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4 \\ O M A~ TO WOMAN ARCIIIVES STAFf-WAYNE E, WARNER, EDITOR AND ARCHIVES DIRECTOR; A story of Susan Easton's missionary vision In India. JOyel:. LEE, ASSISTANT ARCIIIVIST; By Edith L. Blumhorer GLENN GaHR, ARCHIVES ASSISTANT AND COPY EDITOR; CINDY RIE~1EN· 9 AT _AN OTHER NEW -,Y~"~.A.,K,---______SCHNEIDER. SECRETARY ARCHIVES ADVISORY 80ARD-C HAIR~1AN JOSEPH Gcncral Superilllendem E. S. Williams calls the Assemblies R FLOWER. J. CALVI "I HOLSI'GER, GARY B. McGEE. EVERElT STENHOUSL of God (0 prayer in January 1944, during World War II. As.wmblil's 0/ God Htrlla~e is published 10 \\ II .Ll AM J. MITC"·',.tE",I",.t",, = 1'-"",,1-'1______quartcrly by thc Assemblies of God Ar~hil (': I N"I"I U"'M= 8"'U"'G'---_,-----,--__---,,----_-,,-_ the Archin·s.

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By Wayne Warner still teal:he\ aaft .... with a specialty in needlepoim, at her church. Capital Chri~tian CCIlICr. "All procecd~ go to Heritage Helps Reunite Trio After 40 Years mi~sions," 'ihc told mc in a telephone \isit \\e had on December 2. t isn't often Heritage receives a ICHer like [he one :\10st of our articlcs inspire. inform, and entertain we received from 89-year-<>ld Ella Schroeder, Sacra­ I our readers (you tell u~ this). bUl in the Schmidt \tor) mento, California. She made our day when she wrote we unexpectedly performed another dUlY by bringing that Heritage was instrumental in reuniting her with (\\0 people together \\ho have been separated for 40 year>;. former pupils she taught at Maywood Christian School Miss Schroeder, you made my day. No ..... ho\\ can I more than 40 years ago. registcr for that needlcpoim class? The reunion came as a result of our research for the three-part series we ran Ihis past year on missionar) "U~~{,t'i from ~oulhern California Camp G. Herber! Schmidt. ") wish to commend you for 'a top job' on the Schmidt story." she wrote. " I have just now finished fe-reading the entire story. It is fabulous'" One of the more interesting addendums to the Siory is the reunion of Schmidt's daughters, Ruth and Karin, with Miss Schroeder. She told us how it happened. "Soon after our last I telephone call, Ruth wrote a beautiful letter telling me about her family and job." Then Karin wrote to complete the reunion. Miss Schroeder continued, "We havc , rnt'SI and ~ mm. I 'llor (ldl) .1 • ~mp in 19J~. Tht' t'ouplr on Ihr riKhll""rlt'd "'lh fa,to ..... t.n '011 ,drnllh Ihrm! exchanged photos, ctc., and are e.xtremely happy that at long last we have found each other." The Pentecostal Evungel published what thc), called Miss Schroeder closed with thanksgiving; " It is "Nugget~," in Ihc December 7.1935. i<,sue. The Quotc~ almost unbelievable how God has brought us together werc submitled by Charlc'i S. Pcters and came from by way of the Archives! Thanks to you, Wayne. Keep speakers at the Southern California camp mceting. up the wonderful work you are doing. God bless you." EVANGELIST EMMA TAYLOR. My husband some­ G. Herbert Schmidt was imprisoned by the Nazis at times rebukes me for taking a tcxt and then never the outbreak of World War II and then had to flee coming back to it. Never mind, a~ long a<, men and Danzig for Sweden. Schmidt's wife died during Ihis wOlllen ramble along in ~in, I'm going to ramblc after time, and hi s two daughters barely survived the war. them from Gencsis to Revelation, a~ the Spirit rc\cal~ When Schmidt was finally reunited with hi s daughters thc need and give~ lHlerancc at any moment in my 'icrmon a year after Ihe war ended, he enrolled them at ... Paul and Silas could nOt clap Iheir hand.,. hut I Maywood Christian School in Los Angeles where Ella bclievc they wiggled their ringer ... and toe., as they sang in Schroeder was one of their teachers. During our the stocks in prison. research for the stories, we were able to follow several leads and help with the happy reunion. You can imagine A. G. OSTERBERG. Faith works like sunshine. Give Miss Schroeder's excitement. it a clcar atmosphcre. and it will shine forth gloriou'ily. The story was published in three parts; "An We should li ve in transparent holiness. American Missionary in Nazi Hands." wimer 1992-93; DR. C HARLES S. PRICE. Blessed is that grammar "A Refuge in Sweden," spring 1992; and "Daylight school boy. that high school or college young man \\ ho Pushes Back the Night," summer 1992. (See page 31 for refuses thc poisonolls philo ... ophy of Ihis agc, the ordering back issues.) modernistic, alheistic. commmmllC, anti·Chri.,tian Miss Schroeder, by the way, will be 90 in April and poison that is di .. hed out 10 Ihcm .... Faith leaps in Ihe dark but lands in the light. A. V. HUNTLEY. Warriors filled wilh the Hoi) Spirit should not spend much lime in upbuilding self. but should spend more timc praying the Lord of the harvest to thrust forth laborcrs into His harvest. JOSEPHINE (Mrs. L. F.) TURNBULL. We can run Ihe race that is set before us with patience and with Wayne E. Warner is Director of Ille AIG confidence, if we know Ihal God has indeed set the race, Archil'e$. has outlined it, has mapped it out for us. .,. A IlPlul gl'llU housr church building and (ongrtaaUon In India. Woman to Woman Susan Easton's Missionary Vision

Woman's grief must meet in woman Quick response and s)lmpath)l; Christian sisters Will )Iou answer to the cr)l'!* By Edith L. Blumhofer

Susan Easton's appointment to the and the convictions about women's elevated woman from her former first Assemblies 01 God Foreign Mis­ appropriate roles that had dominated abject position to her natural place sions Committee in 1917 marked the the impressive, vigorous women's by the side of man, can we rest in the only time in the denomination's history missionary societies since the enjoyment of these benefits without that a woman has held lull membership second hall 01 the 19th century were a single desire to elevate our poor on that influential commillee. Easton represented. brought to thai task experience gained heathen sisters?'" as a missionary in Calcul/a, India, "What are ye better than Doremus expressed the sentiments under the Women's Union Missionary others?" Sarah Doremus of a growing group of American Society 01 Americalor Heathen Lands, posed this question to American women, married and single, who one 01 America's oldest women's Protestant women in 1861 through seized opportunities in the 1860s to missionary voluntary associations. In the earliest Assemblies 01 God the pages of a new journal, Mission ­ assert the need for the appointment de/iberalions about missionary policy, ary Crnmbs. "If we believe that it of single women as foreign mission­ then, both the philosophy 01 missions is Christi anit y alone which has aries. This involved, of course,

4 AlG HERITAGE, WINTER 1992·113 concomitant acknowledgment of forged ahead from 1860 with plam to mis~ionaries. they observed. were woman's calling and ability. to mobilize women to evangelize usually too busy or in too frail Doremus (a Dutch-Reformed lay women around the \\orld. health to fill the "5phere of female ":oman)-and some of her fellow Using as a ",logan "women's work u<;efulne~~" the rociety's .. pomors New Yorkers-drew inspiration for for \""omen," they publicized the envb,ioned. v transforming their convictions to needs of their "hcathen sisters" Second, the mi5sion!o, board ex­ rea lities from the example of an as the special concern of Chris­ plicitly di"avowed any intention to English volullIary association, The tian womcn; recruited single Imply the full equal statu ... of male Society for Promoting Female American women; and raised funds and femule missionaries. Rather, Education in the East, which smce to support mis ... ionary outreach they a~serted specific male and around the world, sometimes female ~pher~ and a,,,,umed that The Women's through interdenominational \-'olun­ neither ",ex could adequatel~ Missionary Union tary associatiom and sometimes perform the duties of the other. of America for through denominationally spon­ "\1an's ",ocial condition lit~ him to sored women's boards. Deeply cope with hi ... fello ..... -man." Mission· Heathen Lands moved by the plight of women in ary Crumbs noted. "In no "a)" (WUMS) in 1886 non-Christian cultures. they felt could \\oman's humbler ~phere appointed ZZ-year­ compelled to share the hope the) mfringc on hi~ prerogative. "10 old Susan Easton believed the Christian gospel offered In 1861 a friend of the ~o(icty not only for salvation but also for wrote 10 board membl'r Sarah to Calcutta_ concepts of self worth and human DorelTIU',: 1834 had sent single women to Asia dignity. We "ill rear no failure, ..... hile as teachers. 2 we keep in mind and III manner Writing for that socielY, o ne mong the recruits in 1886 was the true dOl:lrine, that "oman Rosamond Webb encouraged Ameri­ A Susan Easton, a 22-year-old is the helper of man-·not hi~ cans early in 1861 to emulate the native of Knox, New York, who substitute; she must work "Jth Bri tish model. Despite the popular received appointment to Calcutta, him ... nOl counter to hi\ plam. wi sdom which assigned both the India, by the Women's Missionary nor independently of hi\ author­ obligation and responsibi lit y for Union of America for Heat hen ity. The Savior gave to men the world evangelization to men, Webb Lands (WUMS), the oldest women's government or the church and the argued, Christian women had both a missionary agency in America. public ministrations among men, mandate and an identifiable, God­ Inspired by the British model, the but the Savior also gave a public given sphere of responsibility. WUMS's organizers (among whom tc\timony to the faith, lo\'e and In fact, theirs was an esselllial was Sarah Doremus) had incor­ good \\orks to "omen.1I task , one which only women could porated in 186 1 in New York City \VUMS personnel sought limited perform-"women's work for where they enjoyed the support of women's right~ in the church, not women": "Women's work cannot so me of the New York area's most female ordination or admini"'lrati\'e be done by men. . If there is but prominent Protestant women.6 office. In the second half of the one missionary of either sex at The WUMS ex isted specifically to 19th century. they struggled less any station, one half the work is "send out and maintain single ladies with re~i"'lance to preaching women necessarily left undone. "J And the as Bible readers and teachers." than with the sense that in many task placed them at the center of It engaged evangelical women of Protestant congregation .. , women God's ongoing purpose of redemp­ various denominations though in were treated as non-cntitic... In tion: "God gives the young women practice il was dominated by women their minds, the often-cited Pauline of America this opportunity," who identified with the "new writing!o, were not 10 blame. Rather: renected longtime India resident sc hool" Reformed ethos.l The The apostles approved the works Jacob Chamberlain. "May they WUMS intended from its inception of women, employed them, named seize it and hasten ... redemption. " 4 to usc American women "10 raise lip them as messengers and mini~tcr­ Women, then, were needed to ex­ and superintend native female ing helpers in the Go~pel tend the kingdom of God, and after laborers for their own country­ dispensation. So it was for 1860, lay women involved them­ women. "8 They sought not only to centuries; so it should ever have selves in various forms of mission­ convert but also to commission. been. But then there is the great a ry service in ever increasing The WUMSoperated under dearly adversary or women-the devi l­ numbers.s established g uidelines about ever st riving to destroy the good Assuming that they had an women's place in church activities by destroying her moral power obligation they dared not sh irk, which Easton , like other recruits, when employed ror good .... and , despite the polit ical, economic accepted. First, the WUMS sought Even in Christian PrOtestant and social turmoil around them, to imbue single women wit h a sense churches how this enmity Sleals some wi th organizationa l skills of calling and duty. Women married in! It has barred (he sex from Ihe INDIA

