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Asbury Theological Seminary ePLACE: preserving, learning, and creative exchange The Apostolic Faith 1908 Volume 2, No. 15, July and August, 1908 The Apostolic Faith Follow this and additional works at: http://place.asburyseminary.edu/apostolicfaith Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, History of Christianity Commons, and the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation The Apostolic Faith, "Volume 2, No. 15, July and August, 1908" (1908). The Apostolic Faith. 12. http://place.asburyseminary.edu/apostolicfaith/12 This Periodical/Journal is brought to you for free and open access by ePLACE: preserving, learning, and creative exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Apostolic Faith by an authorized administrator of ePLACE: preserving, learning, and creative exchange. THE · ApOSTOLIC FAITH "Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."-Jude 3. VOLUME II. NO. 15 . PORTLAND, ORE., JULYIAND 'AUGUST, 1908. SUBSCR!PTION FREE. He took her aside and sat down, and she "With a company of missionaries and a started to read the poem. It was written few others, we are in this quiet mountain at The Promised Latter Rain by hi s wife, who was dead, written in Eng­ Coonoor, South India, 6,000 feet above the lish, but she began reading it in Spanish. sea, shut in with God for the old-time bap­ Joel 2:23 and James 5:7, 8. The editor stopped her and said, "Sophie, tism with the Holy Ghost and fire. Some «10 you know that you are speaking Span­ of these had already entered into this glori­ ish?" She repli ed, "Yes, General." It ous experience and came with their fellow­ le of :ouched hi1Jl: W,hen she had finished read­ workers, that they also m ight receive the Poured 'Out on the Hum'ble Peop mg, she saId. 'General, the Lord Jesus precious promise of the Father, our Lord's " Christ wants you to know Him in the par­ ascension gift. How very much this means don of . your sins." People do not always for 'India for these dear missionaries to re­ God All Over the World J.;:now who they are persecuting when they ceive the mighty baptism 'of the H oly. oppose the workings of what they term Ghost. It is spreading into other missions the "tongues movement." and among the dear natives, until now there rhe story of the Pentecost of 1906 has A Norwegian minister in New York re- Many who were seeking for more power, are fully a thousand precious baptized souls been told all over the world. Hallelujah. ceived it and a crown of fire was seen on not expecting the sign of tongues, rejected mostly in West India."-A. H . Post, Ad­ Hungry souls have been much blest in hear- his head. He carried it to Norway, Sweden, it, because it did not come as they expected, dress, Bombay, I ndia. \ ing it. England, and is now in India. It has fallen and they began to oppose it, because they Two yea-rs ago last April there were many in great powe< in India and China, where ,lid not recognize that it was God answer­ " In Morovia, Liberia, West Africa, the dear Lord has poured out of His Spirit true children of God in Los Angeles, CaliJ Pentecostal papers are being published. It ing their prayers. They failed to receive the fornia, praying for the outpouring -of the has fallen in Switzerland and in Australia, blessing, and lost out in their own souls, among the heathen. God has given them Spirit ' in churches and missions, and for a in Denmark, Russia, and in the City of and their work became powerless and dead. some wonderful revelations. Many have re­ world-wide revival. There were praying J erusalem. Tongues became a stumbling block and ceived water baptism. God rs manifesting bands in different bodies of God's people At least ten P.entecostal papers havej ;l rock of offence to them. But, thank God, His great power among the people in our there a\1d pro'bably all over the world at been published free in this and other lands, many that did oppose at first have been street meetings. The shiners-fall out under that time, praying for tlie baptism of the and God is using that way of spreadiag the . convinced, and have sought ~nd: received. the power anc! are saved. 