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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. Russiflns and Spanish heard their , Sunilerland, England; "Pentecostal Truths" The power of God began falling night ing in English. She immediately asked God languages. Missionaries fr~m -Africa heard (ip. Chinese), Hong Kong, China. And the and day. The place was crowded to the to forgive her, and saili: "Lord, I was not the African dialect w11ich they under~tood. good news is being translated into otheI' utmost. People came and stayed all day- saying a thing to You; only jabbering and An Indian heard his languagJ and . got languai'es. Praise God. forgot to eat. They came from thousands muttering," and she begged God not to let saved. He could not speak English. of miles, received Pentecost, went back and her go crazy. When. she related this to a An Armenian heard the Gospel in his From Jerusalem we received some Pente the fire broke out and souls received it. friend, she was told that it must be the language. He was deeply moved, sought costal papers. printed in English arid Arabic. 'Missionaries started to foreigri lands, baptism of the Holy Ghost, and was shown God, and received the baptism of the Holy A Pentecostal brother wrote that the Holy stopp,ing along the way, and some hungry a paper ,that came from Los Angeles, but Ghost. He would speak in tongues on the Ghost spoke in tongues through him there souls caught the fire. she could not believe it until the Lord street car and at the shop where ,he in the Garden of Geths.emane to a priest. The Spirit felI on people sitting in their led her to Los Angeles an'd to Azusa, Mis worked. One day he fell under the power The priest threw hi,s arms around him. and seats. A minister sitting in front 6f the sion. She went to the altar and the powe~' at the sho[il. The men gathered about him repeated the same w\Jrds that the Spirit had pulpit one night during the preaching sud- came on her again, and she began to speak and asked if he was hurt. They tri~d to spoKen. . denly jumped to his feet as the fir!! 'fell in tongues. Then the Spirit told her that hold him and keep him from shaking un- From South Africa a brother writes that on him, and he commenced speaking in ton- He was not pleased' for her to call it jab der the power of God. He told them it in a meeting there the Holy Spirit suddenly gues. Some saw in the Spirit the Holy bering and muttering, for He said, "The was the Holy Ghost, and he said that he fell upon an audience and about 250 of them Ghost fall upon him. He is now in India. Holy Ghost does not jabber and mutter; was not only working for his . employer, felI before the Lord and prayed audibly to Also many received the interpretation of He speaks a language." but that He was serving God. God at once. Many wept for their sins. In what was spoken in the unknown tongue. God gave abundant p~oof that the power Other Manifestations. 'In other meeting' the people again fell be Messages have been interpreted in this way was from Him. Drunkards got saved and Other manifestations of the power of fore God, and about 60 were saved. that the Spirit spoke in many languages. went out to carry t he Gospe1. People made God were the healing of many sick people One very notable thing 'is that wherever restitution and straightened up their lives. The Pentecost has fallen in Holland, ,of diseases that the doctors could not (lure. the Pentecost has fallen oae message that Whole families got, saved, sanctified and among the Dutch people, and several have Demons were cast out of many that were has 'been spoken by children and all people baptized with the Holy Ghost. . received. Address Mrs. W. Polman, 45 Til oppressed by the devil. People fell under is that JESUS IS COMING SOON. Many annussstraat. Ged Gave Him a Sign. the power of God, and their bodi\!s wer.e saw visions of His coming and visions of shaken. It was the same manifestation heaven, etc. This also is a fu lfillment of The secular papers spoke evil against the The same Spirit that is in Jesus Christ is work in Los Angeles, and God confounded that the early Quakers had, and th,at has in every child of His today. Therefore, pr9phecy. the editor of one of the great dailies there 'been manifeste4 in all times among all we have fellowship with every Blood, Remarkable Spreading of Pentecost. , through one of the edit'or's servants that God's people under the mighty power of washed soul, if Jesus Christ is in us. About six months after P entecost f~ll in had, received the Pentecost. God sent her the Spirit. "The Spirit of Truth" is a J?lessed Pente Los Angeles it had fallen in many other ope d ~y with a message to him, and the , This outpouring of the Spirit has circled costal paper, published at Southsea, Hauts, places where they were waiting for more Spirit had led her to take a piece of poetry the globe, and is 'bringing the children of England, with precious truth, testimonies of God and heard of what God had done that she found in a newspaper and read it God into one Spirit. Missionaries go out and healings. I t is free. in Los Angeles, to him· in the new I<\nguage God had given trusting God alone for their support. The A brother came from North Craolina her. She came to him Gnder the power of Spirit is being poured out upon the people God is blessing the Pentecostal mission and received his Pentecost and went the Spirit and said, ('General, the Lord of God everywhere they will receive Him. aries i11 preaching this Gospel in Cheng back to his people, who received it gladly. J esus Christ has given me a message for God's word is studied as never before, the Ting Fu, Chih-li and Shanghai, North God had used him in a 'number of states, you." J Blood of Jesus exalted. Satan is enraged. China. God is sifting His people. He is gather and he writes that he has never stopped to "The Lord Jesus Christ sent a message A dear missionary who returned frolll rest, but is going right' on. H e has seen to me." he said. ing out a company of overcomers for His Switzerland reports that the Lord is baptiz multitudes baptized. "Yes, Genera1." bride. Is not this the latter rain? ing souls there. \