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6 AlG IIUUTAGt:, "INTI::H 1992-93 exercise of any open worl.. for and had e.,tablished a nourishing ,onverts in the subjc\:h neccv)ary Chris t-any ackno\l.ledgement of outreach that IIlcluded a high for entrance to unjt.e r sitie~. Gardner the ri ght of women to a place at school, zenana wor ~ . a home for prepared students "pecifica ll y fo r the fect of Jesus, any appoint­ fe male comerts. and a book depot the Uni\cf',ity of Calcutta. She mentS by the church to "' ork fo r (a combination library and store). In Inculcated in the girls in her high Him and have recognition and nearby communities. the \Vomen's "'hool a determination to " take commendations when deserved .... Missionary Union also sponsored a .. tand for education and womanly Never will the Christian religion medical missionarie~ and an dlara(tcr" and, by "0 doing, 10 shine o ut in its true glory till it orphanage with a dispensary. "help all women in their dark gives this true place to womenY Easton became the junior member ml~erable li\e". "16 Third, WUMS plans assumed not of a well-cstabli'\hed missionary WL\IS mi'\,>ionarie., in Calcutta onl y woman's dignity and calli ng team and. like the others. deferred encouraged Ihe women to seek to Christian service but also her to Gardner a." a gifted and natural career,> a,> teacher!'.. phYSicians unique qualifications for u sefu l nes~ leader. and medical a""i"lant!'. a" \\ell a!'. to in specific missionary tas ks. This Among the tasks a')signed Easton work 3!'. Bible women. "Thc"e girl ':>, approach emphasized the secl usion during her first term was that of rightly trained." Sarah Gardner of women in many fo reign cultu res running the book depot. Gardner told her coworker,>, "can do morc which made it impossible fo r male and Easton agreed that teaching for their own country than can missionaries to evangelize among converts to read obligated mission­ foreigners." WU\IS women them. aries to pro"'ide Christian literature. regarded them'>ehes not only as This reality was used in two Easton later urged: "Read they will. adnxate... of .,piritual truth but as different ways to support the call whatever comes int o their hands. It agent'> of improvement (from the for women missionaries. First, some is fo r the Church of Christ to decide Western per~pecti\'e) in the .. tat us assumed that converting the women what they shall read. "1. of women. They bclic\cd that and, through them, the children By 1887, Gardner had translated ChriMianizalion meant significant would potenlially quietly Chri stian­ more than 40 books. Her choices of cultural gains for women, and they ize the nation in the next generation. what to translat e reveal someth ing sought (0 comm unicate 10 Indian Others argued that secluded native about the spiritualit y she coveted for women determi nation to improve women, bound to tradilion, were herself and her converts. Among the their status. inherently conservative and per­ titles were James Stalker'S Life oj secuted men who would otherwise Christ; A. B. Simpson's Christ in n 1895, Easton returned to the accept the gospel. In either case, the Bible; John MacNeil's, The I United States for a fu rlough. For women- both western missionaries Spirit-jifled Life; D. L. Moody's reasons that are unclear, she pro­ and their Asian sisters-held the key Sowing and Reaping and Th e Way longed her stay for several years. l' to the transforming spiritual and to God. Gardner'S love for animals She remained a spo ~ cspc r so n for cultural forces missionaries hoped made her sensit ive to animal abuse to unleash. around her, and motivated her to "Never will the translate Black 8eaUly as well in an Christian religion usan Easton sailed from New effort to encourage better treatment shine out in true S York for India on Septembcr27, of animals. glory till it gives 1886, secure in bOlh her calling Easton also took charge of the and her prospects. She had signed a convertS home, which provided [women her rightful contract which pledged that if she shelter and training for ze na na place in the Gospel married or severed her relationship women converts (who were frequent dispensation)." with the WUMS within 5 years, she targets of violent persecution). u In -Sarah Hale would refund the cost of passage, her first year as home supervisor, outfit, and incidentals provided Easton welcomed four women whom missions, addressing the Ecumenical by the mission board. The board she taught the Bible and encouraged Miss ions Conference in New York further gave recruits housing and a in practical ways. One enrolled in a in April 1900 on the need fo r salary of $600 per year in gold from teacher training course, and another Christian l i t e r atu r e.l~ which the women paid for utilities entered the mi ssion's high school. Then the WUMS mission in and food. Furloughs were author­ A decision by the Universit y of Calcutta faced a crisis. Sarah ized (with passage paid and at full Bombay 10 accept women st udent s Gardner's health fa iled , and she salary) at 7-year intervals, and had heralded an emerging willing­ returned to the Unit ed States in missionaries were encouraged to ness in some segments of {he culture 1902 where she died the next year.lD lake a month-long annual paid to educate girls. Louise Pierson, daughter of mis­ vacation. WUMS missionaries encouraged sionary statesman Arthur Tappan EaSlon joined Sarah Gardner, such sentiments by offering high Pierson (editor of the Missionary who had been in Calcutta since 1879 school training to promising female Review oj the World) left a career with the YWCA in Lowell, Massa­ describing a revival resembling that and the so-<:alled gift of tongues," chuselts, to accept WUMS appoint­ at Mukti but flourishing among the all were precluded from leaching ment to Calcutta to replace the girls at the WUMS high school in them. As "tenets of a circle of ailing Gardner in 1901. She died Calcutta. "Few if any of our girls," believers," they could not be of typhoid fever in 1903, before Easton reported, "have not shown a advocated by WUMS staff on she had acquired sufficient fluency real desire to get rid of sin in heart WUMS property. Z1 in the language to take ho ld of the and life. "101 Some of the girls formed After an exchange of correspond­ work.21 a group they called "Daniel's ence over several months, Easton's The missions board in New York Band" and met daily "to seek the "radical departure" in doctrine requested Susan Easton to return baptism of the Holy Spirit." The occasioned her resignation from the to India to fill the gap in the Christian teachers in the school for WUMS.28 Easton's tenure with the missionary ranks. Easton complied, Hindu girls seemed to Easton to be WUMS ended amicably when she leaving New York for Calcutta on more fervent in their desire to returned for her scheduled furlough November 16, 1904. She assumed communicate the gospel.1.I in August 1911. Easton received charge of the congeries of WUMS In October, EaslOn's colleague, 6 months salary and a warm outreaches in Calcutta.22 J . L. Mudge, reflected on the personal letter of farewell revival's results: "anticipating the blessed here­ Susan Easton intro· God was in our midst, working after when we shall again see eye duced Pentecostal in ways we have never witnessed to eye" from Sarah Doremus, long­ teaching and divine before. As a practical result of time WUMS board secretary. healing into the the revival, we find the spirit of "My memory runs back," prayer increased. The love fo r Doremus wrote, " to the days when WUMS mission. God's Word is beyond anything you consecrated literally the 'dew of During her second term in India, Ithe students) have known, and your youth' to India, and found Easton, like other missio naries they ... enter into the spirit of its beautiful friendships with dear Miss and In dian Christians, was teaching as never before, and the Gardner, working in harmony for heartened by reports of revival reality of Jesus and conscious the highest interests of our mi ssion. among the 2,000 widows and fellowship with Him is their It is a priceless thought to me that orphans supervised by a remarkable greatest enjoyment. 26 amid many changes, nothing can Indian Christian woman, Pandita Uke the revival at Mukti, then, rob us of our past. " 19 Ramabai. Ramabai's efforts had this renewal among women and gi rls Little is known of Easton's early widespread support in the United in Calcutta stressed an experience Pentecostal associations in the States, where Ramabai societies of Spirit baptism and the necessity United States, but she attended solicited financial support for her of holiness of heart and life. healing meetings Evangelist Maria growing outreaches radiating from Pentecostal teaching, wh ich was Woodworth-Etter conducted for Mukti, India.ll The revival (which articulated at about the same time began in 1905) was widely publicized and differed primarily in assigning a She 'Was appointed by Ramabai, Western missionaries "uniform initial evidence" (tongues to the ne'Wly formed and the religious press. speech) to all est Spirit baptism, A /G Foreign Missions By 1906, reports circulated about not surprisingly found hospitable Committee in glossolalia among Mukti evangel­ response in many quarters. Mission­ .9.'. istic bands, and Ramabai had begun aries from several agencies em­ the Christian Workers Union in to use the termino logy of Ho ly braced the message, among them Framingham, Massachusetts, in Spirit baptism popular among con­ Susan Easton. She introduced 1913. She was called as a defense temporary American evangelicals. Pentecostal teaching about Spirit witness for Woodworth-Etter when Also in 1906, word of the Pente­ baptism into the WUMS mission the evangelist was charged with costal revival at Azusa Street in and also began advocating divine obtaining money under false Los Angeles reached Ind ia. Before healing. pretenses during the services.JO By long, missionaries from the United Reports of such irregularities in 1917, however, she had gained the States as well as the ubiq uitous several of their stations in In dia confidence of Assemblies of God Norwegian pastor, T homas Barratt , precipitated action by the WUMS leaders. The 1917 General Council arrived in India to give personal board. While the board disavowed of the Assemblies of God met in fo rce to the message of t he any intention to "control individual St. Louis in September, and Easton restoration of the apostolic faith as opinions," it reminded the mission­ was appointed to the newly formed marked by Spirit baptism evidenced aries of the agen cy's essent ial Foreign M issions Committee. by tongues speech . character: " We a re a un io n of Others on the com mittee were In June 1906, the W UMS monthly evangelical Christians." It stated, General Superintendent J. W. magazine, The Missionary Link, that since the majority d id not Welch , A. P. Collins, E. N. Bell, carried a report by Susan Easton accept "doctrines of divine heali ng Continued on pa ge 26

8 A / G H ERIT AGE. WINTER 1992.93 T IME FRAME At Another New Year How the General Superintendent Viewed the Beginning of 1944 By Ernest S. Williams he Uniled Slaits had betn al "'ar for 2 repent , and see k from God a fresh T lonR )ears when Genenll ~uperinlend t nl ~ . S. Williams 'H olt the accomplln)ing arti· personal revival. Our experience I'll' for Ihe Pente<:osral El'angel (J a nuary 1, began with a deep inward worship 1944), A few weeks eIl rlier. Williams hMd o f God; a giVi ng up of Ih e world for asked the Assemblies of God 10 obs.en''' J iln. I, 1944. as II da) of lasling and pra)tr. Christ; a surrender of ourselves and Laler President Hoosel ell proclaimed desire for self. It was glorious in the Ih al Nev.' Year's DII, ,", oul d be designaled richness of Ihe Holy Spirit within. lIS II dill of national pra)cr for "stunglh li nd guidance for the problems of widenioR If time, cares, JO\'e fo r pleasure, warh.re Ilnd for Ihe responsibiliti es of ambition or for human success have incfeasing viclor,'," crowd ed oul this inward rc ve rence Roose velt , who would be r« I« led for his fourth term in Ihe coming l ear, wrote. " II and ri chness, it is tim e to " seek is filling that "'I' set aside II dill of pra)er the Lord till He comc and rain 10 gh'e .hanks 10 Almightl God for His righteousness upon us. " CO Mltlnl prOlldencr over us in t H'r) hour of nalional peace and nadonal peril." By nature, we are all very human. Ernesl Swing Williams was el« led "Thai is not firsl which is spirilUal, general superinlendenl in 1929 and rei ired but that which is natural." It is only In 1949. HI.' died in 1981 allhe age of % . as Ihe natural is kepI in subjection I is customary at the end of a year to the spiritual that we can please I (0 look backward to see how th e God . Wilhom th is . our building past has been and forward to see ERNI:ST s. \\ ILLlAM!' may prove to be of "wood , hay, (1835-1911 1) what may be made of the fulure. stubble," to be found , al the end In looking bac k, we have much to success before man or th ose things of oll r course unworthy to wilh ­ be thankful for as a Christi an on which we feel certain God can stand the fire . If we seck earnestly movemene ; and we trust al so as smile? " Man lookelh on the out­ to li ve in the Spirit and labor in the individuals. It might savor of pride ward appearance, but God looks Spirit, our reward wi1\ be likened [0 to enumerate the many blessings upon the heart." ·'gold. sil ver, precious slones." and the progress that has been Living in the Spirit does not made. Were we to coune success "As we examine ourselves mean that we shall sland in empty­ from observable numerical growth, in the light of the year gone handed inact ivity wai ting for some our success has been outstanding. special urge to do this or th at. In every fie ld of Christian en­ by, have we sought mostly Li vi ng in the Spi rit does not bring deavor, the work has gone fo rward . those things which appear us inlo bondage. It gives unlimited But Christ ian growth is not as success before man or liberty to lake advantage of every always to be measured by what can those things on which we opportunity for, " whatsoever thy be seen. Jesus emphasized th e hand fi ndeth to do, do il with thy inward character of His kingdom. feel certain God can smile? might." The same activi ties may be He declared, "The kingdom o f 'Man looketh on the out­ put forth by a man wholly given up God cometh not with observat ion," ward appearance, but God to God as may be exe rted by one and stated that, from the heart of looks upon the heart.' .. who is personally ambitious. The man, proceed either those things difference is in the inward attitude wh ich make up godl y character or If our Christianity has become of soul. One does it through love those things wh ich detract. As we too humanized-seeking our own fo r Christ, the other through love examine ourselves in the light of pro fi t-rat her than deep and of self. Only the Judge of all th e the year gone by. have we sought spiritual- in the sight of God of earth may be able to discern the mostly those things which appear as great price-we do well to pause, Contlnut4 on p.,r 29

AlG IIUITAGE. \\INTt:R 1992-93 9 information available on his early years. He was baptized in the Methodist Church-evidently at Hant's Harbour, Newfoundland­ on July 28, 1878. His father was a fisherman. Having left school in the third grade at age 9, William obtained little formal education, and was on his own at 11. He went to sea while still a pre­ teenager in order to augment {he short finances of the large family. He sailed nearly all over the world with hard-drinking crews. On his first ship experience he was a cabin boy, and he sailed from Newfound­ land to, among many other places, Barbados. He lived a boisterous teenage life. Raised a nominal Methodist he had some contact with the Gospel and felt there was mo re to life than what he was experiencing. Gordon P. Gardiner, who made a brief study of Mitchell in 1982, wrote that he "made efforts to change his William lind SU$annl Milchrll life.'" One of Mitchell's sons, Allen, described what he called the "blood vow" of his father who William J. Mitchell " tried and tried to ' kic k' the alcohol habit, but with no success. In desperation he cut his wrist A Pentecostal and drew blood . Then writing with his own blood, he vowed never to Pioneer in New England Before becoming a teenager he was sailing the seven By Burton K. Janes seas as a cabin boy with a hard-drinking PART 1 and boisterous crew.

n November 15,1877, Corbett Mitchell the outgrowth of this mission he hod dri nk again. But it was to no O and Julia Ann Janes were married 0/ founded. avail. "2 Mitchell still fo und his evil Hant 's Harbour on the island of New­ His biography is visible proof of the des ires to be just as strong as foundland, a small British colony east of power of God to change a person com­ before. Canada. On July II, 1878. a son-William pletely. This article isa modest attempt by a Mit chell met and fell in love James Mitchelf-was born to the couple. dislOnt relalive 10 retell the story of this Nobody could have imagined that the inspiring individual who played a key role with Susanna Patience Curnew from energetic child would live through an in introducing the PentecoslUl movement St. Jo hn's, the capital city of array of brisk experiences and, in God's into Ihe Norlheastern A merican Stales. A Newfoundland . She was 3 years plan, become a Pentecostal pioneer in new generation can witness the greal work Mitchell's senior, having been born New England. he accomplished and, 01 the same lime, see on April 17, 1875. Her father, Indeed. the Pentecostal revival in New exhibited in his lije something God desires England would stem from Chelsea. Massa­ of His children-ovailability to do Ihe Isaac, was a laborer. They were chusetts, where this Newfoundland son entire will of God. married on Apri l 21, 1900. Mitchell would begin an assembly. When he died in gave his occupation as a seaman. /958 at 79 years of age, there stood in illiam James Mitchell , the The ceremony was performed at the Everett, Massachusetts a Pentecostal pioneer of Pentecost in New Cathedral of St. John the Baptist , church-Glad Tidings Tabernacle-as a W sturdy monument to him. He is fondly England, was one of eight children the church that served the oldest remembered today in Malden's (Massa­ born to Julia Ann and Corbett Anglican parish in North America. chusetts) North Shore Assembly of God, Mitchell. There is only sketchy Mitchell decided immediately to

IO MG H ERrrA(,;i·~. \\INTER 1992-113 create a home for what would even· tually be a large family. He and his wife settled in St. John's. Their fim of 13 children, Elsie, was born in Newfoundland on April 27, 1901. In the decades immediately prior to World War I, thousands of New­ foundlanders emigrated to the Unitcd States. Large numbers decided to settle in New England, particularly Massachusetts. (In 1905, for e:'(ample, there were 10,583 Newfoundlanders in that state, and 933 in Chelsea alone.) Soon after the birth of their first child , the Mitchells moved from Newfoundland to Chelsea. They would reside in New England for the remainder of their lives. In This old d.nct h.1I In hutl!. MlisuchuStIl!. bt-nmt (.I.d Tldln~~ TII/)f'mllcH- In 1930 und~r Ih~ Chelsea Mitchell took up the lud~rshlp or \\ IIU.m J. \11Ichtll. carpentry trade which he main­ tained until around 1930 when he Gardiner wrote: "Mr. Mitchell Street in an old building thai had began to devote all his time and always appreciated the strict becn w~ed for a saloon. Mitchell energy to the pastoral ministry. In teaching he recei\'ed in the Zion also preached every other Saturday time he owned his own successful Church, including the necessity of night in a rescue mission 111 BoslOn, carpentry business, "Mitchell, tithing and learning to trust God a ministry he continued for '\everal Short and Mitchell," a combination for healing." Hi s preaching and years. (AnOlher daughter-Mabel of his name and that of his uncle Evelyn-was born on November 11, and brother. His company special ­ After his conversion, 1906.) ized in building houses. Mitchell and his wife "In the lauer pan of 1906," On October 23, 1902, a second united with John Alexander MilChell recounted, "we heard of daughter, Gladys, who would Dowie's Zion City. Pentecost breaking out in Te'I(3S." change the course of the Mitchell's In December 1905 the father of li ves, was added to the family. She teaching later in his own churches Pentecostalism, Charles F. Parham, later explained to biographer in Chelsea and Everett naturally had launched a Bible school in Gordon Gardiner that her father reflected the firm stand on healing Houston, Texas. His disciples "decided not to ruin four lives and he had taken personally, and fanned out into rural Texas, Los so accepted Chri st as his Lord and undoubtedly influenced his church Angeles, and the Midwest, spread­ Saviour ... members. ing the Pentecostal movement as As a child Gladys was unwell; her Mitchell belonged to the Dowie they went. illness was later diagnosed as movement as late as 1905. In Sep­ By this time Pentecostals, who epilepsy. Possibly in conjunction tember of that year, as Dowie was knew about the Holy Spirit's work with their daughter's sickness, the preparing to announce the expan­ in the South and West, began Mitchells came in contact with Zion sion of his Zion City, he suffered a publishing several periodicals. Cit y, Illinois, which had been stroke. Leadership difficulties arose Among these were The Apostolic founded by John Alexander Dowie, soon after. In 1956 Mitchell wrote Faith. The Bridegroom 's Messen ­ a strong proponent of divine J. Roswell Flower, then general ger. The Way of Faith. The Latter healing at the turn of the 20th secretary of the Assemblies of God, Rain Evangel. and Word and century. "Because of trouble among them Work. Alfred Wight, who became After she was prayed for at Zion (at Zion City) we moved out from the super-intendent of the New

