll/ijil'l (/ mllll. hrillJ.:.1 111111 il/lo elm.lI. Ihl' SUllclilia. ill Whom he' i,1 ('omplt'll'. 110/

willi rt'XlIrd 10 slIlIUifinll/rlll 011/\'.

bill ('1"('1"1'1/""8

el.le IlwI {ll'rllI/lIl /0 lIi.\ .wlnltioll."

W II Durham

poi son." He argued th;lt "'<llv:ltion i ... (Olll­pletc the moment the believer rcceive~ It. lI e contr:l ... ted thi, with maturity: "We arc \Imply liule. IIlnocenl. helple ... , babe~.

perfectly clean. but with the whole Chri,­tian life and experience before u .... Funher. ..... e witt only grow and prosper as we abide in Chri ... 1. and a .... babes. de ... ire the sincere milk of the Word ... 1

Claiming thaI "the Fini~hed Work i, by far the mo ... t important teachi ng in the Bible." Durham determined to proclaim it in the Penteco~tal ce nter. Lo ... Angele .... where mee ting ... continued al Ai'u~a Street and IIllrllerou .. other Pente(ostal group ... wor ... hipcd .

I n February 191 I Durham left hi~ ... matt but influelllial base in Chicago to begin

hi, We,t CO:lst min istry. When Lo ... Angele ... ·s la rge~ t Pentcco,t.11 church. the Upper Room Mi~~ ion. reje([ed hi ... me~­.. age. Durham conducted ,erv;ces al A/u ... a Street until It, leader. Willi.un Seymour. returned from an evangelistic mi ... ~ion and locked him out. Eventuall y Durham and some 600 followers established another assembly whi ch promul gated hi~ "one work" PentecostaJi'm and which became Ihe headquarters for hi~ mini ... try.

From thll! time, controversy raged around Durham . Holiness Pentecostal

By 19m he had begllll 10 lIr/jClllale the ''jillil/ll.'d work" teachill!: that would re­jecl "'IUlI ",tlll)' reK(lrtle{/ as a ctlrdi"al l~ell/(!co\UII truth.

kader ... home of \\ hOlllt<lught openly Ihat "when God p,mlnned "'lI1ner ... He left them futt 01 ,m and (;orrupllOn .• lIld th"l il re­qu ired iI -.ccond v. ork of grace to SiI\C Ihem from hel\") 1;llx:tcd Durh,lm· ... tC<l(hing a ··desili ... h Iheory from the pit of helt .. Relying on John Wesley'~ rCJectlon of Nicholas von Zin/endorf", \Iel~ of ',IIlC' tlfici.ltion il ... heanly ;1\ on Scripture. Ihe) allempted to prove hi ... error.

In JiLlluar) 1912. Charle ... Parham pub­lidy accu,>ed Durham of "(ountlllg thc blood of thc covenanl an unholy thing," charged 111m \\ Ith h .... lIlg "commilled the 'in unto death" "nd "prophe\l!!d hl~ de­'Iruction Within \I); month .... " Under what he claimed Wil~ "Ihe comtraint of the Spirit" Parham prayed: "1 f thi, man' ... doc· tn ne i ... true. ktmy life go Olllto prove it. bUI if our teaching on a definite grace of ... anctific:ltion i, tme. leI hi, life pay the forfeit ..

In a "m.lar I'ein. Durham maintained thM the obviou ... ble ... \ing of God on h", mini\lry validllted hi, leachillg. In Illl~

in ... tance. however. immedi'l te event... ... eemed to vindicate Parham: on July 7. 1912. after a "general breakdown" during a convenlion in Chicago the preceding week. Durham died in Los Angele~.

Parham noted. " How , ignal1y God ha~

an~wered."

D urham'", untimely death hardly lrlter­rupted the controvcr,y ,urroundlllg

hi ... llleS""ge. Hi ... p'llx:r. Tilt' !'{'lIIl'If/SIllI

Tellimollv. begun in 1908, had ci rculatcd il more .... iddy than hi ... own influentiill per,onal rnini'lry and had convinced many. particularly those who ... e ~piritual

heritage w" ... in a non.We~ leyan tradition. of it, valid ity . These tended to gnther III hundreds of unorglHl ii'ed urban Pcnte­co~tal rni,~i ()n~ .ICroSS the nation . ,ome of which a ... ~<x'iated in 191-1- to creale Ihe A"emblies orGod. Other ... late r(; ()ale~(;ed to form other Pcntel'o~tal felt()w~hip\. and 111O ... t of Ihe,e endor~ed the "finished work" teaching. Durham's me~sage hild vi nuatty no effect on the ~outhern holine~ ... PentecmHI I groups or on the early Apo ... -tolic Faith (;enIC,.., in Oregon or Kansas.