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For the ,next issues of this paper address living waters. "Everything shan live whith- to be sanctified. There is J esus, t he Lamb A Hindu schoolmaster, who received the baptism of the Holy' Ghost, says, "Words THE APOSTOLIC FAIT}! er the river cometh." without blemish on the altar. J esus takes cannot express the gratitude of my heart to The Jews had gone through that per- that soul that has eternal life abiding in Portland, Ore. God for condescending to notice a poor Hin formance so long. 0 , how dry the form him and presents him to God for thorough du boy like me! Leading me so patiently was to the multitude. So it is today. W e purging from aU Adamic sin. The Blood step by step, until He brought me into Subscription F ree His fullness. Truly! God IS no respecter of have big conventions, and sermons pumped cleanses, and he is every whit whole, sanc- persons." We have moved the paper whi ch the Lor d up, but Jesus said He had that w'hich would' tifi ed and holy, . laid on us to begin at Los Angeles to Port flow out of the innermost being. Bless His 3rd. Now he is reacly for the fire of God When the Holy Ghost comes in H e re name. to fa ll, which is the baptism of the Holy veals Christ in you. H e is your Beloved. land, Oregon, which will now be its head H e sin gs in your soul. He carries on a quarters. Many today have just a little streaml et Ghost. He sees that it is promised by the perpetual meeting, It never breaks up. H e of salvation in t.he ir soulS, but they have Father and purchased on Calvary. By faith preaches the Word at midni'ght and in the Some have asked how to send money of not that springing up into everlasting life. he enters in boldly and the fire fa lls on the morning. The Spirit prays in our soul. ferings. Stamps are very acceptable. If God wil) give you songs and sermons in sacrifice, and it is consumed with holy love. Many times He will touch you while you the night. The rivers are for us all. It It is a free gift upon the sanctified heart. are sleeping and you wake to find your necessary to get a money order, it can be Beloved. He comes to manifest Hims'elf to made paya'ble to the APOSTOLIC F AITH. takes a going down before God, a searching The fire remains there continually burning you and love you. He feeds you on the P~RTLAND,ORE. . and dyi ng out to everything. • in the Holiest of God. Why? Because he Word. He fi ll s you with the anointing of W hen the Holy Ghost comes in and bap- is sanctified and remains on the altar con the Spirit. The Apostolic Faith is a free paper, pub tizes your soul, oh, how He d'oes flood yom tinually. While he keeps consecrated to The Lord J esus thanked the Father that lished printed and sent by faith in God for innermost being and makes your soul like God, the great Shekina glory is continually He had given Him the Word and the dis its support. It strives to honor Jesus only. a wen of water springi ng up. J esus wants burning in his soul and fi ll ing with heavenly ciples had received it. When we receive It contains no advertisements. It has no us to strike that great tl ow that will flood light. t he Word, we recei~e Chr ist, and we live in Him by ob,eying the Word. He says, !!tated time of publication, but is issued as the whole country and make us witnesses "Sanctify them through Thy truth, Thy often as the Lord permits. to the ends of the earth. JESUS IS COMING. Word is truth." W hen t here is no rebel I have seen in California a great artesian The ti me was once when we coul d wait li on in our hearts to the Truth, t hen Christ is sanctified in us. God's aprpoval is on us, ' The Apostolic Faith never goes in debt well that would gush up hundreds of feet for evangelists to come our way and stir Or makes known its needs except to God. into the air. They said it woul d 'fl ood the because we believe H is Word and do it. us up to the fac t that soul s were perishing. There is no way to abide in Christ but by We thank God for the 15th num'ber of this whole country if they did not stop it. They Now God is warning us. He is speaking obedience to H is W ord. . paper of at least 30,000 copies, which are would try', but pretty soon out would go Himself that the night is 'fa r spent and t he' being sent to every country on the globe the plug and away would go the water. day is at h~ n d. J esu said, " Go work in T he Jews were astonished that on the by faith in Him. Nothing can stop this living water. Wher My vineyard." A few rhave heeded that call Gentil es was poured out the gift 'of the ----- ever it touches it btings purity, life, liberty H oly Spirit. Peter had to go up to J eru This paper belongs to the children of since th e ,power 'of God the H oly t host fe ll and power. Souls get saved. sanctified and salem and te'l1 the brethren al1 about it be God. It is being used to publish the full in the upper room at J erusalem, yet many fore they would beli eve. Aft er they heard bodies get healed and beli evers baptized Gospel to the ends of the earth 'and herald ~ ave gone to surfeiting. Some have bought it. they held their peace. And would to with the H oly Ghost. The people that had 'a yoke of oxen, some manied a wife,' may God we had as much sense in these days. the coming of our Lord, Let all join in When God begins ' to bless folks and fil1 prayer for a wave of salvation to follow dry experiences, their