City I Gladys never had another them .... "l The Mitchells returned England District of the Assemblies epileptic seizure. On October 4, to Chelsea. (On May 22, 1905 a of God, observed: "The literature 1903, a month before Alec Donald fourth bundle of joy-Reginald­ was read by hungry hearts {that) Mitchell was born and almost a entered the Mitchell home.) were reaching out after the Bread year after the birth of Gladys, of Life. '" Mitchell was immersed by William ilchell and the group at Chel­ Gordon Gardiner wrote that Hamner Piper who was then in M sea that had withdrawn from Mitchell and his group "sent a charge of Dowie's work at Dowie's work in Zion City started Macedonian call " for workers who Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gordon an independent mission on Park had experienced Acts 2:4 to come

AlG Ht:RITAGE. WI'-.TI:.R l"n·9) II to New England. They secured the all and Campbell were fol­ Another misSion was opened in names of Mabel Smith Hall and H lowed in Chelsea by other East Boston. The twO works were Jean Campbell. Pentecostal his­ evangelists. Mitchell told the Story later united, resulting in a build­ torian Carl Brumback referred of one such couple, the Sanky Lees ing being erected at 113 Hawthorne to Hall as "a woman of deep from Texas: " In the spring of 1907 Street in Chelsea. Other missions spirituality who was used of God in we heard of Brother and Sister Lee, then began to spring up in differ­ preaching-also in prophecy. "5 Pentecostal evangelists from the ent parts of New England. H. T. Campbell had recently received the South. They stayed with us until the Carpenter establis hed a work in Pentecostal baptism at Dowie's latter part of June. On June 17, a Worcester, Massachusetts, and Zion City. The Chelsea mission local holiday, we held an all day T. Arthur Lewis, in Framingham, invited the duo to visit their town meeting. At about 9:30 p.m. the Massachusetts. Missions were also and conduct revival services. Lord poured OUI His Spirit and started in Bridgeport and New Consenting, HaJJ and Campbell, baptized five or six. I was one of Haven, Connecticut. Camp meet ­ and evidently Parham himself,' them!" The George Baileys and ings were held in MOnlwait , stayed for 2 or 3 weeks in the town. Alfred Wights were among the first Framingham, and Well esley Park, According to Alfred Wight, they half-dozen or so New England MassachusettS. "were filled with the praises of Gordon Gardiner wrote about God, and ... reall y took time to While following his the ensuing spiritual breakthrough pray... ." The elder of the twO, carpentry trade, he experi enced by the believers in Hall, was the preacher, but Wight preached at a Chelsea, Mitchell's mission: noticed thaL she "would not God worked in Ihis Chelsea work in a Massachusetts, mission. powerful wa y. Souls were saved and attempt to preach until she received many forthwith slain under the her message from the Lord with the reci pients of the Spirit-baptism power of God and filled with the anointing from on high to deliver in the 20th Century. Spirit, even before they knew what it the Word of God." meant. So great .... ere the erowds that Approximately 25 believers re­ although the services did not start lilt Crowds of people attended the ceived the Pentecostal baptism seven o'clock, the hall was filled by women 's meeting and every avail­ during June and July 1907. This six, and the doors had 10 be locked. able space was taken. Wight prompted another Pentecostal his­ Another child, Pearl, was born remembered: "Conviction was torian, William W. Menzies, to to the Mitchells on March 10, 1908. strong, and long tarrying meetings observe: "The Pentecostal revival About live weeks later, on April 19, followed... ." However, Mitchell in New England stemmed from the great Chelsea Fire broke oul. was less exuberant. "The meet­ Chelsea , Massachusett s, where Mitchell's mission, along with one­ in gs were good with a few people a gre:H Pentecostal visitation half of the city, was destroyed. The saved," he admitted 2 years before occurred in June, 1907.'" Mitchells lost all their possessions he died. There was evidently no Early in the fall, the Lees felt in the fire. As a result of the outstanding Pentecostal outpour­ to move on. Before the evangelists inferno, Mitchell'S flock was ing at that time. left, two individuals- Mitchell and dispersed to various towns and Hall and Campbell then received Alfred Wight-were elected by cities, spreading th e Pentecostal a call from Marie E. Burgess who ballot and set apart by the laying message throughout New England. had been sent by Parham to New on of hands by Lee for the work of Within a couple months after the York as a pioneer Pentecostal the ministry and the edification of lire, Mrs. Mitchell was expecting evangelist. They moved on, helping the church in Chelsea. Wight main­ another child, and returned Burgess to establish in midtown tained that this was the first such immediately for a year to New­ Manhattan a storefront mission meeting in New England and he foundland, most certainly staying that grew to be the well-known and Mitchell were the first Assem­ with her family in SI. John's. Glad Tidings Tabernacle in New blies of God elders to be so honored Mitchell remained somewhere in York City. in New England. the Everett area, or moved his Mit chell '5 small group could not After serving the Chelsea mission fami ly to the next town. On March afford to pay a minister, but the for almost 5 years, Wight, too, 9, 1909 another daughter, Myra, deacons continued meetings all moved elsewhere. "With the help was born in Newfoundland. winter. This spoke volumes to Carl of the brethren," Mitchell ex­ In addition to hi s preaching at Brumback: "When funds were not plained, '" continued to carryon the Boston rescue mission, Mitchell available for the support of a the meetings the rest of the year, began attending Everett '5 Pente­ minister, the deacons carried on, besides working at my trade as a costal Church of the Nazarene, a until it became evident that God's carpenter. The news spread that the denomination lying in the doctrines hand was upon one of them for Lord was blessing, so that people of holiness and sanctification as the ministry and he became the came from everywhere, making it taught by John Wesley. Although it pastor. "1 Mitchell would eventually necessary for us to move into a carried the name "Pentecostal," become that person. larger building." Continued 00 pl,e 24 A Miracle in Humbug Ministering in ..•. -- Northern California HEAR Pioneer Quartet During the Depression

The leaders of the NCA-NV By Lloyd Christiansen Dist rict consisted of J. Paul Thommen Sr., superimendem; R. J., umbug is a place. No kidding. Thurmond, secretary-treasurer; Colusa, and a few other places. It could be the only spot on Robert J. Craig, pastor of Glad H Larger churches in Modesto, Sacra­ planet Eanh with that name. Many Tidings Temple and president of mento, and Oakland also hosted would link "humbug" with the Glad Tidings Bible Instit ute, the quartet. Services were held in bellow of the obnoxious Ebenezer San Francisco; J. Narver Gortner, a few ch urches in the Southern Scrooge of Charles Dickens' fiction, General Council executive pres· California District, including those A Christmas Carol. bYler; W. T. Gaston, former in Dinuba, Visalia, Fresno, Reed­ Humbug is a tiny community general superimendem, pastor of ley, and Pixley. about 12 miles from Yreka, Cali~ Full Gospel Tabernacle, Sacra­ In September 1937 the Pioneer fornia. The hamlet is so small it mento (now Capital Christian Quartet was conducting services cannot be found on any road atlas. Cemer); Max Freimark, pastor of at the Assembly of God in Yreka, But it does exisl. I know, because Upper Room Mission, San Jose; where Marion Minogue and Elsie I've been there. And so were three and Robert T. Doherty, youth Rehb were copastors. (Miss Rehb other fellows. president. later married one of her parish­ The Pioneer Quartet. composed It was the opinion of the pres­ ioners, Alfred McBride, who had of Dudley Boyd, Herbert Brown, bytery that a youthful quartet become an Assemblies o f God Harold Pearson and me, was a would-through their services­ ministcr.) group of young men who were give a shot in the arm to numerous One morning after a prayer meet­ sponsored by the presbytery of home missions churches. Harold ing, the pastors mentioned their the Northern California-Nevada Pearson provided a 1930 Packard burden for Humbug, a place they District of the Assemblies of God. automobile, and the four of us were had never visited. They asked the The year was 1937 and Franklin set to travel. quartet if we would be willing to Delano Roosevelt was the presi· conduct a service there. Of course dent. It may have been the worst The Pioneer Quartet we wanted to go. We were told it year of the Great Depression. Many could hardly believe would be the first-ever gospel pastors considered themselves their eyes: all 77 service held there. A letter and a fortunate to have an income of poster were mailed 10 the little $15 a week. people responded to the altar call. village a week before to announce a People around Yreka, Cali/ornia, know Saturday night meeting. I presume where Humbug Road and Mountain are, Among California towns and there was considerable word-of­ but Ihe SlOre and school are gone. II was cities in which we ministered were mouth publicity also. sellled when prospeciors discovered gold Dunsmuir, Mt. Shasta, College The dirt road to Humbug was in Ihe area. Yreka is along InterstQle 5, juSt City, Yuba City, Red Bluff, Chico, narrow, winding, precipitous, and 13 miles from the Cali/ornia-Oregon border. At least one olher HumbUg Mounlain exists, Weed, Yreka, Weott, Montague, dangerous. Upon arrival, I noticed this one along the Southern Oregon coast Alturas, Happy Camp, Clear Creek, JUSt two buildings: a small all~ near Port Orford. Somes Bar, Hoopa, Fortuna, Ukiah, ConlinUfd on 1'~Kt 25 FROM OUR READERS

Ilerbert Burrum's Contribution nOt have a copy of Buffum's book, So kind of you to send me the and I would go to any reasonable photocopies of Heritage covering expense to find one, or get a your splendid article on my friend photocopy. Herbert Buffum (Fall 1986(. He E. E. Manney certainly was "The King of Gospel Fort Worth, Texas Song Writers." During the 1920s and early 30s, one could hear his Editor's note. Any of our readers songs in every Pentecostal church having a copy of the Buffum book throughout the land. As special and wishing to correspond with numbers, his songs exceeded that of Brother Manney may reach him at all other writers combined. 3109 Runnels St., Fort Worth, TX Most of his songs were really 76106. While attending the Sunday Hol y Ghost inspired , and they School Conference in Fort Worth, 1 had such a profound and lasting interviewed the 96-year-old Manney impression upon me-and do to this with a tape recorder. He wanted me day-that in 1935 at the General to know that he had not retired, still Council in Dallas I had a fine operates a sound recording business. interview with him and per50uaded During the interview, 1 mentioned a him to write the story of his song Buffum song, " I'm Going Higher, " H t' r~rt Buffum wrott m.n) of tilt' go~ptl JOnlts life. He sent the manuscript to me in .. hicll .. t rt popular dllrinlt tht' uri} p.rt of tht' and Manney-with great feeling­ 1936. Two disasters destroyed most ctnlllr}. 1115 song' Indudt, " Ufl Mt' ~p Abo.t promptly sang a couple of verses for of my memorabilia-a di50astrous Iht Shado ..·!,'· " I'm (;olnJt Thro', J esus," me. He is the father of Dorothy "Across Iht (ort'lll J)1~ldt' ," "M) Sheep II:no .. nood with water over the cei ling, M} Volet'." " \\ht n J Tllkt' m) Vllcillion in Kirschke, widow of the lale William and a fire a few years later. So I do lin. tn," lind "'I"ht' Old-.'uhiontd M~tinll '" Kirschke.

Has Early Pentecostal Heritage Thank you, Wayne Warner, and duced me to Heritage. They let me I so enjoy Heritage. all the staff of Heritage and bring six issues home, and I have I was a Sappington and am the the Archives. How very much I thoroughly enjoyed them. I am o nly o ne left in my immediate family enjoy every issue, and my heart is passing them to my sister and (86 last August). My brother Lloyd blessed and encouraged with many brother-in-law and -a friend who are was the oldest and was 90 when memories and faces. My dear enj oying them. he went home. Mary Woodbury husband Willis Brewer slipped away I am enclosing $10 for a year's (retired Arkansas and Oklahoma home in 1987. He went 10 Central subscription. pastor) is my cousin and lives at Bible Institute in 1935 and then in Mrs, Ora Lee Rea Marana(ha Village, Springfield, the summer helped build the men's North Little Rock, Arkansas Missouri . dorm and served as outstation Blessings o n you for the good leader. He was also the men's nurse work you are doing. the years he was there. He taught at Response to Fall Issue Edna D. Byrd Peniel Bible Institute (Kentucky), Your Heritage Letter in the fall Sacramento, California ministered in the Kentucky and issue is so timely and needed. I The Sappington family of Thayer, Eastern Districts, and in Fresno appreciate it very much. Missouri, was touched by the during his laSI years. I am deeply concerned and dis­ famous 1909 Pentecostal revival. You have the love and apprecia­ turbed about the many fads and But is was not until 2 years later tion of many here. Glory to God! imitations of the world that have that the two Sappington teenage May he keep your hearts inspired come into our churches, I weep sons, Lloyd and John (Edna Byrd's and encouraged. over it often. I believe there are brothers) were converted. They had Jean C. Brewer hundreds of thousands of o ld ­ been known as fighters in the area Fresno, California timers and new-timers who feel but in 1911 were called to preach. the same way .. .. Keep pushing and They became charter members of praying and working, for the real the Assemblies of God. Heritage Heritages Go To Arkansas thing will prevail over fads and reprinted Harry E. Bowley's article, By Way of California imitations. "The Great Ozark Mountains I recently visited my nephew in Elmer M. Trygg Revival," in the summer 1982 issue. Orange, California, and they intro- Hillsboro, Oregon

14 MG IIt..NITAGI:.. "I:nt-.N 1992-9) I enjoyed my copy of the fall and having to crawl back on the worship that gets too boistcrous. Heritage so much. As a young girl pallet). And those services. Wow! Wc need encouragemem to make I heard Donald Gee more than once Yes, Brother Wiggleswonh was our worship services Biblically at special services held at Stone rough on the sick when he prayed, centered, yet, at the same time, Church in Chicago. Your article but there were definite, miraculous appealing 10 (he vaSt generations of about his ministry was so in forma· healings! younger Americans who are search· live and interesting. Thank you. And what a joy to see J. Narver ing for spiritual reality but often Mrs. Roelina Sennese Gonner pictured on page 21. I shunning an Assembly of God wor· Country Club Hills. Illinois entered the General Presbytery of ship service because il is 100 dry and the Assemblies of God in 1939, and dead and lifeless and boring. May I was very pleased 10 receive the his comments were ah... ·ays inspiring. God deliver us from that and take complimentary issue of Heritage. Keep up the good work. us back to the paperback hymnal Thank you very much. I was Kenzy Savage, Superintendent and non·liturgical worship. blessed and inspired as I read about Central Latin District Gary Denbo. Pastor the men and women who pioneered Rio Rancho, New Mexico Christian Chapel this great Pentecostal message in Columbia. Missouri the early days. Praise the Lord. Your edilOrial {"Ah, for the Florence M. Ridener Good Old Days"] caused me 10 I plead guilty to Ihe remark aboul (widow of Robert T. Ridener) bristle somewhat. A number of standing 10 sing chOrllses for 40 Fruitland, Idaho headquarters publications in the minutes-although it was nOI in· last year have said similar things tended to be "snide and cynical. " So many things in the fall issue about the shallowness of clapping BUI on Ihe clapping. my objeclion made it a real blessing. Your during worship services and the was on applause following a special Heritage Letter is so timely ["Ah. desire to return to more "good old number and during a sermon. not for the Good Old Days!"]. May I days" ways of responding to the in worship. Somehow I cannot have permission to quote from it moving of the Spirit of God. YOli believe that applause in Ihese for our District PaslOral Letter, in indicate that there was more virtue situations falls under worship­ both English and Spanish? [Yes, by in the way the previous generation whether it was in 1914 or 1993. all means.} responded to the Spirit than in the Perhaps TV has conditioned us 10 Precious memories. how they current way of responding. focus on singers and abilities linger. For instance. the article Biblical truth is eternal, but the rather {han view it as ministry and about William Jethro Walthall. My way a cenain people and culture worship. grandfather, D. W. Savage, was respond in physical praise is not Don 'I count on our pioneers be· a member of [Holiness Baptist canonical or eternal. Revival is not ing more "at home with songsheets Churches] and came inlO the in returning to methods or practices in place of hardback hymnals. " It Assemblies of God with them. of the past; it is returning to God has been said thaI the Azusa Street Grandpa had undergone surgery and His word. A keen awareness of Mission, during Ihal great revival and found to be full of cancers, the past will protect us from beginning in 1906, sang "The which could not be removed. excesses in the fmure, but will not Comforter Has Come!" in every DoclOrs gave him 30 days 10 live. dictate that one kind of response service. That song was a Holiness He went to Pentecostal servi ces is to be desired any more than favorite which was copyrighted in in Oklahoma and was instantly another. God is creative. 1890. The pioneers didn't always healed. This was in 1912, the year What you consider just standing have books, but they sang songs I was born. Grandpa lived to hold "for 40 minutes singing choruses," from memory. They sang chorllses. our first·born daughter in his arms many Assemblies of God members but they did nol neglect hymns and some 20 years later. consider worship. Our forefathers gospel songs. Then there is a picture of old would very likely have been very Comrary to what I might have "Boomtown Burkburnett," {"Oil much at home with songsheets in conveyed in that editorial, I see Patch Prophets"] where my father, place of hardback hymnals and nothing wrong with singing praise H. M. Savage, was pastor. It was extended times of standing in choruses; but in my opinion, the here that I began preaching in 1928 the presence of God. Your paren· choruses need a blend of solid and haven't stopped! thelical comment seemed snide and hymns Ihal teach or reinforce There are other memories in this cynical . theology. The Iwo can be mixed issue, my mOSt enjoyable issue of Your editorial. ... makes us seem to glorify God and should not be Heritage. One is the Smith like an "old folks church," regarded as clashing slyles. The Wigglesworth mllllstry in the unappealing to people in their 20s blend will give us a service that Eureka Springs camp meeting, and and 30s. We used to be people who allracts every age group. our quilt pallet on the mountain liked exciting worship. Now we are As a/ways, your opinions are side (waking up during the night writing articles that denigrate welcome. Wayne Warner -t- William Jethro Walthall J nnd the C Holiness Baptist Churches =:J of C Southwestern Arkansas UNITING WITH THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD

One of Ihe ~ ni o r memMrs of Ihls 1923 (;eneral Presb)ler) III lI,e 6S . Dy Glenn Gobr " . J . "1I11hllll I§ wcond from Ih e rilthl in firsl row. Olher, lire. firsl ro ... from Iffl . No) ~ " ~uU . "Ilinle) II . Frodshllm. lIullh M. (:lId,oalder. RO~11 A. Iho .. n, J . W. Welch . J . Ros ..- ell Flo .. n . he Piney Grove Chu rch at "lIlIh~lI . lind Jowph Tunmore. ~ond ro .... 1)1,ld II . M(" l)o .. dl. Boughton, which Walthall had J . L Ki5ller. "11Il~m hu" 1 . K. i.wnlrd. A. II. Arxut. J . ~u~rr T (,orlnrr. !'t. A. bmle ~ on . R. J . (rlliR. lind t;. R. ntlRtrald. Third earlier pastored. and by 1899 was ro" . A. II . " t ndl . J . O. "1I>t 1l . J . R. 1;.'lIn5, tr·ank Ko)d. trank pasto red by J. C. Kelly. wa.<., one of (,ra) . T . Arlhur I.t .. is. K. t . M(" AIISlt r. lind (h("ar Jontll. tourth the churches which became excluded ro .... lIermon I , Ibl"'t ) . " , t . IIl1rd,,·ick. t' rtd VOKltr . 1.0 1,115 to Turnbull. lind I . !-t . \\ llIIlm\. I'holo Iliken III Ih t "lltm <'hu~h . from the Southern Baptist Conven· ., .. I.ouls. !'tfplember 192.l. tio n. At the 1899 session of the Red River Baptist Association, a com· mitlee was appointed to investigme [he diffe rences between two factions of the church. with the result lhal CONCLUDING PART the paSlOr and his follo wers were excluded: The fi nding of this cou ncil was that J. C. Kell y and associates are heretics these "outcasts" and several new in holding 10 the modern doctrine of " holiness and divine healing" and churches were formed in the hill the aellon of l. H. Hitt and asso­ country of Southwest Arkansas. A ciates was regular and baplisti c in few of the congregations were scat­ cJC cluding said Kell y and associates tered imo Oklahoma Indian Terri­ from the fellowship o f Piney Grove tory and in Texas, but the bulk of missions, on primitive Gospet lines, Church.-1. .... Welch, Clerk .1) them were in Arkansas. and as such this Associalion should Kelly and 27 of the church mem­ it By 1903 this group of believers always feel that exists simply for bers were removed, but after a the promulgation of the Gospel, in it s organized themselves into the struggle. these members prevailed fullness, in all fields coming within Holiness Baptist Churches of South­ the range of its possibilities. " in maimaining possession of the western Arkansas. Their first annual church building. This was the last This convocation also adopted a convocation was held at Sulton, year Piney Grove was listed as a 13-point statement of faith and member of the Red River Baptist agreed to take over publication of Associat ion. He was baptized in The Apostolic Messenger which A great revival occurred among the Spirit in 1879, w. J. Walthall had earlier begun printing. Walthall continued as 22 years before the editor . He later published The UPDATE. At th' ag' 0/ 19 in outpouring at Topeka. Eleventh Hour Gleaner and The /877, Wilham Jethro Wa/thall was con· Beacon Light. 16 fronted with the claims of the gospel In a Arkansas, November 6-8, 1903, with In keeping with Holiness thought, Methodist meeting and was con~·erted. Two J. C. Kelly elected as chairman". a list of contemporary evils years later In a season 0/ prayer, he was The group chose not to be bapti~ed In the Holy Spirit. He became a confronting society and the Church 80ptiSt minister but then after being forced regarded as a denomination or was included in their resolutions. out for his beliefs on the work 0/ the Holy ecclesiastical body. These evils to be avoided included Spirit, in 190J he and other ministers Resolved, That this band of Christian tobacco, intoxicants. hypnotism. formed the Holiness Baptist Churches of workers ... shall, in no sense, be SouthWf!stern Arkansas. In this concluding regarded as an Ecclesiastical body, spiritualism, Christian Science. part, Olenn Gohr tells of his ministry with but as an Evangelistic Auxiliary to lodges, laxity of divorce laws, the Assemblies of God. the missionary effort of churches and theaters, and worldy entertainment.l1

16 A (., 1n.IUTA(.t. "I"TI;.R 1991·9.l It is interesting to note that in mined, by the grace of God, to seek In 1917 a letter from and cultivate the unity of the Spirit a report on various churches, the Walthall in the Evangel with you and stay out of the way of Piney Grove Church at Boughton the Holy Ghost, allowing Him, if it was mentioned as having been told the A/G that "the is His pleasure, to work out the removed from the Missionary Bap· time has come for me to technical differences and establish tist Association some years earlier, fully the unity of the faith in the body take my stand with you." of Chris!. .. but had "steadily grown ineo a His 36 churches were I know of but one point that could membership of 134" by 1903. be a possible barrier to us merging In 1904 the Holiness Baptist brought into the Arkansas into the General Council. You teach Churches participated in merger District. that speaking in tongues is the sign of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. while talks with the Independene Holi­ we have always maintained that all ness Church and the New Testament ecause of Walthall's own expe­ supernatural manifestations, includ­ Church of Christ, which resulted B rience in receiving the baptism ing tongues, are confirmalOry Signs in the formation of the Holiness in the Holy Spirit, by 1916 he began of the preached Word in its fulness Church of Christ, as party to the as in Mark 16: 15-20. However, J for to feel a closeness to the Assemblies one, am not willing for technical union which formed the Pentecostal of God, whose doctrines very nearly differences to longer frustrate Church of the Nazarene in 1907 matched up with his own beliefs. He fraternal fdlowship, and am pray­ and 1908. The Holiness Baptist sene a letter to the editor of the ing that the blessed Paraclete may Churches of Southwestern Arkansas Weekly Evangel, sharing part of his harmonize this difference and we did not merge, withdrawing from speedily be brought into a pennanent testimony and expressing his Pente­ and united relationship with the Full the talks when the other participants costal views. Gospel forces everywhere. and the fai led to accept immersion as the ... t am not directly allied with the body of Christ cease to have cisms only valid mode of baptism. 11 General Assembly, but I am deter- in il. 19

AlG Ht:R t TAG~:, WII''TEIi: 1992-93 17 Walthall also sent the Evangel truth by honest re\earch and ~o on the parable of the (en virgins editor a copy of the minutes of He miraculously besto .... ed it to my (Matthew 25:1-13) at the opcning complete satisfaction ... . the 1916 annual convocation of the ... it became so simple and plain as session of the council. Later he Holiness Baptist Churches of South­ the Spirit Himself began to show me made a "stirring address, rich in western Arkansas. Some excerptS in detail the Cornelius incident. experience, and full of holy fire follow: These people knew they .... ere filled and zeal" in support of the funda­ with the Spirit by His all empo\Ooering ... AII the preach in, sel"\'i~ .... ere mentals and the work of the Assem­ presence, but the Jewish brethren interest in, and hi,hly ~piritual, who .... ent with Peter knew it by the blies of God in general. The result but Sunday noon and niaht were came thaI the Council voted to allended with $pecial sUlXrnatural externally produced evidence, just manifestations, such as speaking in as a man knows he is sick by the extend the right hand of fellowship tongues, singin, in the spirit, and presence of disease, but others know to Walthall, and a good time of fallin, in tfances . it by the symptoms)1 rejoicing and handshaking ensued. ... A very intere~tin, healin, service Hattie Walthall was also listed in was held, in which quite a number attendance at this district council were anoimed, with prayer offered for healing, with some very blessed meeting. and immediate results . With such a warm welcome, it did ... We also believe in s\rivin, to not take long for Walt hall to seek elilablish and maintain the spirit credentials with the Assemblies of of unity among full Gospel people everywhere. Therefore we recom· God. In October 1917 , a lettcr was mend thlll Ihis body appoint one or printed in the Evangel stating his more men to open personal or written in tentions: correspondence with the General ... the lime has come for me \0 take Council of the Assemblies of God, my stand with you. I endorse fully known as the Pentecostal Movement, the Fundamentals adopted in the to ascenain the advisability of council meeting of 1916, and ask forming fraternal relat ions with for credentials from the proper that body.l'O authority. I send as references, if A few months later, after further you desire to know more of me, the st udy and what he regarded as a names of S. A. Jamieson, A. P. Collins, E. R. Fitzgerald, Fred revelat ion, he became convinced Lohmann and Z. J. Launius. that speaking in tongues was indeed ... Since the adoption of the Funda­ the initial physical sign of the menials shut the door in the face baplism in Ihe Holy Spirit. of error, I have known we are one ... as I now clearly see, I had the people, but have awaited our annual truth but not the whole truth .... and meeting, hoping to line up as a body. because I could nOt find plainly Our recent meeting, however, revealed stated "Thus saith the Lo rd," that the faClthat there is a small discordant socaking in tongues is a sigll of the element that we couldn't afford to Spirit's fullness, I couldn't accept "I was looked upon with carry into the General Council until it it .... is adjusted. O n Sunday night, July 16, in a suspicion, as being This discord arose over speaking revival meeting at Pine City Holiness mentally unbalanced, in tongues being the in itiative Ilapt ist Churc h, near Pill S, Ga. , I accompaniment to the baplism in the was led to preach on speak ing in but was so animated by Holy Spiril .... And I hope by fun her tongues as a malleroOf·fact gi ft to the the divine pres ence that wait ing that we may move as a whole. church. based upon prophecy, exam­ My waiting, however, has rcached its ple and leach ing. When I entered it seemed at times as if limit, but I shall labor with them as upon Ihe record phase of the subject terrestrial bearing was fonm:rly, as the Lord may lead, and I, of course , referred first to the do all in my power to help adjust Pentecostal incident. The blessed almost lost." matters. I feel sure, though, that teacher led me , unsuspectingly, to say W. J. Walthall other ministers will act independently that this is Ihe birt hday and bin h­ as I have done and possibly some place of the Christian churc h, and churches. therefore to say, wit hout a thought ven though Wahhall , came Give me a place in your ministerial of the study that had bttn goi ng on to the 191 7 Arkansas District fellowship, and I'll fi nd a place in the in my mind, that the Pentecostal ECouncil as a visitor from the baule line.n experience was the normal condition On his application he stated and experience of the church. It was Holiness Bapt ist Churches , "the said aDd was an unsought expression, brethren gladly welcomed him and without reservation that he was in and we nt through my whole being gave him a seat in the Counci l. ":u perfec t accord with the Ge neral like an elect ric nash, and beyond all Walthall had already stated that he Council purposes and wo rk. His question it was a truth Divinely heartily accepted the fundamemals ordination was approved o n given, and not the res ult of personal October 31, 1917. 2A He was 59 years researc h nor concl usions drawn from of the Assemblies of God, and in the teachings of men .... He knew that fact , he was given the privilege of of age when he started this new I could not reach Ihe much sought preaching a "soul-stirring" message phase of his life. He al so brought