A~ hi, t~aching became more pervasive in the move lllent. Durham's supponers found it ncces"ary to reaffirm often Iheir belief in sanclirication and the ir eXlIitation oflhe blood ofChri~t ag:Li n ... t Ihe per,istent claims of holiness Penteco ... I:L1s Ihal. in effecl. their doctrines ignored holiness.

The fiht (; hairrnan oflhe General Coun­cil of Ihe A ... ~emblie~ of God. Eudoru,>

continued Oil III' XI pagt

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PRESERVING YOUR CHURCH HISTORY

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continutdJrom pDgt' [0 N. Bell. received h l ~ Spirit hapti,m ilt Durham· .. Nonh Avenue MI",ion in Ch i­cago. In a tribule wriUl;1l 'hOftly after Durh:.lI11', death. Bell n:mllli\ccd, "lie WitS much mi,under"tood No olle among u'" believed more firmly than he In Blhle Holine~,> nor lIl\i~h.:d more ,Irongly that

(Jr, Edith 8111111110/l'r iI lilt (I.Hi.H(II1I projnlOroj religioll (1/ SOllflm'!.'Sf /II IS.WI/ri SUlle UlliI·!.'r.tilr,

S{Jrillgfieid.

without holmc", no man could ,e..:! the Lord. holding il:t~ Ooo"onl) 'tandilrd for all believer, ... ~

The 11l0,t productive of hi .. hrief year, 01 11I111l\lry "erc ~penl 111 ChICago and

Lo", Angcle~, bUI William Durham', III

!lucnee on the Pentec()~1lI1 mO\elllent WiI'

more endunng and far-reachlllg Ihan it

biographical narrati\c mighl ,ug1le,t lit, under,tilllding of the fini,hed "or\.. 01 C<lI· \;try ha .. been adopted by Pentccmt,ll de­nomination .. rcpre..cnllng morc than h:11I of Amcrican "cla~~iear' Penteco\l;timclll­berlohip and ha~ helped [0 :lfltrlll [he broadly ba<'cd herilal!e of American Pen [eco'lali ~m "ithin ~Ame rican rellgiou, life.

NOI~ 1 Franl.. J Bart!clll<ln, /1m, Pt'lIfff/I.1l

('(line 1(1 I .. OJ Angel!.'! (Lo\ An~clc, b) Ihe Author. 1(25). p 145 (&hl0r', no\<: 11m Pcn[cl"O'I;l1 da~~IC v.a~ rcpnnled III 19110 a, A:III(1 S/r('f'I b) Logo'> lntcmall0n.1I )

2. 1'l'IIl!.'(,05WI TeHIIII(II/\, Augu,t 1912. ). Ibid. February 19 12, 4 Supplemenl 10 Apml(l/l,· " 'lII llI , July

1912 5. WOrt( Will Willl!.'SJ, Augu,1 1912 .,..

II

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HERlTKGE 1445 Boom-illc Avenue Springfield, Missoun 65802

Pentecostal Missions of Los Angeles ('oll/irwl'd from pagf' '"

Pcntcco~taJ chu rchc~ including the fir-,t Church of God in ehTi.,! congrcg,ltion we,>\ ofTcxa\. known at that time it'> the Apo<,­IOlic Church of Go<!. It \\(1., located at 15th and $;Iflta Fe. and W3\ pa~toreJ b) Eddie D. DrivcrY

I n the intervening yeaN;. each of thc~c mis"ion~ has disappeared. SWIC and

local ... afclY and canhquakc la .... ~ have re­quired the raling of many Los Angeles buildings which date frOIll the turn of the century. What W3'> Azu"a Street lies now in "Little Tokyo:' The meel ha ... been rcplllccd with ,I red brick walkway which provide,> entry 10 the Jap:mcsc-Arncrican Cultu ral and Com munity Center. On ly the lillIe hou,>c on Bonn ie Brae Street sur­vives. appearing much Ihe same as it did in 1906 when the Holy Spirit was fi r~ t poured OUI in Los Angctes.

""oles I T",,,,IMa) 3. 191;2). p. 67. RCf'{Jncr RIchard N

O,dmg tld"Cd hi, conclu,i<m on lhe data publl'hed in I)a"tl B. IbITcu', World lItn<lIIm Fltn'l'l"prdw (Nc" Vorl Oxford Unr\'cr,l1y Pre". 1982),

2 Vin"ln Syndn. Thr 1/r>lillr"·/" 'II/ru),lwl Mm'r"lt'nI '" Iltt' Umlrd Slmr.f (Gr.md f.tapltl'; WII· I,am B Eerdman, Publ"hlng COnlP;ln). 1971), ,%

., J '"'Id)' Bond. '~rhc Negro in Lo., Angelc,." unpublhhed dl,-.cnd\ton (l.{l' Angell',. L'nl'l'I'>I\)' of Southern CalifornIa, 1936). p. J6

'" Th" congregation " fiN menlloncd III the I.m AII!Wlr.1 Cill lJirnlltn" o! 11j94 (p. ltv). dlld la,1 l1lCnllUlled In 19().l ( p , 49). "a,lOr J 1:. . W"drth.) neXl h~ted '" ,erom!; l'IN Afm:an Methool,t l:.p"· cupal Church allllh ,lIld To"llC In 1905 Ip. HI, and further reference to lhe Stel'en' AMi:; Church h ah ..... m Thu,. Ihe congregation appareml) relocaled and took a IlCW name 'ome I,,"e III 19().l·S.