soul s are blossoming have gone, to see some land. like the rose, and the desert places have be them with the Spirit, we had better hold the paper. Amen. Souls have received But the midnight cry is upon us. This our peace and let Him have His way. their baptism through reading it. come pools of water. "There shall be a Gospel must be preached to all nations and great multitude of fish." Eze. 47:8. "And then shall the end come. "This Gosp ~ l " is W e ar,> not building up churches in this the same day there was added unto them "TARRY YE." not salvation alone, but a clean heart, the movement. We are out of the fl esh energy. about three thousand souls." Acts 2:41 . So power of God 0n a clean life, and the power Now ev erything is to be done in the Sph'it Jesus was anointed to do the work of the we 'see it makes us fishers of men, of God to heal the sick and cast out devils. ~c corditig to the Word. We are just see- Father, and all power was committed into A river flowed out of the Garden of Oh, may God stir us up as never before. l!i1g God work and r ecognizing Him 'as the His hands. After the humiliating service Th H ead. W e know that He is ;:tble to answer Eden and parted into fjve heads and watered 01 33 years, He went back to the Father, e Spirit says Come, the bride says Come, th.e prayers of J esu? that an His disciples the countries. So this Gospel is watering. a~d whosoev-er -:vill may come. But how I mIght be one. It will not be in any human bruised and bleeding, despised and rejected all lands, That is what you I see in this · can, they hear WIthout a preacher. God is or man, made plan of unity or federation of of men. His life ' had been a failure in the I movement. God has poured out His Spirit pouring out of H is Spirit upon all flesh chu'rchh. It i ~ .not by. might nor by power, eyts of the world, yet He triumphed over on somE: of His servants and ' hand-maidens, these days) making prophets of all that will but by.,..M y Spmt, saith t he Lord. death, hell and the grave, and 'Promised and they are filled with the rivers of water. humble themselves urder the mighty hand The Lord never sends out any preachers His faithful followers that He would give While some are still at the old' way of draw of God. ' .. but those that have the fire of' God in their .them all power,. power to tread on sco,r ing up water from cisfers, others have He is callil1g today for pure-hearted sim- souls. The time is ' out for dead preachers pions, power to heal the sick, cleanse the . . , and dead churches. The Lord's ministers plunged out into the "water's t.!J swim in," leper, raise the d'ead, and to 'be His wit - pie folks that have been made so by the are "a fl ame of fi ue." and Christ's church is oceans of the love. and power of God. Blood of J esus, to go to the hungry thou- a living chu:ch. Without ' the H oly Ghost, nesses unto the end of the earth. Oh~ how sands on the streets of au; cities and tell you have SImply a dead cnu rch, a dead ii, thrills me when I think· of His great com "THE WAY INTO THE HOLIEST." them of the love of Jesus, His power to preacher and a
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HOW PENTECOST CAME TO PORT- A man had his jaw broken, am! w as afraid . t he power all day long, speaking in tongues Father Doney was led into the baptism LAND. ORE. he would die. had made his will. When a ,and praisin g God. Then it broke out in an of the Holy Ghost in Canada t\\'o year be . Pentec0st fell in Portland in a " " handkerchief was prayed over and laid on orphanage of the same mission. The work fore we received it in Los Angeles. God place, Jl! st a s It did ill Los A ngelesmanger him, he was healed. • I) f revival went on, an d they confessed and also reycaled to him the soon coming of the . Some ha d ~ ee n Over to the Sale;n meet >I< >I< >I< straightened up t hei r lives, and some of Lord. He would r ise at 3 o'clock in the In gs ~nd received their baptism others were 'Last Summer the camp meeting ran fo r them received the bap tism. morning, so as to get ti me to p ray before tarrYing at the M is ion on S~cond street. three months, There was hardly. a day. but Pentecost in the Hill Station. goillg to work in the field, praying fo r God 's They were expectlng the 'workers from L os that byo or three would ~e t theIr baptIsm. The L ord sent the missionaries back to work in all lands. Often they heard him Angeles who Were then in Salem ' but be Ol~ e .1l1gbt the crowd .outslde unhooked the their work with the power of God on them. speaking in tongues in the fie ld. They did not understand this. but he said t hat the f?re they eame the pOwer felI in 'the Mis ClIl talns of the tabel na.cle and threw 111 Our mi ssionaries, with others, went to Coo- sIOn. It w:as on Christmas D ay, 1906. a nd tones. The altar servic e went nght on. noor, the hill station, where many of the Holy Ghost took control of hi m outh and some r eceIVed the baptism of the Holy R eporters. came and kept au account of t he missionaries gather together in Summer. spoke for Him self. H e was greatly inter Ghost and began to speak in tongues. meetll1 gs In the papers, which, thoug h cal- ' T here God baptized several of the mission- 'ested w hen he heard of the Pentecost in L os Angeles. and sent m on ey to help pub * * * culated to oppose the meetID gs, brought 111 aries and gave them four months of much The first day. the workers arrived from cl owds to hear the truth. prayer. There was much opposition to the li sh the Apostoli c Faith. H e denied him Salem five received Pentecost, and some self of comforts to give to the L ord's work. * * * truth, but many hungry souls that then H e grew in the power of t he Spirit till continued to be baptized every day. There has been a steady on-going of oposed have since sought ·the Lord and re- Crowds came. Some ni g hts the people mighty power since the Pentecost fel l. The ceived their baptism. The very home from J estls took him to Himself. blocked. the street in front of the Mission. saints have been praying for the sicJs, visit· which came so much opposition is this year ~~~~t~l~c~;~~~ to keep the crowds movil1g ing th e hospitals, Poor Farm, preac hing in turned into a tarrying home. God is trying t o get a people that He can trust to give them His wonderful gifts. . * * * ~~~I11~i~/~~or~(n ti~ e st~l\~~i~l: h~~ti l :1~~~~ Hundreds of Native Girls Baptized. 