18 AlG 1tE.IUTAGt:. \\J'Tt.K 1992-93 with him the 36 congregations from the former Holiness Baptist Churches of Southwestern Arkansas which were absorbed into the Assemblies of God.2.! In January 1918, at a council held in Russellville, Walthall was elected as chairman of the Arkansas District and served until 1926. He then served one year as secretary­ treasurer, and one year as assistant , superintendent before being elected again as superintendent from 1928- • 1929. » While serving as chairman, he Idtnlifif'd onl) u "Apo~toU(' Prt81chrl"'!" .nd I.r.tn nur '.rtpl., I oulsiu•• this 1,19l1rouP Indudn \\. J. "IIUhlll!. third from Ihr riahl, ... ho ... 1l!t ('hllirmu of tht Arlca"~·1 oui~l.nl l)i~lrkl.1 Iht tlmt. pastored congregations in Nonh Olhrrs Idcnllfitd .rt I I IlInntr, rourlh from Ihr ItTl, .nd (h.rUr ('.rn .... \. rl"hlh from Iht Itfl. Linlc Rock, El Dorado, Canhage, Tht m.n In tht lonll ... hllt COlli I, Idtnllfird IS Iht coo", W It I~ IISMllnrd Ihb "'lIi.1 • ('limp mHtlnk. Malvern , and Camden. From 1922 Tllnnrr lalrr br('llnlt \ulI('rlnt('ndrnl of tht I,oulsllnll j)i~trlrl. Rudrr~ .bit tu idrnlif) olhtr, In Ihr -23 he was pastor of First Asscmbly I'hotognph IIrt I~"rd 10 ... rilr 10 /ltd/agt. (ourlUl or And) IIlIrrh in Malvern, Arkansas. This historic a new suit for him and a coat and Mcmphis, Tennessee, in 1925, church was founded in a tent meet· hat for her. Walthall further declared his Slrong ing conducted by Millicent (Mrs. At this same council Walthall support of cooperativeness in thc Howard) Goss in 1909. Other well· shared some of his ideas concerning Assemblies of God: known pastors who preceeded the evils of the age and the infil­ .Qtlenlion needs to be called to Walthall induded E. N. Bell, A. P. tration of modern ideas which could hurtful rulings that are, un~u~pect­ Collins, Hardy Mitchell, Fred hurt the thrust of the Assemblies ingly, creeping into our ranks that Lohmann, and E. R. Fitzgerald. mar the s ..... eelness of fcllo"Ship. of God: According to his annual reports Then. too, I am frank 10 lei it be: ... There is a tendency, in these days given at the district council meet­ known that I am down-right opposed of inlellectualism, toward Ihe to anything, in this blessed fello"­ ings, while serving as chairman, ship that is dearer than life to me. Walthall preached approximately that smacks of arbitrary rule by a once daily, visited almost every From 1918-29 he served centralized po"er; bUI stand four­ section of the district including the Arkansas District as square for one-hundred-~r-cent remote areas, conducted revival secretary-treasurer, assistant co-opcration.lt meetings, gave Bible lessons in chairman, and chairman, camp meetings, dedicated new any miracles were reported church buildings, and attended M during Walthall's ministry. General Presbytery meetings in modification of our Pentecostal He told of cancers being healed, message, by Ihe injection of up­ acute rheumatism being instantly Springfield, Missouri. He also lo-dale modern thought into it, and was editor of the district paper, the employment of worldly-wise, healed, the instantaneous healing of The Pentecostal Gleaner. oversaw sensational, methods to augment its a lady who had tuberculosis, and home missions work in the district, efficiency .. , many other such healings. Shortly and contributed articles to the He suggested that Bible conferences before he passed away, Walthall Pentecostal Evangel. be conducted in order that "our submitted an article to the Pente­ Obviously, this position carried people will be safeguarded against costal Evangel titled, "A Ministry much responsibility and burden, for the subtle tendencies of this evil of the Miraculous" which helped when Walthall was reelected in 1924, age, and non-<::ouncilism will be document several of these cases, In "with tears declaring the office was eliminated by an enlarged vision of describing one of these instances, too heavy for him, [he] bowed his co-operative fellowship. "21 Walthall said, white head and asked all the old Not only did Walthall's juris­ ... an old -time Raptisl deacon, who Presbyters to gather and lay hands diction as superintendent include the was among the first 10 accept the message of healing, and had at the upon him sending him forth in the state of Arkansas, but also northern time a cancer on the cheek. which power of the Spirit into the work Louisiana and Memphis, Tennessee, had been, supposedly, successfully of the Chairman for the ensuing Beginning in 1927 the district Heated three limes, but returned each year. "n After prayer the people became the Arkansas-Louisiana lime with increased malisnily, It hugged his neck, offered words of District, Possibly some isolated raged for seven years, notwithstand· ing the prayers repeatedly offered for encouragement, and lOok up an churches in neighboring states were him. Finally all hope was abandoned offering which amounted to $62.06. also in his jurisdiction. and he came to death's door. Alleasl The previous day the group had In a disagreement concerning the one·half of the flesh on one side of contributed $77 to the Walthalls for overseeing of the congregation at ConlinliN on P.lt 30

AlG Ht..IUTAGE, WI/"ro'Tt. K 1991-113 19 The Making Of Smith Wigglesworth Part 2 The Making of His Message

By David W. Dorries

Editor's Note worked as a plumber and assisted his wifc in a Bradford miS5ion. Mention the name Smith Wigg[ts .... onh today, and you'll find a When he "as 48, in 1907, he "as baptized in the Holy Spirit and soon surprisingly great number of people who will recognize this legendary became an evangelist. He became well known in $C\'eral countries name-c\'cn 45 years after his death. When Wigglesworth died in through his meetings and sermons which were published in Pente­ 1947. another English minister, Donald Gee, wrote thaI a "unique costal periodicals and books, ministry, a gift of Chris! 10 His church, has been laken from the David W, Dorries' article is published in two parts: Part I, "The worldwide Pentecostal Movement. He died in the harness-nearly 88 Making of the Man." and Part 2. "The Making of His Message." years of age." · Part 1 was published in the fall issue of Heritage, Wigglesworth was born to a vcry poor family in 1859 and learned to read only after becoming an adult. During his early adult life he '''A'''aIl'"1l (h~ Rnurre<;tion," 1'''lttff'05tlll e"'l~gd (April 5. I'M?). J. w~ muSt be edified befor~ \\. ~ can Spirit remained outside the believer edify th~ church. I cannot est i mat~ uOlii Spirit baptism . Only when the Concluding Part what I, ~rsonally, o\\.'~ 10 th~ Holy Ghost method of spiritual edifica­ believer had been purified and tion. I am hen befor~ you as one of cleansed th ro ugh sanctification he year 1907 represented a deci· Ih~ biggeM conundrums in the \\.orld. could th e Holy Spirit eOler the sive tu rning point in the life and There never \\.as a \\.eaker man on the T platform. Language? Non~. Inability vessel on the occasion of Spi rit mi nistry of Smith Wigglesworth. -full of it. All natural things in my baptismY Ahhough Bradfo rd remained his life point ~,actl)' opposite to m) being able to stand on the platform ' 1ost probably, Wigglesworth 's home and the Bowland Street and preach the gO\pel. Th~ secret is personal experience innuenced hi s Mission continued to be a thriving thaI the Holy Ghost came and particular understanding o f th ese outreach, Wiggles worth was now brought this wond~rful edification of issues. Since he believed that his the Spirit.. He has gi\'~n me thi~ the possessor of a dynamic message supernatural means of speaking in an Spirit baptism had ele\·ated hi m and a fe arless healing and de liver· unkno\\.n tongu~ to edit) my~lf. r.o beyond carnal and natural limita· ance ministry th at could not be (hat, after being edified. [ can edif) Ih~ church.l~ tions to new heights of supernatural contained within the boundaries of power. he would be inclined to Bradford, nor could it be kept even equate the Spirit's entrance into within the British shores. Wit h the "The faith of Christ never the life of the believer , bringi ng missing ingredient of Spirit baptism wavers. When you have with Him His accompanying array now in place, enabling Wigglesworth that faith the thing [what of supernatural enablemems, wit h 10 overcome his inadequacies, fears you need) is finished." the experience of Spirit baptism. and natural limitatio ns, his ministry In addition, Wiggleswonh was now marked with an unusual -Smith Wigglesworth viewed the gift o f tongues as measure of the Spirit's power and distinct from the sign of tongues authority. In vitations to minister Not o nl y had Wigglesworth dis­ expressed at S pirit baptismY became so numerous that he found covered a new sense of personal Again, his o wn experience seemed it necessary to leave the pl umbing wholeness through the equipping to be a guiding facto r forming his business . Trusting God for finan­ power of the Spirit, but a sense of doctrine. After his baptism in the cial provision, Wigglesworth never completeness had been added to his Spirit experience at Sunderland, found himself lacking throughout message. Having fo rmerly espoused Wiggleswo rth did not repeat his his 40 years as a journeyman a 2-fold Gospel of justification and tOngues speech in the same manner, ambassador of the Pentecostal sanctification, he now added to his Instead, he sought tongues as a message and ministry. message the third component of distinct gift entirely separate from Leading others into an experi­ Spirit baptism. He aligned himself his initiatio n experience. Nine ence of the baptism in the Spirit with the distincti ve Pentecostal months after Sunderland, he did would become a trademark of interpretation of the baptism in receive the gi ft of tor:.gues , and Wigglesworth's ministry. He was the Spirit as had been set fonh was able from that time onward to convinced that his own life had at Azusa Street and transmitted speak in tongues at will as he sensed been revolutionized by the Spirit's by Thomas B, Barratt ami A. A. the Spirit 'S anointing. empowerment. and he felt com­ Boddy. Wiggleswo rth no w saw justification and sanctification pelled to share with others the part fro m th e above idio­ a s essential but prepara tory secret of his own transformation. syncrasies, for a man without experiences , making possible the A formal theological training, Smith culminating experience of Spirit Wigglesworth embraced a balanced, baptism. Sanctification represented Christocentric theology. Even with the final purging of the carnal, his noticeable emphasis upon Spirit natural realm, preparing the human baptism, Wigglesworth's under­ temple for the coming of the Holy standing of this crisis experience Spirit who ushers in the realm of was unmistakably Christocentric. the supernatural. Speaking in For him, the baptism in the Spirit tongues was the initial evidence of never must be construed as a the Spirit's baptism. baptism into a vague, nebulous, Although in agreement on these abstract power, but rather a basic points, Wigglesworth's Dr. David W. Dorries is an assistant baptism into the fullness of the doctrine of Spirit baptism paned professor oj church history at the Graduate person of Jesus Christ. This School of Theology a"d Missions, Oral company with the classical Pente­ statement expresses the heart of Roberts U"iversity, Tulsa, Oklahoma. His costal position in some areas. He Wigglesworth's understanding of Ph.D. is i" church history/systematic made a distinction between the theology from Ki"g's College, U"iversity Spirit baptism. Spirit of Christ and the Holy Spirit. oj Aberdeen (Scolland). His doctoral disser­ .... .for this glorious Baptism is to be tation is a vi"dicatio" oj the Christology oj While the Spirit of Christ entered a witness of Jesus. And Oh, beloved, Edward ifll;"g. the recipient at new birth, the Holy beloved, we must reach the ideal

AlG IIERITAGt_. W\1\,.,1<:)( 1992.11321 identification wllh the Master. It is through the experience of Spirit to make people either mad or glad, I the ~ame Baptism, th~ sam~ po.... ~r, baptism is to describe it in terms mu~t ha\e e\'ery man filled .... ith the wllh th~ \8.m~ r~v~lalion of the King Holy Ghost, must ha\'e a m~age of Kings. God must fill us with thi~ of a transition from one order to from hea ... en that .... ill not lea\e divm~ glorious purpose for God, another. The recipient of Spirit people as I found them.ll Iilled with God, manife~t son, of baptism is transported from the God with power filling the earth. "II Wigglesworth wanted his audi· natural Adamic order to "a new Christ was fully God, but in ences everywhere to know that divine order," i.e., "that divine coming to earth in the incarnation believers do not have to settle place where God works the miracle event, !-Ie was Son of man, with the for a defeated life. Through the He waits for us to act. "19 Indeed, Spirit of God resting upon Him .lt. redemptive work of Christ, God Wigglesworth employs this phrase, As man, Christ won redemption for has provided a divine ord er of humankind by offering perfect "the divine order," wilh such supernatural life and blessing for all obedience for us and by shedding frequency, and other similar desig­ who will wake up to His perfect nations such as "resurrection Hi s blood to obtain atonemenl for plan. order," "heavenly order," and our sins. There is something that you ha ... e 10 Wigg leswort h used a play on "order of the Spirit," that we wake up to; ..... here you will never rightfully can categori ze his allow disease 10 have you, or sin to words, altering the word "atone­ have you, or a weak heart to have ment" to become "at-one-menl." doctrine of the supernatural realm you, or a pain in the back. You will By thi s he highlighted the perfect as "the theology of the divine never allow anything that isn't order. " perfect life 10 have anything to do identification existing between with you.21 ... you realize that now you live in Christ and humanity. In the first a new order. It is the Spirit that He attributed much of the prob­ stage, Christ took "every vestige of has manife5ted Himself in your lem to a failure among believers 10 human deformity, depravity," and mortal body, th~ Word has become lif~, it has quickened you all through identify and to deal effectively with it died with Him forever on the and you are not in any way subject the source of all defeat and human cross. This was done so that the to anything around you; you are oppression. Many Christians have second stage might take effect. We above everything, you rei gn above everything.XI been deceived into thinking that become one with Him in Hi s per­ God causes sicknesses and other fection. "If I dare believe, I am so igglesworth's personal road problems in the human condition. in order with God's Son th at He to triumph in the supernatural Far from charging God with send­ makes me perfect, at one with Him, W realm was a hard, rocky path of ing oppressions upon His people, no sin , no blemish, no failure, brokenness, failure, and deeper Wigglesworth placed blame for "all absolutely a perfect atonement till submission to the ways of God. Yet the discord and evil, and everything ,here isn't a vestige of weakness he never quit. Hi s persistent painful" Z-4 visited upon humankind left. "11 Thererore, for Wiggles­ hungering and thirsting for higher to the common enemy of God and worth our perfect association with levels of spiritual victory kept mankind, the devil. Therefore, in Christ means that His incarnate life him pressing forward for more. As light of Christ's victory over all of holiness and supernatural power the baptism in the Spirit plunged the works of the devil, no Christian as lived out in the gospel accounts him into a much greater measure of need ever accept an oppression becomes for us a prototype of the joy and power than he had known caused by Satan. "There is healing life of the believer baptized in the previously, he was moved by a through the blood of Christ and Holy Spirit. heavy burden of compassion for deliverance for every captive. God J~u s was the type of the Sonship we never intended His children to live have to altain to. Oh. the loftin~s of fellow believers who lived in the character of Jesus, the first fruits continual bondage to condemnation in misery because of some amic­ to make us holy. t see Jesus going and defeat. tion that comes directly from the about clothed with po ..... er. I see like­ devil. "lj wise, every child of God in this place .. .it is an awful thing for me to see clothed with power. Jesus the first­ peopl~, who profess to be Christian, In particular, Wigglesworth was fruits, the pattern of God.I' lifeless and powerless, and in a place where their lives are so parallel with co nvinced that Satan has deceived It is basic to Wiggleswo rth's the world's that it is difficult to most Christians into thinking message to understand Spirit bap­ discriminate which place they are in, bodily oppressions such as sick ness tism not simply as the dispensing of whether in the ncsh or in the Spirit)1 and disease are given to serve some certain gifts of power, but rather as Motivated by compassion, Wiggles­ divine purpose. Such deception an immersion into the full privileges worth's personal mission was must be broken by believers refus­ of adopted sonship, even the same to awaken believers from their ing to accept such oppressions as as Christ shares with the Father. lethargy and proclaim to them that coming from God. Believers do nOt We are made partakers of Christ's a life of victory is waiting for them have to be victimized by Satan's very life and holy character, and we through the glorious baptism in the methods. operate in the anointing of His Spirit. I have no word for rheumatism only supernatural power. Now beloyed, I am out for men, it "devil possessed." Rheumatism, Another way of explaining the is my busine5s to be out for men, cancers, tumors, lumbago, neuralgia, it is my business to make everybody all these things I giye only one nam~, impact conveyed to the believer hungry, dissatisfied, it is my business the power of the devil working in

22 AlG IIOUTAGt:, "11Io"U 1992·93 • , 1" .. ~ . Smith Wigglesworth "No man is capable of standing against the wiles of the devil by himself, but when you get Jesus in you, you are equal 10 a million devils. "

l-tft. pn)~r for th ~ ilck ~a' a normal pari of "milh "Iul~' .. orth·, wr>'l«s. lI~rf he Is pra)lnli. f(lr a child at Anltfl(l~T~mjllf in tht 11I2tr lnndall. tklo~, "iUIf:\.. or1h and hb dlullhttr ,11.11« !'Ialttr ~Ith \ unon l.ortnn. {,ortnn ... ho .. as In ASMmbn~~ or Lod mlnhttr In tilt 19305 Ind 405. "15 tht' wn of J, 'Intr (;I)rln~r .nd '''lin of MlrjOt' .

