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The Great Awakening: a Study of Past Revivals Celebration Church Pastor Zach Prosser The Great Awakening: A Study of Past Revivals Celebration Church Pastor Zach Prosser Lesson Three Effects of Azusa Street Experienced in Greater Akron Area If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14, NIV 1. Ivey (Iva) Glenshaw Campbell a. Was involved in establishing the Broadway Mission in East Liverpool before moving to Los Angeles at age 32 b. Was a member of the Holiness Church of Los Angeles c. She returned home to East Liverpool, OH on November 25, 1906. She shared her testimony of receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit with Speaking in Tongues, but was rejected by her friends there. She is noted as the first person to bring the Pentecostal message to Ohio. d. C.A. McKinney of South Street Mission (some sources call it “Union Gospel Mission”) heard of her testimony, and invited Campbell to come and share with his ministry. e. December 5, 1906, Campbell began meetings at South Street Ministry with C.A. McKinney i. Within a month’s time, 40 people had received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and spoke in Tongues ii. Akron became a center for revival in the Northeast f. Campbell would speak plainly about her experiences at Azusa Street, tell the people about their need for salvation, and would speak in tongues and give the interpretation g. News reporters described her meetings as resembling the “old fashioned camp meetings” where people entered into a “cataleptic state for hours” an obvious reference to people being slain in the Spirit. People spoke in tongues and tried to converse with strangers in those tongues (though without success). Pastor McKinney cited these manifestations as a clear sign that Jesus Christ was about to return to the earth. The services at the South Street Mission sounded much like those at the Azusa Street Mission. h. News reported also that, the new sect has been denounced as a fraud by nearly every local minister and some people have asked the police to 1 stop the meetings, claiming that the meetings are working harm to the community. Residents in the vicinity of the mission claim they cannot sleep on account of the demonstration by the converts. The police have promised to investigate. i. Ivey Campbell’s response: All [mainline] preachers are liars. All newspapers are liars. Preachers and newspapers belong in the same class. Both are disciples of Ananias. i. Ivey ministered for 5 weeks at the South Street Mission j. It was noted, that from Akron, revival spread across Ohio and the Northeast k. Quote from “Akron Visited with Pentecost” in The Apostolic Faith Vol. 1, No 5, Jan 1907; Anonymous: Since I...heard of the wonderful way God was working in Los Angeles, my heart got hungry, and the dear saints in Akron kept up a steady cry to God day and night for Him to send it this way. And before we hardly knew it, Akron was visited. Glory to God! He sent dear Ivey Campbell here in answer to prayer, and many have received their Pentecost. The altar is more than filled nearly every service. In fact there is hardly a break in the meeting. Some people bring lunches and don’t stop to eat them. Some of the sisters sing in tongues like voices from heaven and also interpret some. O, it is wonderful! Many demons have been cast out and the sick are being healed. Glory to Jesus! He is also selecting His missionaries. The meeting runs day and night—sometimes all night. People come from miles around here and are receiving their personal Pentecost. Bro. McKinney is sending out invitations far and near, and telling how God is visiting Akron, and it brings in the hungry ones. His church doors were opened wide to welcome dear Sister Ivey Campbell and Hudson from East Liverpool. The meetings have been running over three weeks. The Holy Ghost is the only leader. Praise God! While some of the prominent ministers are opposing it, yet their hungry members jump over the fence and get to the little mission church and get saved, sanctified, and then receive their personal Pentecost. l. Quote from “With Signs Following” by Stanely Frodsham: Miss Iva (Ivey) Campbell, who was among the early recipients of the Baptism in Azusa Street, returned to her home city, Akron, Ohio, and gave her testimony to the members of the Christian and Missionary Alliance church, of which C.A. McKinney was pastor. The pastor and a great many of the congregation received the Baptism in the Spirit, and ever since Akron has been a center of Pentecostal activity. m. Campbell also ministered in many other services throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania, and was the featured speaker at Lupton’s Pentecostal Camp Meeting in 1907. 