0, beloved. our Christ wants to pour out Persecutions were terrible. They would been closed, excep t during the camp meet- P entecost h <\d fallen in g reat power in in these last days upon all flesh the mighty throw snowba ll , bottles, tin cans and rot . ings, and meetings afternoons and evenings Panditta Ramabai's work at Mukti, India. power of God, so that we can say to the ten eggs. Every window in the Mission never have stopped. ' Sister Ramabai had ",{ritten to the P ente- dead, "Arise," and to the leper, " Be clean." front was broken out and the glass in door costal missionaries when they first went to This Gospel belongs to us just as much as and transoms. It was a regular battle fi eld. HOW INDIA RECEIVED PENTECOST. India, asking them to come and preach this to the disciples. While we h~ve as yet re They had to board up the windows. truth in her school, if the Lord led, send ceived none of the gifts in full in this move India is a ripe field. About 1,000 have in g them the m.oney to come on. But be ment, yet we are contending for the faith * * * fore any came to Mukti, there were about , Half the Hall an Altar. received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in once delivered unto the saints. God wants that land already. Shortly after Pentecost 400 girls baptized with the Spirit and speak us to get to where we beli eve God and do . The altar was thronged with seekers. fell in Los Angeles, the Lord baptized and ing in tongues. Sometimes as many as the works that He ordained we should do. They had finally to dismiss the crowd to ,called some to India. 1,000 would be praying at the same time, Since Pentecost fe ll, there has been such make room for the altar service. The hall They arrived in Calcutta at the opening and the power could only be compared to power to heal the sick, to cast out devils, half way to th~ door would be an altar filled of the \iVinter season there. The mission the roar of Niagara. Some of the native power· to proph'esy and power to speak in with seekers. The sla in of the Lord lay so aries usually hav e a convention there at girls spoke in tongues in English, and at tongues and interpret. We are far in ad that you .could not move about the altar that ti'me. They were holding meetings for least one spoke in ancient Sanscrit, which vance of where we were in the old lines, It would n ot be more than 1~ mint;tes the deepening or the Spirit, and were Sister Ramabai understood. Some were and we thank God fo r it. If J esus tarries, after the altar call was made till some one praying for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. much used in laying on of hands for the we will have the old-time faith. Praise His began to speak in tongues. People got O ur missionaries were praying for the Lord healing of the sick. They also had the in precious name. And when we attain t,o wonderfully healed, devils were cast out. to open to them a door to preach the Gos terpretation of tongues. that, we will have all things com1l10n, just Many were saved a nd sanctified. And pel. 1'hey providentially heard of this . The power also fe ll in Brother Norton's as they did. \iVe are holding up the stand .:about a hundred r eceived the baptism of meetihg. They w.ent and found some hun school of boys, just a few mil es from ard till we get to that place. the H;oly Ghost in that old mission. gry people praying for a r evi val. There Mukti, w here 65 'boys were baptized with had been. a revival, 'but there had been the Spirit and a number had the interpreta * * * tion. This blessed baptism of the 'Holy Ghost Drunkards Saved. some failure. and they were praying for so works on the fl esh that it leaves a' most Many drunkards and other.s in awful lives God to firiish His work. In a Baptist mission of India there were heavenly look on the face when the spirit ' 01 sin were saved and are still standing true. In this meeting our missionaries were two gi rls that were baptized with the Spirit takes its fli'g ht to be with J esus. A man J:Iusbands that had been drunkards retUl;ned asked if they kuew anythin g about the and spoke in tongues in the Hindustani in Portland that had been rescued from sin their wives and made hoines happy. Pentecostal Movement in L os Angeles. language, a language to them unknown. made r estitution and received the Holy They told them, Yes. and that God had They were taken to tbe market place, where '¥ost of the work in Portlapd was ot with Ghost. departed this life to be with ~hrist. "~ose who had been saved already, but it given them the blessin g, anel the Spirit the people all congregate, and preached The power of God fell in the undertaking came on them to speak in ton gues. They the Cross of Christ in great power. In out of the parlors. The Holy Spirit sang and spoke ~~~:h:nJa£:~! ~~e~e~fl:i;ight were invited to come.. back, and that night Bombay, .in a Church of England School, a as the ,saints gathered there. The loveliest the brother spoke on t.he outpouring of the girl came through speaking in tongues and part was the sweet smil e on the face of our Spirit, and how God wanted His ministry prophesied. A drunkard came* one* night* to the