. =-=- - • .. humanity. When I see consumption, I see demon working power there. All these things can be removed.l6 The key for every believer's healing from Satanic afniction is in the aUlhority of Jesus' name. Wigglesworth saw no place in the divine order ushered in by Jesus for sick ness and disease to reside. "Where His life is, disease cannot even violence that was associated compassion to all, but you are moved remain. Is not He that indwells us with Wigglesworth's way of minis­ to a holy anger as you see the pla~ greater than all? Is He greater? Yes, the devil has taken in the body of try is justifiable in light of hi s the sick one, and you deal with his when He has full control. "21 He understanding of warfare against poSition with a real forcdulness.19 warned of the futility of fight­ Satanic forces. He saw the presence Wigglesworth asserted that if ing Satan with natural, human of sickness and disease in a person believers would enforce Christ'S st rength. The key to healing is not as Satan's unlawful entry and authority with violence in every in OUf own resources, but in the occupation. Satan would be re­ case of Satanic oppression coming unlimited power of Jesus indwelling quired to relinquish that territory against them, the kingdom of dark· us. "No man is capable of standing and take with him his sickness and ness would depart from them. "J[ J against (he wiles of the devil by disease if the higher authority and can get you enraged against the himself, but when you get Jesus in healing power of Christ be enforced powers of darkness, and the powers you, you arc equal to a million in the victim's life. of disease, if I can wake you up, devils. "2& There are some times when you pray you won't go to bed without you for the sick and you are apparently prove that there is a master in mith Wigglesworth refused to rough. But you are not dealing with you-greater than the power that is tolerate or toy with Satan or his a person, you are dealing with the S Satanic forces that are binding the hanging about you. "XI oppressions. The militancy and person. Your hean is full of love and Contlnllt'd on Pllt 21

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From Azusa Street to the U.S.S. R.: A Brief lIistory of Archives exhibit at the 1989 General Council In Pemecost A mong Sla vic Imm;grants, 19()()- 199 1, b) Fred Indianapolis. Now they can have a whole book of Smolchuck. SIO postpaid . photographs and text! Last year in the old Soviet Union Fred helped start Fred Smolchuck is a man with a mission. a Bible School and has been busy translating and pub· That keeps him from sitting too long in a rocking lishing books in Ukranian. He returned to Russia last chair in his retirement home at Fa-Ho-Lo Park, on the fall. Michigan District campground. Since retiring in 1983 Fred's interest in the Slavic ministry came as a result he just shifted gears and now ministers in Russia and of his parents' example. Kirylo and Sophia Smolchuck publishes books in Ukranian. came to this country in 1914 along with many other In AugUSt Fred stopped by the Archives to leave his immigrants from Eastern Europe. In 1927 they were latest book From Azusa Street /0 the U.S.S.R., which is a saved and became members of the Russian, Polish, and Ukranian Pentecostal Church of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Later they and their 10-year-old so n Fred were baptized in the Holy Spirit. Ki rylo Smolchuck even tually became a pastor among the Slavic im migrants. Fred fo llowed in his father's footsteps and ministered in Slavic congregations in New England and Detroit. He was elected executive secretary of the Pentecostal Union in 1941 and then superintendent of the Ukranian Branch of the Assemblies of God. In I v~ n and K. lh ll rln ll Vuonu H. mi ss lon ~ r les 1952 he returned to the pastorate among Slavic Pente­ 10 MIIS1 1. In 11I 20s. costals in Detroit, where he ministered for 12 years. The Michigan District elected hi m secretary-treasurer bricf history of the Pemecostal movement among Slavic in 1964, a position he held fo r nearly 20 years. Fred immigrant s to North America in th is century. He also Smolchuck is seeing great changes in the land of his showed us translations of books in Ukrani an which are ancestors, with the greatest change being the freedom to being distriblil cd throughout the old Soviet Union. distribute the gospel. And it pleases him immensely that If you've been reading Heritage for the past few years he has a part in this wonderful new day. you'll probably remember his article in the summer 1989 To order Fred's new book From Azusa Street to the issue. Based on his book research, the article is "Slavic U.S.S.R., send $IO--which includes postage and handling Immigrants to America and the Pentecostal Experience." -to him at his home address: 3000 Mt. Hope Road , Grass How I recall the excitement one of the photographs Lake, MI 49240. caused when people of Slavic descent stopped by the - Wayne Warner

1919; and Lois Ruth on April 10, D William J. Mitchell/from page 12 1921. Two children- Alec and Pearl - died young, but th e surviving it did not approve of speaking in the church was rejecting Pente­ 11 early on became part of their tongues. In fact , in 1919 the word cost their 'house would be left father's church. Although he him­ " Pentecostal" was dropped from desolate.' " Shortly after, Mitchell self had had few ad vantages early in the denomination's name. left the Nazarene Church and, in life, Mitchell wanted only the best During a service at this church, Danielson's words, " was given a for hi s children. Two of them­ Mitchell gave a message in tongues. burden for a Spirit-filled, Bible­ Irving and Allen- became pastors Spoken in Greek, it was readily believing church in the city of in the Assemblies of God. understood by the pastor, Dr. A. K. Everett." 9 From Allen we get a glimpse of Bryant. Mitchell, who had left Mitchell raising his family. school at 9, never completed his n the following years the Mitchell Dad was a strict disciplinarian . He formal education and had no Bible I family was enlarged by the addi­ believed in , and applied the biblical school training; the only language tion of William Paul on June 10, principle. "He that spareth his rod he knew was English. "The gist 1911; Marion Elizabeth on July 21 , hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" (Proverbs of the 'message, ' "according to 1913; Blanche Edith on December 2, 13:24). Consequently, it was not Shelly Danielson, Mitchell's great­ 1914; Irving Malcolm on July 10, unusual at times to have Dad sit at granddaughter, "was that because 1917; Allen Edgar on December 24, the head of the table at mealtime

24 AlG HEMITAGE. WINTEN: 19\12-113 ~ith a piece of sash-cord across his <,Cemed her prayer ~ould nevcr end t art ide he prolided, ",\ H i~tor) of Pemeco~! shoulder. Such was a silent reminder Mother suffered much ~ilh bouts III r-o e'oI England"; and informal ,0nler!0.3!ion~ to observe proper table manners! of asthma and a number of sHo kes 'ole had \\hen he \uited t" c\\foundland III July As [ recall, Dad had an unusual brought on by high blood pre .. ~ure. 1990. .1 William J \lUthcll to J. Ro~ .... ell Flo\\ er. reserv e o f patience. We did experi· [n facl, Ihe last stroke she had ~as so ence times wherein the proverbial massive, it paralyzed her sc\erely. \ 1a) 7, 1 9 ~ 6. Cited in Carl BlUmt>ad. A ~und From HeInen (Springfield. \\0: Go~ptl Pub· ·'board o f education was applied !O Bcd-ridden, she had to be spoon-fed li'hmg Hou)\:, (917), p. 80. OIher por(lons of the scat o f culture"!... and otherwise cared for as though a \llIchell'~ leller art used bdo\\ and are dra\\ n It is my convic tion that all this child. She ~as given to hallucinat· from pp. 80-81 served to better equip and enable him ing. The doctor's prognosi~ ~as that 4. Alfred \\ Igh!, " Pemc<.:o~1 III /'; e ..... l:ngJand,'· to shepherd the flock of God. she would ne\'cr recOH'r. But God! p. I The remainder of W Ight'~ renCCIIOn\ are Fred O. MacFee, Jr., who married Ult imate]y she did rcco\'er completely. dra\\n from Ihi~ 2·rage documem and continued a fairly active life until S. lJrumbad, p. 1·1]. Blanche ("Bee ") Mitchell , remem· God called her home. 6. Gardll1er, "OUI of Zion." p. 9 bered the older gentlemen as a Mot her stood under fi .. e feet in 7. Brumbad. p. 81 8. William \\ \ lenliC'S, Anomttd /0 Sen·e height .... She had a bright disposi­ father·in·law. Fred was to leave (Srringfield, \10: Go~pcl Pubh~hing Hou"". Bee by 11:00 p.m. on (h eir weekly tion and enjoyed good fun times. If 1971), p. 70. dates. Precisely al 10:01 p.m., she coul d have an active pan in 9, Shell) Damehon. " /\ Pioneer of Pentecost clowni ng around ~ it h others, the in r-;C\\ England." p, 2. Mitchell wou ld call out, " Bee , it's bener she enjoyed itl One could 10. Fred O. \ Iacl'ct:. Jr.'~ reo:ollections are going on for eleven o'c1ock!" IO never accuse Mother of hypocrisy, dra .... n from hl~ lene" to me of NOlembcr I. Mrs. Mitch el l, who was known as and she coul dn't accept it in others. 1989 and Sepwnt>er 2. 1990; and informal I:on· TO Hi': CONTINUE!) \crsa!ion~ \Ie' had \I hen he '''lied /';C''' foundland Au nt Susie or Aunt Doll because of 111 Jul)' 1990. ~ t . her di minutive size, was evidently Non~ a special mother. Her son, Allen, l. Gordon P. Gardiner, "Out of Zion ... lnto stated: All the World," Bread of Life 3t:l (Januaf) 8urrOli A J"nrs IS paSl'" In many respects Mother fulfilled 1982). p. 8. ~ also Gardincr's OUI oj Zion of \// C""nn IVnltroSl"/ Proverbs 31 :10-31. In to A ll the World (Shippensburg. PA: Chu,C"Io, If""/r),, ' r .. ·· found/and Ill' I.!lhr "ulhM Because of such a la rge family , Companion Press. 1990). p. 26. The remainder of Gardi ner 's rencctions are dra\\ n from these oj llor I ...(,",mumr blO~'o· most of her time was spent in the wurces, pp. 8·9 and 26-28 respcc! il ely. phy on A IIC"r G"m~us, Pl'nlrC"osla/ p,ontrr of home. She was "there" when we 2. Allcn E. Mitchcll's recoll ections are childre n needed her. The family altar " ·t ..jound/a"d HI.! C"ll~nl dra .... n from his lellers 10 me of October 16, ..·"11"1/ pro)«1 il" a hl.!/QTV was where she excelled in ministry, 1989. February 2t. 1990, Se p! ember 7. 1990, of 1M Prnlrrosla/ Awm· though many were the times when it September 2, 1991. and Augus! 13, 1992; an /)/Its oj \ 't ...joundlond.

a totalty un saved audience lUrn 10 o Humbug Miracle/fro mpage 13 the Savior in toto. No body sa id no. The wonder of that long-ago service purpose store which also hand led 1 asked if an would kneel, and has never left me. weekl y mail , and a schoolhouse . the pastors and the quartet It was a night to remember for But there was nobody in sigh(, members prayed wit h each person. the Pioneer Quan et. Three of us except a scrub dog waggin g hi s {ail. Only God knows Ihe hearts of men are still li ving. Herb Brown is No t until 8 p.m. did we see any­ and women, but we thought we wit ­ in heaven. Both o f those Yreka body. Then out of the woods and nessed the conversion o f 77 souls pastors are with the Lord also . else wh ere came 77 people- by -a 100070 response. We had enough I suppose Humbug is slill (here. actual count-wh o crowded the sense to know that this result was 1 don '( know. But it would be little schoolhouse. not humanly wrought. The psalmist exciting to be greeted by Humbug The Yreka pastors introduced us put it well: " This is the Lord's people in heaven and hear them and then fo ll owed an instr umental doing; it is marvelous in our eyes" say: "We remember that Saturday and singing co ncert of about 30 (Psalm 11 8: 23). night in September 1937 when you minutes. It was my turn 10 be the It was demonstrated at Humbug ministered to us and we became speak er, and the people heard a in Californ ia, thai salvation is followers of Jesus." ..,.. sin cere but mediocre sermon. nOI humbug. It is real, manifest, With all heads bowed , I as ked and meaningful. That unanimous Uo}d li nd \ hili n t h riSl ill nS('o the people how many would like to response to Christ occurred aboul give their hearts {Q the Lord. 1 55 years ago, but the marvc\ of that could hardly beli eve what I saw: night lingers rosi ly in my memory. Every one of the 77 people raised For umpteen ti mes I have mused their hands! aboUl thai astonishing occurrence. Thinking that perh aps they had I have seen hundreds respond to an misapprehended my appeal , I in vitation by evangelists in la rge worded my in vitation more ex· ci ty·wide crusades, but onl y in plicitly. But the res ult was {he same. Humbug, California, did I ever see

AI( ; IIEIUTAGE. \\I ... Tt~ K t~2 · 93 2S 1861 I Ie I. B<-" I. ColUCl.:tion 179, \\ t.,,'\15 Ra:ord\. B(jC "'r.:ht\~ . '" heaton College, D Susan Easton/from page 8 '" heaton. IIIrnob, 12, IbId 13. Ibid, Stanley Frod'ihum, George Eldridge had already devoted their prime 14. Ecumenteal MuslOns Co!iference, ."·ew and a longtime mi s~ionary to China, years to missionary service. York (r"'c'" York ' Amen.:an Tra" 5o<;.et) , W. W. Simpson.'! Reaffiliation was sometimes ]9001, II, 73 I~. Hekn Tenne), m,\. hl"ory of the The commiuec interviewed pro­ coslly. For Ecbton it meanl relin­ WL\IS, I'll", c7...:8. File 2. Bo)[ 3, Colia:tion 44, o;,pcctive candidates in an effon !O quishing the <;ecurity of an as~ured Helen Tenne) Paper,. BGC AI~hi\'C... , Wheaton implement Council policy relative to salary (by 1911, hers was $700 Colle,e, Wheaton, IIlInOl\. Tenne}"s fourth chapter, "(;ale",a) 10 Indta,"' offer\ a SUCCinCt missionary Qualifications and the III gold, plus housing and native ~ummar)' of early WU.\1S effom in India. conducting of missionary work. It SerV3n1S, and paid furloughs which 16. IbId, p. c3 soon disbanded, howe .... er, as EaSlOn came at 6-year intervals) and other 17. IbId., p. c4 18, WU'\1S pcro;.onnel retord~, folder I, Box and Simpson left for their fields. II benefits for the uncertain life of ]2, Collection 379, WU'\lS RC\,."Ord,. BGC Easton received Assemblies of God a faith missionary under a denom­ Archl\C\, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IIImois. 19, Ecumentcal MlSSlonar)' Co!iference, ,,"'ew missionary appointment, but nOI ination that could not guarantee York, J9()(): Report 0/ Ihe &umemcal Con· credentials. for service in North even minimal support, /erence on ForeIgn MuslOnt (J'.;e ... York, India in 1918. She died in Bangaiore Somehow her Pentecostal expe­ American Tract Society, 19(0), II. 73, rience compensated for the tangible 20. Penonnel Lim. File I. Box 12, Collection in May 1925. 379, \\ UMS Records. SGC ArchlVe\, Wheaton Easton's views abom the appro­ assets she relinquished and com­ College, Wheaton, minoi~. priate working relationship between pelled her to live out in new ways the 21 "In Memorium,'· \ftJsionary ReVIew 0/ male and female missionaries as well principles of the "full gospel" she the World, December 1903, p. 941 22. Tenney mss., Pl". cUk:ll as her commitment 10 "women's believed Pentecostalism represented, 23. See, for example, "Ramabal'S lnstittltion work for women" coincided with for Child·Wrdo ... s," MISsIonary Review O/Ihe the predispositions of early NOlts World, January 1889, pp. 64·66 which lim I. Sarah Doremus, "Edilorial," Missionary among the founders of the f,rst Ramabai Assemblies of God leaders and gave Crumb$, January 1861, p. 19, Association ~uch .... ell·kno"'n Americans as her a role no other woman in the 2. Ibid" p. I Ed",ard E\eretl Hale, Phillips Srools, Frances denomination's history has filled, 3. Rosamond Webb 10 \Irs. Wyckoff, 9 Willard and George A. Gordon; "Gro"'th and February 1861 (hereafler cited ali Webb leuer). Re\ival in Ramabai's Work," M,sslonDry Her Story reveals as well some­ Folder I. Bo~ I. Coliel:lion )79, Rt<:ords of ReVIew o/the World, Oclober 1905, pp. 792·3: thing of the experience and Women's Union Mi~\ionary Sociely (hereafter "The Spirit Among Ramabai's Girls," MISSIOn · expectations that early Penlecostal cited as WUMS Records). Archi~es of the DIll y ury Rel'lew 0/ (he World, March 1908, PI", Graham Center (DGC), Wheaton College, 166-]67. lIer American supporters published a missionaries frequently brought Wheaton, Illinois. brief biography in 1939: Mary I . B Fuller, The with them to their new denomina­ 4. Jacob Chamberlam, "Women's Work for Triumph 0/ an Indian Widow: The Life 0/ tional affiliations, Not all were Women in India," Muslonary ReVIew o/the Pandlla RamDf)Q1 (Ha~erlOwn, PA: American World, Apr.1 1909, p. 282, Council of the Ramabai Mukli Mission, 1939). new recruits who recklessly aban­ 5. An instn in the MISSionary Rel'lew o/the 24. Su~an Easton, "Of the lord," The MIS· doned other things to utilize an World in Seplember 1910 pro\'idcd ~tatistic~ to slonary Link, June 1907, p. 4, alleged gift of languages abroad, documem the extenl of ..... omen's foreign mis· 25, IbId. sionary association aCli~ities over the past 50 26, J, L. Mudge, " If Ye Ask-I Will Do," Nor did all di scover a call to years, The MlsslonDry Unk, October 1907, PI". 4-5. mi ss ionary service through Spirit 6. The "Act of Incorporation" liSled 50 27. letter to Missionaries 1Il India from the baptism, Some, like Easton, had manager~, among whom ""ere Mrs. Dr. lkecher. Board of Managers. September 2, 1910. File I. Mrs. Dr. Tyng, Mrs. Dr. Cutler, and Mr s. Dr. Box 2, Colltttion 379. WUMS Records, SGC been part of the late-19th century DeW III. MISSionary Crumbs, January 1861. pp. Archl\'eS, WhealOn College. Wheaton, Illinois, surge of missionary endeavor and 3--4. The WUMS ... as run entirely by ..... omen: the 28. Sarah Doremus to Su\an Easton, August eonstitution specified only one office 10 be held 9, [911. File I. Box 2. Collection 379, WUtl,lS bya male-thai of trea~urer. "The COnSlillltion, Reoords , DGC Archives, Wheaton College, or General Regulations," MISSionary Crumbs, Wheaton, Illinois, January ]861. p. 23. 29. Sarah Doremus to Susan Easton, Septem· 7. The WUMS's reeords indicatc that mOSt of ber 16, 1911, File I, Bo~ 2, Collection 379, the missionaries sent out during the mission's first WUMS Records. BGC Archi\'es, Wheaton Col· 30 }'cars ..... ere Presbyterian, Congregationalist. lege, Wheaton, IIImois. Dutch Reformed, or Reformed Episcopalian, 30. "Tool No Money for Healing," Boston 8. "The Con\titution, or General Regula· Glo~, AugUSt 29, 1913, p. 4: "Testimonies tlons," MUSlonaryC""mbs, January 1861, p, 24. Under Oath," Word and WI/ness', October 20, 9. Webb letler. See al50 comments by Mr~ , 1913, p. I. For a report on the trial. in ",hich Mason included in "Edrtorial," Missionary Wood ... onh·Etter .... as declared not guilty, SCi: Crumbs, January [86], p. 17: "Mlssiollarres' Wayne Warner's "Di~ in e healing on Trial." whes generally not only are occupied with their Pentecostal Evangel, January 13, 1989, children, and Olher domestic duties, but have pp. 10-11. numberless occupations ... hieh belong exclusively 31, Ceneral Council Minutes, 191 7, p. 23. Dr Edith 81umho/er Is tM project dlrec/or 0/ the 10 their peculiar position, ... The ... orl.; 32. Ib.d.. 1918, p. 10. The onginal committee Il1Sflfute lor the Study 0/ Ameriron Evongtli«Ils appealing 10 ..... omen for their heal hen sislers served only one year as the Council adopted a (lSAEJ and USSIXwte pro/tSSOr 0/ hu/ory at must be done by womCTl, and these onl}' who can resolution that transferred the responsibilities of WhMton College. Shl' u /he author o/the two· and will de~ote e\ery energy of their nattlre to the Foreign Missions Committee 10 the ExttUli\e .'Ofume hlS/ory As.sembliC'$ of God: A Chapter in this 50Ie objeet." Presb)'Iery, A separate Foreign M.ssions depart· the Slory of American Pemecoslalism, Pemeco~1 10 . "Editorial," Missionary Crumbs, ment was established in 1919 ....