0, how we praise Holy Ghost, and for a revival. But there Gospel, and souls . have received their People received the Pentecost in their God for His wonder-working power. Hun­ was one little compalJ.y of sanctified people P entecost through them. People have re­ homes, on the street, and in the kitchen. dre~s of people are walking the streets in Los Angeles that had appointed a ten ceived the Holy Spirit in their homes and One man Peceived his on his fruit wagon. daily in almost a nude ~ondition and with­ days: tarrying meeting for. the baptism of in cottage meetings, and God has been giv­ God gave it to hungry souls wherever they out God; some with their god tied around the Holy Ghost and were in one accord, and ing the P entecost all over the world wher- ' were looking up to Him, and He Ls doing thei'r necks; arms and waists; and, oh, what they expected that when the Pentecost fell eyer He couid seek out ,a hungry and hum­ it yet, praise His blessed name. a sad sight to s,ee their mode of worship." -Rosa Harmon. they would receive the sign of speaking in ble soul. Hundreds received the baptism of the tongues as in Acts 2:4. The Lord put His Never Heard of Pentecost. ~oly Ghost in Los Angeles. The altar Brother Tom Griffin, a brother that was seal on this company. They were all col- People have received Pentecost that services wen~ wonderful. People fell under once a drunkard and gall1.bler and dying ored people-not one white person among never heard of such a thing as speaking in the P9wer of God almost as soon 'as they with consumption, now baptized with -the ~e ached the altar. Row after row of seats them. God no doubt had a purpose in this, tongues, except in the Bible.' Holy Gho¥, has gone back to Ireland wi~h as He wanted to humble His people and About two years ago a young woman in would be turned into altars. his wife to preach the Gospel. He fo und a make them otie in Spirit of whatever -race the East was seeking for the. .flaptism of 'The Heavenly Choir, sister 0f his who received him as one alive or nationality, as He did on the day of the H01y Ghos~, not having heard of the l One of the manifestations that followed from the dead. She had been to inquire Pentecost. He is no respecter of persons. Pentecost in latter- trmes. She had heard Pentecost WiS the . heaven.ly singing by a of the Roman Catholic priests about her O~ the _~g~t of' the 9th, of April the Dr. Torrey preach on 'the Baptism of the chorus of voices in supertilatural sweetness lost brother, and they told her, "Yes, he is power felrm a- COtfage meetmg, where the - Spirit, and was seeking it while she wii · lI~(t;haTmony. It was melting_wonderful. -in pUTgatory.J> She had paid them several tittle c0lI!pany were assembled. A number about her work and praying in her -bed at p"aise God, many missions h~ve had it pOl!lnds to pray him out. He is telling the received the bap:ism of the Holy Gh~s:, night. While she prayed, the power of God sitJce then. The song is inspired, it is an priests and the people on the streets what and all spoke Wlth to~gues as the Spmt 'began to come on' he'r and -her body was a ~ ointing of the Spirit. God gave new Goil has done for him: Great opopsition. gave utterance. The mighty power of God shaken. She did not understand that it was vbices to old men jwd wome'n and to peo­ Souls being saved and sancti'fied. There is was manifested. This was noised , abro~d. the power of God, and told a friend that pIe who had never been a'ble to sing, and a preciou~ band of 12 Spirit-baptized souls ~ungry souls came. They nmted a ~lS- sh~ had chills every night, but did not get to those that had I(,) st their voices. He there in Belfast. Slon-room on Azusa street. It was In a cold. So the lady consulted a doctor. He gave songs in many 'languages and' gave The Lord has raised up Pentecostal pa­ bam-like old building-very humble-but sai,d, "That girl has not got chills; if she the interpretation in song in English. pers in No.way, India, England atJ,d /China. it was a place where the Holy Ghost was had chills she would have a fever.'" After Pl'~aGhing in Tongues. They are as follows: "Byposten" (in Nor­ ncdved. There was room :01' Him ther~, that she began to speak under the power The Spirit 'preached sermons in ' many wegian) ~ Christiana, Norway; "Cloud of whe~e He -could have full fight of way, 1£ of the Spirit in her room, and she became languages th ~ t were understood by those Witnesses," Bombay India; "Confidence," not In the churches. conscious one day that she was not speak- present.

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