Mis- brother that ha d passed away. The Lord filled with the Spirit. At the close a Bap~ touched some hearts, a'no they were cdn ion and the Spirit of God got hold of him tist minister, pastor of the oldest Baptist nd convi'cted him. The next night he was A Late Report From Bombay. vinced of the Dower of God through this church in Calcutta, offered his' church for man's death. In Africa some of our Pente saved. He was restored back to his family. them tG hold meetings. egan tto sell off his property and make India has cease d to be a pioneer field as costal missionaries gave their lives for the itution. After all was straight, he came Tarrying in the Baptist Church. to\lc hing Pentecost. Sixty missionaries arc Gospel, and Sister F arrow, who returned. baptized and 15 missionary societies have sought for.a clean heart. God sancti The following 'Sunday ' they 'opened meet· told us how that their faces shone with a \\ itllC'sses to Pentecost in 28 stations scat heavenly light The natives had never seen him. He called the saints one day to ings in the Baptist Church, and nearly all for his sick child. and the child was ter,! cl through Punjab, Bl)mbay Presid ency, anything like it . from the othq' meeting came over in a Bengal a,1d Madras Provinces, the North stantly healed. He invited them to cO!J1e body and closed their services to tarry in t to dinner the next day. ' They came, west and Nizams Dominion. The natives In the Apostolic Faith 11Jssions at ~15 the Baptist Church for the baptism of the of ] ndia who have recei'fed represent vari ~d after dinner gol' down to pray. The H @ly Ghost. The work went on fM ' twO Locust avenue, San Francisco, ~ Third Lord sanctified him and baptized his wife QUS races, kindreds and tongues. Hallelu street, San Jose, and Santa Rosa, Cal., the months, people getting saved ami sancti fi ed jah! There are · witnesses in the following ~h the Holy Ghost. That night he came Lord is pouring out His Spirit in a precious -and straightening their lives ullder the missions: 1t!l the mission and God wonderfully bap- ' mighty hand of God. Then the Lord laid way. Also in Minneapolis and St. Paul, 'fiZed him. He has been living this salva Church Missionary Society, Minn. The addresses· of these last two tion ever since. God healed him of typhoid ~h~n n~i~ ~ iJ~a~i~ ~ n at;p h~l~:~:k f~~dt:;7~~;; English Baptist Mission, missions are East Franklin and Fifteenth ever sillce then . . He was deaf in one ear, in differ ent parts of the India, but the Am,e rican Baptist Mission,. avenu'es, third flo or, Minneapolis, and Sev p.d Gbd healed that. L ord laid it on them to tarry i1'1 J erusalem The Mukti Mission, enth and J ackson streets, third floor, St, . * un'til endued with power, and not to go P eniel Mis'sion, Paul. Minneapolis and St. Paul mi'Ss ions The Open Brethren, have a blessed little paper. called ' P eute An Old Minister Baptized. back until they had their baptism. . The fi rst one to receive was a Captain of Salvation Army, cost in the Twin Cities." A man 83· years of age, who h ad preached the British army. Several soldiers also tar Scandina vian Alliance, die. Gospel for 40 years the best he could ried, a nd afterwards receive-d. Nearly all Christian annd Missionary Alliance, Mayall the precious P entecostal mis and wi'th the blessing of the L ord on his the missionaries were baptized. Several American Presbyterian, sions keep low at the feet of our Master, rabors, received the baptism of ' the Holy were given visions. One evening one was Women's Foreign Missionary, Some have lost that blessed melting power Ghost when the 'fire first fell. He came givelt a vision of three golden anchors com Thibetan Mission, of the Spirit, and that perfect love and bic;k lately and. said that this had been. the ing in at the window, and the Sa1)1e night Poona and India Village, unity. 'Why? Because that gentle Dove, best year of all hi s life in the blessing of three souls received their baptism. Others Latter Rain Mission, the Holy Spirit, has been grieved. God has the Lord. He had had more joy and
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WONDERFUL HEALING OF MRS, a letter to a missionary. " I made up my paptism, and other relatives received the more of God we should get in a hurry to GAYLORD AND BABY. mind to go to my room and pray from 1 truth. receive what the Lord has for us. If you p. m. till 5. When I did, the whole room In H ong Kong 25 Were Baptized. walt, somebody wllI sow a doubt in your A few m;nths ago we started from Chi-' heart, and lt may take a month to get rid shook, and I h eard a voice say, 'Go to the Pentecost fe ll and 25 were baptized with cago to Portland. Three days before we rear of the grounds, where you can pray of that doubt. Some will never receive it the Holy Ghost. God baptized a print~r left we did not know we were coming, but and not be disturbed.' I went, and God because thorns haye been sown in their we sold eve'rything and started, and now we and a Chinese scholar. And the Lord laid hearts which choke the Word. gave me a vision of lieaven and hell. . I ate I it on a brother in Macao that they should know that the Lord led us. My wife had of the Tree of Life and drank of the Liv beel}. an invalid for three years, and the doc have a Chi nese paper to send into t he in ing W ater. terior of China to carry t his truth. He 0, th.e glory, the love and the power that tors had said she would have to have an "My tongue spoke another language. I comes mto your heart when the Third per-' operation. I met one of the doctors on the came over to Hong Kong to get the Chi ,,,as extremely happy. I told our Father nese Christians to take t he matter up. And :>on of t~e T.rinity, the Holy Ghost, comes street one day, and he said there was no that I wanted