26 AtG Ht::RlTAt. ... " "'lTM 1992·93 You prople that are judging me . please lea\e your Judgment outside, o Smith Wigglesworth/rwm page 23 for I obey God If you are afraid 10 be touched. don't come to me [0 pray for you. I f you are not prepared to be On occasion, Wigglesworth's Wigglesworth spoke to her al(en­ dealt v.lth as God giH:s me leadings method of dealing vioicmly with danls. "Bring her back again." He to deal. ~eep av.a)' But if lOU can belie\c God has me for a purpo~e. the devil in his ministry with the knev. his work \\as not finished. As come and I v.ill help you _n sick and diseased drew criticism. the woman was raised to her feet A profound compassion for the When he dealt roughly with a sick again, he resumed his harsh treat­ sick and afnicted spawned within or diseased person, people un­ ment aimed at the enemy. The Wigglesworth a burning anger familiar with his method felt that woman screamed, "Oh, you're kill­ towards Satan that moved him 10 he was being insensitive to the ing me!" Again, she crashed to the fearlessly assault the strongholds of condition of the palient and li able noor. darkness taking up residence within to do more harm than good. Yet he the victim. Rough treatment was neve r altered his method on the only to force out Satan in order to basis of another's criticism or mis­ set the captive free. Countless understanding. He ministered onl y thousands of miraculous healings under what he perceived as the have vindicated Wigglesworth's direction of divine guidance, so he demonstrative style. dealt fearlessly and compassionately Smith Wigglesworth is remem­ with needs as he discerned was bered by many for his insightful warranted by each casco Accord­ teaching on the subject of "faith." ing to reports from eyewitnesses, In deed, one biographer labels him. in many cases , his discernment "apostle of fait h."ll In recalling was authenticated by divine his bold and fearless manner in intervention. ministry, and remembering the The following two cases illustrate mighty exploits he performed, one how Wigglesworth's method could easily can feel both intimidated be mi sunderstood. In Oakland, and discouraged by the seemingly California, two sisters had their unattainable level of faith that he brother brought forward on a exhibited. Yet for a child of God stretcher to receive minisu y . to walk away from a study of Smith Because of their brother's se rious Wi ggleswo rth with feelings of condition, they urged Wi gglesworth inadequacy would be 10 miss the to be gemle. Yet the kind of action essence of both his life and his he was led to perform was anything message. " Faith" fo r Wiggles­ but gentle. Wigglesworth reached worth was anything but struggle back and slugged the man in the and st ri ving. The authentic "faith" stomach. The man fell unconscious. of the gospel nows from a position One of (h e sisters cried out, of rest. " You've killed him. Call the Faith is al ways accompanied b)' police." The man was taken to the Wigglesworth ilt 87 peace. Faith always rests. Faith hospital. When he regained con­ laughs a! impoSSibilities. Salvation is by fai th, through grace, and it sciousness , doctors found nothing The crowd became disquieted, is the gift of God. We are kepI b) wrong with the man. He was totally for they did not understand th at Ihe power of God through faith. God healed . 11 Wigglesworth was in complete gives faith and nothing can take it away. 8y faith we have power \0 The next case took place in control of the events. He com­ enter into the wonderful things Australia, where thousands of manded (hat she be raised to her of God) O people were attending a Wiggles­ feet again. After laying hands upon Wigglesworth stressed the dis­ worth meeting. A large woman her another time, he received the tinctions between natural, human suffering from cancer was brought clear impression that his wor k faith, and the faith of Jesus Christ. forward. As Wigglesworth sensed was now complete. As the woman Tryi ng in our strength to have faith that she was being destroyed by the began to walk away, she had moved ends in limitation. The gospel calls adversary he began to speak force­ only 5 yards when a large cancer us \0 move beyond our own limited fully against the Satanic powers. fell from her body. She was com­ capabilities of faith, and reSt in With the large crowd looking on, pletely healed from the disease. As the faith of Christ which indwells the woman cried out, "You're Wi gglesworth was recalling this every believer. "Your faith may ki lling me! You're killing me! Oh, incident with another audience get to a place where it wavers. The you're ki lling me!" She then fell some time later, he made the faith of Christ never wavers. When to the noor. following observation. you have that faith the thing is

AIL II UU · I A(;~.. \\ t"lH.H 1992-9J 27 finished. " l! Faith does not deny the devastating challenge came only 6 The trial of your faith is much more limitations that are present in our years after his baptism in the Spirit. precious than gold. "010 finite. human, earthly conditions. His faithful Polly, the woman he The trials and afflictions thai It simply refuses to rely upon these had depended upon through so assaulted Wigglesworth, evcn limited resources. "We shall be many years of partnership together, through the fruitful period of his conscious of our human limits, but was suddenly taken from him by life, only serve to underscore and we shall not limit the Holy One who death in 1913. This most severe of confirm the essence of his message. has come to dwell within. ":1& losses did not deter Wigglesworth Living and ministering in our The secret, according to Wiggles­ from his course. He carried on in natural, human strength is futilc. worth, is to allow the futility of ministry for the next 34 years with­ Only when we rest from our labors, trusting our own natural resources out his faithful companion. and move by faith into the limit­ to run its course without giving Another sorrowful blow came less potential of the divine order, up in defeat. The very process of only 2 years later, when George, his can we find the strength of Christ coming to the end of ourselves is youngest child, died unexpectedly made available for ourselves and God's way of breaking us in order in 1915. Another of his children, others. "God is greater and can to prepare us to move into the Alice, and her husband, James manifest Himself in the weakness. realm of His divine order. Salter, accompanied Wigglesworth The only impediment is when we God ... has purposed, and has planned, on a number of his journeys. Yet it intrude our own strength. "41 Trials to bring us into Ihe place where we kept Wigglesworth broken and shall cease from OUT own works­ was an enigma to him that, while from our planning, from our own hundreds of people were receiving humble, wholly dependent upon human efrorts. from our self­ divine intervention. assertiveness, which so interferes with Leading others into an Some think they are tried more than God's power within us. God wants to others. If you knew the value of it fill our entire ~ing with Himself, SO experience of the baptism you would praise Ood for trials more full of Himself that it will ~ His in the Spirit would than for anything. It is the trial that planning, His wisdom, His under­ is used to purify you. It is in the standing, His impulse moving us, His become a trademark fiery furnace of affliction God gets disposit ion manifested in US •. )1 you into the place where He can use For nearl y 25 years of ministry, of Wigglesworth's ministry. you.·1 Wigglesworth struggled with frus­ miraculous healings at his services, tration and inadequacy based upon his own daughter, Alice, whose love he history of Christendom has his att empts to minister from his for Christ and support of his minis­ T witnessed few figures whose life own strength and his own faith. try was unquestioned, remained and ministry has evidenced so strong Moderate successes that would have incurably deaf in both ears. Even an anointing for supernatural minis­ pleased some ministers did accom­ Wigglesworth's eyesight deterio­ try as did Smith Wigglesworth. pany his efforts. But Wigglesworth What limited natural capacities and did nOI discover the limitless realm rated to the point that he needed the aid of glasses in o rder to read. attainments he possessed only inter· of divine capacit y until he ceased fered with his desire to be used of fro m his own works. Another personal affliction must be mentioned . For 3 years, Wiggles­ God in the power of the Spirit. His ... God lives in yo u. Leave yourselves spiritual anointing emerged out of in Ood's hands. Enter into rest. ... 0 worth was beset with an excruciat­ this is a lovely rest! The whole life ing condition of kidney Stones. brokenness. is a Sabbath. This is the o nl y life Doctors recommended surgery as Before Ood could bring me to this that can glorify God. It is a life of place He has broken me a thousand joy, and every day is a day o f heaven the only cure. He retorted , "God times. I have wept, I have groaned, on earth.U shall operate." There were times I have travailed many a night until God broke me. It sees to me that until Wigglesworth abandoned his when Wigglesworth was preaching God has mo..... ed you down you never striving and launched into 40 years every night, and spending his days can have this longsuffering fo r of anointed life and ministry in bed, writhing in pain. Yet he did others.·) following hi s baptism in the Spirit not waver from his course, and God Crucial to understanding the key in 1907. He testified that he had continued to bless his meetings with to Wigglesworth's power is to see entered into God's rest, "a rest many miraculous healings. He en­ that he did not allow brokenness to which comes from our ceasing from dured this kidney stone condition crush or defeat him. He learned to our own works, and letting the for 3 long years before deliverance rejoice in weakness. His secret came Holy Spirit work in us.")9 Life was came. On that day, 20 stones came in knowing that any measure of abundant and fruitful for Wiggles­ away from his body almost instan­ natural, human strengt h is self­ wonh, but far from being smooth taneously. Wigglesworth counted destructive, for it becomes a and without obstacles. As his this experience as a great victory, counterfeit substitute for the influence and public ministry a testimony of God's deliverance supernatural strength of the Holy expanded, he found himself chal­ after a time of testing. "Some of Spirit desiring to be activated lenged and tested with deep levels you people because you are not within us ...... there is nothing that of adversily. healed in a moment wonder what is will profit you, or bring you to a Perhaps the most potentially up. God never breaks His promise. place of blessing except that which

28 A/G ft EKITAGt:. " 1/'Io'TEK t992·113 denounces or brings to death the natural order that the supernatural ARCHI\'ES A CT I\'ITI ES plan of God may be in perfect order in you. " .... Robutll«kmln: 23 Go/den Grain magazmes; albums. And) Ih rris: Vid("() and related matenal Smith Wigglesworth was confi­ Palestrnl' in Piclure and Prophl'CY, by Charles S. of C. L. Ste", art's funeral. bereft Kdl) : Price. Adele I)lIlton: RUSSian and Eastern personal rrcollmions and photos of his ministry den t in God and worked super­ European MI~sion corr~pondencr; booklrls; in Southern Missouri, rrcording of his son's natural exploits because he learned Cre(} en ,\1i/af(ros (I Belie~'e In Mlrac:les). b) funeral (VIetnam casualty). herell ~ t enll o use : Eteban Hill Lero) Grunrr: nrw~ clippings from church histor)·, Sixty Yl'Ors 0/ Glor)'-Harbor through suffering and brokenness Los Angeles paper~. "onll Cllrolina Uistri c-I: ChrlstlOn Centfr, Wilmington. California of the absolut e futilit y of trusting Charles Coo ~ man rtlircmefl! 'ideo. I)hislon of Bene'olenc-cs: A\1 A dt'CC'a~ files, 1988·91 Home Missions: photos of home IIII~SlonaflC"; t_ du (" ~tlon I>cpllrtment : miscellanrous materillls in hi s natural, human capacities. casselle tapes, Rua~h 90 Confm::ncc, and on early I1lble s<:hools; files of current A·C; His model was Jesus Christ, wh o "Evangelicals and Jews."' Edith Blumhofer: Thl' colleges. I)hision of CommuniC"lltion : minutes, Promise Hebden Mission, Toronto (' ·Ia), June memos, ric., 1974-S2. lIden I)unmlrc: 1 9~6 took our lowly form and nature, 1907; February, October, 1909; ' 1ar<.:h 1910. Pentl'COStal EI·anRI'I (II ISSUes); 1921 Sunday and learned to trust and obey His ~tlln Ingerso ll : Roc: \ 1essner nc"s clipping. "e" s~·hool papers \\ . \\ . Bhlkel) : Golden G,aln 'Iork I)lstritt: correspondenC"e, Home M i~sion~ (February 1933). \' 1"$ . RObert C Oilton: book~, Father's will perfectly though the Commillee minutes, 1945-51 POlom. t Uistrkt: periodicalS, !facts on Hoi) Spirit from late sufferings of self-mortification . nth Anni'crsary book Me!>in T . j ohnson: mis­ husband·~ collC'Ction P. ul <. arotlle,,: booklet, cellaneous revi'al posters, clippings. !o.p lrillli l iN God Be God, b) MarCIa M cCor ~ le. Ron "We must have the stamp of our Life banatlism: 1971 E,angelis!s Stminar ~lI tT mlll : news clipping on 1984 Holy SPirit blessed Lord who was marred cassellCS. t-red Smokhut&! : his book, From Conference. MI"$. ' Irgi nl. Johnson: material on Azusa St,eetto the U.S.S. R. Jose pll R. Flo ..· er: Northl'("St Dimi~1, indodillS 19U . \f~ngtr. more than an y man. And when He material 011 Alice Luce. l..Io)d C hri s ti~n se n : J ot' (;rtfl'h: M T.S. Thesl~, '·Vi~ions of Glory' touched human weakness it was obit uaries of Ben E. Mahan. Mabd l)I\tnport: The Myth of Azusa Street and the Formation of photos, tracts. book Iris, missiOl1ar)" letters. the A~sembhes of God." llealtliCarc M lnblr;e ~: reconstructed. " 4S If ever a man in ne " spaper clippings. Paul Martin: tract Julffn \idro, br