2 n. A Methodist presiding elder from the South visited Akron, was baptized in the Spirit in Brother McKinney’s meetings, and early in January 1907, was called to Homestead, Pennsylvania, to hold Pentecostal meetings in a branch of the Christian and Missionary Alliance where God began to pour out His Spirit in great measure. Among those who received the Baptism at the Homestead meeting was Elder J.T. Boddy, who in 1919 became the editor of the Pentecostal Evangel. Another one to receive a mighty Baptism in this meeting was the late George Bowie, who later became a missionary to Africa. Mrs. George Murray, a missionary belonging to the CMA, received the Baptism in early 1907, and was greatly used of God in the Pentecostal testimony in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Scores of young and old were saved and Baptized in the Spirit at the CMA Headquarters and numerous other places. o. In the end, Ivey Campbell, the woman who had brought Azusa Street revival to Ohio returned to Los Angeles a broken person. Apparently the criticism she had received was too much for her. She died in Los Angeles on June 26, 1918. 2. C.A. (Claudius Adams) McKinney (1873-1940) a. Born in Oil City, PA; received education in Long Island, NY; Converted in a Methodist church b. McKinney was involved with the Salvation Army street meetings, where he met Elizabeth Ream “Libby” Sawyer; both attended A.B. Simpson’s Bible institute in Nyack, New York and served as missionaries together. They married in 1897. At the suggestion of A.B. Simpson, they McKinney’s moved to Akron, Ohio to minister to the destitute of the city. c. Back in 1894, the section around Brown and South streets was known as “Hell’s Half Acre” because of he places of vice in the vicinity. One such house was owned and operated by Mrs. Lizzie Smith. When she became desperately ill of an incurable disease she found both salvation and healing in Christ. She was so grateful that she went everywhere witnessing to God’s goodness and donated her property to become the South Street Mission. South Street Mission later became Riverside Alliance Church. d. C.A. McKinney, formerly a missionary in Congo, Africa (1895-1900), pastored South Street Mission, a CMA church. After receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, joins the Assemblies of God. (Withdrew of CMA in 1908) e. Started First Pentecostal Church of Akron (1914), Incorporated 1917, as First Assembly of God, Akron, Ohio (Note: This was the church that Pastor Dobbins came out of when he began pastoring what is now Celebration Church) 3 f. Ordained by the Assemblies of God in 1918. Helped form the Central District of the Assemblies of God. He also founded several churches in Ohio and is considered to be the “Father of Pentecost” in Ohio. Article by C.A. McKinney Our hearts are overwhelmed with thanksgiving to God for his goodness in sending upon us this mighty outpouring of the Spirit and the wonderful revival. The first Sunday night an audience of 1400 attended and it was wonderful to see how quickly and deeply the Spirit was convicting the people, and how definitely they reached the witness to their salvation. Men and women with tears streaming down their faces, some staggering under the power, made their way out of the seats, walked the length of the aisle, climbed the stairs to the stage, where the space a moment before some fifty singers had been hastily transformed to a prayer room. Those tarrying for the baptism of the Holy Spirit poured up onto the platform from both stairways. Christians and altar workers followed and in a moment torrents of prayer rolled heavenward, sinners were being saved, believers baptized in the Holy Spirit and sick healed. Tuesday night Sister McPherson told the story of her young life, and it is doubtful whether there was a dry eye in the building. When the altar call was given there was an instant response. The first was a soldier boy with broad shoulders and an erect figure and a determined look. Other men immediately followed him to the altar, weeping frankly and unashamed. Wives came with their husbands, mothers leading their sons and daughters. They marched down the aisles to the place where Sister McPherson stood on the steps to grasp their hands and to usher them into the prayer room. Here they wept out their hearts before the Lord and soon rose happy and triumphant. Many new converts received the baptism of the Holy Spirit the same night in which they were saved.
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