the baptism of the H oly In speakmg m a language not understood hope for her at all, and the only thing that God laid it on Brother Mock, t he Chinese by yourself. O ften God wil give you the Ghost, if all the world hated m e. A nd scholar, and the prin ter. They have never would cure her was an operation. I told God said, 'Jehovah is with you,' which mterpretati on, but, if not, just remember him she would not be operated on at all, greatly comforted me. mi ssed an issue. It is published free. They God knows w hat you say, and He will give and he said, "That is foolishness, for there "Before my baptism God gave me texts send it to every missionary in China. They you the interpretation in His own good is no way she could ever be cured." She from day to day to encourage me and give are asking for it in the interi or of China. time. "He that speaketh in an unknown was hardly able to walk two blocks or to lile strengtll in 'prayer. Formedy I sought In a province in t he Northwest of China tongue, speaketh unto God." do any of her work. things of this world, now I'm seeking they received word that the mi ssionaries of the province were seeking their baptism. After we got to Portland, ;wife went to things from above. F ormely I'd sin and J esus is coming in the clouds for His the mission ' a couple of times on the street One child only 14 years old is bl essedly pray and God wouldn't listen to my pray ~ri de. I Th ~s s. 4:16-17 .. They' are not go cars, and I forbade her going any more. ers; but now the voice of my prayers used of God. She gives Scripture messages in the Chinese under the power of the mg through the .trIbulatl~n , but are going Of course, the devil put that into me. She reaches before the throne. Formerly I read to be caught up m the aIr to the marriage said, all right, if I did not want her to go, words; now I'm seeking promises of God Spirit. Two sisters came fr om th e South and supper of the Lamb. Just as soon as the she would not go. and the teachings of the Bible. I am bride is r eady, Jesus is coming. The Father One Sunday morning she coaxed me to greatly helped by the power of the Holy took the Pentecost to Canton. One mis sionary received her baptism there and was knows the day that is set. We must hasten go, and I finally gave in and went with her Ghost. to be ready with oil in our vessels with our to the mission that night. Sister Crawford "I am renewed and regenerated by the preaching twice a day on the streets, also in the house to the Chinese. China is a lamps, which is the Holy G;host, for if we preached, and I never heard her entreat Holy Spirit of God into a living being. Be are not ready, the door wilI be shut. people that wanted to be healed to be fore, though I was called a Christian, I had ripe field . prayed for as she did then. I did not have my affections on riches, fame, and this When the misisonaries left Hong Kong faith at all, but I turned to my wife and world; but now I yield my body and soul the Chinese said: "We are all such little The HoJy Spirit has come to make His said, in a scornful way, "Well, if they will to God. Forsaking things of this world, I lambs, send us some sheep." They hired home in the hearts of men and women on heal you, I will believe it." She replied that go to pray. a launch and the whole crowd saw. them earth, in the hearts of those that are saved she was' not good enough to be healed." "I send my greetings to all who labor for off on the boat. The last songs they sang and sanctified. He has come down to .unite But I said, '''They say sihners can be His name, and who suffer for Him; and I were, "My soul shall 0vercome by the OUr personality with the God of heaven. healed." My wife then spoke to my mother wish all to pray earnestly for me. Tell Blood of the Lamb" and "God be with 9, beloved, when you get the Holy Ghost and called Sister Crawford to pray for her. them to read II Cor. 7 :20-22." you'." , 111 your heart, then your personality is And- while she was praying for her she re A Chin:ese Brother Writes of the Plague. united with God. He can take your tongue, ceived the baptism of the Holy Ghost, She your hand, and any part of your body and RELIGION AT HOME. "The plague is ragiJ1g in Hong Kong, but use it to ' His glory. had never sought for it. I just sat there in we have the lintel and two side pqsts of our bcli:::,e~~"at IG~eh~dthdOoU!eh s~::t~li~~ f~; Y Otl do not need to read a gre'at deal of doors, covered with the Blood of the Lamb. her. She jumped around and talked in the Word in order to get a blessing; the Ex. 12:23. As yet none of us have caught J esus promised to the full overcomers tongues for about an hour 'and interpreted. Lord can make just a word preach a whole the plague, not a single soul, but please that we should reign with Him. We shall I knew she could not do that of herself. sermon. Throwing myself on the bed so look at Deut. 7:15. May the Lord have reign with Christ a thousand years. Rev. mercy. The total number of cases of the 20 :4. Weare. reigning now in our spirits, I got so convicted while she was talking ~~~a7 v~~see, d:~d k:s~:i~, t~I ;;r~ttoB~~:d plague here h av ~ been near a thousand, and but we are gomg to come back with Christ in tongues that I broke down and could of Life." I feasted for almost an hour on all fa tal, exc\!pt about 50. Not one of us on white horses, when He shall cas'! the not keep my seat. I started to cry, and that verse. What is bread? It is that are a bit afraid: Praise the Lord. Psa. beast and the false prophet into the lake of could not help it, and rose up from my seat which gives you strength, it is the ~taff of 91 :7." fire. We shalI be his queen and be mal' and said that I had accepted Christ, and life. ] esus is all that to me. ried to the King of kings. THen