AlG lIERITAG E, WINTER 1992-93 29 His death. at the age of 73. althall/ f,"mpage 19 occurred on May 24. 1931, at D W. J. W Bearden, Arkansas. The funeral was almmt instantly healed and there w~ conducted on May 26 in the Assem· no ~ymptom of the wound left. The bly of God at Bearden with E. L. altar was thronged with seeker\ thai Tanner of West Monroe, Louisiana, night and '>COres were saved in two days)1 bringing the message. More than 20 ministers spoke touchingly of what Wahhall's last sermon text, JUSt a they knew of his noble, godly life.H week before he died, was 2 Timothy Z. J. Launius said, 4:6-8, which emphasized "I have ... No churches-little mOlley-no fought a good fight, I have finished home and no encouragement, bUI he my course, I have kept the faith." was uncompromising and labored on He is said to have been under a great and Ii\ed 10 see his message take anointing during this whole service effect in the hearlS of the people with the results of seeing thousands and was excited to the point of saved and filled with the Holy Ghost shouting. 11 The message seemed very and many churches raised up .... He befitting in that it was as though he was fearful in his last days of the his face had been consumed, leaving knew the time of his departure was church losing its power and going the cheek bone bare; one eye was at hand and that he was giving a last into formality. So let us fear. and like destroyed and almost consumed and him stand uncompromising for the he could rest only ill an easy chair, truth he represented ... nOt having lain down for months. P. F. Ramsey leslified. We visited him supposedly for ... Brother Walthall has always stood the last time until called to his Irue 10 the old time Pentecostal funeral. ... 1 was seized with divine message. j·le preached it. and shouted indignation, which lired my almost it. died in the faith. and went home despondent faith with new courage 10 Heaven ... J6 and fight, and I called the family to prayer again in a life-and-death He was survived by his wife, struggle for victory. A place of Hattie, two children. Millard rc~sl(ulness of faith was reached and Walthall and Ibber Mae (Mrs. Walter all retired, he for the first time L. Walton), five grandchildren, in months. and had splendid rest. A and four great·grandchildren. The few days later his wife removed Ihe covering to redress it and found it Arkansas District sent an offering almost entirely healed. In a few days' to help pay for his funeral expenses. lime the healing was complete. New He was buried next to his first skin covered the affected pans, leav­ wife in the Salem Cemetery, near ing on a lillie scar. He lived dght years thereafter without having any Bearden. According 10 the Bearden trace ofcancer.JO newspaper, this was said 10 have Another case involved a probable been the largest funeral ever held raising from the dcad: there. ... as we were entering the evening benediction to his congregation. He Almost 50 years later, Carl Tillery service. the heart·rending cries of a also sang a song which was popular and Tommy Carpenter were visiting mother were heard about two blocks at the time: the Salem Cemetery and noticed down the street. A little child. four The glory is coming, thai Walthall's grave had only a years old. fell and received spinal small marker, so they decided to injuries. and after intense suffer· It won't be long, ing for about un hour. swooned I'll be singing erect a larger monument in light away. and was mourned as dead for A glad new song. of the important contributions at least thirty minutes .... When we I'll bejaifhjul, brave, and sirong, Walthall had made to the Assem· reached the place an immense crowd The glory is coming, blies of God and the Arkansas had gatherc:d. We fell on our knees District. The Arkansas Districi and laid our hands upon the child and And it won 'I be long. JJ began crying to God. The child was Short ly after this. when he was on officials made arrangements and his death bcd, he asked his wife , purchased a new marker. After the A. W. Tanner, and the others at his new stone was erected, a special bedside, to sing his two favorite memorial service was held at his songs. It seemed to gratify Walthall gravesite on March 18, 1979 Y The that at the last moment of his pass· inscriplion reads: ing they were singing, "The Glory Rev. W. Jethro Walthall Is Coming, It Won't Be Long" and March 9. 1858 Gin'" Cohr is /I J/,if[ May 24, 1931 ntrm/Nr "f rht' AlG "When He Comes Bright in the A pioneer of Pentecost Anh,,'u Skies. ").1 The superintendent of the

30 A L UUUTAL~. \\lVI ~R 1992·93 Arkan~as Di$trict of the A~~cmblies of God from 191810 1925 and 1927 to 1929 BACK Lt1 the eldcr~ that rule .... ell be counlcd v.orthy of double honor ISSUE e~peciall~ the)' .... ho labor in the Word and doctrine. I Tim. 5:17 ORDER ExcerptS from his life and minis· try were recounted at the memorial FORM service so that the message of his commitment to the fu ll gospel minis· Please send mt' the back issues of Hen"rage thaI I hal e checked below for 52.SO each. ~paid . Quantities Ilf'f limited. try would nOI be forgotlen. II is a fitling tribute that 100 years after NAME AI)I)R"~ Wah hall received the infilling of CITY ~"TAT" ZIP Ihe Holy Spirit, his contributions ACCOU-'T '0. (if charge order) to Ihe Pentecostal movement v,'cre TotaJ numbel" of back lssul':S @51.5O TotalS commemorated through the erection 750-011-hlllll Imrodu~lOr) h\ue of the marker. 750-022-,\um 112 1909 Tha}cr '10 Re\;'al 750-03 1-"pr 83 191] World ... Ide Camp 'leetmS. no ... er Family Healing, fe\a_ l'ero.c..;ut",ln (1. L. Jonc~) 'OlfS 750-042.~ulll 84 II U. Garlock in Afma, P.(" "el'(\/1 Pa[K'T\ 1.(l<;atN, 70th ,\nn. A G, Il. ProctffllnKS 0/ Ihe Fifty-hnl AnrulIIl Camp \Iffiing PhOl0~ Session of Ihe Red RiI'('f Bap/ISI A.JSOt"/Q/IQII, 750-044-\\in 84 Lillian hasher, PentIXo\t in Alabama, ",A \\ihon Prea~h'ng lor 'lana 1899, pp. 16-17. B. Wood ..... onh·Eller 14 Mmut,.s of 'hI' Firsl Annual ConvOCQlIon 750-052,"um 85 General Council i~~ue. H"pan" 'IIni,tn, AhC<' E I u(e and Henr) (" Ball (bilingual), \11~~ionan~ R~ued in Phillpplll~ 0/ the HO/lnns 8oplIs/ Churches 0/ South­ 750-062-looum 86 Ah~~ Garrigus, John "Ie\ander Do.... 'e. S,.\ Jamle'>Qn. Arti~t Charle'> ...'estern Arkansas. 1903, p. I Ramsay. F F Bos ... orth IS. IbId., p. 3. 750-064·\\ in 86 Former OF'.I Field Dire.;tOT\ (Co,er), Pa~ifi~m, 'lis\,onar)' 1;T1~ J(lhn .... m. 16. "Letter From a Brother \1ini~tl.'f." Wtf'kly This Gospel Shall Be Preached. Maria B. Wood .... onh·EHer. E,eren Phillip, £vanRrl. April I. 1916. p. 9: ·'Memorial Edition 75O-07 1-Spr 87 mad \ll1li~ler~ in A'G. a'shop C H '.Ia\on. Song Writer ("harle\ P. Jom:"\, lIonorinll the Memory of Our Late Brother \I, NOrlh ..... est (part I), Heritage Inde)! (1981-86) Jethro Walthall, ,. The Penlecoslol Glronrr, June 750-072-Su m 87 Genera! Council Issue, 19H I'how Section. CBC in 1937, lIght BeareT\ 193], p. 2. Quartel. Nonh .... eSI (Pari 2), Tri,ia on SU[K'rintendenl~, With Donald Gee 1919 17. M"wrl's of Ihe f,rSI Annuul Convoculion 750 -0 7J·hll 87 Latter RaIn Movement, Sil1klng of Zam:llm. 60th Ann. A'(j ("~m\tl1ution, of Ihe Holmrss Baplisl Churches of Solllh­ The AIG from £nryclo~ia of Reli~IO" m thr South weslern Arku/lsus. 1903, pp. 5-7. 750-074-\\in 87 WomC1l in Ministry, Edith \Iae PC1lnmgton. Marie Siephan), Jane s.:haffer· 18. Charks Edwin Jones, A Gllldr 10 Ihr Blythe, The Rok of women in the A·G Sludy of Iht PenlI'COS/Q1 Mo,·emenl (Metuchen, 750-081 -Spr 88 Lillian Riggs, J. N8f\1.'f Gonnl.'f (Pan n. 'torris PIons in lo ... a (Pari I). Old NJ: SCarcero .... Press. 1983), p. 267. Cemral District. 1921 I'>onh Dakota Rawal 19. "Later From a Brother Minister," p. 9. 75Q.{)112-Sum 88 Morris Pious (Pari 2), San Franc,~'s Glad TIdings. G."'" lIard<-a.\lle, Sr,. 20. B. F. La ..... ren~, "The Work~ of God .. · J. Naner Conner (Pan 2), Bunon w. Pierce and M,lton Rosen 1937 E,angeli\m lour Wtf'kly £von1(tl, \1ay 6. 1916. p. 4 75O-O&.l-hll 88 Banlel1 Peter~ (Co'er). Willis Hoo,er, Daruig Bible In~l1Iule (pan I). 21. W. Jethro Walthall, "A Ne ....· Chaptcr 10 1906 Azusa Re~i~al. Ho ..... ard and Eduh Osgood My 8cperienee," Weekly Evangel, August 12. 7.50-034·\\ In 83 J. W. Tucker. lIoliness·PC1llccoslal Mo\emem. Mar)' JuanIta Smith', ]916, pp. 5. 8-9. For fUrlher discourse on Heritage. Danlig (Pan 2), The Steinle Sisters. "The Call" to Hot Springs Walthall's study and eonclusions on tongues and 7 ~I _ Spr 89 AIG 75th Ann. Issue, Philip and Virgmla Hogan, George and CaTTle Mont, gomery. Joseph and Helen Wannenmacher, PentecoSt in My Soul spirit baptism, sec W. Jethro Walthall, "Do 7~2 -S um 119 General Council Issue, "The Evangel" Crosses the Pacific (Part ]), Slal·i, All Speak With Tongues Who Receive the Bap­ Immigrants, George S. Montgomery (Pan 2), The Singing I'arson~, Paul Bill~ in Alaska. P,oncer· tism?" Chrisl/on E,·ongel, July 27, 19 18, p. 6. ing in Sausalil0. E.S. Williams' Humility Arkansas DlSlriCI MmulQ. 22. 1917. 750.093·.".11 89 Philadelphia's High ....-ay Tabanacle:. lkrm:trio 8Ild Nellie Bazan, "Am~r 23. W Jethro Walthall, "An Announ~· " " (8-17 Missions PI8Ile). "The Evangel" (Pari 2) ment," Wtf'kfy £.·ongf'/, October 27, 1917. 75O-094-\\ln 119 Early Ohio Schools. Gail Winters and Ma)·me Williams, 'her Pearlman, p. IS. Families in lhe Ministry. 19 Still Living Who Allended lSI Council 24. Walthall. ministerial file, General 750-101 -Spr 90 Northeast, Frank J. LindquJ.$t, Fred Corum on the Ozarh, D.W Kerr and Secretary's Office. Willard P ier~. E~erette Stanley in Nebraska, C, Stanley Cooke 25. Andy Harris, telephone intervie ...... April 9. 750-102-Sum 90 MLllistl.'fing in World War II (Pari I), Lc: ....is and May \.\-,lwn, !'al\h 1992. Homes. M ,d .... est Bible School (pan I) 26. Arkansas District COllnCi/, 50lh 750-t03·F. 1I 90 Faith Homes (Pari 2), C.T. !kern. M,d .... esl School (Pari 2). A.G. Ward's Anniversary, f914-1964. "Pilgrim Way," World War II (Part 2). Oral H,story I mer~ie .... List 27. Arkansas Districi Minutes, 1924, p. IS. o 750-I04-Wln 90 T.F. Zimmerman (Pan I), W.E. Booth.Qibbom (Pan I).I),C.O. ()p[K'rman's 28. Ibid .• pp. 6·7. Shon-term Bible Schools (Pan I), World War II (J>art 3), Esther Mac Cooper. Levi Larson's 29. Walthall. ministerial file. General Tacoma Military Minimy Secretary's Office. 750-1 I I-Spr 91 T.F. Zimmerman (Pan 2), Opperman (Part 2), W.E. Booth.Qtbbom (Pan 2), 30. Walthall, "A \lmiSlry of Ihe Mirac­ A Heritage in Danger 750- 112.&um 91 441h General Council issue, O~rk Rcvi~al Roots. S. A. Jamieson, Bandon. ulous." p. g. Oregon. Fire 31 Ibid. 750-11J.. .·tJl 91 19-10 Erie Meeting. Canadian Jerusalem (Part I), Ikrt Webb (Pan I), T.!' 32. Blanche Walthall, interHe .... ed b) Andy Zimmennan (Pan 3), 1941 Missions Repon Harris, \1ay 27. 1980. 750-11 ..... \\ ln 91-92 32-page World War II issue, M,ssionanes Caught in War. Remembering B. Ibid. Pearl Harbor, Ben Webb (Pan 2), Canadian Jerusalem (l'an 2), Grace Williamson 's Healing. 34. "Memorial Edition," Thf' Pen/I'COS/QI 750- 12I-5pr 92 G. Herberl Schmidt escape from NuJS. Samuel and Leenetta ScOIl, Gltantr, June 1931, p. 2. Canadian Jerusalem (conclusion), A.S. Worrell's Pentceostal Defense, Video intervie ..... catalog 35. Ibid. o 750· 122·Sum 92 T.F. Zimmerman (conclusion), N.D. Davidson, Checrbringers, Sunday 36. Ibid. School Con~entions, G. Herbert Schmidt (conclusion), Missionaries in Conflict )7. William Jethro Walthall, ministerial file, o 75O-123-Fl n 92 Donald Gee, Smith Wi88lesworth. A.A. Boddy, Oil Patch Prophets, Arkansas Dimict. ~,.. Will iam Jethro Walthall, Missionaries in Conflict (conclusion)

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CENTRAL 81BU~ COLLEGE 70 Years ofExcellence • his past fall marked the 70th anniversary of T Central Bible College, Springfield, Missouri. First conducting classes in the basement of Central Assembly, Central Bible Inst itute, as it was known then, began under the leadership of D. W. Kerr and his son-ill-law. Willard Peirce. The school moved to the present campus at Grant and Norton in October 1924 . The school produced a glossy souvenir album "commemo­ rating seventy years of excellence."

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