5. Bond. p. B 6. I'rdn l Bartlcnran menl!on, m~'el!ng SI:} mour on

March J6. 1906. at d meellng on Bunllle Br~ Slreel III L.J, Angele, 1'r:lI1 l Ihrtkman. I/Q" Pelt/reost Clime /(I I.m Am:e/r.f (~ Angele ... privately pub· li\hed. nudale). Second Edlllon, 1', 4l Other. ",",em 10 ,nd,cale Ih,l1 Seymour aITI"Lxl 111 carl) Apn!

7, (nfonnauon on RI chard I) A,ber), I~ from the tm A"KI'Jes Orl lJrrn/on', (1906). p. 106

S Bi,hop R L. Fidler. ··Histoncal ReVIew of the PenleCI>'otal OUtpouring III Los Angclc~ at the Azu'll Streel ,\I ",,(m In 1906." Tlrr /lIIl'rnllIiOlwl Outlo()k (JanuJI). I'ehruary. and ,\-I arch 1%)). p, 5,

9. Jame, S. Tmney. "William J Seymour F"lher

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,.-i\C ClIrI.I' I'c"t rcost:d Ifadn, p;rtnnxl at th,' "l. u~a Strrt t .\liS!oion , In the front an.' \\illiam J , SIo)n1Ollr pnd John G. Lakt,. Standil1!: art a IIrother \da"". F , F. ijo~"orlh , ~l1d rom IInm:llhaleh . (Photo eourt('<,\ or (;ertrude "ake Reide )

of Mooem·!)"y ('entecmta"'m," TII(' JOIm",/ of Ihf ImerJ .. ,w"",,,II(!Illll T/.e%g,,-u/ COIlt'r 4 I (!':l1I. 19771. p. 41

10, "WeIrd Babel uf T()n~uc,," /.,0.\ "n~l'I .. , I)m/, TIm/,<. "pnl 18. 1906. Part II. p I

II B;lnlem~n. p .'I(),

12 "Oueer 'GIft' G'len \1.UI) ," I.m '\n.~dr.' Dm" Timt'l. Jul) 2.'. 1906. I'art II . p 7,

L1 Bartlenldn. p. 4.1 14 Ih,u. p. 61 15 T"'I"I. Jul) ~1. 1906. I'an II . p. 7, The",

can()l.'n~ bmught dt lea,t one l'C""on tn heOlr lhe J'enlc,·("t,,1 l11e""gc hNhdnd. Th .. AfH'·<I,,/if Fllliit 11 (November 19(6). p, I

16, B"nleman. p. 6}1

17 , Los AIl!:,'!r, Oil 1)"l"lOn ((907). p 41 III. No" lI,ail:lble from Gf>'.(lcl Pubh\tllng ,\ a

reprint or Ihe<oe paper' colle~led b)' ('red T Corum (order number 0.1·1915).

19. "Babd Bhdf'~l1 Say, NOI a Language:' I.m AngrJes I)wl, Tunn. Septcmber 19. 1906. I'art II. I), I The practIce of wrlnng III longuc~ "a, al· templed a, carl~ d' 1901 wllh a "m,lar 'ample by Agne,Ollnan apP<'anng In the fOII('(1I 1>(11" ClIP'

lIof, Janu:11) 6. 1901 JO, BartlellMll , p. 82. 21 I..m ""xdl" Cill' IJJfr<l"n 119(5). p. 34

EddIe D. Dfll'er lOIter became bl'hop for Ihe "~'leI11

n:gllln ullhe COGIC lie "a~ dn dnl'me~ Jnd hel""xl B"hnp (' 1\ \b'>(ltl In lhe IIKurpnrallon nl Ihe denmmn:ll!on -t-

C~ci/ M. Robeck. Jr., is {lireclOr 0/ '·/IIl/el1l

st'rvi(es fIIlll { /f/j lllll" pro/1'5-I'0r 0/ itislOrtClil Iht'0/08Y {lilt! Ne'" TrS/(lIIll.'nl (II Fliller The%gif{J/ St'lnilwr\'. Ill' is Wt ort/ili/led

mil/isler o/Ihe AJSt'mbiil's 0/ God

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