salvation would serve Him the rest of my days. "When we started home, my wife said she , While you are about your work, ask God A company ·of Chinese saints in Hong wiII cover the earth as the waters cover the wanted to walk home. It was about two to Igive you a verse of Scripture, and take Kong were praying in the home of the sea. The lion and the bear shaH ,feed to miles, and she walked home, when before the one He gives yotl. You may say, "I missionaries when they suddenly got up ~ether, and nothing shall hurt nor destroy In alI My holy mountain, saith the Lord. She could not walk two blocks without hurt- just thought of that." Well, if you just and ran out of doors and looked at the sky, ing herself. • And after that she was able-to thought of one, then pr'aise Him for letting joyfully praising God . . They said they saw Jesus is going to redeem the earth back to work around, and we walked to meetings you think of it. Let Him feed you with it God, just as it came from His hand. "For the whole sky full of angels. He must reign till He hath put all enemies right along. . while about yo~ w'!,rk. * under His feet." • Healing of Our Baby. Listen to hear and obey the voice of the The saints are expecting 600n to have a The Lord convicted me of Unions, and -I Lord while about the home. He does not Faith School in Portland for tlie children, left a good job. We got very hard up dur- ' come and tell you to do some great thing with teachers that are baptized with the PENTECOST IN INDIA~APOLIS. ing the time I was out of work, and were . at first. He may tell you to go and get on Holy Ghost. It is needful, in order to keep . At least 200 souls have received the bap short of food. No one knew it. The devil your knees and pray. You perhaps wil!-- !he children saved. tIsm of the Holy Ghost in Indianapolis in temtped me, and I was offered a job by the answer, "I want to wash the dfshes first." the past year. Brother G. Haywood, 944 Union and acces ted it, and wa§ going to He may call you to do some simple thing, The saints in Portland pay no doctor North Bismarck street, tells how he re- take it, but got under conviction and came and you may say, "Oh, I just imagined bills. That is the reason they can support ceived his baptism: ' back home without taking it. I was almost that." 0, dear ones, obedience is better the Gospel and send much missionary "That night it snowed and rained and ready to backslide, and my baby was taken than sacrifice. You get down at the altar money. Then, too, they dress and live so the weather became cold and disagreeable. sick and lay for five days. and say, "1'11 go where You want me to simply.in their homes that they can send but I was determined, and arrived at the We finally sent for a doctor, and he said g·o." Next morning He may say, "Go into money to evangelize the world. little mission to find a band of saints sit she had pneumonia, and both lungs were the closet and pray." If you obey the little ting in groups reading the precious Word. filled, and he could not give us any hope-: touches and suggestions of the Spirit glad- . If you belong to God, you are walking After the sermon, I bowed at truettar de thit the case had gone too far. He went Iy, how He will lead you. In the 'footsteps of Jesus. You cannot set termined to settle it once for alt-fime: In away, leaving the medicine, and as I sat It is the sweetest thing that we all have up your opinions and say what you believe about 15 minutes a light shined about rile there it seemed that God spoke to me and a place in the vineyard. Some little mother and what you do not believe. You must and I fell to the floor, and when I tried to showed me that it was my last chance. I goes about her work praying that God will accept the Word. We are going to 'be get up found that I was helpless. I could had to be willing to suffer anything for bless in the financial part of the work, or judged by the old Book. see no OILe. When I went to speak, my 'Him and take faith for the child, or she that He will heal the sick, or bless in some tongue was beyond my control, and I knew would die. She was lying on the bed like part of the mission field. God honors that "Be' ye, , there£~re, sober and watch unto that the Comforter had come. Hallelujah death, and did not notice anyone. member of the body. prayer, for I am coming soon." This was I tried to say, 'What is it?' but could not, . I grabbed my hat and ran out of the * * * a message given i'n the unknown tongue . for the flow 'of Latin words which were house, not stopping to tell anyone where Some have come to us and said, "My hus- He commands us to watch, for the evil days , readily recognized. It was no longer I I was going. I ran down to Brother Bour- band wilI not let me come to meeting, are upon us. that spoke, but the Spirit of God that wa's cey's and did some praying on the way, ask- What shall I do?" Pray. God will give in me. Suddenly my speech was changed ing God to forgive me. I asked the brother you the desire of your heart,'if you delight Jesus has many names. Some of His and German words flowed from my lips, I to come and pray. He said he would, and yourself in the Lord. Do not use your names in the Old Testament are "Wonder was wonderfully blest. was just going to the telephone to call an- tongue and say, "I am going any way." Use ful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting In the meantime my wife and friend had other brother, when the brother walked in. it only in prayer. There is nothing in the Father, Prince of Peace." But His new fall en under the power, and my sister, who I had perfect faith for the child. It mus,t world that will wi n over your family and name is Jesus Christ. J esus means Savior had knelt at the altar, had also received the have been God that gave it to me. move prejudice like doing the work up and Christ means Anointed. He promised promise of the Father. I went to my wife, . When we came in she was lying on my nice and straight and liviong this religion to the overcomers that He would write but could not speak English; however, the wife's lap, and they read the Bible and at home. Be clean and neat and get your upon them His new name. Lord let me say, 'Ida, come and go with prayed, and while they were praying, the husband's meals on time. 1- used to get a me.' And she received the baptism and ba'by sat up and asked for her shoes. And big dinner on Sunday, but after my hus- The Lord gave some one a vision of two her friend also. We praised and magnified 30 minutes after that she was sitting and band got interested in the Pentecostal work crowns. One was much more beautiful God all the way home. Hallelujah. Jesus eating dinner with us. She had not eaten he said, "0, anything will do for dinner, than the other. She asked, "Why has this still abides and keeps us under His precious any food before for five days. It was just we will just have a little lunch and go to one so many gems and the other so plain?" Blood. I am sometimes carried ~way with like being raised from the dead. the mission." The answer was, "Because it is for one that the rapture of His love. My dear compan The Lord showed me that her sickness has suffered so much for J eS)ls." ion is so wonderfully blessed with the was brought on to save me; for if it had HOW PENTECOST CAME TO ·CHINA. Spirit." not been for that, I would have gone back God 'wants us to bring our offering to into the world. It was His way to show me Pentecost Has Fallen on the Dear Chinese , It is a blessed thing to receive the Com· that I could not trifle with God. I took her ~~~1:1~a;w~n1r;~ !~estca:as~herS~m~O~\11 ';';~! People-Praise God. die. But Jesus hung on the cross until He forter. Oh, He is such a gentle Dove, to meeting the following Sunday and testi When He comes into your heart, He mag fied to her healing. It is no wonder I serve About a year ago Pentecost missionaries died. If you would be an overcomer, you nifies Jesus. He gives you a new song, and God when He has done so much for me. from North Carolina went to Macao, China, must bring your gift to the altar, which you are united with the choir in heaven Archie P . Gaylord, Portland, Or. and, as a result of their work nine ChFis- means your body a living sacrifice, and singi ng, "Worthy is the Lamb." ' Care of Apostolic Faith Mission. tian Alliance missionaries w~re baptized leave it there, and be faithful unto death. and many Christian Chinese-about 100 al · together. If th er e is something in your life that While yOU remain poor and little in HOW A CHINESE GIRL RECEIVED Then the Lord sent Pentecostal mission hinders God's will, do not say it is too great your own sight, God uses you and exalts PENTECOST. aries ftom Los Ang\;les, who had been in for God to disposseas it, but say that God you ; but when you become some great Neb India, over to Hong Kong, China. And is gr eater than ~1J th ~ en ~ mi es in the land, uchadnezzar, then God turns you out to God lately gave P entecost to a young J~e opened the way the same day they ar-' and th at H e WIll drIve tt out. It means eat grass like the ox, till you learn to glori Chinese lady in a girl's school in Canto!l. nved for them to hold meetings in a mis·· much to kill out all the nati ons and t he fy God. Keep little, and God will use you. The head of the school let jfer have two sian church. The meetings 4\: Qntinued fi ve kings and to die out to the world, but copies of the "Pentecostal Truths," pub every night for severa~ weeks. A revival , r emember that God stands back of you with A dea\ si ter of Italy went to E ngland lished at ,Hong Kong, in the Chinese lan broke out, and the Chinese began making H is mighty power to enable you t o do all and receIved there the blessed baptism of guage. W hile she had them, she copied all restitution and getting really saved. t hat H e requires. the Holy Ghost. She is testify ing in the she could of how to receive Pentecost. Her The interpreter began to make restitu power of the Spirit. She did not seek for friends and parents were much opposed to tion and straighten up his life from way I n seeking the baptism of the H oly Ghost, tongues or wonder. btlt the Lord baptized her seeking, btlt she prayed much and had back. He came one day to the m issionaries get your eyes off from everyone, off from her as on the Day of Pentecost. . the power of God upon her for eleven days. and told them he Was afraid if he took this the false ones that do not seem to Jive this One afternoon the school had a holiday for truth, his wife woul d leave him. T hey told salvation, look over everybodv's head and the girls, and a lectt; re for "Girls' I~prove him to. "Seek fi rst the Kingdom of God see only the Christ of God. There is such \Vhen you are sanctified, you are spoiled ment." This dear gIrl, whose name IS LaLll and His righteousness," and God woul d give glory and blessing and honor and power in for t his world. It pales on your sight. It . Yik Yan says that she heard a voice say, him his wife. He sought, and was the first Him. He is all we want. IS Jesus now, morning, noon and night. H e' "Improv~ment of this world will surely be man to get his baptism. T hen hi s wife got fits. in to every Iit.tle niche in your life. destroyed, but improvement of the soul will her baptis111 . Then their three SallS got When we hear the voice of the Lord and Chn t has moved m, and now He Ii es i tl be everlasting." Her experience is told in saved, and their two daughters got their He puts a burden on our hearts, to get you.
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